How to Hide a Door With Curtains
If there is an unused door in one of your rooms, consider hanging curtains over the doorway to either disguise it or to make it fade into the background. This is especially useful in rooms where every wall contains either a doorway or a window, which can give the room a feeling of being chopped up. Select the identical fabric that you used for the window curtainsif you wish to fool the eye into thinking the door is a window. Use a curtain the same color as your walls if you wish visitors to think that there is no doorway or window there at all. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Measure the height of the door. To adequately cover the door, the curtains should fall all the way to the floor. Measure the distance from the top of the wood trim on the doorway to the floor.
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Determine the locations of the curtain rods on the room's windows, relative to the topmost portion of the wooden window trim. Mark the corresponding spots in the doorway's wood trim.
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Install the brackets for the curtain rod at the points determined in the previous step. Follow the instructions and recommendations of the curtain rod manufacturer to either pre-drill and screw in the curtain rod brackets, or to secure them to the woodwork with small nails.
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Thread or attach the curtains to the curtain rod, using your choice of methods, whether it be cafe rings, clips, pleat hooks or a rod pocket stitched into the curtain.
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Insert each open end of the curtain rod into one of the brackets installed on the wood trim. The opening should now look like a curtained window, rather than a doorway.
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Tips & Warnings
For an unexpected treat, hang a poster of a landscape beneath the curtains on the faux window. Simply open the curtains to reveal the “view.”
References
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