Things You'll Need:
- Cylindrical objects
- Saw
- Sandpaper
- Paint or stain
- Brackets and hardware
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Step 1
Step one: evaluate your current décor. Are you itching for a change or is it almost the way you want it; minus the curtain rods and curtains? If you aren’t happy with the décor, look at the millions of possibilities and make some basic decisions about how you want the room to look and feel. Does your taste fall in the contemporary, the rustic, or maybe a Victorian flare? Whatever it is you can make curtains and rods to match it.
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Step 2
Step Two: Once you have decided on your own preferences, you are ready to begin looking for items to dress your windows. Start making a list of possible items. If rustic will compliment your room, take a walk through the woods. Locate fallen branches that are at least as wide as your windows. Find one for each window to be dressed in this décor that are about the same size. Bring the wooden branches home, along with any good looking pine cones or other dry decorative items you may run across. An uninhabited bird nest is always a good find.
Trim the branches to just longer than the width of your windows. Decorate the branches with artificial vines, pine cones, a bird’s nest, maybe even a very real looking bird from the craft store. Put your hardware up on the wall, along with the scoop style brackets, and rest your finished ‘curtain rods’ in the brackets. You can secure the rods to the brackets with a bit of glue if necessary to keep them from rolling in the bracket. The tab style curtains will fold over the limbs perfectly. -
Step 3
Step Three: Maybe your interests are more contemporary. Make a trip to the hardware store and look at the available PVC pipes. PVC pipe is very fun to work with and it hosts so many decorative possibilities. It won’t rust in humid areas, like the bath or the kitchen. Find the circumference you wish to work with, and have the store cut the PVC to just a little longer than your window’s width. Purchase one for each window. Stop by hardware and pick out your brackets and hardware. Make sure your PVC will rest in the scoop style brackets you buy. Stop by your local craft shop to pick up some decorative items such as paint, glue on trinkets, sea shells and sand, or anything else that matches your décor.
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Step 4
Step Four: At home you can begin by sewing the tops of your selected curtains together. You can wrap the curtain around the rod gracefully, or simply feed the curtain through the section of PVC. Once you decide how you want them to look, you can begin decorating your tubular curtain rods. If you want to use them in the bathroom, for instance, fold towels in half and then stick the folded end of the towels in the open ends of the PVC pipe. Flare out the open end of the towel. This won’t actually act as a curtain but it is adorable window décor! You can also add a giant bow to the middle that matches your towel for extra color. You can glue sand and sea shells to the outside of your pipe, and then feed your curtains through the center of the PVC.
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Step 5
Step Five: If the PVC is to be used in the living room or family room, follow the general décor of your room, and get creative! Sew the curtains together at the top. Paint the pipe to match your current colors, either wrap the fabric around the PVC, or decorate the PVC with ribbons forming a plaid pattern and feed the curtain through the pipe.
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Step 6
Step Six: Get creative! Say you want to put curtains up in your sewing or crafts room, use a yard stick to hold your curtains up! For a nautical look, hang your curtains over a large rope, stretched between two large curtain rod brackets that have been anchored to the wall.
