If you're looking into adding some fresh decorative touches to your home, a good place to start is with your window treatments. It can overwhelm your budget to purchase blinds or curtains for an entire room. However, there are many available DIY window treatment options, and you won't even have to sew or stitch anything together. By usings your imagination and some inexpensive fasteners, you can transform any piece of fabric quickly and easily into beautiful curtains.
First, find a fabric that suits your home environment and personal style. Choose something that already has finished edges, maybe vintage linen or a printed sheet. Then choose a fastener, hook, clip, or cord to hang it with, and Presto! You now have beautiful, simple and inexpensive window curtains that demonstrate your creativity and stylish taste.
Just use a hammer to place nails or grommets for your curtains. Grommets are great because they prevent hooks from tearing the fabric around holes. Thread some cord through the grommets and tie the cord to create little loops. You can hang a wooden dowel or even hooks from these loops above the window.
There are plenty of ways to dress your curtains up even more, if you're willing to spend the time and a couple extra bucks. At flea markets and antique stores you could easily find charming clips to latch onto the fabric. Or even try home decorating stores or fablic stores. These place will most likely also carry clip-on rings to hang curtains from.
Actually, you could even hang the curtains using buttons. Just thread fine wire through the holes and simply twist the wire on the back side to create simple ribbon loops. And voila! You can hang those curtains.
Let your creative side take over and guide you to your own custom touches for your home. Your window treatments can reflect who you are, your personality and your style. Never allow yourself to be limited by "store-bought" options ever again!
