Curtain Rod Trim

Darla Jordan Laborde
by Darla Jordan Laborde
2 Materials
$20
4 Hours
Easy

I found a great deal on a stove hood at the resale store when we were building our rustic pole barn . I had painted my kitchen cabinets black and my bar I painted cream in my coffee . I left the stove hood the color it was when we bought it . It was a cream color . I never liked the color so I painted it black . It was very dark in the corner of the kitchen and the black didn’t show up so I painted it cream again from the paint I had left over from painting the bar . I still wasn’t happy with the color , it was to jump out at you ! Iam not good with paints but decided I would go for it ! I was going to repaint it ! So I dove in with three colors of paint . I used a brown paint I bought at hobby lobby but found it was to light so I darken the paint with a table spoon of black to a half of cup of the brown . I painted the hood than I streaked some black in there with some copper paint I bought at hobby lobby . After I was done , I like the way it looked but felt it need dressing up . I went to the shop attached to our pole barn and started looking . I came across some brown curtain rods I had bought at the dollar store that were not the right size and I never got around to bringing back . I laid the rods on the floor in the garage and started beating them with a hammer and flatten them out . I than sanded them to remove the Gloss . I put some of the copper paint I had on them and feathered it in . Than I went to hobby lobby and bought a pack of decorative nail heads and attached the rods to the hood . The strips coming down were on metal so I glued the rods on the metal with hot glue and cut the tack part off the nail heads . I gulued the nail heads on the rods . The curtain rod on the front was attached to wood so I drilled starter holes and lightly hammered them in . I love the new look and when I tell people that’s curtain rods on it they for the trim they say NO WAY ! I paid 25.00 for the stove hood and now it looks like I spent a lot of money on it .

Before picture

I lightly sanded the stove hood to remove any grease build up and help the paint stick over the previous paint .

I painted it dark brown , feathered in some black and copper paint . I painted the bottom (the wood part ) with the lighter brown and darken the lighter brown paint with some black till I got the color I wanted for the top part .

That’s the brown I used
The copper I used


Suggested materials:
  • 2 curtain rods (brown)   (Family dollar store)
  • Decorative nail heads   (I purchased these at Hobby Lobby in the fabric department)
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  • Wendy Wendy on Nov 26, 2018

    This is such a creative makeover- love it!

  • William William on Nov 26, 2018

    Love the curtain rod idea. Looks like hammered metal. Love the black and copper. It does look like an expensive custom hood. Great share and great job.

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