Curtain Rod Trim
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 .
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 .
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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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