How can I cover my windows without buying curtains?
I have a small 3 bedroom house and I can’t afford curtains for every room, HELP! I have honeycomb blinds downstairs, but since I put air conditioning in my bedroom, I still have the old horizontal shades. Due to being disabled, I can’t be a DIYER, is there a cheap way to keep privacy in my house? Perhaps a shade store is having a sale in my area, NY? I was thinking of wooden blinds for the bedrooms and curtains along with my honeycomb shades in the downstair windows?? Any creative ideas?
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Check in your local thrift store for old curtains. They may have something that works or you can easily modify for your home.
I would try goodwill or local thrift stores or even yard sales for the most inexpensive way !
Sheets. Drop cloths.
Hang sheets in the windows. They can be hand cut and hand stitched.
You can tack them with thumb tacks onto the casing and hot melt glue a scrap of sheet as a valance over the tacks. Glue guns are $5 and 10 sticks of glue are $1.
Make tie-backs for the curtains with scrap fabric.
If you want to draw a pattern on them, lay it out in chalk or pencil and then use Sharpies for the final.
Try your local building supply salvage yard. It's amazing what you can find.