The HAPPIEST Office Curtains in the World.... Made by the Girl Who CAN
I wanted custom office curtains. But I don't sew. And I wanted them like yesterday, so I figured out a way to do it myself!
I have been looking at FINALLY putting up curtains in my office. I haven't seen any premade curtains in stores that I love, so I've been searching on Etsy. I stumbled across some in a fabric by Waverly named "Santa Maria Desert Flower" and I dug them. They made me super happy but they were a little pricey, so I held off on buying them.
It's Peel N' Stick. PEEL N STICK you guys!!!! This singlehandedly REVOLUTIONALIZES "sewing" as we know it. We don't even have to use IRON ON hem anymore! Boom!
So I ran home from Hobby Lobby with all my supplies and stapled the fabric to my wall because when you are creative and decide you want something, you can't wait for details like the "hanging up of curtain rods when husband gets home" and all that nonsense.
I spread out in my kitchen to "sew" the curtains. I did cut the fabric in half. I had to borrow my neighbor Jody's fabric shears because apparently it is frowned upon to cut fabric with crappy kitchen shears or craft scissors that have tried glue on them. They don't cut pretty. So I borrowed decent shears.
Unfortunately though, when I cut the panels in half, I couldn't do a big hem because I wanted them to stay as wide as possible. So if you look at my hem close, it's narrower than my 11th grade Home Ec teacher would prefer. But hey, it's done!
And I finished "hemming" them the next day.... while they were hung. Bahahhahhahaha. You guys, that is how I roll. I KNOW some of you operate exactly like this and there is no shame in our game. Come out and join my revolution!
Our other dilemma came in on the curtain rods and Mr. Magic was the genius that solved it. Our window is wiiiiiiiiiiiiide and we needed a 12 foot rod to go across the top. Hobby Lobby didn't have a 12 foot gold rod and again, I was wanting this project done YESTERDAY. So, I didn't want to go shop for rods, or DIY some pipe into a rod or reinvent the wheel. Mr. Magic suggested we just use 2 of the short gold rods from Hobby Lobby and leave a gap in the middle and I promise you..... this is my favorite part of the entire curtain project. It's so fun and unexpected. Mr. Magic is genius. I should marry that man. (that's a joke for you newcomers, we are very married).
And here is my office now. I will be blogging soon about how we also changed the silver on the chandelier to gold and how we accented my desk in gold too to bring the room together.
I think WWE wrestling is their way of giving us a thumbs up, don't you?
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I did the same thing in my living room. I used table cloths. Thanks for the hint on the tape. I sew but this is handy to know about. I cut down a few rods so that each of the 4 panels had a rod and I didn't have to worry about spanning that length of wall.
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I can sew just fine, but curtains can be so hard to get straight. I did what you did, with sheets in my dining room made holes in the top hem to put my curtain rods. Then I added a wide strip of an accent material on 1 side of each panel. I used some hem tape and cool melt glued the bottom hem!!! It has held up now for about 10 years!!! I need to make new one though. I'm getting pretty bored with them by now. Lol!!!
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I love your humour and enthusiasm but I'm confused, right at the start you said you came home and stapled the panel to the wall as you didn't want to wait for your hubby to put up poles but in the reveal, you have poles and hooks????
But won't you have an open window.? I have the same windows. How do you close the middle or did you just leave it like that?