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Draperies

Find the drapery designs that suit the look of your rooms and provide the function you need. You’ll also learn how to care for all your window treatments as well as ideas for embellishing purchased panels and how to create no-sew café curtains.

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Kitchen Window Treatments: Kitchen Curtains, Shades, and Valances

Whether you prefer elegant draperies or quick and easy valances , these kitchen window-treatment ideas highlight practical solutions that can be the finishing touch--or the starring role--in your kitchen remodeling project.

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Draperies and Curtains

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Drapery and Curtain Care

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Smooth Moves: How to Reuse Window Treatments

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No-Sew Cafe Curtains

Skip the sewing machine and warm up your iron. Your own custom cafe curtain is just a few simple steps away.

Mon, 11 Jun 2007|More from Crafts & Projects
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the fabric doesn't fray. We're just gonna iron all away around your curtains . Now, I wanna show how easy it is when you come to a corner. We're gonna create a simple box fold. So what you're gonna do is you just gonna take 1 seam and fold it over the other. It is easy as that, and it looks really nice. It cuts down on a lot of fraying. It just has a nice simple edge there for a box fold. Now, you're ready to hang your curtains , and I've got some clip on curtain rings over here. And what you're gonna do, is you're gonna find the center of your finished curtain . So just fold it over and find the middle. Keep that mark and clip on your curtain ring. And then, you will work your way out to the edges. And I'm just gonna eyeball it, but if you've stickler, you could measure it. Now, you just string it on to a tension rod and hang it in your window. Now, you've got some lovely café curtains , and you didn't even have to take a single stitch.

to know how to sew to whip up this easy little café curtains . You do need to know the height and width of your window though. Now, the fabric for your curtain needs to be half the height of your window and 2 inches wider than your window. Now, I promise it's all the math you're gonna need to know for this project. You definitely need your iron though, so get that plugged in and warmed up, and I've got mine on the silk setting. Then, cut your fabric to the right dimensions. If you have some pinking shears, you may wanna use them just to cut down on any of the fraying. Now, I'm ready to suppress a 1-inch fold all the way around my curtains . Let's get your iron here, and I've already premeasured a 1-inch fold. Here is the best part, no sewing. No need to

Bead-Dazzling Curtains

Turn a plain-Jane store-bought curtain into something special using beads. No need to sew, just pat them into place with an easy-to-use product.

Mon, 21 May 2007|More from Home & Garden
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treatment, try this! Use colorful beads to add some style to ready-made curtains . Now, I'm using this cool product called fashion beads. It's available at craft stores or fabric stores and it's actually just beads mixed into a glue-like substance. So, when it dries, all that's left are these dazzling beads. And the beads come in all shapes and colors, so you can have a lot of fun with this. I think it's a really cool product. Now, I've got these curtains . And I'm going to add a flower pattern to my paisleys that I've put at the top, here. You could try all

Bamboo Curtain Rod

Replace regular curtain rods with a painted piece of bamboo for a cute window treatment refresher.

Fri, 2 Mar 2007|More from Crafts & Projects
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Curtain rods can be expensive, but they don't have to be. All you need is something long and straight, like a pool cue, a baseball bat, a fishing pole, a hockey stick, or even garden sticks. These are bamboo garden sticks we got at the garden center and they're gonna make a great curtain rod. All you have to do is rough it up a little bit with sandpaper first so that it holds the paint

it's dry, just thread it through a tub top or a grommet curtain , and you've got a great look.

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Window Treatment Ideas: Curtains and Drapes

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Bedroom Window Treatments: Cornices and Valances

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Bedroom Window Treatments: Traditional Panels and Valances

… floor-length draperies and deep cornices … s bedroom, draperies can play a purely … shaped fabric valance and floor … canopy-and- curtain bed treatment … these simple drapery panels. Held by tiebacks, the draperies are arranged …

Bedroom Window Treatments: Traditional Curtains and Drapes

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Top Tips for Drapery & Curtain Care

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Drapery Header Styles

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