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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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Window Treatment Ideas: Curtains and Drapes

Find a drapery design that suits your room's practical and aesthetic needs with this collection of beautiful fabrics and handsome hardware.

"… blend for the drapery panels. Keeping … self-pleated drapery panels attach … stripes on the drapes carry the eye … lightweight drapery panels are … complement the draperies and make a … pattern of these curtains seems to vibrate … and a layered valance garnishes the … straight curtain panels that …"

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Drapery and Curtain Care

… drape" really a " curtain "? Although the terms drapery and curtain are often used interchangeably … technical difference. Curtains are made of lightweight … unlined and operable. Draperies extend to the floor … lined draperies or drapery panels is simple …

Curtain Valance

The finished curtain valance shown is 15 inch long, and has a 2 … 1. Determine the size to cut the valance fabrics. (Length = desired finished … wide strips to achieve the calculated valance width. With right sides facing and …

Doorway Drapes

… rooms. Today, these draperies in the doorway serve … pattern to a room. Doorway drapes also make an eye-catching … as a making a simple curtain panel. You can use just … portiere from a regular curtain rod on one side of a … The fabric echoes a curtain panel of the same design …

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Decorating Lessons: Measuring for Window Treatments

All you need to know when measuring for blinds and drapes .

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You'll be surprised how much they differ. Next, frame your views with draperies . Here, we chose dramatic panels to frame each bank of glass.

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.

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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 the 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're 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 cafÃ© curtains , and you didn't even have to take a single stitch.

to know how to sew to whip up these easy little cafÃ© 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.

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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

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Bedroom Window Treatments: Cornices and Valances

… hardware of draperies , blinds … When the valance is as glamorous … mirror, the draperies themselves … white striped curtains topped with … spaciousness. A valance often serves … simple valance drapes over a metal … Fully gathered valances and matching, operable drapery panels reinforce …

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

… pinch-pleat draperies . Older homes … length cotton drapery panels hang over … treatments, straight curtain panels that overlap … Formal silk draperies with tightly smocked … a scalloped valance overlies drapery panels sewn from …

Top Tips for Drapery & Curtain Care

… side. Do not wash draperies under the following … circumstances: If the drapery or lining isn't washable. If the drapery and lining are made … fabric. If the draperies are constructed … laundering ready-made curtains . If your curtains …

Drapery Header Styles

… flat-panel drapes by attaching … pinch-pleat draperies . Country interiors … find tab-top drapery panels. These plain white drapes have been embellished … pinch-pleated draperies by hanging them … from a sewn-in valance treatment on …

Super Simple Tailored Valances

… tailored fabric valances you'll ever … center section drapes down in an … The wooden curtain rods in this … with heavy draperies . These tailored … as a fabric valance that doesn … secure it to a curtain rod for a valance … pattern. Sheer valances with trimmed … accent the sheer curtains on these windows …