Another project for the Sorority Study Room was to make curtains for the closets and window that coordinated with the room theme. We shopped for fabric, looked at shower curtains and regular curtains but could not find exactly what we were looking for until one day it occurred to me that a paint drop cloth might work. The color was right and the price was much better than the other options we were considering so after explaining my idea to Miss E she thought we should give it a try.
We decided to cut the curtains quite generously since we were not confident we had the exact measurements. We left enough room lengthwise to adjust the curtains at the top by folding over any extra length which would make a fun ruffle and sewed a nice wide curtain hem along the bottom. It worked perfect.
To make the drop cloth fabric a bit more interesting we decided to write "french" words on it to keep with the room theme. We used a permanent brown marker and tried to emulate old handwriting to make it appear more vintage. We did not worry if the words were perfect since the curtains would be gathered most of the time.
The cafe rings worked great but the tension rods we bought for the closets could not hold the weight of the curtains so we ended up buying wood dowels and painting them brown. It worked much better.
We were very pleased with how the curtains turned out.
In fact, it worked so well that we used the
leftover drop cloth fabric for another
Sorority Study Room project
which I will share
tomorrow!
Very successful idea you had! Looks great and does the job of covering up.
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