Curtain Ideas For Your Home

Few fundamentals of home decoration can transform a room and define its designer's exclusive style as quickly and dramatically as a modification in window treatments. One common dilemma during the long, dark winter months is how to cover a sliding glass door wall in something other than the standard lined, plain, pleated curtain styles. For a change of speed to add some fun and whimsy to your door-wall, try this quick and easy snowy night-sky idea: Take a freshly ironed, navy blue, queen-size bed sheet and sew a 1-1/2 inch rod pocket along the sheet's long end. 

The linen will fit a standard double door opening with lots of fabric left over at the sides to meet If your entrance wall includes an extra glass panel, the new curtain will just fit the enclosure. You'll need three packets or more, if you choose of shiny silver-and-white snowflake stickers to customize your blue panel. The stickers are very inexpensive quickly available at Wal-Mart inside the greeting card department) and at most craft stores. Each page of stickers includes many different snowflake sizes and designs. They stick instantly to bed-linens and will remain in place for months.

Simply arrange the snowflakes in any "falling snow" outline that pleases your eye. For a surprising twist that's sure to delight the teenagers buy a packet of snowmen stickers and use the little figures as a baseline border down the sides and across the base of the new curtain. The dark blue linen will severely alter the sometimes severe gray winter daylight that penetrates door-walls. In the evening, a well-placed lamp near the door-wall will light up your snowflakes and liven up the entire room. 

Light and lacy priscilla-cum-cafe tiers For a light and festive touch in any room, turn your plain white priscillas into immediate cafe-style tiers. Take any pair of white priscillas off their typical pocket rod and slip them onto an flexible tension rod instead. Measure the width of the inside part of your window frame, and make sure the tension rod you choose fits snugly into that part of your window. Measure the length of the inside of the window frame, and position the curtained rod at about the halfway point.

Don't be surprised if the curtains hang well below the window sill. To customize your room's look for any special occasion, simply select an suitable changeable tie-back, or trim. The two-inch wide, filmy, glittery wire ribbon found at most craft stores offer a wide option for tie-backs. Try the navy ribbon with flashy silver stars along with an 8-inch length of thin, red satin trim for a festive monument Day or Fourth of July accent. Add a window topper, personalized to celebrate any special occasion or holiday.

This plan works as well with a corresponding pair of cafe curtains or as a stand-alone window dressing. Customizing your new topper or "curtain set" is simple and limited only by your imagination. Use stickers, iron-on patches, embroidery, ribbons, poster paints, lace trim, bits of fringe, beads, glitter whatever suits your fancy. Start with any plain white valance or swag set, any size, any window. Is it Halloween? Apply of spreading of iron-on pumpkins, spiders, witches, bats and black cats across the white fabric. Along each side of the window hang wispy white webbing improved with a few plastic spiders crawling toward the ceiling. Or instead of webbing, hang glittering strands of reflective silver fringe, framed by a window-sized set of tint orange pumpkin lights.