My new little abode has pretty white wood blinds everywhere except the bedroom...in the bedroom the two gorgeous windows are outfitted with skanky light blue vertical blinds...
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| Skanky vertical blinds on move-in day |
For the past 2 months I’ve been trying to think of a way to fix this situation, but I couldn’t find a fairly easy way to cover the vertical blinds without taking them down and hanging curtains. The window behind my bed seemed like the easiest one to tackle first, because I never open those blinds. Of course I couldn’t just find pre-made tab back curtains that I loved, so I finally decided to improvise and make my own! I really wanted to bring a fun pattern and some color into the room because my headboard is a neutral color, my bedding is all white and the walls are greige. The “fabric” I finally decided on was actually a fabric shower curtain from Target in this fun red/beige ikat pattern.
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| Close-up of the pretty ikat fabric |
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| In progress |
The finished panels are 89” long. I added the extra length by cutting a 34” strip off of the side of one panel, and using that strip to extend each panel by 17”. The panels are not even in width, but it isn’t noticeable. If I had been making these curtains for a window that I would open and close regularly, I would have made them more even but for this particular case it really didn’t make a difference. For the tabs on the backs of the curtains I used white grograin ribbon and generally followed this tutorial from View Along the Way.
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| Measuring & pinning for the back tabs |
I absolutely love the way that they turned out, and now I just have to decide what I’m going to do with my other window!
xoxo
Marisa
