Here is the porch with the sliding glass doors looking into the kitchen... not much privacy.
She made some easy privacy curtains using pretty cotton fabric and some curtain clips with rings like this:
Here is the room now... See the tree and bird mural? Carol and I painted that about 10 years ago. It still works for the bedroom now.
She bought this really cute pink fabric with white dots.
She measured the length of the sliding glass doors and added 10 inches for the top and bottom hems.
She doubled that number so that the curtain would be 2 widths going across the doors. Cotton fabric is usually 45” wide so, finished, the two panels would be about 80 inches wide after hemming the sides, plenty wide enough for a 6 foot sliding glass door.
(Update: My sister said you wouldn't even have to hem the sides because the selvage is there and is a finished edge in itself.)
Add the clips to the top and put the rings through a curtain rod and you have a quick privacy curtain!
Then there were the windows – the whole porch is windows.
There are two twin beds in the room also.
Carol did the same thing with the windows. Here she used white eyelet fabric.
And also a beautiful big, white cutwork fabric panel which stays stationary.
White clips with wooden rings. Very easy to clip these onto fabric that you’ve hemmed and then slide through a curtain rod.
Beautiful room, no?
Hope you enjoyed this. Isn’t the weather grand? I hope it’s grand where you are!! Best wishes, my lovelies.
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My sister, Carol, and I have a super creative family (my nephew even makes cabin furniture) and I try to log it all
right here on Crafts a la Mode by Two Succulent Sisters.
I’m so looking forward to having you join us on our quest to learn new crafts and anything DIY for the home and would love
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very cute!
ReplyDeleteJenna
These curtains came out so cute.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week.
Debi
Beautiful job! Sliding glass windows have been perplexing to me. And I love how the room is decorated. The bedding is lovely. Lynaea @ EveryDayBloom.com
ReplyDeleteA great, inexpensive way to solve a problem! For our sliding patio door, we put hooks above the frame and used pvc pipe for the rod. Hemmed a large piece of fabric and slipped it on the pipe. Works perfectly!
ReplyDeleteNoreen
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That's another way to do it, also very simple. Thanks for joining the conversation, Noreen.
ReplyDeleteGreat curtains! And what a cute bedroom for a granddaughter. :D
ReplyDeleteBeautiful ! simply an awesome sliding curtain (schiebevorhang)
ReplyDeletecollection. These amazing curtains can actually add a decor to the house along with making it even more valuable. I too want to buy them for my home.