My kitchen windows have been a little naked lately. They were a little embarrassed. I wanted to help them out, without spending alot of cashola. I had a vision of what I wanted to do and it involved burlap. I've never worked with burlap before. I found it to be quite pleasant to work with, except it was a tad messy. So here's what I did. I wanted the look of roman shades, but not real ones because I won't ever be closing them to block the view of our backyard. I bought some tension rods for cheap.
While in Home Depot in the garden dept. I saw burlap garden bags. What the heck are garden bags? I don't know. But I bought it because it was $4.88 and looked like alot of burlap. I don't know how much burlap is by the yard so I don't know if I got a good deal or not. Let's just say I did. Anyway, I measured my windows and cut the burlap allowing extra for hemming.
Because my sewing machinge is on the fritz, I used my handy glue gun.
My pictures got all out of order and I can't get them right, so here's the before of the naked windows:
Here is an after of ONE of the windows. ( I'm not very happy with blogger today)
Here
Let's back up and look at things in reverse, shall we? Here's my red wrinkly hand ironing the pleats before gluing them down.
Here are the pleats. I pinned them and hung it up to eyeball it and then I glued them in place.
Let's back up and look at things in reverse, shall we? Here's my red wrinkly hand ironing the pleats before gluing them down.
Here are the pleats. I pinned them and hung it up to eyeball it and then I glued them in place.
And this is the burlap before I started. *Sarcasm* Wasn't that fun to see it all mixed up and in
jumbled order? shaking fists in air!!
Well, I think you get the idea. Burlap faux roman shades.
Tension rods were about $10 for four. Burlap was $4.88
That brings it to a grand total of about $15 for four windows.
