Window Treatments in Green Bay

One of the best ways to transform an average room into something that looks extraordinary is to put up some new window treatments. Window treatments have the power to make a dramatic difference in the appearance and décor of a room, as well as make a statement about your personal style and creativity.

Get Creative

The potential window treatments have to express your personal style and creativity can really be observed best when you make the window treatments yourself. It eliminates the need to hunt around in the stores for just the right thing, and it will also possibly cost a lot less than those store bought window treatments.

Even if you do not know how to sew, making your own window treatments is not impossible. In fact, there are plenty of beautiful and elegant styles that you can create on your own without having to even think about sewing a single stitch. Some of the ways you can do this will end up looking so professional that people will assume you spent a lot of money on them, and only you will know otherwise.

Perhaps the simplest way to go about it is to purchase a decorative curtain rod and several yards of a sheer fabric in the color of your choice. How much fabric you buy will depend on how large your chosen windows are, and how you want them to look. The basic idea is to install the curtain rod, and then take that fabric and loop it around the rod a few times in several billowing swathes. Let the ends hang free, and boom – you’re done and you have an elegant, airy new feel in the room. To increase the number of times you wrap the fabric around the rod, purchase more yards of fabric. If you want to let the ends puddle on the floor underneath the window, you will want to get more fabric for that, as well.

For a slightly more complicated approach, you can try your hand at making your own tab-top drapes. Tab-top drapes are quite popular nowadays, and consist of fabric tabs at the top hem of the drape, spaced evenly over the space, with gaps between each tab that will let the curtain rod peek through in an alternating pattern. To make your own no-sew version, choose a fabric, and get an extra yard to use for the tabs. You can have that extra yard in the same color, or for an added visual pop, you can choose the tab fabric in a complementary color. Cut strips of equal length from the tab fabric, and after you use hemming tape or fabric glue to hem the drape itself, use the tab fabric to make loops that you can thread the curtain rod through. Then you can attach the tabs to the drape with some more glue, and you have your own custom tab-top drapes, and you can be proud of your creativity while inexpensively enhancing the beauty of your home.