Painted curtains-tutorial

I thought about stenciling curtains for the library but decided that stripes would work well and take a lot less time. Seeing that I have 4 kids and 2 dogs running around my house doing this project quickly was a must.

What I used:

• 2 top sheets from Ikea ($9.00)
• painters tape (had it)
• Valspar satin black paint off the shelf (about $10.00)
• tape measure (had it)
• pencil (had it)
• plastic (had it)
• thread for sewing (had it)

I started out by buying twin size top sheets at Ikea for $4.50 each. I bought 2 and cut them in half, one sheet per window. I sewed up the side where I had cut them in half and hemmed them to the desired length.

When I was ready to paint them I laid plastic down on the floor in my breakfast area then laid down 2 curtain panels. This is all I could comfortably fit in this area. I measured out 8 inch increments all the way down then taped them using blue painters tape.

(Please excuse the icky pictures, my camera doesn’t get any better as it gets older. Hoping to afford a new one maybe for Christmas. )

Then I just rolled on the black paint and let it dry. Once they were dry I hung them up and repeated the process with the 2 remaining panels.

Don’t they look awesome? Even Jessica said they were cool and wants to know why I didn’t do her curtains that way. lol For about $20 they are pretty awesome! Maybe once the boys are in school full time I will try my hand at stenciling some panels. Maybe.

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