While in World Market recently, we bought these great curtains for the window by our everyday dining table. Remember my lovely tulips I posted about a few posts ago? I love those curtains in the background with their bright, bold pattern and all the colors in them that I needed to coordinate with surrounding rooms.
My curtains that I love. |
While in World Market, a lightbulb turned on to use the matching napkins that they also sold on my kitchen windows! I showed my husband how I would fold them over the rod and voila! Cute valances that were a pattern I already love and match the nearby curtains! I used 2 per window, and just overlapped until they were the width to cover the rod. Then, I used a piece of 2-sided tape on the inside where the 2 corners met so that it looked nicer and stayed even. The rod was a bit tricky (uh, standing on that counter under a hot lightbulb at midnight with my husband for 20 minutes trying to rig them up there almost started WWIII...) , but once we got them up, I loved them!
We actually used this same idea on our enclosed back porch, which I will post about in the future. I love this idea because napkins are like $3-5 bucks each, you can find them in tons of patterns and colors, and they are super-easy to "install"! Maybe everyone already uses this idea and I've just lived in a cave somewhere...but hopefully I've given someone an idea to dress a small window that needs some easy, affordable love!
Your blog is so cute! These triangular curtains are way cute! Such a clever idea, thanks for sharing. I am a new follower.
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Claudia
p.s. how do you create a button? and the connect buttons for fb, twitter, and pintrest? Sorry, I still can't figure it out.