Let's Make: A Giant Floor to Ceiling Curtain!

Making a large floor to ceiling curtain is easy and surprisingly inexpensive with these rock star tips!

Here's our obligatory before photo. There are two sort of bump outs on either side of the windows and I thought hey, ya know, perfect spot to hang a floor to ceiling curtain!





It all started with purchasing a huge seamless remnant from a local theatrical fabric supplier (resources available on the blog!). Take a girl out of the theater, can't take the theater out of a girl....It cost a mere $50 for a piece about 10' x 15'. Seamless. Yes.
Excellent resource though, theatrical fabric suppliers. Try it, you'll like it!





Yeah, sorry, my photos are awful lame on this project. But here's the copper pipe curtain rod I assembled out of 1/2" pipe and bell hangars. I have so many tips and designer hints in this Flipping the Flip blog post it's unreal, you've gotta come check it out at humboldartdept.blogspot.com.





Next was using cabinet pulls as tie back hardware. Yep, cool, right? Click over to my blog post (link at the bottom) to find out how I got the hardware on the wall.





Once everything was cut, coffee dyed (the top pocket sleeve was additional filler fabric, and much too white so it got a soak in coffee -- another cool tip!), and stitched, it was time to hang the curtains.
Except I screwed up the top pocket sleeve. The panels wouldn't move (too tight) plus somehow I was 2.5" short in height. Ah darn it. I went through several iterations of draping, first several being too pretty, per se, for my taste.





Well so ok, I took the curtains down, spent forever seam ripping, re-did the top pocket, and blam-o, it was finally the right height and the curtains now move freely! Yay!





Yeah, not the best photo, sorry, but hey, we've got floor to ceiling curtains in our bedroom now! I went with hanging the panels straight, no tying back. It's a work in progress, minor tweaks ahead, but it's close!
But seriously though, I loaded up this post with all sorts of good hints, tips, designer-y things, you should come by for a read! Click the link below!






Original article and pictures take http://www.hometalk.com/11391952/let-s-make-a-giant-floor-to-ceiling-curtain site