Make Curtain Rods

Outfitting all of your windows with nice curtain rods can get very expensive very quickly.

Make curtain rods.

Add a subtle touch of texture and style with a variety of curtain rods like the bronze curtain rods nickel curtain rods brass curtain rods brushed finish curtain rods oil rubbed curtain rods and curtain rings. Then spray each piece with a thin coat of spray primer. Instead cut electrical conduit in three different sections according to the length of each window. Set your store to see local availability add to cart.

Cheap and easy diy finials. Then you will join each rod with this connector here. Here s another diy bay window curtain rod from julie blanner. You can make these diy copper curtain rods for less than 80 and in under an hour and that s for up to five curtain rods.

The materials make super inexpensive homemade curtain rods and the technique is easy as pie. I headed to our local hardware store on a mission to find a practical inexpensive solution to my curtain rod dilemma. To make a custom curtain rod for a bay window you don t have to fork out the high cost of custom bay window curtain hardware. Part of my problem is that i needed a very long curtain rod.

Make sure your hardware is clean first. The secret to bay window curtain rods. Curtain rods are one of my favorite things to diy. If you choose to paint your curtain rods it is easiest to paint each of the pieces before assembling the diy curtain rod brackets.

Once the primer is fully dry paint each component with a few thin coats of your chosen spray paint. How to make a diy curtain rod. Trust me i tried. If you want the look of a metal or metallic curtain rod for your window treatments you can use gold spray paint to coat two ping pong balls and a wooden dowel rod.

You can t exactly buy rods that are almost 10 feet long at wal mart. L telescoping 1 in. My biggest window needed a 106 inch bar which would have set me back 50 from pottery barn. Making my own rod using widely available emt conduit ended up costing me less than 6.

Best seller home decorators collection 72 in. Copper curtain rods can be really expensive but you can recreate the look for much less than 100 which is really cheap considering this is copper. Instead of bending the rod copper pipes are joined together to create a super sturdy window treatment. 113 inches to be exact.

My goal was to make curtain rods similar to the pottery barn standard drape rod but at a much lower cost. Look through decorative curtain rods tension curtain rods and curtain tie backs that will dress your windows in style. L 144 in.