DIY curtains - 122 photos of beautiful ideas for designer window decoration

Types of decorative curtains

Doorless doorways are not a temporary solution until your next paycheck.
Most often, this is a conscious design of the interior with the aim of expanding the room or creating a fuzzy, conditional visual boundary. In this case, curtains are necessary to complete the interior of the room or to place accents. Curtains can separate:

• corridor from the kitchen;
• kitchen from the hallway;
• living room from the kitchen;
• living room off the corridor;
• zones of one room.

You can make beautiful decorative curtains with your own hands
. Manufacturing materials:

• bamboo. Lightweight and durable, do not fade or accumulate static electricity. An environmentally friendly option for soft natural colors for country and oriental style;
• threads Thread curtains can be combined with beads, shells, bugles, and feathers. They look original, but are not durable;
• decorative elements. A type of thread curtains, in the manufacture of which small decorative elements are used: beads, pieces of wood, beads.
• textile. All kinds of options suit different styles.

Types of curtains:

• classic. Fabric, falling from top to bottom;
• French. The folds along the length are dense;
• Japanese. Curtains are similar to screens; the frame can be upholstered with material or fabric;
• bishop's sleeve Tightened in the middle, at the bottom they look like a wide sleeve with a large slouch;
• hourglass. Lightweight fabric gathers in folds in the middle;
• lambrequins. Various configurations with folds and overlaps.

Curtains made of threads with beads

Original design ideas

All ideas for decorating ties depend solely on the desires of the homemaker. It is not for nothing that popular wisdom says that if there is a desire, nothing is impossible or unfulfilled. It is because of this that even the most unrealistic and unexpected ideas can be put into practice with great success.

Here are several options for the most extraordinary ties and hangers for curtains, which were invented by caring housewives:

All kinds of camellias, keys and chains are perfect for bedrooms, boudoirs and other romantic rooms. If you prefer vintage, you can decorate your curtain with a burlap holder. It is with this that you will need to decorate other elements in the room, for example, door handles. Cutlery can also serve as a decorative item for your curtains.

A fork or spoon, bent in the right place, is well suited for the design of the kitchen or the room where you most often hold lunch and dinner parties. A special decorative element for a bold and modern style is a leather curtain belt. The main thing is to choose the right texture and color of the accessory. A classic black accessory is suitable for high-tech rooms or those decorated in black and white.

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Summer has come to an end, but I really don’t want to part with it! Shell curtains will prolong your memories and will not only remind you of your summer vacation, but will also decorate and transform the interiors of any room!

Panels or curtains made of shells fit organically into various interiors: from marine style to classic. And the shells that you brought from vacation will not lie in boxes unnecessarily.

DIY thread curtains

Curtains made of thick threads can be bare or decorated with beads or other decorative elements. To create curtains you will need the following materials and tools:

• various threads made of silk, twine, polyester, viscose;
• decorative elements as desired;
• scissors, tape measure, pencil.

Attention! There are many ways to secure threads. For example, the threads can be intertwined and a bead placed above each knot.

What to do:

1. Measure the height and width of the doorway so that the curtain reaches the floor and extends beyond the doorway on the left and right.
2. Calculate how many threads are needed, taking into account the distance from one thread to another and the allowance for tying knots at the top.
3. Drill the required number of holes in the plank;
4. Thread the threads through the holes, tying them with knots.
5. Secure decorative elements to them using knots or special fasteners.
6. Even if there are no beads along the entire length of the threads, it is advisable to make them at the very bottom. Weighting will help the threads hang vertically.
7. Hang the bar over the doorway.

If you do not want to drill holes, you can glue the threads to the bar with a heat gun.

Thread curtains

Paper curtains

Light paper curtains will look good in the opening between the room and the corridor. Such a curtain can also separate an area. You will need:

• postcards in large quantities - however, they can be replaced with colored paper or cardboard;
• ruler;
• pencil or pen;
• sharp scissors;
• fishing line;
• a rail, the length of which is slightly greater than the width of the opening;
• self-tapping rings;
• paper clips (preferably plastic, multi-colored).

The process of creating curtains with your own hands from scrap materials takes no more than an hour:

1. Cut cards or paper into strips 3-5 cm long and a width equal to the width of a paperclip multiplied by 4.
2. Fold the paper elements in half lengthwise.
3. Place the long edges inside.
4. Smooth out the folds.
5. Clamp the strip with a paper clip.
6. Make as many paper elements as needed and secure everything with paper clips.
7. Connect all the elements into long stripes.
8. Cut out the cornice from the slats.
9. Sand it and cover it with paper or cloth.
10. Mark the cornice and screw in the rings.
11. Secure paper strips into rings.
12. Decorate the bottom edge.

What should the edge be like?

There are a lot of variations in the design of curtains made from scrap materials with your own hands. It is quite difficult to make a straight bottom for paper curtains, and it will not look very impressive. Therefore, you can choose one of the following options:

• arch;
• zigzag;
• wave;
• random alternation of long and short stripes;
• asymmetry.

Important! There is another option - you can decorate the ends of all the ribbons. For example, cardboard flowers or geometric shapes.

How to make curtains with pendants

For original decoration of the opening, colored pebbles, beads, beads, shells, glass beads, decorative knitted, glass or crystal elements are suitable. Colors can be neutral or, conversely, contrasting, depending on the style of the interior. In addition, you need to prepare:

• beautiful and durable threads;
• braid;
• wooden strip or double-sided tape;
• needle for threading beads.

On average, about 500 threads are needed for a standard doorway.

Curtains made of beads for the doorway

Guide to action:

1. Cut the threads to the height of the doorway. You can use the idea with threads of different lengths.
2. Cut the tape to a width slightly larger than the doorway.
3. Carefully glue the threads along the entire width of the double-sided tape.
4. Fold the tape twice so that the threads remain inside.
5. Glue tape to the resulting strip in the color of the threads or wall decoration.
6. Attach above the doorway.
7. Using a needle, string beads onto each thread. It can be secured in different ways: with crepes, pliers, knots or thread threaded twice in different directions.

Advice. If you plan to “paint” a pattern or design with beads, it is better to do this before hanging the curtains. If you just want to put beads on threads, then it is more convenient to do this in a suspended state.

You can weave such beauty, shimmering in the rays of the sun, together with your children. In order to cope with the work, 2-3 days are enough.

Straws are wealth!

A simple and original way to quickly create curtains with your own hands from available materials is to use straws that you have on hand.

Important! You don’t have to run out and buy expensive bamboo. You can get by with what you have in the nearest hypermarket or pharmacy - a few sets of cocktail tubes are enough, IV tubes will also do, but you can do it even simpler.

If your child wears out dozens of markers, do not rush to throw away those that no longer write. Place them in a separate box where they will wait in the wings. For example, the moment when you need to make a curtain.

There is no need to specially prepare tubes for cocktails, but the remaining felt-tip pens will first have to be put in order so that it is convenient to make curtains with your own hands from such scrap materials. However, it's not difficult:

1. Remove whatever is still left from the cylinders.
2. Wash them so there are no noticeable stains.
3. Dry.
4. Cut off the spouts, if any - the cylinders should be even.

You need to think in advance about how to make sure that the cylinders do not slip off the threads. This can be achieved in two ways:

• tie large knots at the bottom;
• attach something flat but of a larger diameter to the ends - for example, buttons, balls, beads, corks or circles made of thick cardboard.

Important! The first option is more suitable for cocktail tubes - their cavities are small, and if the threads are thick enough, it is not difficult to tie a large knot. The second option is good for markers and pens.

Cornice

Even such a simple curtain made from scrap materials should be supported by something. You can do this in several ways:

• make a cornice from slats or timber;
• put nails (for example, on a door frame);
• hang the curtain on a fishing line or strong thread.

Making a curtain

The process of making the curtain itself from such scrap materials is extremely simple. The main thing is that the tubes are of the same diameter, then there will be no need to make jumpers between them:

1. We measure the length of the future curtain.
2. We cut the threads to a slightly longer length - we need some extra for attaching to the cornice and securing the bottom.
3. We thread the thread into a needle (any kind, the main thing is that the eye is large).
4. We string the tubes, leaving free ends of the threads at the top and bottom.
5. We secure the lower parts.
6. We tie the finished elements to a fishing line stretched at the top or fasten them into rings on a wooden cornice.

Tubes and buttons

You can place buttons or large beads between the tubes. Buttons should be chosen without stems, with two or four holes. We string, alternating elements. This option is especially good if you have tubes of different diameters. If additional elements are not placed between them, thick tubes will fit over thin ones.

The manufacturing procedure will be the same as when making a curtain from felt-tip pens, only at the bottom of each hanger there should be a button - and in this case, the one with a leg will do.

Important! To string translucent cocktail tubes, you can use colored synthetic twine or multi-colored cotton threads (for example, iris) - this will give your product a special charm.

Making a Bamboo Curtain

Bamboo curtains are a decoration for an ethnic interior. Previously, they were sold ready-made, with a design. Today, such curtains are more difficult to buy, but they can be created independently. The manufacturing technology will resemble the installation of wooden curtains.

Bamboo curtains can be made from sticks or bamboo beads

You will need:

• sticks made of wood or bamboo;
• fishing line;
• crimps – clips for decoration;
• cornice with rings.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Measure the height of the doorway.
2. Cut the fishing line to the required length with a small allowance.
3. String the bamboo onto a fishing line, securing each element with crimps at the top and bottom.
4. When ready, hang the fishing line on the curtain rings.
5. Attach the cornice.

A bamboo or wooden curtain will be denser and stronger than a regular thread curtain.

We are looking for materials

Everything you need to make decorative curtains with your own hands from available materials can easily be found in your own home. Suitable for you:

• beads;
• wallpaper;
• postcards;
• bottle caps;
• shreds;
• thick threads or ropes;
• old markers and ballpoint pens;
• buttons;
• shells;
• tapes.

All materials can be conditionally divided into several types, since the technologies for making decorative curtains from scrap materials with your own hands will be the same:

• ropes, ribbons, shreds;
• buttons, beads, corks, shells;
• markers, cocktail straws and pens;
• paper and postcards.

In addition, look for tools and additional materials:

• glue;
• double sided tape;
• fishing line or strong threads;
• scissors;
• paper clips;
• awl.

Sewing an elegant fabric curtain

Fabric is the most common way to decorate a doorway. To make it also unusual, it is better not to purchase standard options, but to do everything yourself. Before work, you need to draw a sketch and take into account the number of frills and lambrequins. Based on this, calculate the required fabric footage. For example, drapery doubles the footage.

Attention! The width of the curtain is calculated by the formula: the width of the cornice multiplied by the gathering factor (from 1.8 to 3x depending on the type of fabric), plus seam allowances.

Materials:

• textile;
• threads, needle;
• sewing machine;
• threads to match the material, braid.

Curtains made of ribbons with beads

Action steps:

1. Prepare the fabric: wash and dry.
2. Process or remove edge.
3. Cut according to the sketch.
4. Sew the curtain using a sewing machine according to the pattern.
5. Fold and sew loops at the top.
6. Place on the rings of the cornice.

To ensure that the curtain does not block the entrance to the room, you can install tiebacks and use them to hold the open curtains.

A product made of thread, bamboo or fabric will delight your family and surprise your friends, and it can serve for over 5 years.

Old beads and new threads

Have you ever skewered berries? Almost everyone did this in childhood, so making curtains from such improvised materials as beads is not difficult even for a very inexperienced needlewoman. This is even easier than stringing rowan or hawthorn, because the holes are already there. The most important thing is to collect beads.

You can buy some things at a sewing supply store. But jewelry that has already gone out of fashion or is broken in some places is also suitable.

Important! It is not necessary that all beads be the same color, shape and size; you can come up with interesting compositions from different ones, alternating them in a certain order or even using random combinations. The ends of such a decorative curtain made from scrap materials can be secured with knots or the outermost bead can be tied in the same way as is usually done when weaving with beads.

Curtains for the doorway - photo

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In short, to make curtains it is not at all necessary to buy expensive curtain fabrics. You can do something spectacular and original without spending a penny, especially since things made with your own hands from scrap materials are now in great fashion and are very much appreciated.

Threads and textiles

You can also make a simpler screen for the door, for example, if you use textiles for this purpose. You can buy fabric for curtains and make light curtains for the door with your own hands; mesh is especially good in this regard. If you don’t like such pendants, try making a classic version from strong, thick threads.

The work has a minimal level of complexity. In order to make such a product you will need a cornice and several skeins of thread. It is best to knit them in small bunches. If you want to get an even cascade, then be patient, because you will have to process each thread separately. Make sure they are the same length. In some cases, you can try to fix the threads on the cornice with glue. And to hide the joints, use a decorative overlay.

The easiest option is to create a curtain from threads

To prevent the ends of the threads from unraveling, you can singe them or put a bead on the end; the latter option will create an additional weight that will straighten the threads. The same option is suitable for fixing them on the cornice.

Another option using threads is macrame knitting. Such curtains will look unsurpassed, but their creation will take a lot of time. In addition, you need to have sufficient skills in this technique. Another method is crocheting. The screen for the door can be made from individual knitted elements. This will also take a lot of time, and the final product will look very hard.