Curtains {Kitchen}

I finished the kitchen curtains!!!!  Yay!! 

The idea process was a little more difficult. I knew I wanted something other than regular panels and I love the look of Roman Shades. Also, there is a track system above these windows, as in the rest of the house, but when speaking with a friend she brought up the fact that if I used the track the curtains would hang down and out to about mid-way of the sink. I couldn't use a tension bar inside the window sill because it wouldn't allow the windows to open. I remembered in Texas that we had a magnetic curtain rod on our front door. I thought I had it figured out and was ready to order one off of Amazon until I went over and stuck and magnet on the window frame and it fell off. My friend, Marque, and I made a trip to Schweinfurt one day and she spotted some sticky back curtain rods. $3.00 for one set! Yes please!! Now the stickies it came with didn't hold well, so I replaced them with the ones you use for the Command Hooks and they seem to be doing great!

The second part I had to figure out was how to get them to go up & down.  All of the DIY Roman Shade tutorials I found required a different rod at the top.  I threw a few ideas around in my head, but again, with the help of my friend Marque, ended up going with sew-on snaps.  I had some other snaps that requires a hammer, but since I didn't want them showing on the front side and I already sewed up all my hems, I went with the sew-on.  I found a small craft store in town and picked these up.

It's not the most convenient way; especially getting the top snaps hooked, but it works!  My MIL also told me about some type of bias-like tape I could add to the back that would allow me to pull them up & down.  I looked at one store and wasn't able to find what she was describing.  That same night I was sweating in my kitchen as I was cooking dinner and the sun was beating through and I became determined to just use what I had and get them hung! 

I didn't get any pics of the back/process.  If you have any questions though, let me know and I will do my best to explain it!  I think they are super cute and they were really easy.

I also used part of flat sheet to add a back to these curtains giving it that finished look!  Just in case you missed the tutorial I linked to earlier this week, here it is again!

Here they are all the way down!  It's so nice to be able to block that sun out while cooking dinner!!!

One snap up....

Two snaps/all the way up!

I'm excited to have done something a little different than just panels!  I'm also excited to have now two more projects done!  (Although, I'm pretty sure I've added about six more to my list!)


Make sure you check back Monday for the start of a MAJOR project that I'm hoping a few of you will join me in!