Affordable No Sew Curtains for Your Home

With the new year on the horizon, you’re probably looking forward to a fresh start. This is the time of year when people make resolutions, prioritize, reorganize and look for ways to freshen up their lives, themselves and their homes. If you’re looking for a great way to add a fresh touch to your home this year, window treatments are a great place to start. Purchasing window treatments for an entire room can be a bit daunting to your budget. However, there are many window treatment options available that you can do yourself, and you never even have to pick up a needle or thread a sewing machine.

With a little imagination and some simple connectors, any piece of fabric can easily and quickly be transformed into a window treatment. So find a fabric that suits your home décor and personal style, and choose something that already has finished edges, such as a vintage linen or printed sheet. For a “green” alternative, check out your local thrift shop or flea market for linens and fabrics that you can reuse! Then choose a grommet, clip, hook, or cord to hang it with, and you’ll have a beautifully simple and inexpensive window treatment that reflects your personal style and creativity.

Grommets, slipped over wall hooks, produce a simple, crisp window treatment. Generally, a hammer and a grommet tool works at least as well for setting just a few grommets. The grommet prevents the hook from tearing through the hole. You can thread rayon cording through grommets and tie behind the grommets to create loops to hang from a wooden dowel or hooks above the window.

There are also stylish clips that can be found at flea markets and antique stores that simply latch onto the fabric. Home decorating and import stores also carry clip-on rings to hang curtains from.

You can even use buttons on curtains. Simply thread fine wire through the holes and sections of ribbon and simply twist the wire on the back side to create simple ribbon loops to hang the curtain with.

Let your creativity be your guide, and you can craft window treatments that reflect your personality and style. You’re only limited by your own imagination, though a little advice and inspiration never hurts either. Our Canadian readers may want to grab a free copy of Canadian Homestead Magazine, Canada’s Home Decor & Lifestyle Magazine currently featuring Designer & Green Decorating Trends with Sarah Richardson. Or grab a copy of Home Decorating Made Easy for tons of valuable ideas and insights to get your imagination going as you freshen up your home for 2009.

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