I love them!
Let me give you a little run down of these windows...
The angled walls (each with one window) are 4 feet from corner to corner and the middle section is just under 14 feet. That's a total of about 21.5 FEET of windows to cover. 258 inches. Yikes! Also, this layout is apparently not common for a bay window. I researched until I was blue in the face to find a curtain rod for this area. Nothing. I would have to special order the rod. Can you see $$$$$$$ flying out the window? ME TOO!! So here's what I've done.
please excuse the mess!
When our room is complete I hope this will look amazing! I'm waiting until we choose a new bedroom suite (hopefully in the somewhat near future) before I paint and get curtains to match. For now, it's plain white and holding up our blackout curtains enough to block the sunlight in the mornings. Good enough for now.
Dollar breakdown:
brackets (6 total): $29.91
PVC pipe (30 ft): $6.75
PVC connectors (3 total): $2.32
PVC cutter: 9.97
Total materials $38.98
Total including tools $48.95
Alright, here's how it's happened so far.
We started with the most expensive and time consuming part, the brackets. I wanted something that would look nice and easily hold PVC pipe. I wanted to emulate the expensive curtain rods that are usually 1 to 1.5 inches thick. I didn't want thin curtain rods. These brackets are PERFECT! At $9.97 for a two-pack they are the most expensive part of the project, but still very reasonable at $30 total.
get these brackets on the wall--hardest part!
Mr. H was a ROCK STAR with this :)
Next buy your PVC. I bought three 10 foot pieces at $2.25 each. I barely needed more than 20 feet. So close.
Also buy whatever connectors you need. I bought one straight connector (a standard coupling joint) for $0.38 and two 45 degree angle connectors at $0.97 each.
Once home, I connected a 45 angle and straight connector to a 10 feet piece. I laid this piece in the brackets with the 45 degree connector in the corner bracket. I measured the distance from the corner to the outside edge, about 45 inches.
I laid the tape measure next to another piece of PVC pipe, marked 45 inches with a sharpie, and used my handy PVC cutter.
Let me tell you, this PVC cutter ROCKS! It was so easy and simple to use. The ratcheting mechanism did all the work. No loud pops, so flying PVC, no sharp edges. Just clean, easy cuts. Definitely worth $9.97.
Slide the cut pipe into the corner connector. I can't believe how easy this is--really!
I made two more cuts, another 45 inch piece for the other angled wall and a 32 inch piece to complete the length of the long wall. I just popped these two pieces in and voila! This was really incredibly simple!
As I said before, these new rods are just holding blackout liners right now. I want to get pretty curtains and spray paint the pipe soon. I'll post more pictures whenever than happens.
If you need any curtain rods I definitely recommend trying this method. So simple and inexpensive!
2 comments:
You are so creative! I would have never have thought that. So now if that happens to me, your coming to help right?
Of course I'll come help :) I'll bring my awesome cutting tool!
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