curtain help

Keep them simple! These may help:

hate making curtains, but have made lots. I have more to make, as the living room needs doing... :(

I made the simplest of window coverings for my back porch. I got double-faced quilted fabric -- the kind with printed patterns on both sides, not the tricot on one side. I put a casing top and bottom, and hung them with wooden dowels. I used cup hooks to hold the dowels. I put a second dowel at the bottom, and an extra pair of cuphooks so that I could just lift the bottom dowel and hang it, leaving half the window bare, for daytime and nicer weather.

I wanted the insulation from the quilting, but they block light very effectively. Cozy!

When I was in my local JoAnn's, they had RocLon black out liner fabric, that is what I use in my room since I sleep days. For other rooms where we want to dim the light but not neccessarily black out, I bought some inexepensive microfiber fabric at walmart and used that as a liner.

~gyrl~

C> My husband would like me to make some lined curtains for the basement to

Hi Cindy,

Does he want to cut the glare or cut the light? It's an important difference and affects what you do.

In my DD's bedroom which is south facing, I have (1) a nylon 'muslin' net curtain type installation, (2) a black out blind and (3) black out curtains.

Item (1) cuts the glare in the room from the sun during the day when we want the light but don't want to squint. Items (2) and (3) provide near total darkness for going to bed.

For black out, the rubberised black out fabric is great and can be purchased as yardage and used as you which and you can buy ready made blinds of it - or make your own.

For glare reduction, any fine lightweight material will do the business., in a simple or complicated manner as you wish.

In another south facing room we have white vertical blinds of a nasty horrible polyester / nylon thick fabric, which do actually let more light through than you would think, and do an excellent job of heat and glare reduction.

HTH

Sarah