Whether you’re dressing up old, historic windows or new, replacement windows, using unique materials for your kitchen window treatments will always make your windows stick out. Materials like tea towels for curtains or kitchen utensils for hooks will save you from having the same boring curtains or accessories that everyone else in your neighborhood has.
Using Tea Towels for Kitchen Window Treatments
If you are looking for curtains that are just as cute as a button, use tea towels to create café curtains in your kitchen.
First, select cute tea towels that match the colors you have in your kitchen. Next, put up a thin curtain rod at about the halfway mark of the window.
Take one of the edges with the pattern on it and fold it over the curtain rod so that the other end (with the pattern) is just lightly touching the window sill. Mark where the fold is and then remove the towel so you can create the curtain rod pocket.
To create the curtain rod pocket and finish the towel, sew the folded layers of the towel together. This will create a pocket to put the curtain rod through. You can leave the curtain this way and put them up, or you can decorate them a little more and sew buttons along the seam where you sewed the two halves together.
Hanging Kitchen Window Treatments with Silverware
There aren’t many different types of hooks and hoops in stores today to hang curtains on; which means that everyone is stuck with the same thing. So why not use a material that none of your friends would ever think to use to hang their curtains with, like silverware.
What you are going to do is take old forks and spoons, and bend the handles backwards into a “U” shape. The “U” shape is what you are going to hang on the curtain rod. The curtains themselves will hang on the fork or spoon part of the silverware, with the forks and spoons facing the inside of the house.
Using silverware to hang curtains is easy and very inexpensive. You can pick up cheap silverware at a thrift store, an antique mall, or at garage sales. If you don’t want the unique tarnished look of the old silverware, you can always try and polish the forks and spoons to give them a shinier look.
Source: Better Homes and Gardens
