No Sew Cafe Curtains

I wanted to share with you another super easy update for your kitchen window or any window. I love natural light, as most do, and I had these big, bulky white blinds on the window over my kitchen sink (and every other window in the house).
Don’t get me wrong having blinds are great and I am glad they aren’t the tiny tiny blinds but they are SO hard to keep clean and some of them are in bad shape. I have been wanting to change the blinds on this window for awhile and I finally decided on removing them and putting up cafe curtains.

Cafe curtains are short curtains that cover half of a window such as a kitchen window above a sink.





Of course you know I am on a very limited budget and prefer to DIY everything if possible! For the fabric I was leaning towards using a shower curtain but then I found this Target Threshold window curtain panel and really loved the pattern of the fabric.





Here are the tools I need:
1. Curtain panel or shower curtain
2. Small tension rod
3. Drapery clips
4. Tape measure
5. Pencil
6. Scissors
7. Calculator (optional, I just can’t compute things in my head!)





First I measured the width of my window and then the height that I wanted the curtains. Once I did this I measured my fabric and realized that I could cut a large strip all the way across the bottom of the panel and then cut that in half and I would have exactly the right amount for two curtains. Remember to allow room for the hemming strips to your measurements.





Check out the rest of the easy steps on my blog, wwww.simplestylings.com






Original article and pictures take http://www.hometalk.com/10908588/no-sew-cafe-curtains site