DIY Painted Curtains

Hi Everyone!!

Happy Friday my loves!!!

A while ago while trolling for inspiration for a statement wall for our foyer I came across Sarah Greenman's amazing DIY she did in her entry.

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She was inspired by the amazingly talented Jamie Meares:

 

 

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I was instantly in love with the painted circles.  I loved how graphic and bold they looked in both spaces.  I really wanted to create the same look in our entryway, but I didn't want to just straight up copy it either.  So I decided to use it as inspiration and duplicate the look in the form of window panels for our dining room.

 

 

 

 

 

This project was extremely easy, fun, and relatively inexpensive.  Heres how I did it:

 

For the curtains I purchased a pair of Lenda panels from Ikea.  I picked the 118" length for $34.99.

I had some acrylic paint on hand and I picked up some fabric medium from Michaels.

 

 

Before I began I prewashed the panels, dryed, and layed them flat

 

 

I mixed the paint and fabric medium in a 1 to 1 ratio and got started making the circles.  For this process I literally just randomly drew cirlces.  I wanted them to pretty much all overlap at some point, but those were the only parameters I set.  The process was really organic, and as you can see some are very large and others are small. 

 

 

It took about 2 hours to complete both panels. I let them dry overnight and hung them using electrical conduit from Home Depot.  Since Im not a fan of the hoops, I cut them off and used  drapery clip rings to hang them.

 

 

 

Im still trying to figure out what Im going to do for the finials so they will remain as they are for now.

I absolutley love the way they look in the space.  They add such a fun and graphic element  to the mix. 

 

 

 

Another project down, many more to go! So tell me, have you ever considered painting curtains?  Have an awesome weekend.

 

Until next time...

 

XoXo-Shavonda