Putting Up Curtains In An Apartment

Align the cardboard with the window.

Putting up curtains in an apartment.

The light ones take nets and lightweight curtains but the heavy ones take full length heavy curtains. Mark the placement of the hooks. Clean wall surface where you will be applying hooks with rubbing alcohol and clean cloth or paper towel. If you have high set windows like those in the home above from elle decoration featured on my domaine suspending curtains from the ceiling will look natural.

Materials needed to hang curtains without drilling. It also tricks your eye into thinking the window is much larger than it actually is. Draw a square at least 2 in 5 1 cm wide in the corner of the piece. They look great mounted on the inside of the frame as opposed to roman shades which look better when mounted on the outside.

Diy damage free curtain hanging tips how to hang curtains in your al diy damage free curtain hanging tips the dos and don ts of hanging curtainspics of. Purchase adhesive hooks that can hold the weight of your curtains. Instructions purchase 2 3 jumbo command hooks per window. 2 pole endings ikea raffig.

Tape measure pencil and level. Pick a finish that is the same as the curtain rods you will be hanging. Curtain pole we used this ikea racka because its length is adjustable. Q i have a super strict landlord who will not allow us to screw anything in to the walls they even note in the lease that we can only use approved picture frame hardware no nails.

Select a curtain rod that is wider than the width your window. This will allow enough room for the panels to hang on either side of your window and will force the panels to cover the window at all times. Using adhesive hooks 1. I recently got some cute sheer curtains and charcoal grey curtains from ikea that i d like to hang up i my living room larger photo below.

Most stores don t carry anything longer than 84 but i ve found many carry the longer lengths online. Cut a right angle out of a piece of cardboard. You ll be spoilt for choice and very easy to put up and remove leaving no marks a all. Natural materials are fantastic for shades if you re looking to layer them underneath curtains or if you re simply looking for a more rustic effect.

All you do is twist the rod in place and put it where ever you like. If you move a lot make it a practice to always buy 95 curtains and re hem as you need to for each home.