How to make decorative curtains on the doorway with your own hands

A doorway without a door needs to be decorated with something. If you make curtains with your own hands, they will turn out to be more original than purchased ones. Fabric, wood, beads, etc. can be used as materials. How exactly to make decorative curtains for the doorway with your own hands? What to prefer, bamboo, thread or other materials? For you, an interesting master class, examples in the photo and a useful video.

Types of decorative curtains

Doorways without doors are not a temporary solution until the next paycheck. Most often, this is a conscious interior design in order to expand the room or create a fuzzy, conditional visual border. In this case, curtains are needed to complete the interior of the room or to place accents.

Curtains can separate:

  • corridor from the kitchen;
  • kitchen from the hallway;
  • living room from the kitchen;
  • living room from the corridor;
  • areas of one room.

Production materials:

  • bamboo. Lightweight and durable, do not fade and do not accumulate static electricity. An eco-friendly version of soft natural colors for country and oriental style;
  • threads. Thread curtains can be combined with beads, shells, glass beads, feathers. Look original, but not durable;
  • decorative elements. A type of thread curtains, in the manufacture of which small decorative elements are used: beads, pieces of wood, beads.
  • textile. All kinds of options suit different styles.

Types of curtains:

  • classic. Fabric, falling from top to bottom;
  • French. Gathering in folds along the length is dense;
  • Japanese. Curtains look like screens, the frame can be upholstered with material or fabric;
  • bishop's sleeve Tightened in the middle, below they look like a wide sleeve with a large slouch;
  • hourglass. Lightweight fabric gathers in folds in the middle;
  • lambrequins. Various configurations with pleats and laps.

DIY thread curtains

Curtains made of dense threads can be without anything or decorated with beads or other decorative elements. To create curtains, you will need the following materials and tools:

  • various threads made of silk, twine, polyester, viscose;
  • decorative elements as desired;
  • scissors, tape measure, pencil.

Attention! There are many ways to fasten threads. For example, threads can be intertwined with each other, and a bead can be placed above each knot.

What to do:

  1. Measure the height and width of the doorway so that the curtain reaches the floor and extends beyond the doorway on the left and right.
  2. Calculate how many threads you need, taking into account the distance from one thread to another and the allowance for tying knots at the top.
  3. Drill the required number of holes in the bar;
  4. Pass the threads through the holes, tying them in knots.
  5. Attach decorative elements to them with knots or special fasteners.
  6. Even if there are no beads on the entire length of the threads, it is advisable to make them at the very bottom. Weighting will help the threads hang vertically.
  7. Hang a plank over the doorway.

If you do not want to drill holes, you can glue the threads to the bar with a heat gun.

How to make hanging curtains

For the original decoration of the opening, colored pebbles, beads, beads, shells, glass beads, decorative knitted, glass or crystal elements are suitable. Colors can be used neutral, or, conversely, contrasting, depending on the style of the interior. In addition, you need to prepare:

  • beautiful and strong threads;
  • braid;
  • wooden plank or double-sided tape;
  • needle for putting on beads.

For a standard doorway, on average, about 500 threads are needed.

Guide to action:

  1. Cut the threads to the height of the doorway. You can use the idea with threads of different lengths.
  2. Cut the tape to a width slightly larger than the doorway.
  3. Carefully stick the threads across the entire width of the double-sided tape.
  4. Bend the tape twice so that the threads remain inside.
  5. On the resulting strip, glue the braid in the color of the threads or wall decoration.
  6. Attach above the doorway.
  7. String beads on each thread with a needle. You can fix it in different ways: with crepes, pliers, knots or a thread threaded twice in different directions.

Advice. If you plan to "draw" a pattern or pattern with beads, then it is best to do this before hanging the curtains. If you just want to put beads on threads, then it is more convenient to do this in limbo.

Such beauty, shimmering in the rays of the sun, can be woven together with children. In order to cope with the work, 2-3 days are enough.

Making a bamboo curtain

Bamboo curtains - decoration of ethnic interior. Previously, they were sold ready-made, with a pattern. Today it is more difficult to buy such curtains, but it is quite possible to create them yourself. The manufacturing technology will resemble the installation of wooden curtains.

You will need:

  • sticks made of wood or bamboo;
  • fishing line;
  • crimps - clips for decor;
  • cornice with rings.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Measure the height of the doorway.
  2. Cut the fishing line to the desired length with a small allowance.
  3. String the bamboo onto the fishing line, securing each element with crimps at the top and bottom.
  4. When ready, hang the fishing line on the cornice rings.
  5. Attach a cornice.

A bamboo or wooden curtain will be denser and more durable than a regular filament curtain.

Tailoring an elegant fabric curtain

Fabric is the most common way to design a doorway. To make it even more unusual, it is better not to purchase standard options, but to do everything yourself. Before work, you need to draw a sketch and take into account the number of frills and lambrequins. Based on this, calculate the required fabric footage. For example, drapery doubles the footage.

Attention! The width of the curtain is calculated by the formula: the width of the cornice, multiplied by the assembly factor (from 1.8 to 3x, depending on the type of fabric), plus seam allowances.

Materials:

  • textile;
  • thread, needle;
  • sewing machine;
  • threads to match the material, braid.

Action steps:

  1. Prepare fabric: wash and dry.
  2. Process or remove the edge.
  3. Cut according to the sketch.
  4. Sew the curtain on the sewing machine according to the pattern.
  5. Bend and sew loops at the top.
  6. Put on the rings of the eaves.

In order for the curtain not to block the entrance to the room, you can install pickups and use them to hold the curtains open.

A product made of thread, bamboo or fabric will delight the family and surprise friends, and it can serve for more than 5 years.

Do-it-yourself curtains on the doorway - video

Curtains on the doorway - photo



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