Variations in making curtains for the kitchen with your own hands
Modern manufacturers are ready to please their consumers with more and more new ideas. All of them allow us to facilitate our daily life, diversify the interior, make your home comfortable and cozy. However, no one has canceled the warm homely atmosphere that can only be created with the help of your imagination and hands. After all, the best and most high-quality repairs in the kitchen will not be able to create that homely aura, like embroidered towels and potholders, painted pots, or, for example, made DIY kitchen curtains.
Fashionable blinds or roman blinds may be somewhat more practical, but they are more suitable for an office or a teenager's bedroom than for a good hostess's kitchen. The ideal version of such knitwear in this place is unpretentiousness, lightness, simplicity and ease of use. Tailored with taste, they can complement the overall picture of the interior, echoing color or floral motifs with other elements of furniture or decor.
How to choose the right curtains?
Specially trained people - decorators or seamstresses - can decorate a window quickly and efficiently. However, tailoring such products is an easy and fast business, so why deprive yourself of such a great opportunity? A little imagination, a few burning ideas, simple accessories and materials - and now the curtain of your dreams will already be hanging on the kitchen window.
First you need to figure out the main functions that curtains will perform on your window. Most often, they should be made of light and simple fabric, which will often have to be removed and washed. After all, the kitchen is far from the cleanest place in the house or apartment. Secondly, they should protect the room well from direct sunlight. If you want to flood the room with light, then you just have to slightly pull them to the side and enjoy a sunny day in any season of the year. Thirdly, they should easily pass air and not accumulate dust in themselves. Any practical and inexpensive fabric would be ideal.
When choosing a material for sewing curtains, you should not focus solely on the appearance or color scheme of the canvas. First of all, you need to pay attention to the location of the room, its specifics and the main working area. Who needs a long curtain that will strive every time to get into the door of a slamming refrigerator, stove or sink?
This will help to correctly determine the size of the fabric, its width and the material itself. It should be easy to clean even in a washing machine. At the same time, its appearance after frequent washing should remain at the same level. And it is better if your choice falls on natural things - cotton, jute or linen.
Modern manufacturers also offer fabrics that are a mixture of natural and synthetic fibers. Very often, polyester is added to the above fabrics, and it makes the finished item more durable and durable. Curtains with a small proportion of polyester can last much longer and will delight you with perfect shapes and smooth neat edges for many years to come.
In any specialized store or salon, you will certainly be pleased with a huge selection of patterns, colors and patterns. All kinds of patterns and textures of fabrics can really make you confused, but it is better to stick to the golden mean and choose the material that was carefully thought out in advance. In any case, it is better not to buy too pretentious things, but to focus on the classics - large peas, checks, stripes or floral variations.
Style of kitchen curtains
If you absolutely do not know how to decorate your favorite room, then you should approach the issues of design art and interior design in more detail. To do this, you need to adequately assess the condition of your kitchen, furniture, repairs and choose exactly what will fit here most clearly. In cases of doubt, the whole family can resolve the issue by offering and discussing different ideas. Often, having changed some curtains, there is a desire to radically transform the entire kitchen. And it's pretty easy to do with only small details.
Sew curtains with your own hands can be in a rustic style. To do this, you need light and translucent canvases, which should shade well from the color of the walls and wallpaper. Most often they do not have any patterns or patterns. Their main feature is monochrome and simplicity.
Less commonly, they can have vertical or horizontal stripes, depending on whether you want to visually make the room wider or taller. Rustic curtains may contain a small pattern or pattern that is constantly duplicated and repeated. However, it is worth remembering that in a kitchen that is too crowded with things, such a pattern can create the illusion of chaos and disorder.
Do-it-yourself curtains for the kitchen can also be arranged colored floral motifs. They will always be bright, cheerful and sunny, regardless of the weather outside the window. Their main drawback is that such a pattern will eventually tire and annoy their owners. Ideally, curtains remain colorful, and additional curtains with calm and uniform colors appear on the windows, which will hide the riot of colors for a while.
Important! If you focus on lightness and choose a more airy fabric, then you should worry about safety in advance. Light and long fabrics can easily reach the stove on a windy day and cause a fire. It is better if weighting ruffles or a special braid are sewn to the curtain, which can fix it to special devices or hooks. Many complement this product with ribbons, beads, rhinestones. However, this work is quite painstaking and requires careful washing in the future.
The procedure for performing sewing work
Before how to sew curtains with your own hands, it is necessary to check and control the availability of all necessary devices. First of all, you need the fabric itself, which will become the basis of the future product. As well as pins, matching threads, needles, scissors, a pencil or a pattern pen.
If the house does not have a working sewing machine, then the work can be done even manually, because sewing curtains does not involve complex or ornate seams. If you want to create applications on a common canvas or add additional accessories to the curtain, you need to take care of the availability of these decor items in advance.
At the very beginning of work, you need to take accurate measurements from the window and calculate the fabric, taking into account all the folds and seams. The finished parameters are transferred to the finished smoothed fabric and carefully cut out. The upper part of the product must be prepared in advance for fastening the eaves.
It can be either a compacted tucked line for secure fixation with clothespins, or a stitched line with a special braid for hooks. Less commonly, curtains or curtains are made with a high margin on top so that the cornice is completely threaded into the seam. It is enough to trim the lower part of the product evenly and process it with one seam (depending on the characteristics of the material).
If the kitchen curtain should be neat and not take up much space, then its length can be adjusted to the beginning of the window sill. This will make it easier and more practical to use. Sometimes a long canvas is additionally fixed with bows or ribbons, collecting the product into a compact "accordion" closer to the middle.
If desired, the upper part can be slightly lowered and made more voluminous. In addition to ribbons or bows, you can use playful or fun fasteners with Velcro or buttons. The fastening mechanism can be additionally decorated with beads, beads, appliqué or other accessories. The finished design will give a special comfort to the homely atmosphere.
How to decorate old curtains?
Quite often, old curtains have a pretty decent appearance, thanks to their careful care. However, over time, they begin to get bored and seem less interesting than before. In order not to spend extra money on updating them, it is enough to show your imagination and try to transform them yourself.
In addition to standard applications and decorating with accessories, you can try to add brightness to them by painting with permanent markers or special paints. To do this, just remove the product from the window, use it as a white sheet of paper for creativity, and then walk on it with a hot iron using steam. This will help the paint to set well.
You can also decorate old boring curtains with the help of conventional edges. By sewing them to the curtain, you can also decorate other knitwear items in the kitchen - pillows on the sofa, napkins, hand towels, tablecloths, chair covers.
In addition to them, you can scatter buttons on the same things. To do this, you can use buttons of different sizes and colors. The main thing is that they are bright and blend well with the main interior of the room. In addition to edging, you can also use a long braid, which will decorate the fabric well and make the curtains more fresh and stylish. Most often it is stitched along the inner edge of the canvas.
You can also decorate the curtains with the usual fringe. It will be a little unexpected and fresh, because it comes back into fashion after how many years. The length of the fringe can be completely different, as well as its texture and color. It can have not only a classic look, but be complemented by tassels or playful pompoms. You can also decorate other fabric items in the kitchen with it - tablecloths, towels, pillows, or make a small playful curtain 20-30 centimeters from the top at the entrance to the kitchen.
Hostesses also give special preference beads and beads. They can have a different shape, color and size, the main thing is that they ideally fit the product and complement it well. You can sew beads both in a chaotic order and in the correct one, using zigzags, circles, ovals, waves or other regular shapes for this. Beads can decorate not only the fabric, but also its edges, embroidering with them not only the side parts, the bottom, but the tiebacks and fasteners for the curtains themselves. The main thing in this matter is not to overdo it and correctly find the ratio of the size of the beads and the density of the fabric itself. This will make their tandem harmonious and correct in the end result.
A great desire and desire to make your home beautiful and cozy will allow you to look for an idea for the soul, which, when realized, will transform the appearance of your home. This can be done easily, quickly and cheaply, if you have patience and the right materials at hand!
