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I would like to share with you another shopping find. It is called Drapery King Toronto and here is the link. http://www.draperypanelstoronto.com/ They have all kinds of window treatments, custom and ready made draperies as well as blinds and drapery hardware. The website is very informative and easy to use. Most people want a nice [...]

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Easy DIY Blinds for Your Front Porch These roll up blinds make your south or west facing porch a lot more comfortable to sit on on hot summer afternoons. They add shade to the front wall of your house too, which helps reduce the heat inside your home and your (scary) air conditioning electric bill!! [...]

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Answers to Various Drapery Questions Everyone seems to want to know how to hang flat, store bought drapery panels so that they don’t look like flat, store bought drapery panels!!! I gave you some advice/instructions in previous articles (see category ” Drapery Panel Problems”) and here are some more! Using Clip Rings on a Decorative [...]

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Lookin’ Good with Ready Mades So you found some curtain panels that you like and put them up and you are NOT happy with them. They really look amateurish, sloppy, or just not right, and you don’t know what to do to fix them. Here are some of the reasons that they don’t look/hang properly [...]

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Easy Sew Pleats and Gathers Rod Pocket Panels can be converted to pleats or gathers another way. This one is for those of you with access to a sewing machine and really basic sewing skills. At the Fabric Store, ask for pleating tape or shirring (gathering) tape. Then have them show you the appropriate hooks [...]

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Pile on the Pleats You can turn rod pocket panels into real pinch pleats, rather than fake it as I have described in “Easy Drapery Project“. You do need a sewing machine and some really basic sewing skills. As long as you are able to do some basic measuring and can sew a short seam [...]

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Get a pleated look from a flat panel Hang Rod Pocket (Flat) Panels to Look Like Pinch Pleats This ‘Decorating on a Dime’ project is dead easy and has an amazing effect. Give your flat panels the illusion of being pleated drapes. I am not crazy about rod pocket curtains/draperies in many cases, but they are [...]

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