My older brother wanted some curtains in his room, but had extra no cash for a long time. Eventually, I went to the dollar tree and picked him up some shower curtains and stuck 'em in his room. He was pretty happy with em because his room was only just plain and white before. It was only 4 bucks for everything. They were so cheap that I had an idea to just write on them for a design.
I know it's odd to use shower curtains as regular curtains, but I always try keep as much money in my pocket if I can. If you don't have time, patience, and like to draw or color, then you can buy curtains with a design on them already. But if you want to create your own personal design, then I hope my first instructable gives you a good idea and an inexpensive alternative.
I know it's odd to use shower curtains as regular curtains, but I always try keep as much money in my pocket if I can. If you don't have time, patience, and like to draw or color, then you can buy curtains with a design on them already. But if you want to create your own personal design, then I hope my first instructable gives you a good idea and an inexpensive alternative.
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I have a blue themed bedroom and I knew I was going to buy blue shower curtains to match with them. You can always take any design and draw on the color of your choosing. Shower curtains I found at the Dollar Tree had limited colors, such as pink, light brown, green, gray, and blue.
For my room, I wanted to add some asian flavor to it, because I had plain blue stripes or plaid in it before. I really liked the idea of white cherry blossoms. Google found me this nice painting of a tree at http://fineartamerica.com/featured/cherry-blossom-at-night-rick-lowe.html
You could always draw your own and create your own design if there's something specific you wanted, like the logo of a band you like, something musical related, piano keys, or hello kitty... flowers, airplanes, sports teams or equipment, names, letters, a character you like etc etc.. Make sure it isn't too complicated or large and has a lot of colors.
For my room, I wanted to add some asian flavor to it, because I had plain blue stripes or plaid in it before. I really liked the idea of white cherry blossoms. Google found me this nice painting of a tree at http://fineartamerica.com/featured/cherry-blossom-at-night-rick-lowe.html
You could always draw your own and create your own design if there's something specific you wanted, like the logo of a band you like, something musical related, piano keys, or hello kitty... flowers, airplanes, sports teams or equipment, names, letters, a character you like etc etc.. Make sure it isn't too complicated or large and has a lot of colors.
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I love the way it looks with the texturing . . . very three dimensional!
A couple of suggestions: rather than simply having the tree extend into empty space I'd draw some sort of line to represent the ground to anchor the image. It feels almost unfinished as it is now. I'd also toss some roots under it to step up the gnarley cherry tree feel.
Also, the shower curtain rings make for easy opening and all that and it definitely is less effort than what I'm about to suggest but it is hard to get away from realizing that you're looking at a shower curtain with them up there. If you've got a sewing machine I'd recommend either sewing a long straight line to create a loop at the top or get a contrasting color of fabric and create little tabs to go over the ring holes and hang the curtain from.
All in all though, AWESOME idea and execution!
Well, a single project doesn't (imho) warrant the investment in a sewing machine but I would also argue that sewing is a wonderfully useful skill to posses. My mom gave me her old machine a few years back now (a machine from the era where everything was made of metal and built like a tank) and I can say it's given me the exact abilities many of my projects have needed! From costumes, to gift bags, even lamps(!) it's been really fun.
Many folks expect sewing to be tremendously difficult but in reality it's monumentally simple . . .often the hardest part comes from learning how to thread your particular machine (for which there are diagrams) and select skills like gathering. For straight lines it's just a matter of keeping a steady hand!