Vinyl Discs Curtain

   It's time to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. So I decided to use some old vinyl records to assembly a curtain to my bedroom.

They are cheap to buy, easy to use and will shade your bedroom as a blackout.

In nature, they will take 500 years to decompose so, nature says thank you!

List of Materials
- Vinyl discs
- Curtain tracks
- Curtain wheels
- Thin rope
- Paper fasteners
- 2 closed eye screw hooks

Step 1 Install the curtain track

Measure the length you want to cover with your curtain. Buy enough curtain track to match that length.   Buy curtain wheels to hold the vinyl lines. In this case, cheaper is better.
Install the curtain track.

Comments

[Hammerholder]

How about a cd curtain?

[faithblinded]

I like it!  Securing the records to lines was smart.  I know from experience flat records make poor structural elements, so you have neatly sidestepped that.

I suggest slicing a stack of records in half, and glue them overlapping on a narrow piece of plywood or mdf to make a nice valance for the top.  The cut sides would all go towards the ceiling, and provide a nice gap-less line to give you a finished look.  To mount it you could secure a cleat on the ceiling, and then screw through the cleat into the back face of the valance for a clean install.

Alternately you could work a similar valance into the curtain track and mount it all at once.

Thanks for the great ideas to string up a record curtain!  I may do this soon.

[McAndrews]

Thank you Faithblinded for your comment and the valance idea. I was thinking of do it with seven inch records, but your idea is better.

[faithblinded]

Cool! If you add a valance, please update us with a picture of it!

[cylonics]

I noticed you used Pink Flyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album, have you checked to see if any of these are valuable?

[McAndrews]

Yes I did. these records cost me a quarter dollar each. Thank you for your comment.