Putting Up Curtains In An Apartment

Purchase adhesive hooks that can hold the weight of your curtains.

Putting up curtains in an apartment.

Most stores don t carry anything longer than 84 but i ve found many carry the longer lengths online. If you move a lot make it a practice to always buy 95 curtains and re hem as you need to for each home. Instructions purchase 2 3 jumbo command hooks per window. You ll be spoilt for choice and very easy to put up and remove leaving no marks a all.

Natural materials are fantastic for shades if you re looking to layer them underneath curtains or if you re simply looking for a more rustic effect. This will allow enough room for the panels to hang on either side of your window and will force the panels to cover the window at all times. If you have high set windows like those in the home above from elle decoration featured on my domaine suspending curtains from the ceiling will look natural. Clean wall surface where you will be applying hooks with rubbing alcohol and clean cloth or paper towel.

Tape measure pencil and level. Draw a square at least 2 in 5 1 cm wide in the corner of the piece. Mark the placement of the hooks. It also tricks your eye into thinking the window is much larger than it actually is.

All you do is twist the rod in place and put it where ever you like. If it s dry crumbly plaster or a cinderblock wall that s preventing you from drilling holes consider hanging your curtain rod from the ceiling instead. Pick a finish that is the same as the curtain rods you will be hanging. Cut a right angle out of a piece of cardboard.

2 pole endings ikea raffig. Materials needed to hang curtains without drilling. Curtain pole we used this ikea racka because its length is adjustable. Curtains can always be hemmed up but can t really be let down.

Q i have a super strict landlord who will not allow us to screw anything in to the walls they even note in the lease that we can only use approved picture frame hardware no nails. Align the cardboard with the window. I recently got some cute sheer curtains and charcoal grey curtains from ikea that i d like to hang up i my living room larger photo below. Diy damage free curtain hanging tips how to hang curtains in your al diy damage free curtain hanging tips the dos and don ts of hanging curtainspics of.

Select a curtain rod that is wider than the width your window. They look great mounted on the inside of the frame as opposed to roman shades which look better when mounted on the outside.