Recently, I redecorated our "front room". That is what we call it, "Front Room". What it actually is is the formal dining room turned into a game/toy room turned into a mini-living room for our 7 and 10 year old boys.
I am a very visual person and really need to see the big picture in my head before I make the move to do something.
My problem with this room was:
1. My boys spent most of their time in there.
2. They are boys and really don't have neatness on the top of their list.
3. This room is the first room people see when they walk into our home. The same home with 2 boys who have better things to do than pick up after themselves.
What I wanted was a room where my boys could be comfy, relax, do homework and play games and at the same time I wanted people to enter my home and not want to turn back around.
Here is a before picture and as you can see there is a large arched entry:
The room itself is quite small to begin with and I wanted to somehow close off the room, seperate it in a way from the outside world. I had thoughts of French doors, sliding doors and just could not think of what to do. One day I was picking up my son from his friends house and I saw, in their dining room they had a curtain as an accent on the edge of the wall. There was my vision. I now knew what I was going to do with the wide open archway to seperate the "Front Room" from the entryway.
I will get into the rest of the redo for this room in later posts. This post is about the curtain, the archway and how I accomplished it without nails.
Here is the after from the same view:
I am also making over my kitchen and used the curtains from the kitchen to make the archway partition. I cut the curtain to fit the arch.
I didn't want nails so I had to figure out how I was going to get the curtains the way I wanted them without using nails.
More after pics:
notice the beach painting on the wall that I posted yesterday?
Closeups:
To attach the curtains to the top of the arch I purchased some foam board from the local craft store. It is flexible yet sturdy so it would mold with the curve of the arch. I cut it to 3" wide and measured the archway to include the curve. I cut 3 pieces of foam board, 1 for the center and 2 equal length pieces for either side. I then made a casing from some muslin that I had enclosing the foam board and also creating a base for the valance. The valance was to hide the hardware I was going to use in the center and to create the illusion of the curtains being able to move across the archway.
I used 3M Command mini hooks and attached them to the underside of the muslin covered foam board by cutting a slit in the muslin so the hook would attach to the foam board.
To attach the muslin covered foamboard valance to the archway I used 3m Command picture hanging strips! It is like an adhesive, velcro picture hanger! They hold up to 30lbs each.
I just attached them along the arch and the other side of the valance measuring equally.
To hang the curtains I used cafe hooks to clip to the curtain then hung the hook part of the clip from the hook part of the 3m hook on the valance.
Now our mini-family room is semi closed off yet still open and airy because I used a sheer curtain.
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