How to Paint Curtains

When I was ready to do the curtains for Garrett’s room I knew I wanted something to highlight the room but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money. I decided to paint my own curtains to match the stripes on the wall. I found this tutorial from Infarrantly Creative to get an idea of how to do it. Now I’m going to show you how to paint curtains my way.

How to Paint Fabric Curtains - I painted these stripes with the paint I used on the wall in my son's bedroom. It was so easy and the curtains were from Ikea - Click it to see how!

How to Paint Curtains - I painted these stripes with the paint I used on the wall in my son's bedroom. It was so easy and the curtains were from Ikea - Click it to see how!

I went to Ikea. I purchased the Merete Curtains for $24.99 a pair, they perfect! They are EXTRA long so I had to hem them. They come with an iron on tape, but I went ahead and cut them and sewed the hem. First I decided on the width I wanted the stripes, I just eyeballed what I thought was right. The Red stripe was 12”, dark grey 2” and the light grey 6”. I took a ruler and measured across and taped with my favorite painters tape, Frog Tape. (If you want to know why I use Frog Tape see here) Once the tape was on I took the ruler and scraped it across the tape to get any gaps sealed.

I took out the paint I used on the walls and painted the first stripe with a sponge roller (Yes I know my roller head is shorter than the roller but we had a ton of rollers in the basement and I wanted to use what we had on hand.

I hung it to dry on my banister to dry for about 35-45 minutes.

After the red dried enough, I painted on the light gray stripe. I used the tape as a measure for the dark grey stripe in between.

In hind site, I would have mixed in some fabric medium with my paint. The fabric started to pucker and draw up a little from the red paint, making taping a little more difficult.

I let it dry and luckily I have a steady hand so I freehanded the last stripe. Then hung them to dry. I was still a little worried about the puckering, but it came out when I ironed them. I still would use fabric medium next time at a ratio of 2:1 paint vs. fabric medium because they are a little stiff.

I hung them up and I am so glad that I did not just wimp out and not do this, I think they really added to the room! I hope you will try to paint curtains now for your home!