As previously mentioned, I hate the bump in my expendable curtain rods that hamper the movement of the drapery rings when opening and closing the curtains. In our old house I had a really nice wooden curtain rod that was actually two smaller rods joined in the middle (with a crazy double ended screw that I need to find more of). The joint was hidden by the middle support. So last night I went to Lowe's to look at their curtain rod selections and again, everything was so expensive and the finials so over the top. I love Sarah Richardson and noticed the used really understated rods in her summer house. Here's a close-up picture of one of the rooms.
And I had a moment of genius inspiration at Lowe's. I bought $2 dowels that are 5/8" wide and wooden drawer pulls to attach to the ends to act as finials.
And a can of bronze spraypaint.
And I started to spray away!
I'm really happy with how it's turning out and I spent about $25 on the whole shebang, versus $25 on only 1 curtain rod (and I need three, 2 that are about 36 inches and one that is 76 inches).
Now I'll just need to buy some mounting hardware (I wasn't happy with my options at Lowe's so I'm going to check elsewhere) and drapery rings. Oh and I need to hem the curtains and, perhaps the biggest barrier, my husband needs to finish framing out the windows. :)
Here's a before picture of what the bay window looked like when we moved in. The panes were cracked and taped together. BLAH.We thought windows going to the ground was a really bad idea and the new windows are raised about 12" off the floor.
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