Interior Design Ideas|How to Hang Curtains

Hello I'm Jennifer with Jennifer Decorates and in today's video I'm going to show you how I took some drapery tie backs and turned them into some beautiful and elegant drapery hardware. So stay tuned. So for this design of a unique drapery hardware I came up with this idea because I was decorating for a client and they had a pretty wide window and I did not want to see a drapery rod going all the way across the window. So I thought it would be really unique and different to use drapery medallions up at the top and hang the curtains from them, which I'll show you later in this video. What I did was I purchased them online. I'll put a link below. They were gold and I'm going to show you how I painted them and distressed them. Take your medallion apart. There'll be three parts. I just used simple off-white acrylic paint and I painted all three parts. I gave them two coats to make sure it was pretty thick. And when you're painting make sure you get into every nook and cranny of these tie backs. When I was painting the middle piece of the tie back I didn't paint over where it kind of screws into both parts. Now for the fun part. Once the paint is dry you're just going to take some sand paper and you're going to sand off the paint. You want to sand it off on the areas where it would naturally get worn. Do the outside edges as well because you will be able to see that. Once you're done painting you just want to use some spray polyurethane and give these tie backs about two coats. You're going to need a total of six drapery rings. You want to get the ones that do not have the clip. They need to either have the eyelet or a small little ring. I used rust-oleum chalked paint in a spray can and I gave them two coats and then I applied a coat of the polyurethane. Now you want to follow the instructions that come with these tie backs on how to mount them into the wall. They come with screws and they come with an anchor. The top front part of the tie back unscrews so you can put your drapery ring directly on, screw the top part back on and you're ready to hang the drapes. So while this look and design is very loose and airy we're using three tie backs and I wanted to make sure I had the same amount of fabric gathered onto each medallion. And let me show you how I gathered it. I marked it and measured it out but I pulled it together and this is how I kind of created that look in the front. But in order to do that and to make sure I had everything measured out I took my fabric and I divided it by five. My fabric was 50 inches wide so I just had 10 inches between each mark and you can see from this diagram you just mark it all the way across. Now you've got everything marked and I'm just showing you with a scrap piece of fabric but you're going to need some drapery hooks. This is what they look like. You can find them at your local craft store or a home improvement store and you start with one side. Mine comes down an inch and a half and you're just going to put your drapery hook in there and come up like so and hook it in. And then you're going to go to your next marking and put your next hook in. Then you're going to pull them together like so and you're going to hook them right into the drapery hook and that's it. And then when all your drapes are finished and hung the weight will pull them down and you just kind of pull this a little bit and make a pleat. It's that easy. Thank you for watching this video. If you have any questions please leave them in the comments below. Be sure to subscribe to my channel because I'm going to have a lot more videos coming out later and make sure you hit that bell because it'll notify you when I have a new video out. Have a wonderful day.