Tuesday, February 16, 2010

DIY Curtain Rod & Brackets

I've been making plans to transform my son's room into a "big boy" room.  I like the idea of a rustic lodge theme for his room.  There's always good inspiration to be found at "Rate My Space":
Kaison's big boy room
Jack's Bedroom: Before & After
Rustic Fishing

I was browsing Dollarama one day when I saw a collection of rustic-looking walking sticks standing in an open box.  I immediately thought that two of them connected together would make a great (and frugal) curtain rod.  Each one was 36" long.  I sweet-talked Hubby into cutting about 5" of each one and drilling a hole into the end of each one.  At first, I tried connecting them with a piece of 1/4 " wood dowel, but it wasn't strong enough and so I ended up using a piece of threaded 5/16" metal rod instead.
 
Then I had to come up with a way of making brackets for the curtain rod.  I picked up a package of two ugly brass coat hooks from Dollarama.  I cut a couple of small wooden blocks and painted them and the hooks black.  I found some screws that were longer than the ones that came with the hooks.  I wanted the screws to be long enough to go throught the wooden block and into the wall beyond.  If the hooks were mounted directly on the wall, the curtain rod would have been too close to the wall.
 

The "handle" on each walking stick, makes a perfect finial.  I spent $3.75 on the two walking sticks and the one package of coat hooks.  I already had the black paint and the curtain rings.
















Partying at:
Domestically Speaking ~ Power of Paint Party
Blue Cricket Design ~ Show and Tell 
My Backyard Eden ~ Make it Yours Day
We Are THAT Family ~ Works-For-Me Wednesday
The Thrifty Home ~ Penny Pinching Party
Someday Crafts ~ Whatever Goes Wednesday  
The Shabby Chic Cottage ~ Transformation Thursday

12 comments:

  1. That is so clever! And it looks great!

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  2. now, that's thinking outside the box! :)
    gail

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  3. Creative! awesome idea :)

    ~ Emily N. from "too Blessed to Stress"

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  4. Cute idea. I recently replaced several wooden pole curtain rods in our family room/kitchen end of our home with thin black rods. Now I would like to use the wooden poles in another room but I didn't like how far the brackets stuck out. This would solve that problem. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  5. Clever! So much cheaper that way. Thanks for sharing at the Power of Paint Party!

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  6. That is such a cool idea! I haven't seen this one before. That could come in really handy at my house!!! Thanks for linking it up to somedaycrafts.blogspot.com for Whatever Goes Wednesday!!!

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  7. Such a good idea! I love the look of it!

    Thanks for linking up to Make it Yours day!

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  8. I would have never thought to use coat hangers for a curtain rod. I did my son's room up in a rustic lodge style and he loves it.

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  9. This is SUCH a genius idea! I am so glad I was just surfing tonight ans I found it. Did you know that getting a double rod hanger is about a million dollars, but now that I have seen this, I know there has got to be a way to do that with this.... Thanks!

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