Beautiful and simple curtains with your own hands for the kitchen

It's difficult to say when they started to "dress" the windows with fabrics, but we can assume that for a long time. Undoubtedly, the first curtains performed exclusively a utilitarian function, they were the defenders of the living room from the penetration of cold and unwanted light into the rooms, as well as from evil spirits (which in the era of total superstition was not unimportant). In ancient castles, a protective function was performed by tapestries that covered narrow, unglazed openings (mica glass was learned to make in the era of the late Middle Ages) cold stone chambers. Luxurious lush curtains from expensive heavy fabrics began to decorate the windows during the Renaissance, when the external beauty and rich artistic imagination began to be valued very highly.

In our dynamic and pragmatic century, completely new types of decorative design of windows appeared. Roller blinds, practical and functional blinds have firmly won the market, but along with them, fantasy curtains decorated with brushes, lambrequins, swags and jabots have not lost their relevance. Luxurious draperies and exquisite multi-layered curtains, passing through the era, still decorate the windows of our apartments.

The desire to create something special and original, showing imagination and skill, is very great. Therefore, let's try to sew the curtains with our own hands. Let's start with simple models for decorating the kitchen. Define the design. Using the design experience and having studied various stylistic approaches and proposals, we can say that the kitchen curtains at present are in no way inferior in their decorativeness and complexity to the models for the living room or bedroom. Recently, more often began to decorate the window with multi-layer draperies, which, probably, is due to the trend of uniting the kitchen-dining room. But here it is necessary to take into account some factors, first, complex draperies, as well as dark tones, visually reduce the space, secondly, if the stove continuously works in the kitchen, a lot of evaporation, soot, etc., all this will settle on Curtains with a specific fat coating, which from the folds is difficult to remove. Thirdly, heavy drapes "eat" part of the light stream from the window, making the room darker. Finally, curtains with lambrequins and frills are attributes of the classical style, so all the rest of the decor and furniture in the kitchen should be sustained in this style.

How to sew curtains for the kitchen? In a modern interior with simple laconic forms, filled with air and light, curtains you can choose the simplest in form, but bright colors and expressive colors. Kitchen is a space where a bold experiment with color is only welcomed. One of the most original and democratic ways that allows you to make curtains with your own hands is the use of eyelets. Eyelets - metal rings that are inserted into the fabric at the top of the product and through them through the cornice. As a result, you get fashionable modern and beautiful curtains, sewn according to the simplest technology.

Curtains with eyelets

1. We buy cloth. For this we take measurements. To draw curtains lay beautiful folds, each of the panels should be a width equal to half the length of the curtain, multiplied by 1.5 - 2, plus a small amount of centimeters on the file (if the fabric is hung across, or sewed from several panels). The length of the curtains includes the distance from the curtain to the floor plus 5 cm to the hem of the bottom (if the fabric is longitudinal), 12 cm for the treatment of the top curtains and 3 cm for the release above the cornice.

2. We sew the curtains. We cut the fabric according to the standards. If necessary, joining two cloths from a fabric with a pattern, we combine it along the longitudinal seam. We fold the side sections and add them. At the bottom of the curtains sewn. Now process the top slice. Cut out the adhesive tape from the adhesive strip with a width of 10 cm and a length equal to the width of the curtains and paste it, stepping back from the edge by 2 cm. We bend 12 cm from the top to the wrong side, bend the inside by 2 cm indentation and lay the hem along the upper and lower edges close to the fold.

3. The eyelets (buy in the store) are laid out at an equal distance from each other, retreating from the side edges by 1.5 cm, and from the top by 2 cm. We make the markings on the inner ring, cut out the holes that are slightly smaller than the intended ones, and insert the eyelets. Simple and beautiful curtains with their own hands are ready.

Roller blinds for kitchen by own hands

There is an easy way to make roller blinds, which will be a great addition to the kitchen in the rustic "country" style. This will require: two wooden slats (one for the eaves, 8-10 cm wide, another thin and light, 1.5-2 cm wide and the same width as the curtains). Bright colored or monophonic fabric for the main product and a companion fabric for strings. The curtain is made just a little below the window sill in expanded form, and the width is slightly wider than the window, exactly the width of the curtain.

1. First, we cover the wooden lath for the eaves with the main cloth. On the back side to the cornice, we stick one part of Velcro tape (the one used instead of the fasteners). Now we make long narrow ribbons from the companion fabric, they must be at least 8 pieces. 4 of them we attach to the cornice with the help of glue and mask the joint with covered decorative buttons. Two ribbons from the edges of the ledge, retreating by 5 cm, and two in the center at an equal distance.

2. We sew the curtains with our own hands from the main fabric. At the top we sew the second part of the Velcro tape from the front side, from below we make a hem and insert a wooden bar. Side cuts are also gently stymied. From the wrong side on the upper edge of the curtains at the same distance as on the cornice, sew the remaining 4 decorative ribbons.

3. Attach the curtains to the cornice with Velcro tape, roll into a roll and fix with decorative ribbons from ribbons.