I have been wanting to do this next project for about a year now since I have seen so many porch spruce ups using these:
Well since I had freshly painted chairs, I had to put up something to protect them from the sun!!
Now it is my turn to turn a canvas drop cloth into great curtains! Yea!
What I thought was going to be a 2-3 hour job turned into a 2 day job!! Not b/c of lack of trying, but b/c of lack of materials and home improvement store slackers! LOL
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| Back Porch...Covered deck but still super hot. |
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| Check out the sun...Brutal |
Alright-I initially bought these to start the project.
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These are metal conduit clamps. I got 8 one inch to mount the bar and 12 two inch for the curtain. I had planned on using the screw as the "attachment" to the curtain and just sliding them back and forth on the metal pole. In theory that was a good idea, but in actuality not such a good one. There was too much of a gap at the top which allowed the sun to still come in, and the idea was to block the sun. On to the next idea.
(Returned the 12, $.65 for the 8) TOTAL $5.20 |
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| Metal conduit pipes. 2 @ $7.50 ish @ Home Depot 6'5.5" each. We cut them to make 4 poles. TOTAL $15 |
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| No shot of the cutting! |
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| Needed "help" w/ the hanging of the poles! |
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| Hubs was actually kinda into this project! He thought it was a great idea. He asked me where I got it from! I said "blog-world, where else!" |
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| Great shot of the hanging pole!! |
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| We then came to the conclusion to use these. A good decission just more cash flow than I initially wanted to use. About $5 per box of 10 gromets (I bought 5 boxes, used 42) and $2 for 12 hooks (I bought 4 boxes, used 42) TOTAL $33 |
Just a side bar...if you are planning to use 7/16 inch silver gromets in the near future, save yourself some time and just go to Jo Anns fabric they had the best selection! Home Depot & Lowes only had gold, Hobby Lobby only had one box that was a kit (didn't need the kit), Walmart had 2 boxes, the other 2 Walmarts didn't have ANY! Walmart's were priced at $4.97 and Jo Anns had them for $8!!! Luckly they were on half price today!! After I went to 5 stores I need a little luck!
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| I laid a plastic tarp down on the driveway and measured out the placement of gromets on the canvas. |
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| I folded the canvas down 15" to form a cafe curtain look. I started the first gromet in 3" from side and 2" from top. spaced them out about 11" apart. I set the gromets in the first canvas then used that as my template to do the others. Measure once and then cheat the rest!! |
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| My tools. It is very easy to set gromets and such a great finished product. |
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| Kinda hard to get the whole view from this picture but this is the corner and back of the deck. |
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| This is the other corner and back. I love the end result! |
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| View from driveway |
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| View from back yard |
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| View from side back yard |
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| Open view |
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| View from our back door |
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| View from driveway |
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| View from back yard |
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| View from side back yard |
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| Close-up of our work! |
Whew! now we can have a nice cooler deck and bonus the chairs hopefully will not fade as quickly! TOTAL about $118, more than I had expected but worth it in the end.
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