Cheap & Easy Farmhouse Decor – Drop Cloth Curtains

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If you follow me on Instagram @LifeintheBigWoods , you might have seen in my stories that we finally hung curtains up in our living room!  By curtains, I mean we hung up drop cloths to make them look like curtains. 😉 They were really cheap and turned out pretty cute!

You probably know that using drop cloths for curtains isn’t a brand new, original idea.  I was showing my husband a picture of what the curtains would look like, and he said, “Wait, you mean drop cloth curtains weren’t your original idea??” He’s so sweet.

In fact, if you go to Google and type in “drop cloth curtains” it says that there are over 23,000,000 results.  Ha!

I’ve had the drop cloths stacked in my kitchen for some time, and after begging my husband to help me put up the curtain rods — by help, I mean that he did it all 🙂 — we finally have curtains in our living room!

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How to Easily Hem Super Long IKEA Curtains

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I had bought these super cheap curtains from IKEA a while back ($25 for two panels!) and finally got around to hanging them up…7 months later.  We lived without curtains (or blinds!) on our bedroom windows for 7 months.  Good thing we live in the woods. 🙂

IKEA Lenda curtains

If you’ve ever looked at the curtains at IKEA, you probably noticed that they come in two lengths – long (98″) and super long (118″).  These lengths are great because most people choose to hang their curtains higher up from the actual window.  This helps the windows and room look bigger.  I also just think that it makes the room look more sophisticated, but that’s just me. 🙂 Continue reading