Window Dressing

By Nanette Catarinella

Dramatically change the personality of a room with a new window treatment. From country casual to sleek contemporary, you can create instant, no-sew window fashions from everyday items found around your home.

Here are a few of my favorite ideas to start you thinking…

• For an instant valance, attach table runners to café rods with clip-on rings.
  Frame a window with plate racks. Add a series of decorative plates and change with the seasons.
• Use coordinating bed sheets draped over a decorative pole or attached with rings.
  For a young boy’s room, tack a series of sports pennants across the top of a window frame.
• For girls, hang rows of pretty ribbons, bows, beads, or tassels.
• Teens' rooms – use frayed, cut-off jeans shorts. Just slip a slim decorative rod through the belt loops.
• Cut out cardboard stars, spray paint silver and attach in varying lengths with clear fishing wire.
• For a rustic cabin look in winter – attach old ski poles above the window frame. Hang plaid blankets over the pole.
• For spring and summer - nail a lace table cloth to the window frame. Wire bunches of dried flowers at the corners.

You get the idea…anything goes! Just have fun and let your imagination soar! Happy Decorating!
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Nanette Catarinella, owner of Room Styles Interiors, is an interior decorator, award winning re-designer and Certified Staging Professional. For more information call, 412-351-2525 or visit the web site at: www.RoomStylesInteriors.com.