Have you ever noticed how expensive curtains are? Of course you have! Did you know that you can paint on fabric with latex paints? All you have to do is thin them out a little with textile medium and you can add any color or pattern to your fabrics! True story. Bob Vila shows us how to paint our curtains:
1. Wash and hem your curtain panel to fit your window (we used inexpensive Ritva curtains from Ikea for twelve dollars a pop).
2. Lay your curtain flat on a drop cloth and apply horizontal stripes of painter’s tape across the entire curtain at equal increments (we did six stripes that were about 12 inches thick).
3. Thin your paint with textile medium. We used latex paint thinned out with Folk Art Textile Medium from the craft store. (Just follow the directions on the bottle.)
4. Using a small foam roller, apply two thin coats of paint for each of your stripes. We alternated between Benjamin Moore’s Caliente and Berry Fizz to make our bold red and magenta stripes.
5. Carefully remove the tape as soon as you’re done with your last coat of paint to get the cleanest lines and repeat the process on as many curtain panels as you’d like. When everything’s dry, hang those babies up.
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