Lately I have been very busy
with home improvement projects and one of them was sewing a roman shade.
My apartment has beautiful 72" inch tall windows. Two of them have
beautiful floor length raw silk curtains my mother made for me a few years
ago. The other window is an eye sore! In the summer it holds my huge
window AC unit. Since the unit is so big, I needed a shade
that is both functional and stylish. A shade that I can open to
let in light and close for privacy. Since the AC is only in the window in the
summer my biggest problem was the length of the shade or curtain. You will see
in the picture below when I used a full 72" inch curtain it was too long
and it blocked the vent of the unit, but if I used something shorter it
wasn't long enough for winter when the unit is removed. Also, you can see
how I had to bunch the extra curtain on top of the AC unit and I hate the way
that looked. It looked too much like a college dorm to me.
My solution to this dilemma is a relaxed roman shade. Custom made for the full length of the window, but functional to pull up when the AC unit is in and long enough to pull down when it is removed. I just love it! I choose a neutral cream heavy weight cotton fabric with a beautiful sage green decorative trim to match the other raw silk curtains that hang across the room.
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| eye sore window before |
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| window after much more grown up |
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| roman shade |
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| decorative trim |
This was the first time I tried to make a roman shade and since my sister has made hundreds of them she was able to give me great pointers! The best advice she gave was to hang the shade as I sewed on the plastic rings. She said "having it hung keeps the fabric from bunching" and she was right! To see more roman shades check out her blog
OneHauteKid.blogspot.com.
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