For four years I have been fighting my curtains.As an ADHD person who loves to renovate, you can probably imagine how much I love changing my window decoration around. Seriously, I love switching it up at least quarterly. However. 70 years ago my grandmother wanted that drapery hardware with all the little hooks. I curse those little hooks. The curtains have to be perfectly pleated or they look like CRAP. I don't have the time, money or patience for such nonsense and the hundred feet of custom tan curtains my grandmother made in 1960-something finally fell apart when I had the gall to try to clean them.
The problem that had caused a four year delay in this was that every window has wood boxes with flourescent lighting in them, The four inch depth made it impossible to fit normal curtain rod holders. Everytime I tried to figure it out I would get overwhelmed and give up. Like this:
But this entry is about VICTORY!! and saving money.
First I wandered Ace Hardware looking for a way to hold the rods. When I walked onto the plumbing aisle I hear angels sing! 69 cents each. perfect size!
Then, the rods had to be found. I love Ikea, but this was on a weekend and I do not believe in going to Ikea on weekends. Amazon saved me. They had 3 part long adjustable 1 inch curtain rods for $7!!!!! While they had a ridiculous amount of packaging, they are perfect. strong, easy, no fussy balls on the end.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L45GLFH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Sorry for lack of real pictures of these actual windows but my camera is acting up :)
Thanks to Amazon also having nice insulated black out curtains for a great price I can now clean the cat hair filled curtains or change the colors due to boredom without dealing with 800 tiny hooks!!!
YAY!
