I thought I would join the Nester’s mistreatment club. I admit that I did not do these myself. I had a friend come and help me, but we did these in one afternoon with 6 little girls and two dogs hanging around. I have this breakfast nook window that had gray vertical blinds for the 10 years we have lived in this house. YUCK. They were UGLY. I still cannot believe I lived with those all those years. This is such an improvement. These windows made it difficult to hang a valance with the angle of the walls and the size of the windows. I could not decide if I should treat this area as one large window or three windows. We decided one large window would be the easiest. We did do a little bit of sewing but also used stitch witchery for some of it. We used a staple gun to make the pleats and stapled it onto a three thin pieces of wood. When it was finished I nailed them to the wall. I love how this turned out and was glad that I didn’t have to invest in expensive rods and hardware. I hot glued black gross grain ribbon to the top to hide the stapled pleats.
The small window is above my sink. We had just enough fabric to make one small panel with a pocket and hung it on a pressure rod between the two cabinets.
Sorry for the poor quality of photos.
Susan
PS—The fabric was free. My other friend gave it to me to match my kitchen. She bought it for a project and never used it and decided not to. The wood was in the garage as was the staple gun and staples. Out of pocket expense was the ribbon. Not too bad eh?
Those are great! I did something similar to your big one in another place we lived. It wasn’t anywhere as close to as cute as yours. Good job 🙂
I’m addicted to toile and these are fabulous! Super job!
Outstanding! I love it and I love Starbucks tooo!!!!!!!!!!! That’s probably why they call me…..Screaming Meme 🙂
Love, love LOVE that fabric! what a big undertaking but so very worth it! You have a good friend. and daughters. and dogs.
Those are so cute! I think you all did a great job.
Very pretty…love toile!
Wow, you did a great job with that. Love the look of the pleats. I can’t believe you did that with that many little ones running around. I can barely get my stuff done with just my two little ones in the house.
Love your fabric choice here!
Wow, I love your pleats! Both your mistreatments look gorgeous.
Oh. my gosh! LOVE them! I am a toile fanatic. You did fabulous!!
Those are darling!
Love your toile valance, you did a nice job with it!
Rhoda
Nice job! Creative & clever !! 🙂
These toile curtains look fabulous! If you like toile, come over to see my black/white toile mistreatment!
You window looks great! I love the curtains. The black and white fabric is very classy! Great job mistreating!
Looks so professional with those pleats! Love that toile fabric–and free to boot? Lucky girl!
i love “group” projects like this one!
Those are beautiful! And I love the toile!
wow…love them!
I looooooove the way your nook looks now! Your mistreatments are beautiful!!
Antoinette 🙂
Awesome job! Love them!
Beautiful job! And what a bonus that the fabric was FREE! I especially loooooove the pleated mistreatement.
Staple guns ROCK. That’s similar to what I did – looks awesome!
I love toille. My good friend, Diana, loves red toille and I made her an apron out of it last year.