The most current photo of our living room (although missing our 2x4 Jalousie Rear Media Console), sports different curtains than the free bedsheet fold top curtains I sew before we moved upstairs.
In April, as we were settling into our unfurnished apartment, we installed a home theater system and blackout curtains. I ordered 54'' Wide Roc-Lon® Blackout Drapery Lining from Amazon.com at about $6 per yard. Using 10 yards, our new living room blackout curtain fabric cost me about $60, which is $60 more than our free bed sheet fold top curtains now in the nursery.
Clothespins to Clip Rings
Originally, I clipped the blackout curtains with clothespins until we purchased the first set of curtain rings I've ever used: Levolor Classic Clip Rings, Set of 7, Brushed Sienna, also from Amazon.com, which cost a total of $32 for 4 sets, the same price as the curtain rod and finial sets I purchased from Ross.
This has put a defined dent in our living room furnishing budget, in the shape of $92 for our blackout curtains, or $124 if you include the cost of the rods. I spent $124 to cover my windows with blackout fabric? Ouch.
Our living room furniture budget (costs rounded up to the next dollar):
- Purchased Papasan chair: $223 Purchase
- Hand-painted floor cloth: $40 Project
- 2 - 120" curtain rods: $32 Purchase
- 2 - Small end tables: $5 Project
- 3 - Hanging Wood Lanterns: $25 Project
- Wooden Lantern Tree: $4 Project
- Reclaimed Wood Coffee Table: $5 Project
- Reclaimed 1x6 Topped Media Console: $29 Project
- 2x4 and Jalousie Rear Console: $10 Project
- C End Table: $1 Project
- Hemless Blackout Curtains and clips: $92 Purchase
$34 left for repairing and slipcovering those sofas...uh oh.
Although the price is not favorable for my budget, the blackout fabric is great because I learned I didn't need to hem it. It doesn't fray at all. I cut leftover pieces into a curvaceous bracket shape for my watercolor blackout shades, and the fabric has held the shape of the cut.
