Make Curtain Rods From Conduit

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Make curtain rods from conduit.

One of my favorite parts of decorating any room is deciding on the curtains. A budget friendly way to make your own diy curtain rods use electrical conduit paint and add decorative finials. These are a great alternative to the high prices of rods for large windows. I used a piece of steel wool and lightly scuffed up the surface of the electrical conduit.

This instructable will show you how to make strong attractive and low cost curtain rods out of metal conduit. Use a dowel screw to join a piece of cork cut to size to fit inside the conduit and a craft shape. The rods really don t need finials for a functional reason but if you don t like the open ends here are some solutions. Making curtain rods from electrical conduits.

My biggest window needed a 106 inch bar which would have set me back 50 from pottery barn. Electrical conduit pick out the straightest pieces of electrical conduit aka emt conduit or electrical metal tube conduit you can find. How to make curtain rods out of electrical conduit supplies. My goal was to make curtain rods similar to the pottery barn standard drape rod but at a much lower cost.

Windows are definitely one of the most important architectural features in a house to me the bigger the better and i love for my windows to look pretty. Fine sandpaper steel wool. Screw on curtain end caps. These diy curtain rods are easy to make with some conduit affordable and so cute.

Even cheap curtain rods are more expensive that doing it this way and the bonus is that you don t need a center support because the conduit is not flexible just make sure your hangers are in a stud which you can usually find because you are putting the hangers at the end of the window where it is framed. Examine a typical pole style curtain rod and you ll notice that it s not much more than a hollow metal tube with some type of decorative finish. A wooden ball another decorative wooden shape etc you could paint them to match your rods or you could paint. I bet someone you know has one you can borrow.

How to make your own extra long diy curtain rods step 1 gather supplies. To make the conduit curtain rod. First we will need to prepare the metal conduit for painting. Pipe cutter ask around before buying.

Cabinet knobs these are my favorite and you can spray paint the whole knob or just the base in any color.