Shower Curtains & Shower Rails Buy from Heritage Home and Garden Buy from Terrys FabricsAfter writing the blog post about cottage gardens yesterday, I was inspired to work on our house today. I did work on our garden a bit, but I’m even more excited to have finished another project on our porch: we added curtains to it! I love our porch. It’s one of my favorite features of the Blue Cottage, but since we moved in almost two years ago, we haven’t really been able to use it much at all. There is always so much stuff on the porch because we are short on space. And every time it rains, I have to move the wood furniture to the center of the porch and cover them or they’ll get ruined. That not only doesn’t look nice, it’s also just annoying. I’m not able to enjoy the porch like I would like because I’m constantly moving things. So I came up with a plan to add curtains on the sides of the porch that I can pull out when it’s raining. This way, I can leave the furniture in one spot.

I got busy searching for DIY porch curtains on Pinterest and found a lot of posts — but they all featured curtains made out of drop cloth or burlap or bed sheets.Digital Camera Color Filter Array They are inexpensive and look pretty, but after reading several posts, I learned that those porch curtains get very heavy from the rain, need to be treated with water repellent spray, and get moldy after a while. Laser Light Show School Assemblies Then it hit me: why not use shower curtain liners? Outdoor Furniture Covers DaybedThey’d keep the rain off the furniture, they don’t cost much, they give you privacy but let the light through, and they won’t get heavy from the rain. I found $10 shower curtains liners at Target that feel like fabric and are even machine washable!

I also researched the best way to hang the shower curtain liner. I could have used a rod, or piping, and add eyelets and many hooks to our porch, but I found the easiest way to hang these DIY porch curtains. I bought the supplies at Home Depot and got the wire cut to the length I needed, about 6 feet, so I didn’t have to buy a wire-cutting tool. All of the hardware only cost about $15 for both curtains. The curtain ring clips are also from  Target. This is seriously the easiest tutorial to hang DIY porch curtains — much faster and cheaper than any other tutorial I’ve found! Don helped me with drilling the holes for the hooks while I put together all the parts, which only took a few minutes. Can we get a drumroll for my handsome husband being in a picture? I’m hoping to persuade him to be in more posts from now on. He is so skilled and can help me so much, and I like working with him on projects for the Blue Cottage. 1. Decide at what height you want to anchor the rope and mark two level holes for the hooks on either side of the porch.

2. Pre-drill the two holes for the screw eyes and screw in one on one side. 3. Put one end of the wire through one screw eye, make a loop, and secure it with a wire clamp. 4. Put the other end of the wire though the turnbuckle, make a loop, and secure it with a wire clamp. 5. Then slide the curtain clip rings over one end of the wire. This is what your end product should look like before you hang it. I decided to use 8 clips, but then nice thing about using the turnbuckle is that you can easily take it off from the screw eye and add more clips to the wire if needed. 6. Now screw in the screw eye with the wire attached to it on the other side. 7. Hook the turnbuckle into the screw eye on the other side. 8. Tighten the turnbuckle until the cable is rigid. 9. Now you’re ready to attach the shower curtain liner to the clips. One liner was perfect for our porch, but if yours is larger, you might want to add two liners on each side, and add another wire clamp to make sure the wire is secured for the extra weight.

There you go, my DIY porch curtains that cost less that $20 each and only took half an hour to put together! As you can see, the liner doesn’t reach the floor, but that doesn’t bother me for now. I could add another piece of curtain liner with fabric glue later, but I think it will keep enough rain from the furniture like this. 8. Add curtain ring clips to the bottom of the shower curtain liner to weigh it down so it doesn’t fly around when it’s windy. You could also add something else to the rings that is heavier, or you could hang the whole liner upside down so that you can use the ring holes in the liner to attach something heavy with strings. I’m going to buy more of these clips to weigh down the liner. If I find that the clips are not strong enough to hold the liner when it’s wet, I’m going to switch them with shower curtain rings and use the liner holes at the top of the liner, but I want to see how this setup works out first because I like how easy it is to detach the whole liner from the clips.

I’m really happy with the look of this, and that it not only keep the rain off the porch but gives us added privacy if we want it. While not in use, the curtain looks like this, or you could take it down and just put it up when it’s about to rain. What do you think of my DIY porch curtains?B&Q White Plain Shower Curtain This white shower curtain from B&Q will ensure water doesn't splash out on to your floor or bathroom furniture while using your shower. With its plain design it's ideal for your bath or shower tray. Made from polyester which is durable and machine washable. Guarantee - 1 year Technical specification of B&Q White Plain Shower Curtain Cooke & Lewis Light Grey & White Selena Leaf Shower CurtainThe tiny bathtub shower crammed into your equally tiny apartment probably feels like a claustrophobic nightmare every morning. But the Curvi’s an easy way to make it feel larger, spacious, and almost luxurious—without having to knock down walls or perform any kind of renovation.

If you know how to install a new shower curtain without the help of your landlord, you can easily upgrade your bathroom using the Curvi in about 10 seconds. There aren’t even any clumsy hooks to deal with. The Curvi curtain is actually an updated version of a product called the Curvit that replaced shower hooks with long metal arms that pushed a shower curtain outward, creating more room inside. The new Curvi instead replaces the entire shower curtain liner on the inside with a new version featuring rigid plastic fins that do essentially the same thing—push the curtain outwards and away from the person showering so they have more room to move around. And it still works in tandem with your existing shower curtain if it’s an integral part of your bathroom’s motif. You can pre-order the Curvi here for $25 with delivery expected sometime in September. It’s more expensive than a disposable shower curtain liner, but it’s also machine washable so instead of replacing it when it gets filthy, you can just add it to your laundry pile.