I was trying to find some tiebacks other than either the ropes with tassels or the metal u-hooks that are commonly used today as neither of those styles really fit our house decor. I had purchased some jute ribbon for another project so thought I'd play with it a bit and see what I could come up with.
This is my final result and I think I'm pretty happy with it! (Sorry the bay window picture isn't the best - hard to get a picture of the whole window because of the layout of the room)
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| Our bay window in the dining room |
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| Family Room |
I made 3 loops of the jute to make it a little more substantial. Mine in my family room are about 9 1/2" halved and on the bay window are closer to 8 1/2-9". Then I took the ends and tied them in a knot so that the ends would lay nice side to side & trimmed each end to about 1". And DONE! Simple as that I had new tiebacks! (after I did it 6 times for all my windows!)
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| Side window of bay window |
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| Middle windows of bay window |
I had to figure out how to hold the tie-back back, so I bought little bronze hooks from WalMart for about $5 for 2 I think, and they work just great!
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| Hook used to hold tie's back |
Do you have any handy ideas you've used as tie backs? Any suggestions on improving mine?
Here are some ideas I found when I was looking on
Pinterest:
- Use an old doorknob to hold the curtains back. Or you could buy one from here.
