The Raw House Project : { Stenciled Curtains }

Over the summer I decided I wanted to try stenciling curtains. You've seen this all over on pinterest and blogs and it always looks really cool, so I wanted to see what I could come up with. I had an idea to do something with triangles.

I really like vintage revivals triangle stamped wall so I wanted to try to copy that only onto curtains.

I started out with a pair of Target's plain white curtains.

I had Mark cut me a triangle out of some scrap wood.

I taped on some fabric, fancy huh?!

I poured out the acrylic paint that I wanted to use and then dipped the fabric covered triangle into the paint and then pushed it down onto the curtain where I wanted it.

I used part of a drinking straw to measure my spacing for each triangle. Really getting technical over here huh!

I had laid the curtain out on the kitchen table to do the stamping.

It was really easy. A little time consuming but not difficult to do.

After I was done, I threw the curtain over the clothes line outside to dry.

After it was dry, I hung them back up on the rod in the living room.

I wasn't planning on having them in the living room, my plan was to do the stamping so that I could hang them in the kids room upstairs.

I left them hanging in the living room for a couple months because I move slow like that and finally last month moved them up to the kid's room.

I love them up there. They are perfect for the kid's room. The stamped triangles add a touch of whimsy and originality to an otherwise plain white curtain. I have yet to add anything to the wall behind the beds so it seems like these are the artwork that the room needed, for now. Obviously I am not a photographer so please disregard the terrible blurry photos. It's hard to get a good picture of windows in a dark room when it's bright outside.

On the scale of easy-ness I would rate it at an 8.

Totally do-able for anyone. I rounded up a few of the "blogland" stamped things for you to see how original and awesome stamping or stenciling can be.