Odd Jobs...
We bought the Ikea DIGNITET curtain wire "system" a few years ago after losing to many battles with curtain rods & Venetian blinds...
Love the idea of the system, BUT the clips just wouldn't stay on the wire no matter how we tried to clip the hooks on... Not a good look as you can see... I did try crimping the hooks over but to no avail as the hooks kept "jumping" off...
The other problem was that the old curtain material was rather cheap in price as well as quality... The white backing started to turn to powder & come off after about 18 months... As part of a late spring cleaning I washed the curtains as gently as I could but a lot more of the backing came off... We dipped into the emergency fund & took a trip around the local fabric stores to locate some suitable material to make replacements for ours & Koo's windows...
Koo's Windows...
We had had enough of the hooks so decided to put eyelets into the top hem... It was easy enough to put them in & they appear to be able to take a fair amount of weight without distorting the material...
Our curtains will be a bit more involved... We found the material we wanted but needed to buy some triple pass sun block backing as it isn't lined... The cheapest triple pass backing we could find in the size we needed was $13per meter... They also had a discount rack with some white curtain material that had a triple pass backing for $6per meter so I suggested to B☼ that we could use that instead & she agreed...
Shall post the results the results on another post before the weekend...
Have a great one all...
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