Home economist Deborah Durham covers every possible surface with sheets. She explains how to make over a room in minutes, using sheets as draperies. Hang pretty sheets at the window with decorative cording looped through grommet holes at the top of the sheet. Bargain-basement sheets can make this especially inexpensive, and the banded edge and piping make a perfect top. To cover a 36"-wide window, install grommets 8" apart on the panel end of a pair of twin sheets. Working on the wrong side of the sheet, punch holes in the fabric with a paper punch, and attach the grommets, using a grommet tool and a hammer (figure A). A grommet tool is usually included in packages of grommets. Loop decorative cording through the grommet holes, and slip the drapery on the rod. A length of decorative cording may also be used as a drapery tieback (figure B ). Try this look in a living room or dining room -- or as a shower curtain or bed-canopy treatment. An even simpler method requires no grommets. Punch holes 24" apart along the top of a flat sheet, and wire silk flowers and other embellishments to the holes (figure C). This is a great way to recycle old jewelry or Christmas decorations, and the embellishments cover the raw edges of the holes, making grommets unnecessary. Add a curtain hook to each hole, and hang the sheet on a delicate curtain rod. The widely spaced holes give the drape a romantic, elegant dip.
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