How to lengthen the curtains from the bottom with your own hands?

On the Internet on women's forums quite oftenthere are questions about how to adjust the new curtains to the desired size. Often it happens that people just move, of course, take their favorite curtains and curtains with them, but here on the length they do not correspond to the new window opening. Also, everyone in life probably had a situation where the dimensions of the new curtains were simply incorrectly calculated. But it happens that the washing has a negative effect on the tissue - it sits heavily. If you are thinking how to lengthen the curtains from the bottom with your own hands, then the following simple methods that you can realize even at home are sure to come in handy.

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The most popular ways to shorten the curtains with your own hands

What can I do if the curtains are short? A little work and do the work with your own hands, which will allow your interior to radically change and play with new colors, gain new accents and trends. There are a lot of options for how to do this, the main thing is to choose the appropriate method in a particular case. Here everything will depend on your individual preferences, interior design and style of curtains. In the process of changing the size of curtains, you will be able to reveal your creative abilities and acquire new knowledge.

Now we will get acquainted with the most common and already proven in practice ways of changing the length of curtains:

• Splitting seams.
• Sewing of hinges.
• Lambruck.
• Cleaning.
• Cross inserts.
• Pendants.

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We unpack and iron

You are wondering how beautifully to extend the curtains when only 10-15 cm is missing? Here everything is very simple, you can simply add the missing centimeters by steaming the bottom fold of the product. As a result, you will get the right length, and you will just have to iron them properly.

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Lengthening with loops

This method provides for a minimum of time, physical and mental forces. The main thing is to correctly determine the size of the loops. And we do this as follows:

• We need to apply a curtain to the curtain and measure how many centimeters are missing.
• Your loops in folded form should be equal in length to this segment.
• Add to this figure 1.5-2 cm for the allowance on the seam.
• If you intend to use clasps, add 5 cm to the length of the hinges.
• Now select the material from which the hinges will be sewn. It is better - if by its structure it will be close to the fabric from which the curtains are sewn. They need to be attached to the top of the curtains by sewing, connecting with ties, bows or buttons. Then loops are simply put on the cornice, and your curtain is extended by 10-12 cm.

Important! Materials of loops and curtains on color in principle can, both harmonize and contrast. Sewing hinges can be made from a decorative cord or a tight braid. In form, they can also be diverse - ties, straps, bows. They can be either whole or keep on beautiful buttons.

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Create lambrequins to extend the curtains

Have you bought too short curtains? How to lengthen beautifully them to hide visually missing millimeters. Lambrequin can be called quite popular modern decorative element. To make it yourself is very easy, following this algorithm:

1. Buy lightweight but dense lambrequin material and lining fabric.
2. Carefully measure the length of the curtain and the height of the window.
3. For draping a natural size, create a template.
4. Prepare the ready template to the cornice and measure where the center of the window is.
5. Make a pattern for the lambrequin and lining.
6. Make allowances of 1.5-2 cm for allowances.
7. Place the details on a flat surface with the wrong side, sew lambrequins and lining together, while leaving one side not closed.
8. All seams are ironed properly.
9. Remove the drapery.

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Sew the original frill

You can sew the frill so neatly that the overall design of the curtains will not even change at all. If the room is decorated in the style of Minimalism, then it is not recommended to extend the curtains with too much ruffles and flounces. It is better to create something more weightless and easy.

It is better to make frills from the material, which will be combined as much as possible in texture and color with the main material. The main thing - that the ruffles were not too large, otherwise - the curtains will not become flirtatious.

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Elongation with transverse inserts

This option is considered the most painstaking of all previously listed, as it will have to completely remodel the seams to ennoble short curtains. How to lengthen beautifully the products:

• Cut the fabric in the places where the inserts will be. To make the curtains more stylish, it is better to make the inserts not in the center, but slightly to the right or to the left.
• Make inserts better from contrasting materials by color, as close as possible to type, style and texture. So that they do not look aloof, you should sew picks from the same fabric.
• To give a finish from the same fabric, sew a fringing.

Important! Not necessarily the inserts will be transverse, you can make them even oblique. It is recommended to do the whole work as carefully as possible, so that the finished products do not look too cheap.

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Special suspension for curtains

Apply this method will be as appropriate if the curtains are short. What to do, so that with the help of this trick also make in the design of the premises a certain zest, splendor and charm?

• Buy strands of pearls, beads, pendants with crystals and stones.
• Bottom of curtains attach them at a certain distance in the form of hanging threads or waves.

Looks like these portieres will be incredibly solemn, and their length will be as necessary.

We draw conclusions that it is not difficult to change the length of new or beloved old curtains, the main thing is to have a desire, to be able to handle sewing accessories and to approach this process creatively. In many cases, the elongated curtains themselves look more elegant and elegant than those bought in the finished form in the store.