Make Curtain Rods From Conduit

To make the conduit curtain rod.

Make curtain rods from conduit.

My goal was to make curtain rods similar to the pottery barn standard drape rod but at a much lower cost. One of my favorite parts of decorating any room is deciding on the curtains. Use a dowel screw to join a piece of cork cut to size to fit inside the conduit and a craft shape. A budget friendly way to make your own diy curtain rods use electrical conduit paint and add decorative finials.

Electrical conduit pick out the straightest pieces of electrical conduit aka emt conduit or electrical metal tube conduit you can find. I used a piece of steel wool and lightly scuffed up the surface of the electrical conduit. Fine sandpaper steel wool. Depending on the length you need your curtain rod to be you may need more than one 10 foot piece.

Cabinet knobs these are my favorite and you can spray paint the whole knob or just the base in any color. These diy curtain rods are easy to make with some conduit affordable and so cute. Examine a typical pole style curtain rod and you ll notice that it s not much more than a hollow metal tube with some type of decorative finish. These are a great alternative to the high prices of rods for large windows.

I bet someone you know has one you can borrow. Screw on curtain end caps. First we will need to prepare the metal conduit for painting. The rods really don t need finials for a functional reason but if you don t like the open ends here are some solutions.

This instructable will show you how to make strong attractive and low cost curtain rods out of metal conduit. How to make curtain rods out of electrical conduit supplies. How to make your own extra long diy curtain rods step 1 gather supplies. A wooden ball another decorative wooden shape etc you could paint them to match your rods or you could paint.

Even cheap curtain rods are more expensive that doing it this way and the bonus is that you don t need a center support because the conduit is not flexible just make sure your hangers are in a stud which you can usually find because you are putting the hangers at the end of the window where it is framed. Windows are definitely one of the most important architectural features in a house to me the bigger the better and i love for my windows to look pretty. Making curtain rods from electrical conduits. Pipe cutter ask around before buying.

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