Curtains for boy's room!

[OceanPrincess]

Hello experienced shoppers,

Where can I find some decent curtains for DS's new room???

Ideally I'd like a transport theme - cars, trucks, trains, planes, something along those lines. Not too fussy though. Construction would also be fine. Diggers, tractors, etc. Yes I'm gender stereotyping but it is actually what he likes.

Anyway, I cannot find any nice ones for love nor money. Found a great FB shops (thanks Nay I think it was ) who has some character designs that'd be fine (Thomas, Bob etc) but they are all far too short for our windows.

I don't understand it - DH tells me we have standard drop windows, 8ft or 213cm, yet all the ones she stocks are much shorter. Anyway!

Where can I find some, in person or online? Or even fabric - MIL made the nursery curtains we currently have, she's pretty handy, so that's not a problem.

MIL has checked out Spotlight and Lincraft for both ready-to-hang curtains and also material. There's not really anything nice in stock.

Ideas?? Google hasn't been my friend...

[Olive]

Funky fabrix have some cars material but not much

[AlligatorsMum]

Hi OP

I got my little mans curtains from pillow talk that are 90% block out curtains and they are in blue. I got them on sale for $19! They are only I think 120cm wide but I just bought a couple and joined them. For $19 it was still cheaper! They had about five different colours to choose from. U could then get normal material from spotlight and get ur mom to sew a hem or pattern on them if u wanted to theme it?

[Rowellen]

I used plain blue curtains from Curtain Wonderland for my DS's room. I got sheer ones as he has blinds already & they were more for decoration. From memory they were about $20 on sale. They were floor length.

For DD's room, I used fabric from IKEA & made some tab tops using a guide I found via google and adjusted it a bit. I loved IKEA's range of fabrics. They had heaps that would be suitable for boys or girls & fairly cheap. DD's curtains cost me about $50 by the time I bought material, buttons & thread. The material was about $10 per metre.

If you can sew, & really like the ones that are too short, you could sew horizontal panels into them in a plain block colour that either matches or contrasts the print.

[OceanPrincess]

If you can sew, & really like the ones that are too short, you could sew horizontal panels into them in a plain block colour that either matches or contrasts the print.

What a great idea!!! Might discuss that with MIL...

[foreva*your*mummy]

I brought some beautiful animal printed black out ones from spotlight. pre made. They are lovely

[PinkPalace]

i have trucks and cars one that i made for ds's room (not use them now as we have blinds).
i got a queen sizee doona cover and converted them