Gotta love Ikea

I have to sleep in a DARK room.  And even with two inch blinds the lake house was not dark enough.  The master bedroom is on the east side of the house, so the sunrise is a BIG problem,  When we are at the lake we are suppose to be relaxing so to be awake at sunrise it not a fun thing for us.  

But I am on a budget with everything I do with the lake house.  So I had to think outside the box.  I decided that I wanted a wall of curtains rather than one on each window and another one on the door.  I also wanted floor to ceiling to make the room look bigger.  Yes that is popcorn ceilings you see, we didn't scrap them because we were running out of steam and it is a lake house.  I painted the ceilings the same color as the walls to make the rooms look as big as possible.

The Rods are the longest rods I could get at Ikea they were $8 each and they are adjustable.

I used these brackets and I need two sets.  $1.50 each.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60268642/

I splurged on these (ha ha) $7 for the set.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40217248/

I connected the two rods with a threaded rod.  I picked it up at Ace hardware store, it was $1.19

I mounted the curtain brackets on each side of the door and the outside of the windows.  So yes I am only using four brackets for the entire wall.

So for $27 I have a full wall curtain rod, brackets and decorative finial ends.  Trust me that is a great price for over twenty-one feet of curtain rod.

I sewed the panels together.   Yes the middle is a different color. Long story. (Somebody Gary was wrong on how many it would take and when he reordered they were not exactly the same.  But that was the only option.  Again this is a lake house.)  I sewed three together  on each end then the four in the middle are sewed together in groups of two. So we could open them to hang on both sides of the windows and both sides of the door leading to the back porch.  I should have taken an open photo.  Sorry.

Gary is the Groupon king in our house.  He got two dark out curtain panels for 19.00, only flaw they are narrow.  If you haven't been shopping for dark out curtains lately, hold on to your nickers.  They are outrageous.  So for $100 I got floor to ceiling room darkening curtains for the whole wall.

So for $127.00 I have room darkening curtains and the rod.  I am going to customize them.  I will post that when I do it. 

Happy room darkening.