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Fun Things to do with Curtains

Fun Things to do with Curtains

Week 43 of 2025

Rosieness Revue
October 23rd, 2025

Shower Curtain Wall Art

Shower Curtains

We have lots of fun using inexpensive polyester shower curtains for all kinds of things - Sewers can repurpose them into pillows and cushions, tote bags or aprons. It’s also easy to recover a bulletin board or make a headboard with them if you have a staple gun. We tend to hang them inside and out and use them to cover our dog’s favorite chair. They are also great picnic table cloths. When our children were little we used them to cover the floor under the high chair or art projects when visiting relatives. They are lightweight and easy to tuck away and machine washable.

Picnic Blanket

Floor Protector

14 unbelievable ways to reuse your shower curtains

Let’s face it, even looking at our site at Luxor Linens, some shower curtains are so lovely that you’re sad to see them go. We get it. We love them, too. A bathroom remodel with new modern shower doors doesn’t have to mean good-bye to the shower curtain you fell in love with long ago. There’s even life left for the sho

luxorlinens.com/blogs/bedroom-eyes/14-unvelievable-ways-to-reuse-your-shower-curtains

DIY Large Scale Wall Art from a Shower Curtain

How to make your own large wall art using a shower curtain

www.blesserhouse.com/diy-large-scale-wall-art-from-a-shower-curtain

Outdoor Banner

Trompe-l’oeil Wall Cover

Door Replacement curtain

You can find our shower curtain art gallery here -

Velvet Curtains

Speaking of Doors - Up in the Northeast you still find Portieres

What is a Portiere?(Rhymes with affair). Derived from “porte,” the French word for door. Think drapery for doors. Specifically, a portiere is a curtain that hangs over a door or over a doorless entry to another room.

Portieres were common in wealthier households during the Victorian era both for decoration and to keep out drafts.

Making the Case for Portières - New York Interior Designer - Glenn Gissler Design

Portières were an essential element in homes of the high Aesthetic Movement of the 19th century.

gissler.com/making-the-case-for-portieres

Reading Nook Portiere

Sheer Curtains

Reuse Curtains In These 9 Creative Ways

Instead of throwing away your old curtains, repurpose them into items like lampshades, ottomans, throw pillows, headboards, and rugs

www.housedigest.com/1780212/reuse-curtains-cohesive-bedroom-accent-decor-ideas

Canopy Bed - with colorful sheer curtains

Trick or Treat - Ghost

Fairy Light Curtains

Sheer curtains are inexpensive and also great for dust covers indoors and plant covers outdoors and machine washable. We’ve seen them hung on porches and in place of screen doors - a la mosquito netting - but have never actually tried it.

Wave goodbye to pesky mosquitoes with the new $4 IKEA curtain – a chic alternative to the ugly bug nets of the past

You can cut it without hemming and machine wash, too

www.homesandgardens.com/solved/ikea-net-curtain-chic-alternative-ugly-bug-nets

Everyone can make a difference

One woman’s beach walks inspire a museum and a call to action

On Plum Island, beachcomber Corinn Flaherty’s finds fuel a mission to protect oceans and starts a Museum of Lost Toys and Curiosities.

www.wcvb.com/article/beach-trash-museum-plum-island/69021641

This Week in History

We couldn’t pick just one

Congress investigates Communists in Hollywood | 1947 |

The notorious Red Scare kicks into high gear in Washington, D.C. when the House Un-American Activities Committee began pressuring Hollywood to create a blacklist

www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-20/congress-investigates-reds-in-hollywood

Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City | 1959

The contemporary art museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, drew thousands to its opening day on October 21, 1959.

www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-21/guggenheim-museum-opens-in-new-york-city

Congress Passes Bill Banning Bias Against Women on Credit -1974

So women could apply for mortgages and credit cards without a man’s signature.

www.nytimes.com/1974/10/11/archives/congress-passes-bill-banning-bias-against-women-on-credit-women.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU8.5JcB.RV8GOw_xYzZi&smid=url-share