Fake Roman Blind

Sometimes Fake is Fine! As in Fur, Faux Fur is just fine, preferable to real fur in fact! Sometimes Fake is not okay, as in designer purses, or a medical degree.

 I'm not a huge fan of fake window treatments. I don't like it when there's a thin set of drapery panels on either side of a large window that clearly aren't able to cover the whole window and are just there decoratively.
So with my anti-faux stance I set out to get a custom roman blind made for our Master Bathroom window . . . a $200 quote later and suddenly faux didn't seem so bad! The window is completely frosted, you can't see in or out, I was buying a blind strictly for fashion not for function, So why not go faux (as long as it looked fully functional)!

 It was pretty easy to sew, just make a long piece of fabric with hemmed edges (if you found a table runner in the right width you could just use that). If your fabric is thin like my quilting fabric you can add some iron on interfacing to give it a little more structure.
Then sew big loops into the fabric making sure each loop covers the next loops stitches. Make one loop and sew it together at the top, then make another loop, and so on.

 Done. I lined the back of ours with a white top sheet we had lying around. While you can't see images behind the frosted glass, you can see color and I didn't want to see a burst of Orange from outside!

 We attached it to the window using velcro. That way I can take it off to wash it easily!

Total cost was:
1 yard of fabric $12.99
1 yard of interfacing $3.50
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$16.49 that's way better then $200!!!!!

So what do you think? . . . I'm loving the orange and grey combination. If I had gone with the custom roman blind for $200, I would have never had the courage to go orange, I would have done something safe like white, or grey. But because it was only $16.50 I was able to go funky and bold! If I get tired of it, another $16.50 can buy me a whole new color scheme in the bathroom!