Red Café Curtains

Red cafe curtains inject vibrant energy into kitchens, diners, or cozy corners, creating a warm, inviting atmosphere. The bold hue pairs well with white or wooden frames, evoking classic Americana or retro diner aesthetics. Choose from solids, gingham, or small prints to match your decor—cherry motifs lean playful, while deeper burgundies feel refined. Half-length red cafe curtains maintain privacy without darkening the room, ideal for window over sinks. For contrast, pair them with neutral walls and stainless steel appliances. Durable polyester or cotton fabrics ensure easy cleaning, resisting grease and moisture. Whether you’re channeling vintage charm or modern boldness, red cafe curtains make a cheerful statement in any casual dining space.

Window Treatments

Did you guess which room I’m working on with the peeks I’ve been giving you? Yes the breakfast room and kitchen got a fresh coat of paint and I will share the full reveal later. For now I wanted to show you how we turned the long drapes into cute cafe curtains. After taking down the drapes to paint the walls I was loving the light coming in so I decided I didn’t want to put the drapes back the way they were. I have always loved the look of cafe curtains and started looking on line to order some. Then the idea to just revamp what I had sounded like a much better idea and free. Mr. Savvy had added the curtain rod where I wanted it placed and then offered to help me with the curtains. Yep he is a jack of all trades and yes, he has his shirt off. I told him to put it on before I started shooting pics, but hey the He man said no so you get what you get. At least the iron hides most of him. 🙂 We hung one drape panel from the rod so we could see where to mark it to cut. Then he started pinning the length to hem since we cut them about two inches longer. I told him we needed to fold the edge under and iron a nice crease and then fold that under with the stitch witch and iron. So that is when he started pulling the pins back out and he ironed the creases in. I was going to do this myself, but hey, he offered. I’m so glad we could do this without sewing. Gotta love this stuff. Even though he could have sewn them with the machine. He is actually better at that than me. I break out in a sweat in front of a sewing machine. See the nice crease he made and then it all got ironed down on the stitch witch tape. Nice and neat. We only had to use one panel since the panels were so long. Now, I can use the other one for pillows or cushions covers or maybe even some napkins. We had these curtains measured, cut, hemmed and hung in less than an hour. I’m loving the new look.

•• KITCHEN ••

Using tablecloths to make affordable window treatments draperies

mine

With a need to cover my windows and a small budget to do it with I decided on this Ikea dishtowel hack using my favorite .69 cent dishtowels!

For the Home

No Sew Cafe Curtains: Day 22

Window Treatments

kitchen decor

We put together an all-star team to design the ultimate Nashville house. Located on the land of country music icon Barbara Mandrel’s estate, Fontanel, Atlanta and Peachtree City, Georgia-based architecture firm, Historical Concepts worked with uber-Southern decorator, Phoebe Howard who works out of Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta; and Jacksonville, Florida to create this Nashville house that can host a crowd. Mimicking an old farmhouse, the main house revolves around one large living room flanked by a hardworking kitchen on one end that boasts a laundry room with enviable laundry room shelving. The exterior boasts a wraparound front porch with extra-deep porch swings and completely a separate rear-dining porch that is connected to the living room and dining room. Outside the main house, Historical Concepts designed several guest houses and bunkies each with their own kitchenette and porch so that company could have their own privacy. Consider this the ultimate Nashville house.

Our flat.

feed sacks used as cafe curtains I cut my feed sacks to the size I needed for my windows then rolled the edges under and hemmed on the sewing machine. You do not have to hem the edges, but could leave them raw for a more rustic look, or hem with iron-on hemming tape. Because I had shelving on one side and a cabinet on the other, I screwed in eye hooks to hold picture wire. I added curtain clips to the feed sacks, then slid them onto the wire then pulled tight to each eye hook and…