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Have you ever found yourself in a similar predicament? You’re styling a room and want to dress the windows up with some draperies…only to realize you CAN’T find a curtain rod that will hang inside your bay window? Super frustrating right?!! We’ve been there! There was once a company that made custom rods to fit bay windows, but they no longer offer this service, and as far we know (or at least as much as we researched) it’s impossible to find a rod to fit in a bay window! That of course wasn’t going to stop us from figuring out a way to make it work! Come take a look and see how we created our own DIY custom rod to fit inside a bay!
For this bay window I purchased 2 curtain rods, one for the large window and the other to be used over the 2 smaller windows. You’ll want to begin by hanging the rod over the large window first. Once the rod is secured into place you can measure how long the rods need to be for the smaller windows.
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Once measured, mark the rod with a sharpie.
PRO TIP: Use a piece of masking tape to mark where the pipe will be cut. Similar to using a ruler to cut a straight edge with an X-Acto knife, this will give you a visual guideline to follow as you make the cut.
How To Use a Pipe Cutter:
- Place the pipe cutter along the marked edge.
- Tighten the cutter so it’s snug on the pipe. ( Be careful not to make it too tight or it can force the cutter off of the mark.)
- Holding the rod with one hand, use the other to spin the pipe cutter around the pipe multiple times. Once it feels like it’s spining a little easier, tighten the cutter and continue to spin around the pipe.
- Continue to spin and tighten until the pipe has been cut through.
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I know this is the moment you’ve all been waiting for! You may be asking “Okay so they’ve hung the middle rod, and cut the 2 smaller rods for the other windows, but how in the world are they going to join the 3 rods together?” We used a 3/4″ 45° elbow joint from the local hardware store to connect the rods together. The elbow came in silver so we simply added a coat of spray paint to match the curtain rod.
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Since the elbow is meant to screw onto adjoining electrical conduit and our curtain rod isn’t threaded like those would be, we needed something to create some “grip” for the elbow to fit onto. We used black electrical tape to wrap the end of the large rod, to create this “grip”.
Once the electrical tape has been placed on both ends of the large rod you can twist the elbow into place. Use as much electrical tape as needed to make the fitting tight. You’ll essentially be tightening the elbow into place as though the rod was threaded. Hang the curtain rods onto the brackets, secure the ends with finials and you’re done! You can now finally enjoy your new window treatments (and brag to your friends how you did this and how proud you are of yourself…well, maybe…that’s how I tend to get when I’m proud of being innovative and seeing the finished project after mentally visualizing how I want it to turn out. 😉)
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These specific curtains hang on the rod from grommets. When they are hanging you can’t even see how the rods are hooked together. My parents have also used this DIY bay window curtain hack in their home. (I should give credit where credit is due! My Dad is the brilliant one who thought to use electrical tape to secure the elbows into place.) They’re curtains don’t have grommets like mine, instead they hang from curtain rings. Here’s a picture to see how theirs look.
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