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You may save a ton of cash and get something habit made that looks fantastic and actually professional. I will show you how easy it is to make a fabric covered pelmet to fit over your curtains. Your friends and family will not believe you made it yourself. Tools you will need to make your pelmet 1. Staple gun I suspect most humans will have a few of these already. If you are missing any before you run off and buy them ask a friend or neighbor. The next thing is the stuff to make it out of. Materials to make your pelmet 1. 1/4 inch plywood (sheet of) I hope you agree with me not an overpowering list of highpriced items on either of the above lists. So the next step in our little project is the making part. Don’t panic I will keep it genuinely simple. Putting your new pelmet together 1. Decide how wide and how deep you want your pelmet to be. Then get the local timber merchandiser to cut your 1/4 inch plywood board to right size. The sheets normally come in 4ft X 8ft sheets, so if your pelmet is going to be 6ft wide by 12 inches deep. Then get the board cut to this size and likewise get to extra pieces cut for the sides (the returns). They need to be 12 inches deep again and 6 inches wide. 2. Now you join the return bits to each end. I use scrap fabric and lay it all over both pieces and staple it down to manufacture a hinge. Do this for both ends of the long board. 3. cut your fiber wadding sheet to the size of your pelmet board including the end returns. Then spray the glue onto the board (the side without the fabric hinges showing). Then place on sheet wadding and press down. 4. Next step is to cover the board with fiber wadding attached. You need to cut your fabric 4 inches wider and longer than your board with return bits (use you straight edge to mark pencil lines). Then lay fabric face down onto the your table. Now lay your pelmet board wadding side down onto your curtain fabric leaving 2 inches showing all the way around. Now using your staple give fold over the fabric and staple down all the way round Pulling fabric underneath a little tension as you go. 5. The next step is to cover the back of you pelmet in curtain lining fabric to make it all neat. Again your curtain lining needs to be 4 inches wider and longer than the pelmet board. Now you need to cut your thin card into strips 2 inches wide and fold in half making them 1 inch wide. Now have you pelmet face down on the table with the back facing up. Then place your lining fabric so it overlaps the bottom of your pelmet by 2 inches. Next place the card board strip along the edge of the lining fabric. You need to open the strips a little and staple down in place. Then you now fold over the lining fabric up the back of the pelmet. The card board strips beneath the lining fabric give a nice sharp edge to the bottom of the lining fabric while keeping it in place at the same time. Next step is to fold in the ends of the curtain lining so they finish just at the ends of the pelmet board. Just fold in and press down with you hand for now. Now for the top of the pelmet you need to trim the lining fabric so it finishes a 1/4 inch down from the top. Then take your soft strip of Velcro tape and staple down at the very top of your new pelmet. This locks in the lining fabric at the same time. 6. Now your pelmet is finished except for the top board to stick it to. This is a simple timber board 6 inches X 1 inch by as long as you pelmet. You need to now staple the hard strip of Velcro onto the 1 inch edge including around the ends of the board. Putting it together is simple fit your top board over your window on shelf brackets with the Velcro facing out. Then present the soft Velcro on the back of your new pelmet to the hard Velcro on the top board and press. That’s it All made and fitted told you it was simple. So take your time and get enjoyment from making something genuinely special.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful. 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Right now, I am using this 1579 for an Electrical bag. It is big, but it holds almost all of my electrical tools along with many of the small cylindrical containers filled with small electrical parts. I’m getting ready to set up another one with a large assortment of carpentry hand tools and parts that I use for most remodeling tasks. I would set up another for plumbing stuff, but right now I’m happy with a Klien bucket organizer for that. I have a lot of tool boxes and bags that I have accumulated over the years (including a Veto XL and a Veto OT XXL), but if I could only keep one, it would be this 1579. P.S. I love the Veto bags for their quality, but I really prefer the layout of the CLC 1579 much, much more. I wish that Veto would copy the layout of the CLC or that CLC would come out with an “Extreme” version of the 1579 – but then it would be as heavy as the Veto bags. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. |
nice bag, BUT……….
Best Storage for Neurotic Organizer!
The Jury is still out.