I found some really inexpensive white cotton roman shades at Lowes over the summer that we used in our playroom. The 48×72″ size was a steal at about $30 each.

My mom and I went to Lowe’s yesterday to pick up a few for her bedroom refresh and, SURPRISE! Yellow stickers everywhere. They were on crazy clearance. Every size is between $2.50 and $13!!!!

We picked up some really soft, gauzey white ones for my mom’s room (which is turning out so pretty, btw!).

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There are only two bedrooms on the main floor of our house, the master bedroom and a large-ish room at the front of the house. For the first few months that we lived here, I used it as my office space, but it just didn’t really work for some reason. Then I had the idea to move my office to the big space above our garage on the other side of the house and make the old office our playroom.

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I really love a good woven shade, but I prefer them in lighter tones with lots of tortoiseshell mottling in the pattern. Home Depot used to carry a really beautiful version that was discontinued a couple years ago and I’ve been feeling the loss ever since. I wanted warm-toned woven shades for my studio and all my usual sources were coming up short. Then one day when I was buying lumber at Lowes, I took a turn down the curtain aisle, headed for the check out, when the clouds parted and there they were.

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At the request of some readers, I’m putting together a Flickr group of pelmet boxes that YOU have made using this basic tutorial. I’ll also be doing a post about all the submitted projects.

If you’d like to be included, please send me an email with a link to your blog post or a picture of your DIY pelmet. Please resend this info even if you’ve already emailed me or left a comment.

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