How Do You Princess Up A Little Girls Bed?
My daughter said that she wanted her bed to have drapes, to look more like a princess’ bed. She used words like ‘floaty’ and ‘frothy’ and ‘miles of fabric’, the better to be able to draw the drapes all the way around. What I heard was that this was going to be expensive. We hit the stores to price bed drapes. I was right. $70 for netting and a hoop?! Yeah, NOT happening. As luck would have it I’m not bad with power tools and she knew what she wanted the princess effect to look like, so we just needed a less costly way to do it. A little digging in the toolbox, a stop at Jo Anne Fabrics and Bed, Bath & Beyond and we were in business — for less than half the cost. Once we had our materials ready the whole process took five minutes from start to finish. Best of all, she loved the result! Since we’re talking about wooden kitchen implements as drapery hangers odds are they’re not the same color as either the wall or the drapes. Paint your fixture to match one of them. Now that your fixture
