The Baby's Room: Cheap DIY Curtain Rods

I don't know about you, but I hate spending money on things that are utilitarian.  Curtain rods are one of those things.  When I first bought this house, I used copper pipe in all the rooms as a cheaper-than-retail option of being able to hang curtains and still feed myself. 

When we built The Kid's room, I had hung valances over both the windows, so I used the cheapy metal rods because they wouldn't be seen. 

Here's a shot so you can see what I'm talking about.

They were fine for the valances, but in the process of turning this into Baby's room, I wanted to hang curtains.

I shopped a few different places and found some at Joann's for half off.  

Still, it was almost $40 bucks for the two windows.  

Boooooo.  

So I headed to Home Depot.

I bought a 10' length of PVC pipe for $6.

I had them cut it in the store to the 6' length I needed for the double window - the remaining 4' would work for the single window.

I also bought a can of black spray paint specifically for plastic. 

It was close to $4 bucks.

The mounting brackets I already had because I had used them for the copper pipe.

They're the cheap gold ones you can find anywhere. 

I had painted them copper years ago, so I gave them a coat of black spray paint as well.

I used three brackets for the double window, two for the single, and it was good to go.

Here's my $10 dollar curtain rods for the Baby's room:

Notice the finials?  

Those were from the bag 'o random stuff from the estate sale. 

Remember that load of stuff for $3?!  

See, I knew it would come in handy.

I just painted them black and stuck them in the ends of the pipe.

Do you remember what else I scored at that sale?

Well, it's officially, sanded, painted, and set up in the room.

Sorry, no sneak peeks. 

You'll have to come back to see what color I went with.  :o)