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Beaded Curtain Decorating Ideas!

In a variety of styles and colors, beaded curtains are today's choice for eclectic, exciting room decoration! Beaded Curtains can be hung in all sorts of locations in your home!

Some basic information:
Wooden Beaded Curtains

  • Shortening: Curtains strands are mounted in solid wood bar. The curtains can be shortened in width, but you will lose some of your pattern on either end cut. We recommend a hack saw. The curtains can be shortened, but you'll have to tie off the ends of each strand.
  • Lengthening or Widening: For a wider width, you would use more than one curtain, cut one of them to "pattern" with the others and adjust the pattern in a row to fit your requirements. For added support, we suggest mounting multiple curtains onto a solid wood bar, then mounting that in your location. Curtains can't be lengthened.

Acrylic Beaded Curtains
  • Shortening: Curtain strands are mounted in an acrylic bar. Inside that bar is a "comb" which holds each individual bead strand. To shorten the width of the curtain, pop off one of the bar end caps, and with a hack saw, or a box cutter, shorten to the width you desire. Curtain lengths can be shortened with a pair of scissors.
  • Lengthening or Widening: For a wider width, you would use more than one curtain, cut one of them to "pattern" with the others and adjust the pattern in a row to fit your requirements. For added support, we suggest mounting multiple curtains onto a solid wood bar, then mounting that in your location. Curtains can't be lengthened.
Adjustable (Unique and Smaller Spaces) Acrylic Beaded Curtains
  • Shortening: Curtain strands are not pre-mounted. Each package holds 2 twelve inch bars, which you then hang the strand from after mounting in your space. To shorten the width of the curtain, use a box cutter and cut the bar or bars to fit your opening.Curtain lengths can be shortened with a pair of scissors.
  • Lengthening or Widening: For a wider width, you would use more than one curtain, and cut the final bar to fit your space. (Suggest mounting the shorter bar in the center.) For added support, we suggest mounting multiple curtains onto a solid wood bar, then mounting that in your location. Curtains can't be lengthened.





This photo is the traditional window hanging--where the beads sparkle and glisten, casting a shimmering, colorful glow throughout your room!




Another traditional way to hang beaded curtains is in a doorway. Could be room to room or an open frame closet that needs some sprucing.




In this photo the person removed the bead strands from the pole top and hung them individually around an arch.










This clever person covered an open shelving unit!