Do it Yourself- Make a Tree Branch Curtain Rod

Are you tired of the boring ol' curtain rods that are overpriced? Well spruce up your window without even having to go anywhere... well except outside. First, go outside and find a strong, well-formed branch. It might be helpful to measure your window first that way you know how long of a branch you're going to need. Next, you want to prune the branch... basically you want to cut out the bad parts of the branch and re-shape it so that it looks good and is cleaned up. The final step is to spray paint the branch whatever color you desire!
Once the paint is dry you can hang it up using the typical brackets that you would use with any other curtain rod. Now when you are making or picking out curtains for the branch you want to make sure that they either tie or have some other type of hanging feature that you can easily hang from the branch, such as rings or velcro. Furthermore, you can't slide the curtains open and close like traditional ones, so you'll have to devise some type of tie back system to open them up. If you already have blinds on the window you can situate the curtains so that they are somewhat open. This way you can open the blinds and already have the curtains open a bit to let sunlight in. This creative, fun, money and time saving idea is brought to you via www.designmilk.com!