This DIY is quick, easy, fun and cheap. What could be better!?
If you have any windows in your home or apartment where you want the natural light but need a little privacy, this is a truly lovely solution.
Granted, it is a bit feminine but I am wondering how we can use this idea and make it masculine, as well…
Maybe you can think of some ideas as you scroll down the next page…
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Wendy Handeland this is so cool!
does this remove easily with soap and water ….especially if live in an apartment
Cute.
What keeps it on when you clean the windows?
I would think that you would need to remove it and re-apply but it probably would not need to be cleaned as frequently either.
Creative – and you’re able to change it when you want something different.
I have seen this done with bubble wrap too…but you only use water on the window, then adhere the bubble wrap to the window, and it comes off easily by just peeling it off. That could work for a boys room.
great idea!
Wow… that was pretty…
Really smart looking!
how about black netting lace…I know the men in my life would go for it or get the white netting and dye it in camo colors
fish net..
Beautiful! Gonna do it in my bedroom!
WHAT A GREAT IDEA…
cool idea!!
I used opaque contact paper. Works the same way
great idea, but how do you wash the window
great idea
Can also use it as a replacement for wallpaper.
Good idea, but how do you take it off ??….I live in an apt. & eventually I might move out, so how would I remove this?…Please let me know, thank you for sharing.
Just wipe with warm water and it should peel off easily.
ALL YOU NEED IS SOAPY WARM WATER. SPARY WITH SPRAY BOTTLE, THEN USE SOAPY WARM WATER AND RAG. COMES RIGHT OFF.
If you do this with liquid starch fabric starch, cut the lace slightly large, then when it dries, you can cut it to the pane size with an x-acto knife. (The cornstarch may have the same effect — not sure — the fabric starch dries the lace stiff like paper so it cuts — have starched fabric to a wall before, like wallpaper.)
I was just wondering how long it lasts. If the window needs cleaning will it come off? Just thinking ahead.
Maybe she just wants ‘thicker’ windows!
great idea
Nikki Marie, this is what I was going to do it the bathroom! You should do it!
Mary-Jane Rooney
Wondering if anyone outside at night can see in if the light are on inside.
I wonder if this would work on a bathroom window, if the steam would affect it.
I don’t think it would work with steam. I have a window in the bathroom, however, and it is half into the bathtub/shower (bad placement/design!) Since I own the house, I had more flexibility, but if you have a landlord you can always ask.. I’m sure the privacy issue is always an issue for tenants. Anyway, I drew a lovely design and paid to have the glass etched.. it’s beautiful and provides complete privacy while still letting in the natural light.
Affect was correct. 🙂
effect
affect was correct!
You can also use liquid starch & fabric
Love this idea. I do wonder how easily it comes off though. Maybe you could use the mesh shelf liner in different colors for a more masculine look. But I think you could see through that. ?? The lace is very nice. Good question about the steam in the bathroom too.
Emily Lynn
This would be cool on one of moms old windows with pictures hanging in it
Your right. Send this to her. are you free for lunch sometime this week/
love this, then you wouldn’t need curtains on the bottom.
um, how are you supposed to clean the window? what about steam from the shower?
Obviously you can’t wash the windows with lace on them. You’d probably need to “replace” the lace when you wanted to wash the window.. but you’d do that likely as often as you wash your curtains. How dirty these things get depend on where you live. I don’t wash curtains often (less than once yearly)… so factor that in..
I have done the same thing using regular tissue paper instead of lace. Light came through but you couldn’t see through it from the outside (according to my neighbor). Easily cleaned up when I moved out of the rental.
Linda Schillinger: check this out! I thought this looked pretty.
Too cool Carol. Think I’m going to try this.
BE CAREFULL:
I wanted to do this to my bathroom when we bought our new home.
Because it is a high efficiency home, one of the warnings we got on
closing, was to never put anything on our windows. WHY? I don’t
know, but they told us it will forfeit our warranty.
Love this idea!
Pretty…but how in the heck do you keep it clean…window are a pain in the rear as it is.
i cant wait to do this
For some reason my mixture didn’t work so well. It stayed on for a couple of days but then started coming off. On a good note, it did clean up quiet easily. I am sure I didn’t do something right. It was pretty though.
In the past I have used egg white mixed with a little water, painted the lower part of my bathroom window and then used ripped pieces of colored tissue paper to make a stained glass effect. I did the same idea with the side light windows next to my front door and cut out a few colored leaves that I pasted on in the fall and replaced them with snow flakes in the winter.
Crystal Medina
here it is, Carolyn.
How beautiful, and so easy to do!
Does anyone know how easy it is to take it off when living in an apartment?
i buy a burlap cover for hunting at wallmart that would work real well for this its cammo !!