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Decorating Tips and Tricks

Innovative Ways to use a Painter Drop Cloth

Decorating Tips and Tricks

Bespoke FM

Arts, Design, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6827 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We love the humble painters drop cloth for SO many reasons. This neutral, sturdy, affordable & versatile piece of fabric can be repurposed into a myriad of decorative items. Listen in to hear why you should consider a painters drop cloth and the many ways to use one or more in your decor.

If you have ever consider using or used a painter's drop cloth you may have noticed the weight & grade listed on the package. Learn what those numbers really mean & how to choose the best weight or grade for your project.

Yvonne teaches us how to bleach drop clothes to a lovely shade that is soft to the touch - click HERE

Pop over to Kelly's porch to see the privacy drapes she made using drop cloths - click HERE

Anita's chalky painted drop cloth bench is oh la la ....SOOOO beautiful - click HERE

You can also see Anita's dropcloth day bed cover she made for the bed at her tree house HERE

Our friend Christy created this darling covered stool with rosettes using a drop cloth - click HERE

Check out the pillow Kelly had to give away. It is made with a drop cloth, welting & a drop cloth fray ribbon - click HERE

How about a black drop cloth....yup, a black one. They are calling them chimney sweep cloths. A 6 x 9 is $39.99 on Amazon - click HERE

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0:00.0

Being a marketer is no sweat. You just have to manage dozens of channels, launch hundreds of campaigns, score thousands of leads and, okay, fine, it's a lot of sweat.

0:08.0

Unless you have HubSpot's AI-powered marketing tools to help you do all that and more. Get started at HubSpot.com slash marketers. Hey everyone, your designers are here.

0:25.7

I'm Anita from Cedar Hill Farmhouse.

0:27.9

And I'm Yvonne at Stone Gable.

0:29.9

And I'm Kelly at My Soulful Home.

0:31.6

And we have tips and tricks and decorating advice for you.

0:35.1

So let's get started.

0:44.1

Okay. and decorating advice for you. So let's get started. We're going to talk about innovative ways to use a painter's drop cloth.

0:49.9

Oh, this is a good one.

0:52.0

This is a good one.

0:53.1

There's a lot of ways to use that very sturdy, affordable,

0:58.3

neutral fabric that you can get on the cheap. So we're going to walk you through that and tell

1:05.0

you a little bit about why you might be using that kind of fabric around your house in

1:10.0

projects and decor and things like that.

1:12.9

Anita, you want to kick us off here? Tell us a way that you've used to painters drop.

1:17.5

Well, it was a, I really love seeing them in curtains. And actually, this is a project that I had one time.

1:27.0

I decided I was going to make curtains for my back porch at the farm because we have all this wind blowing through.

1:32.0

So I got some of that metal conduit and bolted it up at the top of the roof of the porch.

1:39.9

And I made the little rod pocket for the curtains.

1:42.5

So I was so excited.

1:44.3

And these, you know, they tend to be heavy.

1:47.2

They are heavy.

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