Outdoor Arbor Drapes

Hello again my friends!  As spring time arrives I'm all into being outdoors...but need to spice it up a little.  I found some very inexpensive grommett panels at a favorite place I like to shop & decided to buy them for this project that has been in the back of my mind for a while...just never really put it into action until now.

Dressing up my outdoor space with Drapes

I purchase the panel about 2 months ago and couldn't make myself purchase expensive outdoor rods that had to be short.  So, I figured I would go to the hardware store-my local one here & see what my options were.  Well, by the time I got all the metal rods-galvanized pole that would have to be cut-ugh, caps, hooks etc. it was out of my budget.  So, back to the drawing board.   I was talking to my wonderful hubby & he was messing out in the garage with the sprinkler system stuff, and it dawned on me ...pvc pipe.   I asked him if they made caps on the pvc pipes & he said "yeah!"  He said I have some left over from another project, so he started pulling the caps out of his container & we had exactly the number I would need.  But the problem was...in the wind the pvc would be too light & probably blow off the holder since I wanted to be able to take them on and off!
Well, I knew pvc was hollow & decided to fill them with sand for weight!  So, off to my spray paint stash & the project is now done! 
I love how it turned out...and so easy....and the biggy was it was I didn't spend an arm & a leg!  Now we can go out to dinner with the savings....no wait, we should eat at home & en"joi" the view!

Love this ceramic lion! 

Close up of custom rods that I made

En"joi" your days!