The moulding in our new/ancient house is all original to the house, including original color (i.e. never been painted). While my modern aesthetic yearns to paint it, the history and cost have prohibited us from doing so. In the main living spaces we've made it work by using light greige almost white paint and using color in accessories but in the bedrooms it just felt so dark. So I decided to make light roman shades for the boys' room and to make them outside-mount to cover most of the trim. It was quite the project. Every tutorial I read said it was a cinch and maybe if you have an ideal sewing room/workspace, lots of free time, and sew a lot it would be, but for me it took many evenings. I love how it turned out though and that's all that matters, amiright?
Mostly I used
this tutorial and thought it was fabulous but I did end up using velcro up on the mounter board instead of more eye rings for ease. So far it's holding up great.
Here are some of the lessons I learned while constructing:
1. It's very hard to cut a perfectly straight line when it involves fabric pieces bigger than 4"x4".
2. Use a huge workspace. Otherwise it's nearly impossible to fudge your not-perfectly-straight lines to match up.
3. So much measuring to so little sewing. Very tedious.
4. When marking for dowel placement, start measuring and marking from the bottom. (unless you like to erase many errant pencil lines)
5. Hand sewing the rings after a long horrible day is therapeutic. (it also means you're almost done!)
6. If using a cord clamp, install before the shade and header board are hung.
