Have you seen West Elm’s Industrial Curtain Rods? I’ve kind of fallen in love with them, but the price after exchange & shipping would kill my wallet. So I put my brain to work to create two of them ( in copper ) for under 20 dollars. Go grab a cup of coffee as we have a mini tutorial & video awaiting you!
Above are the lovely West Elm’s take on the Industrial Curtain Rod. Thing is, I don’t really think they’re worth over 70+ US Dollars before taxes. Do you? In this blog, I’ll tell you how to get two of these rods, in your custom color & dimensions for under 20 dollars. If you’re doing the easy math, that’s less than 10 dollars a curtain rod! It’s fast, easy and the end results are pretty stunning.
What You Will Need For Your Industrial Curtain Rods
- 1/2″ Copper Tubbing Cut to the length you need.
- 2 Flanges per curtain rod
- 2 Elbow tubbing per rod
- Spray Paint
- Screws To Hang
- 2 Joining Adapter
We cut our rod to 36″ In length as that’s what we needed, and with the same piece of 1/2″ copper tubbing we cut two 1″ pieces that is between the elbow and the screwed end. Make sense? If you cannot cut these pieces at home, you can have all the cuts made at your local hardware store. In this case, it was Home Depot. See our quick video on how everything fits perfectly together. Pretty self explanatory, but just in case.
This is what it will look like all put together, not spray painted yet. so grab your spray paint and spray. We like to do two coats. We used Rustoleum Hammered Spray Paint, In Copper. It matches our dresser pulls from this DIY of the boys dresser.
..And you’re done. The easiest and cheapest curtain rods ever! Check out our completed pictures - I love them, so fun for a kids room or a modern/mid century room!
What do you think of the easiest DIY Copper Curtain Rods? Like them more than the West Elm Version? I do. In person they’re so glossy and high end looking, and it cost us 18.73 after everything! You can’t even buy one ugly curtain rod for that. Huge steal for us! We already had the curtains that we purchased from Homesense over three years ago. Stay tuned for a whole room reveal and a few more mini DIY projects. In the next few days we will be featuring the easiest DIY Barn Door. Under 50 bucks and anyone can make one. I’m serious guys, anyone.
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I love your fabulous copper curtain rods. I wanted to make certain I understand correctly. You only spray painted the metal flange. Am I correct? Please and Thank you for your help.
Thank you so much Colette!
You want to spray paint the entire thing as the copper spray paint could be slightly different color than the real copper. You just want a seamless look.
Shawna Alexander says
Flanges are about $5 a piece so how did you get them so cheap?
jimshaw54 says
With time copper losses it’s gloss. I don’t know if waxing them would preserve the shine for a longer period of time? My only interaction with copper has been in water piping and kitchen pans.
I’m not the biggest fan of the gloss! But there must be a clear spray that will preserve the look!
Maria zinsmann says
Hi thanks for this just what I was looking for. I’m very curious how you get those curtains on/off?
Sincerely
For this tutorial, we put them on prior to installing them. I’m sure there is another way so you can make the rod removable. But for us, we knew that we wouldn’t be changing out the curtains.
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Rohit Patel says
Great idea you have to use the copper pipes. It looks amazing and it displays such a beautiful for the room as it hangs the curtains.