You'll never see it from Staten Island

This is hands down the best window mistreatment I've ever done!
The silk draperies are done properly with interlining, hand sewn hems, hand sewn rings, but the sheers in the bay are a great disguise.   (ugh, note to self, take down the wire cover on chandelier!)

 I can't tell you how many compliments I get on the header of these sheers.  The whole thing started as a solution to a problem with my window.  The entire window is foggy and needs to be replaced.

But I've got many things to spend money on and replacing this window is not in my immediate future!

I ordered some very inexpensive (CHEAP!) sheer material from fabric.com

Then I cut a piece of 1X 2 to fit over each section of the bay and covered it with lining so the wood would not show through the sheer.  You can glue or staple the lining.

After that I gathered and stapled the sheer to the top of each board

Then I just screwed the board to the wall right above each window.  You can see the black screw in the middle.  I did that with each section of the bay.  The left side, the middle, and then the right.

I didn't even finish the raw side selvedge of the drapery!

Be sure to iron and sew your bottom hems.  I hand sewed mine but you could try iron on seam adhesive like stitch witchery.

When all the pieces were up and in place I just glued some gimp to the top edge to camouflage the upper edge.  It finished it off quite nicely.

I get more compliments on that little piece of gimp!