Drop Cloths are for More Than Just Painting

We have had a little project planned for a while and just haven't taken the time to do it. It involves our screen porch. 

Since we put this porch in we have really wanted some sort of shade type thing to block the sun and the rain. These shades are expensive... more than frugal Kristen wants to spend. So, the alternative, search Pinterest and see what we can create. 

Mom also wanted to do this for the lake, so we let her be the guinea pig and try it out first. They gave us some tips and we set out to make it happen for our porch. 

Matt put up conduit pipes and we sprayed them brown (in hopes to save a little instead of getting the fancy copper ones like mom and dad). We got curtain ring clip things and hung painters drop cloths as curtains. 

We ended up doing three panels and they can be pulled all the way across or tied back with the burlap ribbon. We have already enjoyed using them. They shade the TV from the sun and that makes Matt's heart happy. So, this project really costs us way less than $100 and that is about how much one roman shade would have cost. Woohoo for that. 

It's back to the real world around here. Little buddy went back to his "school" last week. He was excited to see his friends, but he made claw marks in my arm when it was time for me to leave. Praying for a great school year!