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DIY Lace Covered Windows

Learn how you can easily create lace covered windows for an inexpensive way to let in natural light. It works double time giving you privacy and making the room look beautiful all at the same time.

DIY Lace covered windows tutorial/how to. lifeshouldcostless.com
DIY Lace covered windows. lifeshouldcostless.com

I tend to get a fair amount of depression whenever there are several dreary days in a row, so I try to do everything that I can to make sure that I am letting in as much natural light as possible into my home to help combat it.

Let’s call it, preparing to be happy!…lol.

There are two small rooms in my home that require the blinds to be shut the majority of the time for privacy.

I’m an introvert by nature and hate it when I have a window that is visible to neighbors or street view…

I really got spoiled growing up on 5.5 acres of land.

Anyway, having rooms in the home that need to have the blinds constantly shut, means that you basically walk into a cave every time you go in there and I would open those blinds, but I’m always worried I’ll forget to close them  and I don’t want to give the neighbors, or passersby a free show.

Over the past few years I have fallen in love with the lace window covering trend, but I have yet to find a good deal on lace, even at thrift stores, and it seemed like I would never be able to do it…until I discovered a certain product that would work instead… and it is a super cheap alternative.

But first, let’s show you the before and after of how much more light it brought into my laundry room. Here is the before. I even lightened up this picture a little bit…

Here is the after, I added the lace to cover my windows, with light just pouring into the room.

It made such a big difference that that first week after I did this any time I walked by the laundry room I thought that someone had left a light on in there. No lights left on…just what I needed, lots of natural light!

The change in the amount of natural light coming in made me super happy, so this project more than paid for itself in my eyes…

Yay! Now I can have my bright room but still walk in there half-dressed any time I need to without worrying about being seen.

The product that I found is called Frosty White Lace Privacy Film. It is just contact paper. Can you believe it? It comes in a huge roll for around $25 for sixty feet of it (prices can fluctuate on Amazon so watch for when it’s low) and has enough on there that if you and a few friends all chipped in together you could easily do four or five people’s windows for just a few  bucks or so each.

I however, will be hoarding mine because I have a few more projects in mind that I want to do with it.

The best part about it being Con-Tact Brand contact paper is that it has little grids printed on the back of the paper so it is a breeze to measure out how much you need and then cut in straight lines.

lace contact paper to cover windows/glass

Before you just start slapping it on your windows it is important to do a little bit of prep work so that you will get the best possible results.

I cleaned my windows really well with rubbing alcohol so that it would stick really well…the same way that you would prep glass before you apply vinyl.

Don’t skip this step as it will give you a better (longer lasting) hold.

Just make sure that the window is completely dry before you attach the contact paper.

How To Put Lace On Windows:

How to prep glass/windows for vinyl or contact paper application.

Unfortunately the roll of Lace contact paper is only 18″ wide so it will only work for smaller windows, unless you hide the seams on a large window that has lots of panes.

I found it easiest to roll out a little more than I needed and then cut it to a little bit bigger than I needed so that I could work with a smaller sheet instead of juggling the whole roll.

applying contact paper to windows/glass.

Here are the tools I used for this project.

I used:

One thing to note is that on the back of the contact paper it says that if there is an air bubble that you cannot get out that you can take a pin and gently pierce the center of the bubble and let the air out of that hole by smoothing it towards the hole, or something to that effect(I don’t recommend doing that on any rooms that have lots of moisture though).

I got my windows done in those two rooms in a matter of twenty or so minutes.  I liked it so much that I did it to every possible window in my house (the bathrooms and laundry room). Isn’t it pretty?  This is what it looks like through the windows.

Inside. It let in so much light that I could not get a good shot of it and part of the room as well. Even when using my lighting kit.

how to stick lace to glass

& outside... my windows are tinted and it still looks pretty classy through the tinting and the screens.

Sorry I couldn’t take a picture of them straight on. I was trying to reduce glare so that you could actually see the lace rather than it being so bright that you can’t see anything anyway.

lace on windows
mod podge lace on windows

All in all I’m pretty happy with them. I was too cheap to replace them with frosted glass windows, so this was a great way to get the job done on a budget.

Plus, it was so much easier than measuring out and cutting up lace and then creating a paste to make them stick (and so much less hassle, that’s how people apply real lace to their windows if you’re wondering what the heck I’m even talking about).

Even after months of having them on the bathroom windows, where there is lots of moisture, they are still holding strong.

Now only time will tell how well they hold up to the cold of winter and the heat of summer. Both of which I’m not too worried about though because the windows are double pain so they are not exposed to quite as much of the extreme temps.

how to stick lace to glass
DIY Lace Covered Windows. lifeshouldcostless.com

Plus, I put the blinds in a safe place in case I ever change my mind and want to go back to the old ones.

Oh, and one last tip. The easiest way to tell if you have air bubbles that you missed is to look at it when it is dark outside but with the lights on inside.

What do you think of my DIY Lace Covered Windows?

I’m thinking that this is so much cheaper to do than many other window treatments out there and it girly’s the house up a bit.

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