Canopies for beds in all shapes and or forms for boys and girls.
Here are a few off the top of my head ideas for making canopies.
Papasan Chair Anyone?
If you've got an old unused papasan chair, here's a great use for it. Even if you can find one at a flea market, it makes a great canopy for boys or girls beds.
Use the large bamboo seat frame, hang it upside down from a secure hook mounted in the ceiling joist. Attach a large eye-bolt and chain if required to get it to the height you want it. Use tie-on type tab curtains or make your own from sheets and tie them onto the large outer ring. You can make a matching topper to cover the upper part of the ring two different ways, and remember to embellish the bottom edges with fringe, beads, tassels etc.
One way is to cover this bed canopy frame:
- Measure from one side of the frame, over the hump to the other side and add 8 inches. Cut a square out of your sheet that measurement.
- Hem the edges, cut an X in the top large enough to slip over the big eye hook and chain, slip the cover on and let it hang down over the frame. The points hanging down just add an extra touch of style.
- Arrange it so the points are even when looking at it from the front. Either have a point in the center front, or have two points adjusted evenly on the sides of the front.
Another way to do this (which would work best with a sheer or light weight fabric) would be to:
- Measure from the center of the hump down to the edge of the frame and add about 8" - measurement A
- Measure the circumference of the circle, (all around the edge of the circle) and add about 12" - measurement B
- Cut a piece of fabric or sheet the width of measurement A and the length of measurement B. Sew the two short sides (measurement A) together, hem one long edge, and sew a narrow rod pocket on the other long edge.
- Use a cord of some kind and thread it through the rod pocket to gather it up. Slip it over the hook and chain.
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Some Other Bed Canopy Options
- Use 2 or 3 hoola hoops in different colors for the supporting ring. Stack them and tie together with some nice ribbon or tape; OR make one cut through each ring, and sort of intertwine them. You will need to insert something inside of each tube at the cut, like a piece of dowel or pvc to give it support at the cut, and securely tape it back together with a colorful duct tape or other strong tape (even packing tape). Add light weight fabric, netting or sheers etc for the canopy.
- Use a bicycle rim to hold the bed canopy up. (with or without the tire!) You could use three or four pieces of chain that have been fastened to the rim evenly spaced, all hooked over one hook in the ceiling. Along that same line, for a western theme room, use a wagon wheel!
- If you'd like a semi-canopy, that hangs on the wall instead of the ceiling, find one of those cheap metal pot racks that are flat on the back, rounded on the front (I've seen them at discount and closeout places for around $20), hang it on the wall, and hang your fabric treatment from it.
Just be sure you use enough fabric to swag it off to the sides of the bed, holding it back with hold backs or tie backs. If you gather up enough fabric on the back of the pot rack so the right side of the fabric faces the room, it'll look much nicer because that part will cover the wall behind the bed when the front part is swagged off to the sides. If you don't want to use that much fabric, just use this wall space to frame something special, like photos or wallhangings, or even a nice little decorative shelf or mirror.
If you're making this for a girl's room and you don't really know how to sew a cover for the front of the pot rack, just stuff it with a bunch of netting fabric which is super cheap at the fabric store, making it poufy so it sticks out a little bit! Or you could cut strips of your fabric or a coordinating fabric and weave them in and out of the spines of the pot rack cross ways (horizontal). - As for the bed canopy fabric, consider mosquito netting, camo netting or fabric, fishnet, organza, nylon netting, muslin, denim/chambray, shade cloth from the garden department, sheets, spandex or a multitude of other options. Even a painters fabric drop cloth from a home improvement store, which would be great painted with fabric paint that you brush on, spray on, or the kind that splats on, or stencil a design (Just be sure to wash the fabric without fabric softener first). You could even glue findings onto the fabric.
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