Dracula Window
PROJECT INSANITY ALBUM
PITA Quotient: Moderate
Planned Project: NO!
Ignore the fortune teller; this is about the vampire in the window. He was a new acquisition this year, and is simply supposed to be taped in place on the window in all four corners. These window clings come packaged with squares of foam tape to adhere them. It was no mean feat, trying to get the plastic all smoothly applied with as few ripples as possible. In repositioning most of the adhesive, the tack becomes reduced, though it appeared to hold well at first by the time I was finished.
But this is a south-facing window that gets the blast of full sun all day long, and most of the adhesive decided to give up the ghost by mid-morning the following day. I brought in reinforcements, taping along all four *edges* of each sheet (it's a two-piece image) with my own stash of regular, double-sided tape. Even that didn't work for long.
I finally decided it would probably look best if I could just hang the two sides from the top somehow, so off I went in search of a tension-style curtain rod, crossing my fingers that my window wouldn't be too wide for the rod. Took measurements, held my breath, headed off to the store, aaaaaand . . . success!
Oh, lord . . . now how to attach the two panels to the rod? First, I had to figure out how much play in the rod I needed for it to fit the window properly, then worry about adhering the panels in the right areas without one side or the other getting crunched in the process. Wound up adhering them to the rod with the self-same double-sided tape I'd tried in the window directly, laboriously inching along with bits o' tape every inch or so along the whole width.
And voila. It worked. It was a PITA, but it was worth it. I popped that puppy into position, and it held beautifully, hung straight, and was an absolutely awesome sight to behold from both outside and inside the house.
And then a few weeks later, just about at the end of October, it dawned on me. M'duhhhhhhhh . . . you prolly could have just taped the whole thing up there along the top edge only, period. It was probably the taping along all four corners (per the instructions) that kept it from staying in place to begin with.
Dracula Window
PROJECT INSANITY ALBUM
PITA Quotient: Moderate
Planned Project: NO!
Ignore the fortune teller; this is about the vampire in the window. He was a new acquisition this year, and is simply supposed to be taped in place on the window in all four corners. These window clings come packaged with squares of foam tape to adhere them. It was no mean feat, trying to get the plastic all smoothly applied with as few ripples as possible. In repositioning most of the adhesive, the tack becomes reduced, though it appeared to hold well at first by the time I was finished.
But this is a south-facing window that gets the blast of full sun all day long, and most of the adhesive decided to give up the ghost by mid-morning the following day. I brought in reinforcements, taping along all four *edges* of each sheet (it's a two-piece image) with my own stash of regular, double-sided tape. Even that didn't work for long.
I finally decided it would probably look best if I could just hang the two sides from the top somehow, so off I went in search of a tension-style curtain rod, crossing my fingers that my window wouldn't be too wide for the rod. Took measurements, held my breath, headed off to the store, aaaaaand . . . success!
Oh, lord . . . now how to attach the two panels to the rod? First, I had to figure out how much play in the rod I needed for it to fit the window properly, then worry about adhering the panels in the right areas without one side or the other getting crunched in the process. Wound up adhering them to the rod with the self-same double-sided tape I'd tried in the window directly, laboriously inching along with bits o' tape every inch or so along the whole width.
And voila. It worked. It was a PITA, but it was worth it. I popped that puppy into position, and it held beautifully, hung straight, and was an absolutely awesome sight to behold from both outside and inside the house.
And then a few weeks later, just about at the end of October, it dawned on me. M'duhhhhhhhh . . . you prolly could have just taped the whole thing up there along the top edge only, period. It was probably the taping along all four corners (per the instructions) that kept it from staying in place to begin with.