Next to choosing colors, coming up with creative window treatments may be the most difficult task you face when fixing up your place. The choices are great: sheers and shades, tiebacks and tea stains, velvet valances and satin swags. The list goes on and yet you still end up with the same old dreary drapes that cost you an arm and a leg.

Boring be gone! From paper to Plexi, use what you've got to add Wow! to your windows and you'll see why less is more when it comes to curtains and cash.