Use A Pool Noodle To Give Your Windows The Valentine's Day Treatment

Decorating your home for Valentine's Day enhances the ambiance and makes the space more enjoyable with pops of pink and red shades. Buying pre-made Valentine's Day décor can be expensive. Instead, crafting embellishments, such as a Valentine's Day garland or wooden love letters, with minimal materials from your local dollar store will help you stay within your budget. Another fun way to decorate your home is by sprucing up your windows with pool noodles and faux flowers from Dollar Tree. This effortless and budget-friendly DIY will instantly take an empty window curtain rod from drab to fab.

You'll need a few simple materials from Dollar Tree: a pink pool noodle, faux pink and red roses, and heart picks. Other tools you'll need include a utility knife and scissors. If your window doesn't yet have a curtain rod, you'll also need one, and a tension rod could be the best choice. The best thing about this DIY is that you don't need any glue because the pool noodle is your base and holder. If you have a leftover pool noodle from the summer in your garage, you can definitely use that instead of buying a new one. It'll be covered in roses and hearts, so the noodle's color won't be seen. Dollar Tree has a wide selection of faux flowers, so you could also choose any types of blooms to display on your window, but you may want to opt for ones in Valentine's Day hues.

Once you've gathered your materials, measure and cut the pool noodle to the right size for the rod. Then, cut down one long side of the pool noodle with the utility knife to wrap it around your curtain rod. Next, trim off the long stems from the flowers and heart picks with the scissors, leaving about an inch intact so you can stick them into the pool noodle. After all your items are cut, stick them into the noodle, creating your own pattern and setup. TikToker @bethanyscasa covered her entire noodle in flowers first and then added the heart stems, but you can include an even number of flowers to hearts or have more hearts than flowers if desired. Continue adding your flowers and heart stems until you're satisfied with the display. Finally, return your Valentine's Day curtain rod to your window and enjoy your new décor item.

Recreate the V-Day window treatment in every room in your house. You could swap the colors around and cover a pool noodle with only red or only pink roses. In addition, you could mix in other faux floral tones, like white or purple, to create a different look. Display them in your living room, breakfast nook, reading nook, or other areas where you have window curtains. You could also place decorated tension rods between doorways, if desired.

If you want your Valentine's Day curtain rods to be statement pieces in your home, go all out with the decorations. Customize the pool noodles with cutesy phrases, tinsel, and garland. For instance, Dollar Tree has a simple heart-shaped red and white garland that you could hang from the pool noodle — or you could make your own out of paper and string. To attach it, simply wrap the garland's string around a few roses to secure it on each side and allow the hearts to float beneath the pool noodle. You could also easily swap the heart-shaped garland for hanging heart swirls, streamers, or a festive pink and red pompom garland. Or, add the pompoms around the pool noodle before installing the rose stems. It'll give the entire look some texture and make it more fluffy.

For those who enjoy cute Valentine's Day phrases, Dollar Tree has a simple Happy Valentine's Day sign that you could hang underneath the pool noodle with a suction cup hook from Amazon. To do this, attach the hook to the window, hang the sign, and then place your decorated curtain rod over the hook so it's hidden behind it. You can also swap the sign for any others you have at home or any you buy at other retail stores. Once done, you'll have a gorgeous, love-filled Valentine's Day décor piece that you can use every year.