Making curtains for your Hyundai i800 camper-van is not the most exciting subject for a blog.
It’s just one of those things one will need to do if you plan to get some privacy inside the vehicle. Particularly with the light on, no matter where you happen to find yourself parked for the night.
Having first explored some methods on paper. I opted to use furniture foam as a quick seemingly simple, solution. It suits the deep side window detail of the van and made use of some materials I had to hand.
It turned out not to be particularly cheap as high density furniture foam is quite expensive. It also took a lot of sewing to complete but they do seem to work.
I had planned to use curtain wire at the back of the van as the rear door curves out from the sides with a curved kidney bean shaped window.
The curtain I first made had a deep hem top and bottom both above and below the wire supports. This was to allow the curtain to cover the whole window within the limits created by the shape the door. It didn’t work. The tension I had put into the curtain in an attempt to keep it taut made it impossible to slide them back and forth.
Rather than waste the black-out material I had already cut I reused it to make two more foam cushions. I have then fixed each of these to the metal window surround using self adhesive and sewn velcro pads. This works for now.
The full width privacy curtain between the “cab” and the “van” was the last problem to be resolved.
It is proving to be just as challenging to make as the other window covers but I do have a tendency to make life difficult for myself in that respect by not being prepared to accept something that is less than fit for purpose.
I initially spent some time exploring “the simplest option” which was to use a straight curtain rail ( mainly because I couldn’t find one that I was going to be able to bend ) and accept that there would be an open gap above this that I might fill in with a soffit of some sort.
That didn’t work. I only needed to bang my head twice on the underside of the mock-up to realise it was a non starter.
Watch the next blog video to find out just how much extra work that decision involved.
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