I finally made my own café curtain after coveting the adorable bistro trend for years – it cost less than £35 and has transformed my open-plan kitchen

Cafe curtain in living room.

I've long admired café curtains - a half-height curtain that originates from the 19th century, with tonnes of antique appeal to match. Aside from their practical purposes, café curtains are, quite frankly, an adorable window treatment idea that adds a great deal of character to a home, so I've been on the hunt for somewhere to try out the trend.

With most of the windows in my Victorian flat being Velux, there was only one window that could be used - one that sits between my open-plan kitchen and living room. After stripping out the crusty curtains that came in my rental flat, the window was embarrassingly left empty for over a year, so I knew it was time for a weekend DIY project.