| If you have book shelves in your home, and lots of | | | | also use standard wood glue on the bottom of the |
| books, you've probably discovered that bookends | | | | finial, to be sure it stays in place at all times... by doing |
| don't always keep everything in order. Sometimes | | | | so of course though, you won't be able to change |
| your collection of books on the shelf are just too | | | | the finials to a different style later. |
| much for the bookend to hold. | | | | If your curtain finial doesn't match the shelf, or you |
| Here's a great tip that also doubles as a wonderful | | | | bought it unfinished, simply paint, stain or varnish it to |
| decorating idea: Use curtain rod finials as your | | | | fit your room and shelf decor. |
| bookends! A finial is a carved or shaped decorative | | | | Take this decorating tip even further by buying finials |
| detail used as ornaments to spruce up all sorts of | | | | of different sizes, shapes and colors. Then change |
| items in a room. Curtain rod finials are used to make | | | | them with the seasons, each time you want a |
| curtain rods more decorative, and also to keep | | | | fresher, different look to the room, or each time you |
| curtains from sliding off the ends of the rods. Regular | | | | re-decorate completely. |
| architectural finials are often used as enhancements | | | | Alternatively of course, you can simply buy a plain |
| to a room's decoration and style. Sometimes you'll | | | | architectural finial without the screw already in place - |
| see them for instance, at the top of a staircase post | | | | then just glue that into place on your book shelf. |
| or on the tops of bedposts. | | | | Start shopping around for decorative and unusual |
| Curtain rod finials usually come with a screw set | | | | finials today, and get your bookshelves all spruced up |
| inside. All you have to do is drill a starter hole in your | | | | for spring! |
| bookshelf, then screw the finial into place. You can | | | | |