How to Make a Shower Curtain Rod for a Clawfoot Tub

Do It the Easy Way

• 1

  Buy four pieces of metal pipe or rod, two of which are roughly equal to the length of your clawfoot tub, and two of which are roughly equal to its width.

• 2

  Connect these four pieces of metal at the corners using wire or hose clamps to create a rectangle that is roughly the same size and shape as your tub.

• 3

  Suspend the rectangle from the ceiling above the tub by installing eye bolts into the ceiling joists and extending wires from the eye bolts to your curtain rod construction.

• 4

  Hang the curtain from the rod you have made. Because the curtain won't slide past the wires that are holding up the rod, make or purchase a separate section of curtain for each space between the suspension wires.

Do It the Harder Way

• 5

  Buy two 10-foot sections of 3/4-inch metal conduit. Borrow or rent a pipe bender and bend these two pieces of metal to match the profiles of the two ends of your clawfoot tub.

• 6

  Lay the two pieces together to create the same shape as your tub. Move them closer or farther apart until the shape they make is the same size as the tub. Cut off the two protruding ends from each piece so that they can be joined together. Connect the two pieces with two pipe connectors, creating a solid oval shape.

• 7

  Hang this oval shape from the ceiling in the same manner described for the method in Section 1.

• 8

  Hang the shower curtain from your new curtain rod.