best way to add length to draperies?
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maddielee
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Comments (29)I've looked on ebay and my worry is you can't always see the quality of the fabric. And heavy liners are almost more important to me than the silk quality...because we have 24 hours of sunlight streaming in on them in the summer (which eats silk alive!) I'll wander through the penny's site, and look at the others (adoptadrape sounds fun). And I am going to IKEA at the end of the month, so for fun I'll wander there. I could go with less formal styles in some of the other rooms and a nice linen drape would work. If I got them cheap enough I could reline them myself easily since I have all the equipment (it might make DH happy to see me use the stuff LOL since he couldn't figure out why I needed such expensive sewing machines that can "only do one thing") he wouldn't know a serger if it bit him in the backside heh heh...See MoreCorner windows: Best way to exclude light?
Comments (6)Some GREAT ideas here! I wish I could post a pic of the corner windows but I won't be getting the keys to that house until next week. I'll do it then though. yayagal, my problem is that (if I recall from the walkthrough the other day) there is almost zero recess in which to mount anything inside the window frame. Less than an inch, for sure. The windows are probably from the 1970s (?) I would guess. they are not the original wood windows from the early 60s but that's about all I know about them. I am the same: Can't stand even a speck of light! Can't fall asleep if there's any noise either. Also when I get one of my "killer" headaches I need to be in a room where there's as little light as possible because at those times light is literally painful. A lambrequin!! You know, I was mentally trying to figure out how to create some sort of framed border around an outside-mount room darkening shade but had no idea what it was called. :-) But then there is the issue of how to do that when you have a pair of windows that literally meet in the corner of the room. The pic next week will explain it better than I can, I'm sure. graywings, thanks so much for the info on Comfortex! I wonder if they are available through Hunter-Douglas dealers as well. I will ask for sure. But it looks as though some kind of framing is needed for those side light blockers and therein lies the problem with these particular windows....See MoreThe Right (and Wrong) Way to Hang Window Drapery Panels
Comments (7)I'm very curious about the way she says its the "correct" way, then proceeds to advocate hanging a rod 1/2 way between the ceiling and the top of the window. In my experience designing window treatments professionally there are 2 "correct" placements to hang the rod. One is at the top of the window and the other is at the ceiling or the bottom of the crown or cove moulding at the ceiling. Halfway to the ceiling is incorrect in any application. All her high examples are at ceiling or at the crown moulding. Incidentally, the 84" panel length is standard length for floor length panels where rod is hung at top of windows in most standard American houses. As the trend continues to hang the rods at ceiling height it's getting more common to find off-the-shelf panels in the 92"-96" range....See MoreDrapery length too short!
Comments (37)Be careful as you iron any drapes, especially if you do not know what fabric they are -- make sure the fabric can take the heat. Iron them on the inside/back and keep the heat at medium -- will take longer but better than melting/burning them. Spritzing a water mist from a spray bottle on them might help remove any wrinkles. Be careful about ironing a ridge where the hem is sewn -- iron up to the hem and then iron atop the double fabric rather than ironing the hem itself in a way that makes it crease on the front. If the back tolerates the heat, then you could iron the double fabric below the hemline on the front as well....See More
Marilyn Stirrett
3 years ago
PROBeverlyFLADeziner
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoTurn the drapes into striped panels so that it appears purposeful. However, this will only work if the fabrics are similar
You could purchase the correct length panels and then apply the matching fabric on the leading edge and the hem of the panel.
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BeverlyFLADeziner
3 years agoThis is the proportion when you add onto 84" drapes to reach 133" It's a bit wonky to me since the 'border' will extend higher than the door knobs on the doors.
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Lidia
3 years agoDifficult to say for sure without pics of your material. I had pendelton fabric but only enough to cobble some projects together. I found a matching heavyweight canvas in a coordinating color for the bottom of the panels and then “tied” them together by adding a thin border of another color from the pendelton wool pattern, I think it turned out great. The other option was to add fabric to the top AND bottom but that seemed too “busy” for me.
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Denise Marchand
3 years agoAdding fabric to the top or bottom of the existing curtain panels is not an option you should consider as there would be no linear delineation in relation to the rest of the room.
Also rings used at that height usually do not work because the scale of the rings is tiny compared to the overall length. A oversized custom pleat at the top would fare well. It's always a good idea, when designing a custom window treatment, to have the workroom send over their fabricator to advise on proper dimensions, as they have seen the good and bad of what can be accomplished.
An interesting multiple border along the entire perimeter of the curtain panel would customize it nicely and make up for the 49" you need to make up for the length.
For instance, from your existing panel, consider +5" coordinating color fabric + 3" trim + 4" fabric + 3" trim + 10" matching available fabric. Here are some inspiration pics. If you post your existing fabric, it would help us all.
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