Window CurtainsWhen you think of window curtains what do you think of? Is it your grandmother's old set of polyester curtains that she bought by J. C. Penney? If so, don't despair. Today's custom window curtains are completely different.
Starting from the huge range of fabrics to choose from like:
Dotted Swiss - which is a pretty and delicate lightweight cotton with small raised dots. Lace - known for its delicate mesh openwork design. Organza - a lightweight crisp cotton sheer also known as organdy. Toile - a cotton fabric with a finely printed design that looks like a pen and ink drawing. Calico - a cotton fabric with small floral print on a contrasting background. Also available are sheers, chintz, linen, and muslin and more. Styles also vary greatly, for example: cafe curtains - cover only the lower half of the window with only a valance on the upper half.
wall curtains - cover the wall from one corner to the other, usually covering a number of windows in the process. Due to the voluminous size these curtains are hung and operated with tracks rather than a regular curtain rod.
The headers of curtains add a lot of style. Most commonly used is the pinch pleat. Pencil pleats, which looks like smocking, and various other shirring designs on the first few inches on the top of the curtain, gives a unique effect to the curtain. Curtains are usually hung onto rods via rings or can operate with tracks. Click here to see pictures of
window curtains.
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door curtain - window treatments on a door need to be affixed to the door itself to prevent it from getting stuck between the door and the doorframe. Door curtains are hung onto a rod that is attached to the upper part of the door, somewhere above the glass. Sometimes there is another rod on the bottom under the window creating a shirred look. For a finished look this shirred piece can be tied together in the center; this is called an hourglass curtain.
