Custom Drapery & Curtains Heart Lake – Free Installation

Measure from where the track or rod will sit down to about 10 millimetres off the floor, which usually lands near 2.6 metres of finished length with a ceiling mount. Panels that stop at the sill make a tall room look unfinished. We hem after the hardware is up rather than before, so the length comes from the real installed height.

Layer, in almost every case. The blind does the daily light control and the drapery does the softening and the insulating, and neither has to compromise. A rod mounted outside the window frame keeps the panels clear of the blind hardware. Replacing the blind outright only makes sense in a formal room that stays open all day and takes no direct sun.

Far enough that the open panels clear the glass, which usually means 200 to 300 millimetres of rod on each side for a standard window and more for a wide one. That keeps the daylight while the drapery is open and makes the window look wider than it is. Where a wall corner limits the run, we shift the whole rod and hang a single panel instead.

Yes, and it should join the same system rather than run on its own remote. The track motor pairs to a channel like any blind, so one button drops the shades and draws the panels together. If your blinds are on a hub, the drapery joins the same scenes. We check which motor family your blinds use before quoting the track.