Custom Drapery & Curtains Newcastle – Free Installation

It will, with the right fixing. We find the framing above the opening wherever we can and anchor into wood, because plaster and lath on their own will not carry a lined panel over time. Where there is no timber in the right place, we use toggle fixings rated well above the load. On a heavy pair we add a centre support bracket.

Sun, almost certainly, and it happens fastest to a panel that sits in the same position for months at a stretch. The leading edge takes the worst of it. Rotating the panels left to right once a year evens the wear out, and lining does more than anything else to slow it down. Silk and untreated cotton fade quickest. A polyester blend holds colour for years.

Plenty of people do. Sheers through spring and summer, then heavier lined panels from October, all on the same track or rod. Ask for the same heading style on both sets and the swap takes ten minutes a window. Store the off-season pair rolled rather than folded so the creases never set into the fabric.

They do, and the effect is easy to feel in an older house. A lined panel closed over a cold window slows the draft that falls off the glass into the room. Interlining, which is a soft layer between the face fabric and the lining, roughly doubles that. Close them at dusk and open them in the morning to let whatever sun there is back in.