Custom Drapery & Curtains South End – Free Installation

Usually not, and we would rather tell you now. Custom panels are cut for one window and the hardware that carries their weight needs a proper fixing, which a tension rod between two jambs will not give you past a light sheer. If you are in the unit for years and the landlord allows small holes that get filled on the way out, it changes. For a single school year, buy ready made.

Cotton and linen both move, and linen more than people expect, so a floor length panel can come off the line sitting two or three centimetres high. Wash cold, never hot, and hang them damp so their own weight pulls them back down. We allow a little extra in the hem on anything we expect you to wash. Pleated lined panels are dry-clean for exactly this reason, since the face and the lining shrink at different rates.

More than with a blind, and still not much. Panels are made to one drop and one rod width, so they only work again if the next window is the same height or taller, and a lined pleated panel cannot be lengthened without a visible seam. Shortening is straightforward. Take them if you are moving somewhere with a similar era of house, leave them if you are not, and take the paperwork either way.

Nothing survives claws, but a tight flat weave gives them far less to hook into than a loose linen or anything with a slub. Pulled threads on a smooth cotton can often be worked back through from behind. The other half of it is height. A panel that stops at the sill on a rod out of jumping range takes the temptation away, though we accept that is not the look most people came for.