Custom Drapery & Curtains Milliken – Free Installation

A rod if the hardware is meant to be seen, a track if it is not. Rods carry rings and suit a decorative panel that gets drawn occasionally. Tracks take more weight, glide with a wand or a cord, and can be recessed or painted out so the panels look like they come from the ceiling. For panels you open and close every day, a track lasts longer and stays quiet.

No, and saying so at the measure changes what we build. A stationary pair uses less fabric, sits on a shorter rod and does not need the stacking room a working pair does. What we would ask is what covers the window behind them. Panels that cannot close are decoration, and if the room needs privacy or darkness at night, that has to come from the blind.

They can, on a double track. Sheers go on the inner track against the glass and the blackout pair on the outer one, so the heavy panels close over the sheers rather than under them. That order matters, both for how it looks from inside and so the outer panels can overlap in the middle. For a bedroom facing lights, a return at each end that wraps to the wall does more than extra width.

Yes, if the track is the right type. A motorized carriage replaces the manual one and drives the same panels along the same rail, provided the track is a system that accepts it. If we know a motor might come later, we specify that track from the start and you avoid replacing the hardware. Battery tracks exist for panels of modest weight, but a heavy interlined pair wants a powered track.