Custom Drapery & Curtains Thornhill – Free Installation

It depends on the trim. Where the casing is original and worth seeing, we mount on the wall just above it and run the track wide so the panels stack off the glass. A ceiling track suits rooms that have been renovated, and it makes a standard eight foot wall read taller. The fabric drop changes with each choice, so we settle it first.

Usually yes. The track has to sit far enough forward that the panels clear the blind and its chain or bottom rail, which is around 100 to 150 millimetres of projection for most setups. We check the existing brackets at the measure. If the blind is an outside mount on a wide casing, the track may need to go at the ceiling instead.

Far enough that the open panels sit on wall rather than glass. On a typical window that means 200 to 300 millimetres of extra rod at each side, and more where the panels are heavy or the fullness is generous. Rooms with large windows lose real daylight when the stack has nowhere to go but across the frame.

Yes, though the anchoring takes more care than in a new build. Plaster and lath will not carry a loaded track on their own, so we find the joists or set blocking where we can get at it. Battery track motors keep the rest of the job simple, since there is no circuit to run and the charge port sits at one end.