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Eclipse 54-Inch by 80-Inch Thermaliner Blackout Panel Pair, White $19.99 Experience the darkness, silence, and beauty of Eclipse curtains. Eclipse ultra-fashionable blackout panels have been laboratory-tested to block out over 99% of outside light and reduce unwanted noise for a better night’s sleep. The innovative design of these curtains also makes them energy-efficient by helping to conserve heat and keeping unwanted cold air out, without comprising your style. Whet… |
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Eclipse Serica 52-Inch by 95-Inch Thermaback Blackout Panel, Wedgewood Blue Multi-Stripe $25.18 Experience the darkness, silence, and beauty of Eclipse curtains. Eclipse ultra-fashionable blackout panels have been laboratory-tested to block out over 99% of outside light and reduce unwanted noise for a better night’s sleep. The innovative design of these curtains also makes them energy-efficient by helping to conserve heat and keeping unwanted cold air out, without comprising your style. Whet… |
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Umbra Concerto 50-Inch-by-84-Inch Taffeta Drapery Panel with Grommet Top, Cranberry $31.02 Design: Michelle Ivankovic, the Umbra Concerto drapery features two-toned broad stripes. This opaque taffeta panel features style and utility â an elegant and striking woven stripe shimmer; polyester lining, so youâll block out even more light when you draw your draperys; a grommet top thatâs not only contemporary and attractive but also allows you to easily open and draw the draper… |
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Michigan Industrial Tools MIT Tool Grommet Tool with Grommets $6.36 MIT GROMMET TOOL WITH GROMMETS features: 3/8″-Diameter Brass Plated Grommets. Includes a Uni-Chrome Plated Steel Grommet Tool. Repair or Customize Tents, Boat Covers, Tarpaulins, Awnings, Drapes, etc. 12-pc. Grommets. 1-pc. Grommet Tool… |
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The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies: Do-It-Yourself Window Treatments $12.65 The only curtains book with the current styles and step-by-step, photographed instructions.The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies makes it easy to choose and construct today’s most popular window treatments. Color photographs present twenty styles in a variety of room settings, fabrics, trims, and decorative hardware, then show how to DIY. The projects include tailored, romantic, and c… |
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Paint Essentials 9-Feet x 12-Feet Canvas Drop Cloth HW912 $22.54 The Canvas Essentials 9-by-12-foot canvas drop cloth is designed to handle any paint or heavy duty home improvement project. Made from eight-ounce 100-percent cotton duck canvas fabric, this cloth protects floors, carpets, furniture or equipment. It also absorbs paint spills, traps dust, and debris for faster clean-up. With double-stitched seams and heavy-duty rot-resistant thread, this canvas dro… |
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Levolor 54564.006 Double Brackets with Adjustable Projection for Rods up to 1-Inch Diameter, Black, Pair of 2 $15.99 Double brackets Adjustable … |
Please help me understand drapes?
I have a 6 foot sliding door in the Living Room of my conso. The decor is eclectic – nice plaid couch and love seat with dark wood tables. Fireplace is black metal surrounded by earth color tiles and painted wood trim and mantle. I want some drapes as cheap as possible. I prefer to have them draw both ways rather than like most patio doors that go one way. I want them to draw all the way off the 6 foot door. How wide should the drapes be? Can I use Pocket Drapes or are they too hard to draw? How about the kind with grommets? Are drapes hard to make? My sister sews.
Any comments, ideas or suggestions.
Drapes can be a little fussy but aren’t all that difficult to sew. What I would do is find the fabric you like, and before you buy it, try and estimate how wide your drape would be when it’s open, that is, how much space the gathered open drape will take up once it has cleared the window. This will tell you how wide your curtain rod has to be. A thin fabric will need less room, a stiff one more. Ask wherever they sell the fabric, they can help with that. That will tell you how wide your curtain rod will have to be–the width of the window plus the space at the side for when the drapes are open. Then you must buy enough fabric so that the drapes are 1 and 1/2 times as wide as the rod. If your rod is 8 feet wide, the drapes should be 12 feet wide. They should reach to within an inch or so of the floor. You need that extra fabric so they have gathers in them and look like drapes when they’re closed and not a bedsheet nailed to the wall. Your sister may be able to help with this part.
If you want as cheap as possible, try Wal-Mart or the bargain bin at any place that sells fabric, but be prepared. Usually the fabric you like isn’t cheap. You will probably need at least 9 yards of fabric, but note that fabrics come in different widths, and if you want to block light you can’t use thin fabric. Some fabrics simply aren’t suitable for drapes, either. You would need less yardage if it’s a wide fabric. Maybe you better take your sister fabric shopping with you. She should be able to calculate what you need of a particular fabric, though the people in the store can do that too. Don’t skimp on the yardage. Better to have too much than too little. You can’t just sort of patch a piece in if you run out of fabric length. Take a drawing with measurements on it.
Pocket drapes usually are a bit of a nuisance to draw. Grommets draw nicely, but it can be a bit of bother to find someone with a grommet tool large enough to install grommets to go on a curtain rod. It’s a bit of a specialty thing and might be expensive to have done. Conventional I-beam rods are very easy to draw and to install onto the wall and to put the drapes on, and you can draw them easily whichever way you want by pulling on the drapes themselves. They’re your best bet for simplicity though not for looks because you will see the rod when the drapes are open. People usually cover the top bit with a valance for this reason. Wooden or decorative metal rods and their hardware aren’t cheap, but with rings on they draw well and look nice. The other way which is easy to draw is a wire, with which you can use smaller grommets, but if you’re hanging them outside a window frame it’s a little tricky to install the hardware to hold the wire since it must be under a fair amount of tension to work well.
And before you tackle all this, check Home Depot and Wal-Mart and so on. They have pre-made drapes. If the colour and the length works for you, all you have to do is buy enough panels to cover your window, and your hardware. It can be cheaper to buy those pre-made drapes than to sew your own.