Jonathan Davis 
The question almost everyone types is some version of “do I buy 63, 84, or 96 inch curtains?” It feels like a measuring question, so it feels like it should have a measured answer. It does not, and that is the whole problem. A curtain length is not a property of your window. It is … Read more
Here is the part the product page does not put in the price. On a made-to-order curtain, what ships is the panel and its hooks. Everything that holds it up is a separate purchase, and on a long window it is not a trivial one. This is the checklist, component by component. What the three … Read more
Two people hang the same panel on the same window. One room reads contemporary, the other reads dated, and not a thread of the fabric is different between them. The only thing that changed is where the panel was fixed and how far it runs. That is the first half of the argument. Modern is … Read more
Every shade on this page is sold as a blackout. One of them, by its own maker’s figure, stops only about 60 to 65 percent of the light. That gap between the word and the number is the whole problem with buying a dark room off a listing. A blackout rating describes a piece of … Read more
Most curtains you can buy hang on nothing you had to choose. An eyelet panel drops straight onto the rod through the rings punched into its own top; a tab-top loops over it; a rod-pocket swallows it whole. None of them take a hook. A smaller group, the pleated and taped headers, hang on hooks. … Read more
A roman shade is sold to you as a fabric and delivered to you as a mechanism. The listing is all cloth. What decides how the shade behaves on your wall is the rail above it and the way the panel is built to gather.
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