Two Pages sells one curtain, the Liz linen pinch pleat, in two versions. One is listed with a room darkening lining. The other is listed with a blackout thermal lining. The face fabric is the same heavyweight linen blend, 350 gsm, on both, and the curtain you see from inside the room is the same … Read more
A café curtain solves one problem: privacy across the bottom of a window without giving up the light above it. That job runs backwards from how a full-length curtain is chosen, where heavier and darker is usually the safer call. Here the daylight is the point, and the fabric that keeps it is not the … Read more
“Thermal” is one of the easiest words to print on a curtain and one of the hardest to pin down. It suggests a rating, something measured, a panel that keeps the heat in on a cold night and the sun out on a hot afternoon. But look at how these curtains are actually built and … Read more
Most curtain rods that sag, tilt, or tear out of the wall did not fail because of a cheap rod or a blunt drill bit. They failed because the brackets went into plasterboard with nothing solid behind them. The rod is the easy part. What actually holds it up is decided before you drill the … Read more
A doorwall is a regional word for a sliding glass patio door, not a special kind of window, and there is no doorwall treatment to buy. The options are the ones that cover any slider, and their names hide the two limits that decide the purchase.
You have a door and a window in the same room. Often they sit on the same wall, a few feet apart, and whatever you put on one makes the other look wrong. Curtains on the window leave the door bare. A blind on the door leaves the window undressed beside it. So the instinct … Read more
A living room is the room you see most, and you see it in daylight. That single fact should decide how you shop for curtains for a living room, and it is the one the listings work hardest to bury. Six panels from three merchants are gathered here, and four of them print a number … Read more
A bedroom asks one thing of a curtain that no other room does: make it dark enough to sleep. That sounds like a single specification, and the listings encourage you to shop for it as a single word, “blackout.” But on three real panels from three merchants, that word points at three different places. On … Read more
Can I wash these? Product pages all print an answer, and the answers do not agree. Eleven listings from three merchants gave four different instructions for fabrics sitting side by side in the same catalogues. Here is how to read the one you were given.
The same cloth, on the same SKU, appears twice in one catalogue at two different prices. Nothing about the fabric changes between those two listings. What changes is the shape the panel is made into, and the system that holds that shape.
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