Rods, tracks, brackets, rings, hooks and finials hold everything else up, and a listing usually leaves them to a footnote. What each piece does, what is included in the box, and what tends to be missing on installation day.
Fifty-five inches, or ninety-eight. Neutral Curtains publishes both figures about the same clamp. The first is printed on a photo of the bracket itself, on the listing that sells a spare pair for $12.00: No Drill, within width 55 inside mounting only. The second is on the brand’s own reference page for its no-drill shades, … Read more
Four to six inches above the frame. That is the answer everyone gives, and it is not wrong so much as it is answering a different question. It tells you where a rod usually goes. It does not tell you where the top of your curtain will end up, whether the wall you are drilling … 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
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
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
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