How to Hang Curtains in an Attic's Sloped Ceiling



The simplest way to hang curtains from a slanted loft ceiling would be to ignore the angle. Another approach is to use stationary drapes with tiebacks, hung in an angle. Based on the configuration of your room, either approach could function to provide privacy, control lighting and look balanced. Although the binder makes the room asymmetrical, your curtain treatment should be just symmetrical: absolutely level should you ignore the slant, and perfectly aligned with the angle of the ceiling in case your drapes follow it.

Elect for Level

Assess the Landscaping design Wilmington space to find out where the furniture is going to be put and find the point for an attic room-dividing curtain. Mark the contrary walls in ceiling height at this point.

Drill a hole at each mark and tap in a anchor to securely hold sturdy screw-in hooks.

Loop one end of coated aircraft cable and close the loop using a wire rope clip. Open the turnbuckle, attach it to another hook and stretch the cable across the room to the turnbuckle. Insert 6 inches to the point where the cable meets the turnbuckle and clip the cable using wire cutters.

Pull the cable through one end of the turnbuckle and fasten it with a rope clip. Tighten the cable using the turnbuckle so it is taut across the space. Trim the additional cable.

Loosen the turnbuckle and unhook it. Thread your drapes on the cable from their tapes, rings or hemmed sleeves; replace the turnbuckle on the hook and tighten it again. Arrange the drapes to flow upon the opening.

Winning Angle

Measure a line across a ceiling beam or soffit that follows the ceiling slant in the loft window. You need just enough room to secure knobs or hooks to slip curtain tabs over; the exact distance in the ceiling will be dependent on your own hardware. Mark the line very lightly in pencil and locate equidistant points along the line to position finial-style drapery tiebacks or knobs or medium-size decorative pins.

Assess the distance to the Landscaping cheap Bakersfield, CA at the maximum point and the lowest point of this line. Decide how much ease or collect you would like in the drapes when they’re pulled across the window. Use the dimensions to reduce your fabric.

Mark or pin the width of your fabric, leaving an allowance for minor folds or gathers when the curtain is pulled across the window. Small accumulates make the curtain more manageable once you pull it back.

Mark drapery or curtain cloth so that you end is as long as the tallest stretch from Landscaping service Redding to drape knob or hook, and also the opposite end matches the shortest height, either in the very low end of this ceiling slant. Leave an additional 6 inches on the straight end for hemming.

Cut your fabric — and lining, if you’re lining the drapes. Hem the drapes on the bottom and sides; mark the points for tabs to coincide with the hooks or knobs along the slanted finish. Hem the slanted top, sewing tab tops in the marked points.

Expand a decorative drapery tieback knob or hook to every marked line across the slanted pencil line. Use wall anchors for the screws in a plaster soffit and wood screws in a wood ceiling beam.

Determine just how deep a curtain the curtain will possess over the window once it is pulled back so you may mark the place to your tieback on the wall. Expand a decorative tieback knob to the wall in the mark.

Hang the curtain from the tabs in the slanted line of hooks or knobs at the bottom, shake it out to make sure it falls gracefully, then pull it back to gathers to reveal the window. Attach a decorative tassel tieback to the tieback knob and use it to secure the curtain. Release the curtain in the unwanted tieback to close it.