![]() So once again, these little guys are going to make a big difference. It can be kept straight (like in my kitchen, where I used them to create the look of one continuous curtain rod), or it can bend…that’s how we’re going to use it today! It’s tiny (like only about two inches long) and has a hinge in the center. Need a quick refresher? Here’s a pic of a curtain rod connector. Who would have thought I’d have so much to say about these tiny little things? ![]() I am back today to talk more about curtain rod connectors. We’re going to create our own custom corner curtain rods, this time using just one connector and one support! I haven’t touched it in a few years and it is really ready for a little facelift.Today we have part 2 in my series of posts about how you can use curtain rod connectors to enhance your basic curtain rod. Yeah! It’s feeling good to spend some time in the dining room. I used a hand steamer to let out any remaining wrinkles in the fabric. Let the curtains rest on the floor and straighten to your desired preference. Gather your curtains at the bottom and recreate a loose version of the accordion pattern you were making when you pressed the pleats. Clip the curtains on the front facing pleat, and let the rear pleat hang loosely. Either is fine, as long as you stay consistent with the direction you have chosen. You will see that there is a front twist, and a back twist to the clips. I take care to clip all of the pleats the same direction. Hang your curtains from the clips (previously attached to the curtain rods). ![]() Hem pleats to your desired length – I like to leave mine an inch longer than the length from the bottom of the clips to the floor. When you have completed the pressing you should be left with 7 pleats. ![]() Starting with the initial 2″ pleat and then continuing every 4 1/4″. Once you have completed pressing the first half of the curtain, begin doing the same steps on the other side. I’m so happy to have the solution I was hoping for. Lucky for me, the brass of both the connector and the rod are nearly the same AND they fit together perfectly. What’s a lady to do? I decided to take a chance and I ordered two corner connector from Ballard design and three brass rods to fit my curtains. The rods I had hung in the living room aren’t offered with a corner connector. The dining and living are practically the same space, so it would seem funny if I were to use two different type of rods. I really wanted to use the same style rod and finial that I used in the living room. It wasn’t until I googled “drapery corner connector” (duh) that I got a result that seemed promising. If you google “angle curtain rods”, “bay window curtain rods” or “curtain corners” or a handful of different terms the results are lacking. She solved the problem that I couldn’t seem to wrap my head around, and it looked great.įor whatever reason I had the hardest time finding rods for the bay window. This would have been fine and good, but then I saw Nicole’s blog post on how she added curtains to her bay window and had the same exact radiator problem I did. This involved different length curtains, and since privacy wasn’t my number one priority I had just flanked the window with two curtains on each side for the last 9 years or so. I was always paralyzed by how to actually go about installing a curtain in a bay window with a radiator below the main window. This is something that I’ve wanted to do for sooooo long. I began the facelift of our dining room by installing curtains in our bay window. Last weekend I started to work on one of my many 2019 goals.
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