Where the heck do you buy extra wide (horizontal) drapes / curtains???

[Zeze]

What the hell. My new home's living room has a 4-panel wide window, spanning 144 inches.

In order to maintain a full ripple when closed, the curtain's width should be 170 to 200% of the window width. So that's 244" to 288". Or get (2) 122" to 144" wide curtains (to open L and R).

Height is a common 83".

So I'm looking for (2) curtains that are 120 to 150 W x 83 L. (or anything close)

For some reason this is apparently difficult to find. Not on Amazon, Target, Home Depot, regional curtain store, Pottery Barn, and not even on basic googling.

There must be millions of homes that have wide living room windows. How did they do it?

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Having a similar issue, can't find anything in the colors we want that are long enough. Been looking everywhere from Target, Kohls, Macy's, etc.. etc.. If the length is good than we can't find a color design we want. If the color design is good then the length isn't long enough.

 

[Zeze]

Having a similar issue, can't find anything in the colors we want that are long enough. Been looking everywhere from Target, Kohls, Macy's, etc.. etc.. If the length is good than we can't find a color design we want. If the color design is good then the length isn't long enough.

This sucks.

 

[JSt0rm]

Blinds.com

 

[brianmanahan]

There must be millions of homes that have wide living room windows.

i think you are severely overestimating the fanciness of homes

that being said, most large glass doors/windows i've seen use vertical/horizontal blinds instead of curtains/drapes.

 

[Zeze]

i think you are severely overestimating the fanciness of homes

that being said, most large glass doors/windows i've seen use vertical/horizontal blinds instead of curtains/drapes.

We looked into blinds- received a full consultation with different styles & color. They clean & neat, but we know what blinds look like- quite boring & office-like.

Curtains we need.

 

[SparkyJJO]

What if you use curtains that aren't necessarily long enough to cover the window but look nice along the sides when open, and just use blinds for actually blocking the windows? Decorative curtains vs functional curtains, kind of like the shutters you see on the outside of a lot of houses that are there for appearance only.

 

[SSSnail]

https://www.google.com/search?q=cus...rome..69i57.8042j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[Imp]

Split it down the middle and use 2 pairs of matching curtains?

I found some 100" wide curtains on Amazon.

Otherwise, all of the rooms in my elementary/secondary schools had very wide curtains for giant windows. You could go raid a school or find out who their supplier is.

 

[Zeze]

https://www.google.com/search?q=cus...rome..69i57.8042j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Yea, I'm trying to avoid the custom route. I'm merely looking for 100-120" wide curtains afterall, is that too much to ask?

I spec'd it out at www.theshadestore.com, $1500. Wow. I'm prepared to spend $500 or even bit more.. but not $1500.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

https://www.google.com/search?q=cus...rome..69i57.8042j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Insert the word "custom" into anything (e.g. Picture Frames), and $30 fucking shades becomes $300 shades. No thanks. I can wait until I find something.

Pictures frames are a fucking perfect example. It's just some pieces of wood that are treated with a backing to hold a photo. If you need it customized, all of a sudden that wood is worth $200-400.

 

[SSSnail]

Yea, I'm trying to avoid the custom route. I'm merely looking for 100-120" wide curtains afterall, is that too much to ask?

I spec'd it out at www.theshadestore.com, $1500. Wow. I'm prepared to spend $500 or even bit more.. but not $1500.

You know, you can probably spend $100 on Amazon on a sewing machine, then go buy some fabrics at one of those crafts store and make the curtains yourself. It's not that difficult, to be honest.

Insert the word "custom" into anything (e.g. Picture Frames), and $30 fucking shades becomes $300 shades. No thanks. I can wait until I find something.

Pictures frames are a fucking perfect example. It's just some pieces of wood that are treated with a backing to hold a photo. If you need it customized, all of a sudden that wood is worth $200-400.

That's why you shop around, I bet you anything you can find a shop within the Asian communities that are a lot cheaper than what's quoted. The OP surely has the hookups within the Asian communities...

 

[rh71]

We have like 8 floor-to-ceiling casements spanning our living room wall and we bought 4 of the same curtains at Lowes that all slide on a long rod. Done.

Window treatments are one of the toughest things to complete when buying a house - you'd never think it though.

 

[Imp]

Found some 120" curtains on Overstock.com. They're really long but hemming is doable. Prices looked reasonable.

I've never shopped there, just came up on a search.

 

[Zeze]

We have like 8 floor-to-ceiling casements spanning our living room wall and we bought 4 of the same curtains at Lowes that all slide on a long rod. Done.

Window treatments are one of the toughest things to complete when buying a house - you'd never think it though.

Don't they look bad with 4 separate curtains? Or did you sew them up into one?

 

[BoomerD]

https://www.countrycurtains.com/search.do?query=extra+wide

My wife has bought curtains there for many years. GOOD customer service.

 

[kt]

What the hell. My new home's living room has a 4-panel wide window, spanning 144 inches.

In order to maintain a full ripple when closed, the curtain's width should be 170 to 200% of the window width. So that's 244" to 288". Or get (2) 122" to 144" wide curtains (to open L and R).

Height is a common 83".

So I'm looking for (2) curtains that are 120 to 150 W x 83 L. (or anything close)

For some reason this is apparently difficult to find. Not on Amazon, Target, Home Depot, regional curtain store, Pottery Barn, and not even on basic googling.

There must be millions of homes that have wide living room windows. How did they do it?

Is it one continuous window? Or is there a narrow column/wall break in-between?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm not familiar with how upholstry and such materials are made but might have to do with the size of standard stock that it comes in, so they can't make curtains that long and high, maybe?

I recently got new windows, and I went with shutters instead of curtains, it turned out really nice and better privacy too.



That did set me back like $1,700 though. It's all vinyl. They could probably be done for your width of window too they can make the sections pretty much any size needed, so in your case you'd probably have like 6 sections instead of 4.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Our front window is 13'x11'. We got our drapes from JC Pennies, but that was....15 years ago? I don't really know the sizes of them, but they reach the floor. You won't find them in a single piece, it will be 2 pieces that open in the middle on a long rod.

 

[purbeast0]

get 4 curtains instead of 2. we had to do that for our back sliding door.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

You might check out those places that supply home theaters but, draperies like kitchen cabinets cost way beyond their actual value.

 

[emperus]

Find a curtain place. They'll order them custom. Had to do that when I needed blackout curtains for 2 huge windows in my bedroom, that let in an obscene amount of light. They ended up around $100 per panel and got 4.

Or as someone mentioned, if you can sew at all, make them.

 

[MongGrel]

The front window here is about 15' and built in 69.

Should replace the things on their someday are the only blinds we have not replaced in the house.

 

[DAGTA]

I used four curtain panels, instead of two. There are clasps that can link panels together. It looked fine for the years I had it set up that way.