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About Lee Stevens
Expertise
How to fit and hang all kinds of curtains. What works best on different sorts of windows. How to measure your window correctly. Choosing the right style to suit your room. Fairly good at colors, but not an expert.

Experience
20 Years in the custom made curtain business. I have been involved in the the advising, making, fitting and hanging of all kinds of curtains. I am still running my own window treatments business on a daily basis and learning new things every day.

Publications
http://www.window-treatments-made-easy.com

Education/Credentials
I have no formal qualifications in the area of window treatments. I have just learned from making lots of mistakes. Also as important by watching how other more experienced people have created beautiful window treatments. Then trying to improve upon it.

Past/Present Clients
I have hung and dressed curtains for royalty and a fair few premiership footballers. I have fitted curtains in some of the top hotels in London. I have also fitted curtains for lots of ordinary folk just like me and you.

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Window Treatments - decorative rods for wide window

Expert: Lee Stevens - 11/4/2009

Question
Hi Lee,
I am getting a pair of pinch pleat panels that are 168" wide (total) and 110" length. I plan to layer a sheer of the same size underneath the panels. I would like to put them on a decorative traverse rod.
What kind/brand of decorative traverse rods will be sturdy enough to hold curtains of this width and length? What are all the hardware I will need to buy for the 2 pairs of curtains?

Answer
Hi Johanna

You are going to struggle to find a decorative traverse rod the width that you want. Even if you found one it would not be a double rod to support your main curtains and then your sheers.

I don't know if it would appeal to you or not but I would go with standard corded metal traverse rods. Two exactly the same. I would fit them under a top board about 8 inches wide fitted over your window. It's basically a shelf fitted over your window on simple shelf brackets. Then you fit your tracks under the shelf one to the back of the board and one to the front of the board.

Then finally to hide the board and tracks I would fit a fabric covered pelmet to the front edge of the top board using velcro tape.

If you need some more idea on this take a look at the page below. Just copy and paste into your web browser.

http://www.window-treatments-made-easy.com/make-pelmets.html

Also take a look at this page to see the kind of traverse rods I mean.

http://www.window-treatments-made-easy-store.com/Curtain-Rods-and-Hardware/trave...

Best regards

Lee

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