ᐅ Curtains – Track or Rod – Recommendations for Manufacturers?

Hello everyone,

We have reached the "decoration phase" and would like to install curtains for our floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room.

Now the question about mounting:

In the bedroom, I have a standard curtain rod attached to the wall on both sides. The rod sags slightly in the middle, but this is hardly noticeable unless you look closely.

In the living room, I would prefer a "better" solution, possibly something invisible, so that the eyelets/loops, etc., are not visible. The curtains should, of course, slide smoothly and ideally stay in a nice wave shape.

So my question is:

What have you done? I am definitely open to ceiling mounting! I think mounting a rod in the middle will be difficult because of the roller shutter box (I don’t want to drill into it if possible).

There are tracks ranging from €5 to €60, and I’m really unsure what makes sense here. Maybe someone can share their experience?

Desired features:

- Track/loops/hooks as invisible as possible
- Easy installation
- No cheap materials
- Ceiling or wall mounting, as long as drilling through the roller shutter box is not required.

The window is a 2-panel floor-to-ceiling window, 1.76m (5.8 ft) wide.

Hi,

we only hung a curtain in the bedroom. A thin rail was screwed to the ceiling with small anchors. It is visible, but it doesn’t sag. Since both are white, the rail is hardly noticeable at the top. The curtain has thin eyelets attached. The “curtain lady” incorporated the matching cutouts during production. It slides easily. We also have a floor-to-ceiling window.

Mahri23 schrieb:

Hi,

so, we only hung a curtain in the bedroom. A thin rod was screwed to the ceiling with small wall plugs.
It is visible, but doesn’t sag. Since both are white, the rod hardly stands out at the top. The curtain has thin eyelets. The tailor incorporated the matching openings during production. It slides easily. We also have a floor-to-ceiling window.

Thin "eyelets?" Where do you hang the eyelets? Since you have a rail, the eyelets would have to be hooked onto hooks, right? Do you have a close-up picture of this?

Which rod did you buy?

I haven’t taken a close-up photo yet. 😉 It just hasn’t been that “interesting” so far. I might be able to do that over the weekend.

The track was sold to us by the local interior decorator who also made the curtain. Very discreet. As you can see a bit in the picture, it’s almost completely invisible from the front because the curtain hangs “in front” of it. Please don’t ask me what the rail is called… 🙄

Hello,

here are the close-up shots.
When the curtain is pulled apart and neatly folded at the top, the track is hardly visible.
Unfortunately, I cannot say which supplier it is. Our interior decorator retired in February.

I had similar U-channels in my last apartment. They are easy to install, and the material cost (for the channel) is negligible.

They are available at least in a cheap sheet metal version and in a somewhat better powder-coated aluminum version. There are probably plenty of other variations as well. Small rollers (or alternatively plastic gliders) run inside this profile. There is also a T-profile version where the rollers run on the outside.

The curtain has a curtain header tape (which creates the desired folds later). The rollers hook onto this tape.

I’m somewhat familiar with this because my father is a master tailor, and he (together with my mother) occasionally sewed curtains on the side, especially for the family 😉)

I will probably install something like this on the ceiling at some point, although I imagine recessing the channels in a grooved slot (since I have a solid wood ceiling, this would be possible) to make them completely invisible rather than just almost 😱