Hanging Pinch Pleat Curtains in Your Home
One of the most unique and exiting ways to add a touch of elegance to a room in your home (or anywhere!) is to use pinch pleat curtains as a window treatment. While the do a very similar job to ‘ordinary’ curtains, they do have a distinctly different look, and they’re also better at insulating the room they’re in (due to their thick nature). As with pinch pleated drapes, the hanging of these curtains is done in a slightly different way than most people may be used to.
While it might seem difficult and confusing at first, they’re not actually hard to hang at all (especially if you’ve done it a few times!) If you’re unsure as to what you’re doing, however, try following these simple steps (these steps assume that you have bought your curtains already or that you have made them to the point that they’re ready for hanging up):
1. Find a large floor space, then take your curtains and lay them down flat (so that the back of them is facing upwards). Be careful not to step on them, and uncrease out all of the wrinkles in them.
2. Take the hanging hook and slide the sharp end underneath the stitching (at the top end of the pleat curtains) until the hook is the only part that’s visible.
3. Do this at even intervals all the way along the curtain until you’re satisfied that you have enough hooks to hold the weight (and then some).
4. Repeat this on the other curtain, and then hang them up (by attaching the hooks to the curtain rings/runners).
It’s worth noting that after your curtains have been up a couple of weeks they may appear to ‘grow’ about an inch or so (due to the material stretching), so it’s a good idea to anticipate this and to hang them just a little bit short at first.
How to Care for Pinch Pleat Curtains
While most of the basic care is the same, it is worth nothing that pinch pleat curtains (and pinch pleat drapes) are not always made from the same materials (some are made from linen, some from velvet and some from silk). Because of this, the treatment that’s required is often a little bit different since each material reacts differently to different things. These differences are only really noticed when applying cleaning products to your curtains, so basic things like dusting or re-stitching are the same for all types.
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