Not all windows are square….
This unusual little house in Long Compton was blessed with a glazed entrance door with one full length window beside it and another window, with sloping top, beside that. This made the space very cold in winter and, in addition, our customer felt very exposed, especially at night. As a result, the entrance hall was only really used for storage and bicycle parking.
After a bit of thought and bouncing around of ideas, we asked Brian the blacksmith to make a pole which we could fix above the windows, following the slope of the ceiling down to the right.
Brian, as ever, came up trumps!
Finally, we were able to fit the curtains; one fixed curtain for the sloping window, swept up into a tieback in the daytime, with a full length functioning curtain to cover the door and central window.
Whoohoo!
We put a curtain across the stairs to block the draught and, with a track along the beam above the open banisters, we closed them off with a full length curtain, held back with a simple rope tie-back. One unforeseen advantage – the mess under the stairs can easily be hidden by releasing the tie-back when the vicar comes to tea!
Mrs M wanted these curtains unlined to retain the translucence.
Inverted pleats are not normally pleated to pattern but the fabric for these bi-fold doors and windows in a modern extension in Enstone cried out for it, so we did; three unlined curtains with a total width of over 10m, suspended from a ceiling fixed track. With double width fabric there were no seams needed in the curtains and, while the fabric was not printed quite straight, the result was stunning.