Curtain help!

[faithellen]

I'm hoping someone out there might have a suggestion. We went to order window coverings for 3 rooms yesterday. The bedroom window casing is 112.5" wide, which is wider than they can do roman shades (we were looking at the Hunter Douglas Vignette series, fwiw). Splitting the area into halves or thirds will be visually unattractive, and not conducive to blocking out the light (which is the point). Other shade options they had weren't attractive or effective, especially for the prices they charge.

SO -- we think Plan B will be to have curtains made. Has anyone had experience, good or bad, in the DC area with different curtain people? We're looking for blackout drapes, on a single rod (as opposed to sheers plus drapes), with fullness -- I like the ease of tab tops but hate my compulsion to even them out, pleated tops with hooks would be fine, as would sleeve tops.

Not sure at the moment how long we'd be looking at -- I only had the casement height information (and that's at home), but I suspect we'd look at either to the floor or to the bottom of the casement.

Comments

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Romans are pretty easy to make yourself... or so I've been told at least a half dozen times. The problem, when it comes to really long ones, is that you need more lines to handle them, and they can become rather unwieldy.

I've heard pretty good things about JC Penney's made-to order window treatments in general... but don't know if they go that large. Likewise JoAnn Fabrics, same thing.