Period Curtains?

[Feltwell]

Isn't that a biscuit colour in the rug? :lol: :lol: :lol:

If you squint a bit, the whole thing looks rather like a Garibaldi........

 

[ilona73]

Isn't that a biscuit colour in the rug? :lol: :lol: :lol:

If you squint a bit, the whole thing looks rather like a Garibaldi........

I was thinking it was more like a fox crinkle crunch cream personally!

 

[Penners]

Will you lot stop it?! We're talking about carpets here.

 

[LadyArowana]

I think we need one of these....

 

[Penners]

Will they clean up biscuit crumbs?

 

[LadyArowana]

Will they clean up biscuit crumbs?

Your dog should do that, which only leaves the chocolate to be dealt with by the machine :lol:

 

[philpjuk100]

Chickens pick up crumbs with precision but you need somthing special to deal with the chicken poop!

 

[LadyArowana]

Chickens pick up crumbs with precision but you need somthing special to deal with the chicken poop!

:shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[ilona73]

Will you lot stop it?! We're talking about carpets here.

Actually we were talking curtains first and foremost haha! :roll: :roll:

 

[Penners]

Actually we were talking curtains first and foremost

Oh come on! You don't really expect a PPUK thread to stick to the original topic, do you? It sometimes happens by accident, but otherwise....

 

[ilona73]

Actually we were talking curtains first and foremost

Oh come on! You don't really expect a PPUK thread to stick to the original topic, do you? It sometimes happens by accident, but otherwise....

hahah i was pulling your leg... though i am not saying which one for fear of incrimination :wink:

 

[Nigel Watts]

With summer coming should I be protecting the silk curtains in my south facing window with a blind or an inner curtain?

 

[JoceAndChris]

I'd take specialist advice from the place you got the fabric. The linings and interlinings should prevent sun damage, but where sunlight hits the cloth it inevitably fades. After several years the fabric can start to rip.

This week I saw blackout lining fabric for the first time. It was white, but it had a black thread runing through the weave. The man said this really cuts down on sun damage - but it wasn't as attractive as plain cream cotton sateen lining fabric.

 

[Nigel Watts]

I'd take specialist advice from the place you got the fabric. The linings and interlinings should prevent sun damage, but where sunlight hits the cloth it inevitably fades. After several years the fabric can start to rip.

This week I saw blackout lining fabric for the first time. It was white, but it had a black thread runing through the weave. The man said this really cuts down on sun damage - but it wasn't as attractive as plain cream cotton sateen lining fabric.

Thanks Joce - great advice as usual. The blackout lining sounds interesting. We have a streetlamp just outside our bedroom window which is on all night. The bedroom curtains, from the living room of our old house, have a blue and cream stripe (more cream than blue) and cream linings, so dont block the light well. I was thinking of either remaking the linings or putting in an interlining which does block it but was worried that a very dark fabric might look odd. Do you have any more details?

 

[JoceAndChris]

It was this kind of a thing, but didn't look quite as grey in the shop I was at.

http://www.curtainfabricsonline.com/proddetail.php?prod=120033679405

Sure John Lewis would have some.

I can't deal with light either, in London I made these blood red ones to escape the problem - that worked, though waking up to blood red silk every morning wasn't conducive to getting much done.

 

[jocelyn plummer]

A plain cream roller blind would look classy, and do the job just as well. Some blackout linings are very plasticy.

 

[Penners]

Some blackout linings are very plasticy.

I second that. Our bedroom curtains have blackout linings - very effective, but the curtains are redolent of the semi-stiff collars I used to have to wear at school.




Memo to self: what the hell are you doing, joining in this thread? Curtains? What do you know about curtains? You might as well be trying to discuss sub-atomic particle physics.

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Never mind Penners,you have to start somewhere. :wink:

 

[Penners]

A kind thought, Joss, but to be honest I don't really want to start. There are things in this life that I regard as falling within my sphere of influence, and things that I don't. Curtains fall emphatically into the latter category.

I'm happy to do hunting, gathering, wood-chopping, shelf-putting-upping, drain clearing, mowing, tap-washer-changing, rat-trapping, painting, stopping-that-door-squeaking... and all that stuff. But soft furnishings are another country.

 

[Moo]

That's a very sensible approach, Penners. Division of labour means that areas of expertise should be evenly divided between you and Mrs P.