How to Install Flat Curtain Rods

Use a level to ensure that your curtain rods are installed straight.

Many rooms in your home, like kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms, benefit from light and airy curtains on the windows. Instead of dealing with heavy drapery rods with cords and pins, when you hang plain curtains, utilize flat curtain rods on your windows. These simple rods hang on an L-shaped piece of hardware that you can install in a matter of moments using only a hammer. Slip the curtains onto the rods and lock the rods down onto the hardware, and your windows are completely decorated.

Things You'll Need

• Measuring tape
• Pencil
• Straight edge
• Level
• Curtain rod containing hardware kit
• Hammer

Instructions

1. Measure to find a point 2 inches above and 2 inches to the right of the upper right corner of your window opening. Mark this point with a pencil. Find a point 2 inches above and 2 inches to the left of the upper left corner of the window opening and mark this point with a pencil.

2. Draw a horizontal line from the right point to the left point. Use the level to find out if your line is level and straight. Move a point up or down and redraw the line if it angles up or down.

3. Hold one piece of curtain hardware against the wall at the upper right point. Place the lower left corner of the hardware against the upper right point. Tack one nail through the upper nail hole in the hardware, just to temporarily hold it in place.

4. Hold a piece of curtain hardware at the upper left point. Hold the hardware so that the lower right corner of the hardware meets the point. Tack a nail through the upper nail hole in the hardware to temporarily hold it in place.

5. Draw a line from the top of the right hardware to the top of the left hardware. Check the line to find if it is level. Adjust one hardware up or down if the line is on an angle.

6. Hammer the top nails in completely when the hardware is straight and level. Hammer nails into the second, lower holes in the hardware to secure it to the wall.

7. Thread the curtains onto the rod and hang the rod on the hardware pieces. Hold the rod at an upward 45-degree angle to slip the hook into the slot, and then angle the rod down to its correct position.

Resources

• Kirsch: Lockseam Curtain Rods