How to Measure Your Window for Curtains

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Tim Gipson and I'm going to show you how to measure your window for curtains. Now when you're measuring for curtains, some of it depends on the type of curtain that you're going to put up. Now let me point out with these, these are silk sheers. So as you look down here at the bottom, you can see they pool a little bit at the floor. So you want to take that into consideration and that's something you're going to find common with silk sheers is that you want them to pool at the floor like this. Now your regular curtains will stop just short of the floor. So that's something you want to consider about - you got to - when you think of the length of your curtains and then how they're going to flow down. Now in this particular home these have nine foot ceilings in this home, so it's not quite as critical where you hang your overall curtains. But if you have shorter ceilings such as an eight foot ceiling, one thing that you can do - curtains can help you actually make the room look taller. So where we have these particular curtains hung just a couple of inches about three inches over the window, if you want to make the room look taller, we'd actually come up to a point that's halfway between the crown and the top of the window. And then the other thing you want to consider is how wide you want your curtain rod. Now if you want your windows to be open if you're hanging solid curtains here and you want your windows to be open, then you'd want this curtain rod to maybe be eight inches or so wider than the actual window opening. So with those things in mind and we'll just look at this particular one where we're looking at a sheer, so we would measure the length of the - to know the length of our sheers, what we're going to do is we're going to simply measure up and we want the curtain rod sitting about a half an inch lower than what the actual length is. So in this case when I measure up, we've got about eighty-four inches so the actual curtain length would be about eighty-four and a half so that extra half an inch is going to allow us that curtain. And then to measure the width of the curtain rod in this case since this is a sheer we want to be just a little bit wider, so we'll measure our opening and you want to go inside dimensions to inside dimensions, we got thirty-five. So in this case we want our brackets and our rod to be just a few inches longer than that opening. So I'm Tim Gipson, and that is how to measure for curtains."