Curtains And Floor Heaters

The simplest solution for keeping curtains and baseboard heaters from causing a fire is to make sure the two never meet.

Curtains and floor heaters.

Floor to ceiling curtains can also help to divide space whether you re tucking away a window seat like the floor to ceiling curtains via lonny or cutting a whole room in half heads up. Sometimes 63 inch curtains are just a bit too short and don t cover the window trim of course that will depend on the size of your windows. Oct 21 2014 how to hang curtains over baseboard heaters. Heater units typically have a guard that prevents the air intake area from touching the floor.

Floor length curtains complement most windows but closing them over your radiator blocks the heat. In addition to adding elegance to a room floor length drapes control light and privacy and offer some energy benefits. Dressing the window with shades or blinds is one option but the look doesn t suit everyone. Far enough away to be safe but still look nice.

Floor length curtains roller shades. Oct 21 2014 how to hang curtains over baseboard heaters. How to hang curtains over baseboard heaters. Floor to ceiling drapes or even drapes that puddle on the floor add warmth and color to your room.

In the bedroom where privacy and complete darkness at night are more important than adjusting sun levels during the day try roller shades with blackout liners and layer a set of floor length curtains on top. Height of hemmed drapes over heating registers. But fabric touching heat registers could at worst create a fire hazard. In this example the curtains are likely to stay semi permanently dressed into place with the blinds behind doing the work of light control.

Space between a baseboard heater and the floor. They fall just between middle of the area between the bottom window sill and the top of the baseboard. Unfortunately chopping off your curtains and re hemming them 12 inches above your heater doesn t always create the most attractive look. To solve the problem opt for curtains designed to end just below your windowsill.

The curtains can be just over floor length as above to break slightly as they hit the flooring. The worst thing you can do when hanging curtains from the ceiling is to hang them too. Hang curtains on extended rod brackets. But if you hang the drapes.

Or the curtains can pool by six inches 18cms or more as below. Avharrison publishing if your living space has high ceilings already compliment them with tall curtain lengths. I often buy 72 inch length curtains.