Curtain conundrum - swags and tails
Hi
We have a Victorian home, and we are trying to refurbish it in keeping with the original Victorian style. Rightly or wrongly we are trying to avoid the “modern with a Victorian twist“ fashion and get it back to more like it would’ve looked in 1895.
We are trying to work out how to dress the bay window in the living room. We’ve had the coving reinstated and the sash windows replaced. There is room between the top of the window architrave and the coving for a board to hang swags and tails style curtains.
Working out how to dress such a square bay window is quite a conundrum.
Note the complications, a radiator below the window, and the way the coving runs around the bay.
Have any individuals or companies reading this have any ideas how this might originally have been dressed, or how to dress it in authentic period style, I’m all ears!
Thanks
Steve
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AMB
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4 years agoSteve Steve
4 years agoYes, in fact we installed a box pelmet in the dining room to deal in fact with a problem with the coving not going over the architrave of the French doors. Unfortunately, by the time we realised a box pelmet would be a good idea in the living room, it was too late and the coving and architrave had all been done! That’s partly why we are thinking of a swags and tales solution.
You can see this pelmet in a couple of the pictures I have attached. Unfortunately decorating is well underway now. You live and learn.
Steve Steve
4 years agoAnd a couple of kitchen pics plus 2 toilets being installed shortly.
All rooms partially completed! House is a building site.
Jonathan