The Truth about Curtain Poles ? Essential Accessories

The Truth about Curtain Poles ? Essential Accessories

It is perhaps a sign of genius when something so functionally important goes almost completely unnoticed when it’s putting a real shift of hard work in. Consider for a moment the opening and closing of your curtains at home. Okay, so your hands are working in the gripping of the curtain fabric and your feet may get a couple of steps in, but the material of the curtain itself, apart from looking pretty and ensuring your privacy, is actually doing very little! The real back breaking graft is being done by the unsung heroes of your home, the curtain poles.

The curtain poles don’t receive much in the way of gratitude either, they just do as they are told without gripe or complaint and support the weight of our curtains, which are often surprisingly heavy. Often asked to carry burdens that are way beyond their capacity, they may bow and bend under the strain sometimes, but they usually hang in there for years and years before asking if they can be substituted by something a little younger and more athletic.

How often do we thank them as we send them ‘snapping’ off to the curtain pole heaven in the sky?

Silliness aside, curtain poles are indeed a crucial piece of equipment when it comes to the whole home improvement lark and choosing the right poles for the right curtains on the right windows is something that can make all the difference.

Heading off to your local DIY emporium, you may soon be greeted with an almost unending choice for almost every job you need to do. Curtain Poles are no different. As the years of technology advancement have passed, the poles have become stronger and more agile and vastly more varied in shape and size.

Do you live in a modern house, where all your windows are perhaps uniformly square or rectangular and all the same size, or is your home perhaps a little more unorthodox and dare I say it, higgledy-piggledy? If you haven’t measured up, then you might as well get back into the car and go home to do so, because if you guess at it, you will most likely be in need of an extra trip.

So, spare a thought for the hard work they do and give them as much assistance as you can by choosing the right curtain pole for the right job. They’ll thank you in the end, no really, they will!