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| Bay windows present an
exciting and added challenge. The curtain treatment is more successful if the
bay is treated as a whole rather than as individual windows. Fabric-covered
laths, poles, valances, pelmets, swags and tails, blinds can all be adapted and
fitted in a bay windows. Most bay windows are two-angled, but they can have several angles. The dead wall space at the sides of the bay window can be utilised for the curtain stack-back area. Dead wall space at the angles of the bay can be dressed with intermediate curtains to soften the lines of the window. Where there is a window seat in a bay window, it is not possible to have full-length curtains going round the bay. One solution is to have full-length curtains going across the front of the bay. Other options are to combine such curtains with blinds in the window or simply to dress the window with blinds. A fabric-covered pelmet board with a fascia is an appropriate treatment where there is no wall space above the bay window. Proportions Use the same proportions as for a straight window. Where there is a straight window and a bay window in the same room, the curtain treatment that is used on the straight window can usually be adapted for the bay. For some valances and pelmets, care should be taken to balance the design at the angles of the window. This advice also applies to swags and tails. For example, swags should start and finish at the angles of the pelmet board. |
Fittings for bay
windows Plastic tracks can curve round bays quite easily but they will not take the weight of heavy curtains. Metal tracks can be bent to go round bays. They are normally top fixed onto pelmet boards, but can be face fixed. A ‘reverse bend’ track needs to be used where corded tracks require both concave bends in the angles of the bay and convex bends at the sides. A pole can be an appropriate treatment where there is no wall space above the window. You will normally hang a curtain at each angle because of brackets at the corners.   |
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