How to put up a curtain with little headroom

lesley1966

Hi

I would like to put up a curtain in the little entrance hall, to cover the door into the rest of the house. I think this will help to reduce the cold, along with the economy rice draught excluder.

However, there's a low ceiling in the hall, so there's only about an inch of doorframe above the door and no wall.

I would welcome any suggestions of how to put up the curtain. I'd rather not attach it to the (hollow) door.

Cheers

Lesley

diable

Curtain wire (the white stuff with curled sprung metal on the inside) but it depends on how heavy the curtain is will it be one piece or split into two.

ailuro2

There are special door curtain rods out there that take the curtain out of the way as the door is opened. In your case it sounds like there isn't enough room for this.

You have a couple of options though, you can hang a curtain pole from the ceiling, you can fit it to the outside of the door and close the curtain before the door, or you can fit it on to the ceiling in a different part of the hallway and have two curtains with tie-backs that you can hold back when the curtain isn't in use.

I think it might be easier to suggest a solution if you were to post a picture of where the door is.;)

lesley1966

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B4pYXmb3Nmb1ZDU4MWFmODEtNjRiYS00NDliLTg3MjYtMmY5NjJmOGY3NTYy&hl=en_GB

I hope this shows enough. The hallway is tiny, about 2m x 1.5m, with 2 external doors and two internal doors -one to the house and the other to a utility room with a single thickness wall and no heating. This is why I think a curtain over the internal door to the house would be the best option.

Just to complicate things, you'll see there is a light fitting just to the right of the door frame. The ceiling is a false ceiling with few anchor points for a ceiling-hung curtain pole.

Lesley

lesley1966

The door opens internally, by the way, so the curtain doesn't need to move out of the way.

The curtain needs to be fairly heavy to provide draught-proofing, and it will be one single curtain.

Thanks

Lesley

ormus

a wooden dowel about half inch diameter should be ok. i use one on my patio doors for the nets.