Our curtain ranges offer quality and choice to finish your windows beautifully View all ready-made curtains View 7-day made to measure curtains Free Click & Collectfrom our shops on orders £30 and over Free standard deliveryon all orders over £50 Never knowingly undersoldsince 1925 Made to measure curtains in 7 days subject to status and terms & conditions apply 8 solutions for tricky windows Tracks, Poles & Fixtures Here at Dunelm we offer a wide selection of tracks and poles for your curtains. Constructed from a range of high quality materials including metal, wood and plastic, these useful products will help to frame your windows beautifully. It is easy to continue the elegant theme of your traditional decor with the antiquated finish of our brass curtain poles. Alternatively, the metallic gleam of our chrome curtain poles will provide a sophisticated modern look, whilst the crisp tones of our white wooden curtain poles will instantly refresh your existing decor.

If you are looking for a product with universal relevance, the charming natural finish of a wooden curtain pole may be of particular interest to you. For a unique twist, browse our range of stylish swish curtain poles, great for enhancing the character of your living space. In addition to the pole itself, an attractive finial can make the perfect finishing touch to any room. adnate curtainsChoose from our ornately crafted finials, stunning glass finials and charming ball finials.lapa curtains west rand For a snug addition to your window space, our extendable curtain poles will save you the trouble of trimming for a customised fit. pencil pleat curtains dunelm millIf your household benefits from the visual appeal of unusually shaped windows, our range of specialist curtain poles including bay window curtain poles will supply you with your ideal product.curtains dugdale centre

Our pairs of ready made curtains come in a range of gorgeous 100% cotton fabrics and are plain or thermal/blackout lined to help them hang well and last longer.  We offer a choice of pencil pleat and eyelet headings as well as extra wide and extra long sizes. At 274cm drop our extra long curtains will fit tall windows so there's no need to splash out on made to measure curtains. We’ll deliver them to your door free of charge within 1-2 working days. If you'd like samples of any ready made curtain fabrics, just click on a fabric below and you'll see an option to add a free swatch to your basket. We'll pop them in the post to you as soon as possible.Curtains do not look good or block heat and light if they are flat. As a result curtains are usually 1.5 to 2.5 times wider than the space they are covering so that they can be pleated or gathered in some way. But how do you decide which size curtain to buy or to get made? There are actually some pretty simple rules that will help you.

You need to decide on three things – what style of curtain you want, how wide the curtains need to be and finally how long you want your curtains to hang. There are three main types of curtain design which describe the top of the curtain and effect how they attach to a rail or pole – see right; the pleat, tab and eyelet. The tab and eyelet curtains fit over a simple curtain pole and do not need any curtain hooks or rings. Note that eyelet curtains actually start above the curtain rail where as tab top curtains hang below them. So for the same window and curtain pole, eyelet curtains would need to be longer that tab tops. There are lots of different sorts of pleats such as double box pleat, pinch pleat and goblet pleat but in terms of your measurements essentially you treat them all the same.  Pleat curtains can be fitted either to a pole or a curtain rail. Depending on how you attach them, and what rail you use, their vertical position will be different. If you choose a curtain pole and rings the curtains hang lower so they will need to shorter than if you were using a rail, see later.

The first job is actually choosing a post or rail and fitting it. A curtain pole/track/rail should be about 15cm above the window and at least 15cm wider each side before the ends (or finials) if you have space. Once you have fitted the rail/pole measure its total width, excluding the ends or finials and then add on 20cm. This additonal 20cm gives room for an air of curtains to overlap in the middle. It is important, if you do not add this on you will have an air and light gap. If you only want a single large curtain rather than two narrower ones you do not need to add this extra 20cm on. You have now calculated the width you need to cover, but your curtains will need to be 1.5 to 2.5 times wider than this so that they gather. The guide below gives you the minimum width by curtain type. If you want pencil pleat curtains on a pole, or track multiple your width by two. If you want eyelet curtains on a pole, multiple your width by two. If you want tab top curtains on a pole, multiple your width by 1.5.

If your fabric is really thin (voile or net), or if you want a very rich look or you need good thermal insulation then you should increase each of the multiplications by 0.5 times (2 times the width for tab tops and 2.5 times the width for eyelet or pencil pleat). So look at the example below. The curtain pole is shown as A – it is the width of the pole excluding its ends. We want a pair of overlapping curtains so if A is 120cm, we need to add 20cm for our overlap giving 140cm. For normal eyelet curtains we need to multiply this by 2. So we would need curtains that are 140 x 2 = 280cm wide. If we wanted an extra thick look we would multiply our width by 2.5 times, 140 x 2.5 = 350cm. When you buy ready made curtains the packet normally states the width of one of a pair. So if the packet said 1.2m wide it means there are two 1.2m wide panels included. The image above illustrates the three usual curtain lengths – window sill length, below the window sill or floor length.