Good Shop for curtains?

lisaloo

Im looking for Curtains for the main bedroom. have to have crem and brown in them, any recommendations? im in Laois!

Dizzyblonde

I find Harry Corry great - they have a good range and aren't expensive LINK

El Camino

There's a good shop in Portlaoise called Inspiring Interiors. Well worth a look!! Check out there site below. I haven't actually bought anything there but they were very helpful when i was in there recently.

http://www.inspiringinteriors.ie/

dlambirl

+1 for Harry Corry.

Thats where i plan to look for mine soon......

El Camino

I'm in the market myself now for curtains for a bay window. Due to the size of the window i cannot buy ready-made curtains (or so i have been lead to believe). I seem to have two options 1. Get curtains made from scratch - looks like costing €700-€1000 or 2. Buy 2 pairs of curtains and have them put together to fit requirements. I'm sure two sets of quality, heavy-lined curtains plus labour will be pretty expensive and may come close to the price for 1.

Has anybody recently dressed a bay window and what have you done?

2 stroke

El Camino wrote: »

I'm in the market myself now for curtains for a bay window. Due to the size of the window i cannot buy ready-made curtains (or so i have been lead to believe). I seem to have two options 1. Get curtains made from scratch - looks like costing €700-€1000 or 2. Buy 2 pairs of curtains and have them put together to fit requirements. I'm sure two sets of quality, heavy-lined curtains plus labour will be pretty expensive and may come close to the price for 1.

Has anybody recently dressed a bay window and what have you done?

A little bit of advice El Camino.
I've noticed that you already have a pole/c-rings fitted to square bay. The heavier the curtains you fit the more difficult you will find it to open/close your curtains.
A lady I know,with very heavy curtains, decides whether or not to close her sittingroom curtains before her guests arrive as she has to stand on a chair and move each c-ring over the knuckle one at a time. Yet she says that she would fit the same system again because it looks fantastic.

Dizzyblonde

I have a pole and c-rings in a large bay window in my bedrooom. It works very well.
I bought 2 pairs of curtains and sewed them together. If I was doing it again I'd get a prefessional to join them though because there's always a difference of a centimetre or two of a difference in the length from one curtain to another. It would still be way cheaper than having them made from scratch.

yop

What sort of saving, roughly, do u think you made Dizzy? May hve to do the same.

Dizzyblonde

Yop, I paid just under €300 for the ready-made curtains, and even if I'd paid someone €100 to join them together I reckon it's still cheaper than buying the fabric and lining, then paying someone to make them up.
Hickey's Home Focus have a curtain making service, if you phone them with your window dimensions they'll be able to give you a quote for the cost of making them (then you'd have to cost out the fabric etc).
The sky is the limit when it comes to what you can pay for curtains but I just don't figure it's worth it. I've known people to pay over a thousand euro to have them made - you'd feel you had to keep them forever!

yop

Aye, we paid 1100 for ours made up for the sitting room with brackets, railing etc but times have changed and we can't afford to fork out that now.

Thanks for the advice.

blindman

Comparing readymade curtains sewn together with professionally made, made-to-measure curtains is like comparing cars. You could say you saved thousands by buying a fiesta instead of a merc. There is room for both though. Lots of people that buy "good" curtains on the sitting room put readymades throughout the rest of the house.

JuliusCaesar

2 stroke wrote: »

A lady I know,with very heavy curtains, decides whether or not to close her sittingroom curtains before her guests arrive as she has to stand on a chair and move each c-ring over the knuckle one at a time. Yet she says that she would fit the same system again because it looks fantastic.

Why doesn't she buy a pair of curtain drawing poles? I got some in Hickey's recently for E17, so I wouldn't have to stand on a chair to draw my bay window curtains!

blindman

A draw rod would be needed for each c-ring to get them past the knuckle. €17 very expensive, are they wood or clear.

Sarah11

Try John Lewis they have a large varity of curtains on display in Brown and Cream colors your require.

Another online shop is google shopping

hope this helps .


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shifers

I bought 3 pairs of curtains recently, one from Dunnes Stores, Belfast (perfectly adequate), one from Harry Corry, Belfast (excellent sale price) and one from these guys online in the UK as I was having problems finding curtains with a 100" drop - http://www.terrysfabrics.co.uk/. Very good price and super fast delivery to Dublin.

workingmum

shifers wrote: »

I bought 3 pairs of curtains recently, one from Dunnes Stores, Belfast (perfectly adequate), one from Harry Corry, Belfast (excellent sale price) and one from these guys online in the UK as I was having problems finding curtains with a 100" drop - http://www.terrysfabrics.co.uk/. Very good price and super fast delivery to Dublin.

Hi, just wondering if anyone knows of a good place in newry to buy curtains, need to get curtains for my sitting room, looking for a nice simple self patterned pair, want them to look expensive though if you know what i mean.