Less than 90 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIx8EvQ3isY

Thanks for your comment.
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Uno

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Less than 90 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIx8EvQ3isY

Thanks for your comment.
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Uno

The treatment looks fine. The highwaters won't show behind the couch.

To answer the questions you asked.

The rod is okay as it is. "Normal" is 1-2" inches of rod plus any finial
used. Doesn't look like you have a finial so a little extra rod is okay.

Most decorators prefer that the tied back portion at the narrow point covers
all the woodwork. That is sometimes very hard to do when using a tieback
holder. Also that reduces the amount of light one receives. If the look you
have pleases you leave it as it is. The only real option is to add a short
rope tieback so that it covers the inside edge of the trim. Suggest you
practice with some scrap string before you buy anything.

Overall I would grade this an A, no worse than an A- for a homeowner
install. And I have been doing these full time since 1986.


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Colbyt
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On 9/19/2010 4:20 PM, Colbyt wrote:

The treatment looks fine. The highwaters won't show behind the couch.

To answer the questions you asked.

The rod is okay as it is. "Normal" is 1-2" inches of rod plus any finial
used. Doesn't look like you have a finial so a little extra rod is okay.

These rods have a design flaw that makes the set screw ineffective for
the smaller rod diameters.

Most decorators prefer that the tied back portion at the narrow point covers
all the woodwork. That is sometimes very hard to do when using a tieback
holder. Also that reduces the amount of light one receives. If the look you
have pleases you leave it as it is. The only real option is to add a short
rope tieback so that it covers the inside edge of the trim. Suggest you
practice with some scrap string before you buy anything.

Overall I would grade this an A, no worse than an A- for a homeowner
install. And I have been doing these full time since 1986.



Thx, Colbyt, I don't know that I qualify as just a homeowner as a
journeyman carpenter, but this is not one of the things they teach you
how to do. With a commercial install, you build off the plans, and the
crux of my question goes to design as opposed to execution, which isn't
neurosurgery.

It took 4 different trips to target to get everything how I wanted it.
I like the brackets at 6" beyond the trim for this case, and I think I'm
going to push those pullbacks in (laterally) a bit, so that the outside
curtain doesn't bulge out on the outside (hangs more or less straight).

I am simply ashamed at how long this took. Maybe I won't use the term
"inferior desecrator" so lightly again.:-)

Cheers,
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Uno