Please help an absolute idiot with curtains

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For the last 5 years I’ve had a big ethnic throw over a pole as my bedroom curtain . I intended to sort curtains out but never got around to it.

Bedroom, very low ceiling, 3 panels of glass, small cottage type windows.

I don’t know where to start. Do I hang them above the window frame? At the height of the wall? Are they supposed to touch the floor?!

I’m really shit at decorating, I think choosing them would be quite easy as id like something quite neutral and my bedroom is all white walls, white furniture and an oak sleigh bed. Bedding is also white, carpets grey.

Please help!

Aren't you going to use the existing pole then?

Usually curtains are hung above the window which is presumably where your pole is. Sometimes they are inset inside the window frame.

Length is up to you, although if there's a radiator under the window then shorter curtains would be better (as otherwise you trap the heat).

Width - each one of the pair of curtains should be approx the width of the window.

Is the pole you have a curtain pole? Curtain poles go between the window and the ceiling and stick out at each end so when the curtains are open they don’t cover the window. The hang in front of the wall.

There are three lengths unually. To the floor which is 228cm I think. Then sill length and then in between those two.

Dunelm is good for curtains as they do all the widths and all the lengths. Even if you don’t get them from there it helps you to get to grips with all of the sizes.

I def second Savoy’s suggestion of Dunelm.

We need a photo of the window, there are so many variations especially with old cottages.

Pole is one of those twisty tension ones which is inside the frame. I haven’t bought a curtain pole yet.

Will take a photo of windows when I get home!

Oh I know what you mean. The easiest way is a curtain pole and then eyelet curtains which are the ones with big holes in the top that you can put straight on the pole.

https://www.dunelm.com/info/buying-guides/tracks-and-poles-buying-guide