Short or Long? Bedroom Curtains with Radiator under Window

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I have to decide whether to hang long or short curtains in the bedroom my DS is moving into.

The radiator in the room is under the window. The bed is not near the rad / window.

In another bedroom the bed is up against the radiator under the window, so those curtains are short. In mine, the curtains are in the same place but because the bed is nowhere near they are long and down to the floor.

What do you have in your bedrooms?

TIA (and wow, sorry to be so boring! (Just read it back, yawn.))

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In my house they are short else the heat goes out of the window doesn't it?

Not very helpful really, but in all our bedrooms we have short curtains, purely because of the radiator issue. It doesn't help that we have stupidly small radiators in the bedrooms though, can't block the measly amount of heat we get from them.

I have mid length curtains that tuck behind my radiator 72 length I believe. No real help I know

I would go for short otherwise the heat just goes behind the curtain?

I prefer longer but only if no radiator

Radiators work mostly by convection so as long as the warm air can circulate above the curtain into the rest of the room it's of little consequence if the curtains are short or long.

To get round this I have purely decorative long curtains that I never close, and a black out blind which is the real window covering.

Short. Rads are under my sons windows, too, only a real problem for my youngest who's bed is next to rad/window as a bit of daylight gets under curtain and on bed. My eldest sons bed is away from window and it's nice and dark by his bed.

I believe more heat is lost through the windows than through the wall, so, even if you have a gap at the top of the curtains for warm air to circulate, most of the warmth will be lost through the windows.

From experience: we replaced floor- length curtains with short curtains, and the room became significantly warmer.

Short curtains over a radiator.

I have them long enough so we can tuck them behind the radiator in winter. Too short and you get a lot of light coming through on summer mornings, plus lost heat.

Long with detachable short thermal/ blackout linings seems to work. Aesthetically pleasing, but stops light getting in and heat getting out.

I like Somerville's solution; thermal blackout blind and decorative curtains.

In your case I'd go for roman blinds - we did too but only because the panelling around the window was decorative and I didn't want o to hide it behind open curtains.

Long... Much more stylish.
I have blinds as well so rarely shut the curtains

Short or you are heating the window when the radiator is on. Does it not look a mess to tuck a too long curtain behind the radiator? I can't imagine that being very satisfactory as the brackets the radiator hangs on would mean you can't get the curtains to hang straight.

I can't bear short curtains - they are so naff.

I would have decorative long curtains with a blind if necessary.

I have floor length curtains in all my bedrooms. It was a big mistake. Go for short ones.

We have radiator below window in living room and have gone for wooden blinds. They look very neat and you can see out without people seeing in. They also don't block radiator. We are now just about to get white ones in the bedrooms.