Is it an enormous faux pas to have curtains that are not to the floor?

[SwedishEdith]

I realise I shouldn't be bothered but, clearly, I am.

Off the shelf ones either end below window sill, halfway between sill and floor or are too long so would need taking up which I'm trying to avoid doing . It's in a bedroom no-one will see. There's nothing below the window to "justify" the lazy choice.

Daisy that's just reminded me we used to do that as kids. My DPs obviously had better curtain rails than I have as the whole lot would fall down if DD did that.

Daisy, that's the reason mine are short too. Ds1's has pulled down three curtain rails so far, and the walls are made of crumbly stuff, so that I'm running out of places to drill new holeand.

(Holes, not holeand)

ENORMOUS faux pas. Huge!

I dislike half length curtains. They look really weird if they're not to the floor.

However, it's my issue and I am odd about my surroundings.

Well I like curtains that are just below the sill. Floor length ones sound weird to me unless the window goes down to the floor.

Wow, things you learn on Mumsnet. I had no idea that people had curtains all the way to the floor (or longer!) on normal size windows. Clearly I'm out of touch with fashion in home decor.

Sill length looks mean and the proportions look all wrong. The point of floor length is to furnish the room rather than have a purely functional scrap of fabric to keep the light out. Look in any soft-furnishings book or ask a curtain maker. Exception is cottage-style windows.

So how long has floor length curtains been a 'thing' for then? Fairly sure I've never seen it. Maybe I just don't go around many houses!

I had absolutely no idea floor length curtains were " the thing "to have,
(unless of course your windows are floor length). None of my curtains come very far below the cill and I've never noticed it in houses I've been to. The only exception I can think of is my parents 1970's house - which has full height windows . I must must be extremely old fashioned!

I was pondering this the other day for DC bedroom and have decided shorter ones are going to come back soon, well, in next few years anyway, especially light cotton ones. It's a bit like jeans imho, everyone wears skinny ones and other ones look wrong, then they start to look right and then BAM! Skinny ones are ovah unless you are my mum (stylish 60-something but still) and so it goes on. (NB don't this has fully happened yet but it's defo imminent)

Anyway my point is that we are possibly approaching peak long curtains so the time is ripe to go for shorter. You will be ahead of the curve.

How things change. My gran would have assumed anyone with curtains that didn't "fit" the window had bought readymade rather than far classier made to measure

If your radiators are below the windows then regardless of fashionable length, you need sill length curtains. Or blinds and long curtains that are always open merely for decoration.

Made to measure usually means down to the floor; anything less looks off the peg. Ot's mot a 'thing'; I bought my first 'how to make curtains' book in the eighties and it was presented as standadd practice then - as it slways has bedn and still is, if you're a curtain person.

I'm sure I read somewhere that curtains should either be below sill or floor length so I've always abided by that. I would never cover a radiator with a floor length curtain either.

I have a real thing against sill length curtains so if I don't want floor length then I go for roman blinds which I much prefer generally