Wooden curtain pelmets?

[teaandakitkat]

I've had to replace a curtain rail and for long and complicated reasons the curtains don't hang right and you can see about an inch of the top of the rail. There's nothing really I can do to fix that short of remake the curtains.

I think I'm going to need to put up a pelmet.

Are they really old fashioned now? How can I make it look ok?

I've had the curtains so long there's no chance of getting the same fabric so they will need to be wooden.

The Ines that come up on Pinterest look quite old fashioned but it has to be better than curtains hanging all wrong?

It sounds like the pelmet could be quite shallow, just enough to cover the bit you don't want visible.

Paint the pelmet to match the ceiling and put an LED strip light behind it which will focus attention on the curtain instead of the pelmet.

I quite like a wooden pelmet! As long as you paint it the same colour as the ceiling it will look nice

Is it the plastic curtain track you can see? Can you do anything with a fabric covered lath in toning fabric? Or a minimal pelmet?

If the curtains have deep double hems you could steal a few cm of fabric from the bottom of them to cover the strip.

I think it's ok if the pelmet is wood rather than fabric, nothing fancy (no curves or lights) and painted to match the wall behind. Keep it minimal.

Jali do decorative mdf pelmets which you paint to match your decorc- they are lovely.