What length curtains?

[MariaDingbat]

I'm at an impasse with DH about new curtains for the living room. It's an odd size and hard to get ready mades that for and we can't stretch to make to measure just yet so we need to find the best ready mate ones we can. We bought a pair of 228cm drop, but the curtains end right in the middle of the radiator which I think looks awful and he things looks fine. What do you think the best place for curtains to stop here? And any suggestions on where to get some nice neutral ones?

The measurements are:
Pole to floor 250cm
Lintel to floor 225cm
Lintel to sill 170cm
Window width 216cm
Pole width 256cm

Would IKEA 145cm wide ones be too narrow? I think they'll be the perfect length but I can't get them any wider.

Either floor length (preferred) or just below the window sill/above the radiator if not possible.

For width, you ideally want around double the width of fabric as your pole (so for a 256cm pole you would want a pair of curtains, each around 250cm long. You can go down to 1.5 times the width without them looking silly though, so down to about 190cm.

If the IKEA ones are 145cm each, I think they will be too small - when closed they would be pulled almost all the way flat, which wouldn't look great.

Do you have a sewing machine? Taking up curtains isn't the hardest job in the world. Or alternatively you could take the ones you already have (that end up mid-radiator) to be taken up to below-windowsill length at a local alterations place. It would probaby cost less than another new pair of curtains.

I would move the curtain pole down nearer to the window and buy full length curtains which are 228cm.