Curtain hanging in new house - help

[Cherry85]

Hi guys,

7 months pregnant with baby number one and just moved house. Not sure if its baby brain or exhaustion but cannot fathom what size curtains to get 🙈🙈

If the top of our window is just under 2m above the floor.... do I go for 220cm curtains and put the rail 20cm above or 187cm drop and have a 13 cm gap at the bottom?

Thank you

For aesthetics, definitely 220cm – the higher pole will make ceilings look higher, and floor-length is ::Italian chef's kiss:: A 13cm gap would look awful. Like a mistake, or when people wear shoes without peeling the stickers off.

However. Have you thought about when the baby starts crawling, cruising, climbing… toddler times with felt-tip pens... Sill-length is less glam and gets sneered at on here but it is practical. Floor-length is basically a jungle gym.

^^ nailed it.
Floor length or just below sill length.
Three quarter length just looks like you've put any old curtains up that don't fit.

Draw a plan of your windows, size of recess, Drop from top to floor, top to sill, plus distance above recess to the ceiling /coving.
Somewhere like John Lewis should be able to give you good advice.
If there are any poles tracks in place, you need to measure from the eye of the runner / ring if there are any , plus distance from top ot pole / track to floor / sill.
If there is no pole up and you've got space. you can sometime put he pole in postiion that ready mades will fit.
Otherwise you need Made to measure (dear!) of get ready mades altered (much cheaper)