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Bay Window Curtain Poles - do IKEA sell them?

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Blu · 11/08/2006 22:05

I need some cheaply and urgently. We are about to start marketing our house, and the Estate Agent says it is too scruffy to photograph

But it's true.

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LowlyWorm · 11/08/2006 22:06

In short, not as far as I'm aware. You can buy some quite cheaply from Dunelm Mill if you have one close to you?

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Blu · 11/08/2006 22:21

Don't think we have Dunelm Mill - but i'll try looking it up, thanks LowlyWorm.

Anywhere else?

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Blu · 11/08/2006 22:23

Or any other cheap and easy way to put curtains in a bay wiondow? (you can see now why our house is so scruffy!!)
DP says curtain track from Woolies, but I'm concerned that that means proper expensive curtains with hooks and everything. It can't look too chintzy, either.

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fairydust · 11/08/2006 22:25

argos

MissyCocker · 11/08/2006 22:28

Go with the curtain track and some cheap curtains, I bought a bay track from Dunelm mill last month, and it was still £50.

You could also just put up a straight pole in front of the bay, and tie long curtains back IYSWIM?

lol at the cheek of your estate agent...is that house doctor woman not around these days?!?

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Blu · 11/08/2006 22:31

To be fair to our agent, we still have the cheap wooden blinds the previous owner installed - except that now they are all skew-wiff. It looks like a student sqaut, I cannot deny it!

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LowlyWorm · 12/08/2006 07:30

My bay track was about £16 from Dunelm Mill - it was in a big coil and said something to the effect of "up to 8 metres of window!" and due to the space available (about an inch!) it was the only one I could use. Glad really, if the other option was £50!!

You can buy some stuff online - it will do the same job as the stuff I bought, but as Fairydust says, you can probably get the same stuff from Argos too. If you do buy online, make sure you get all the fixtures and fittings you will need on the previous page.

A tip: Mine which is also only suitable for light to medium weight curtains, holds up 4 cotton velvet curtains (about as heavy as you can get) as I used twice as many fixings as recommended and it takes the weight admirably! I'm telling you this as my gorgeous floor to ceiling cream cotton velvet curtains cost me £8 from a car boot and you won't get much cheaper than that if you are looking for cheap!!

noddyholder · 12/08/2006 07:34

I bought one last week it is hopeless and am now having to get another!

LowlyWorm · 12/08/2006 07:34

I retract that bit about buying the fixtures and fittings - these come complete. Doh!

LowlyWorm · 12/08/2006 07:34

Where from Noddy? Dunelm?

noddyholder · 12/08/2006 07:39

Ikea It is black aluminium poles with corner bits which join them You can't put brackets on the corners otherwise you can't pull the curtains and without them they just sag!I am now getting a local metal worker to make one!

LowlyWorm · 12/08/2006 07:44

I know the ones you mean! Hopeless aren't they?

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Blu · 12/08/2006 08:24

Hmmm. I have found a bay window track in Argos for £29 - I wonder if that has the same problems as your hopeless IKEA one, NoddyHolder?

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LowlyWorm · 12/08/2006 08:37

this one?
It has 5 brackets which suggest 2 at each end, 2 at each elbow and 1 in the middle. It means that you have to have 4 curtains and have 2 in the middle all the time. That might make your window look small....?

fisil · 12/08/2006 08:59

I am sitting in a room with a bay window and IKEA curtain rods right now. We bought three of their cheapy curtain rods and put them up. We then have four seperate curtains - one on each of the short sides and two across the big window. They were from IKEA too. All very cheap.

noddyholder · 12/08/2006 09:46

It is ok if you want 4 curtains but if you want a pair it is hopeless.

serenity · 12/08/2006 10:06

IKEA ones are only good if you have a 90degree bay window anyway Blu. There is a system that allows one set of curtains, but it isn't the extendable INDEX ones (and in defence can I just point out the incredibly cheap price, and wonder how the hell you can expect miracles?) The Kvadrant (now called Kvartal in store) range can be attached to the ceiling, so giving you a continuous track BUT has to be 90degrees again, and have to use curtains with tape and hooks (which you say you don't want) We do cheapish curtains with tape, but unless the width of your bay windows is less than 2.8m, you'll need more than one pair.

Mow I've bored you all to tears, I will go

I thank you.

(Blu, come to the Xmas meet up!)

noddyholder · 12/08/2006 19:07

They need to work regardless of price we were assured they would but they are completely useless so not really cheap as I have thrown the money away,I think they would be ok in a straight run for light cheap curtains so am going back to habitat the price is a tiny bit more but the quality is far superior and dare I say it more stylish

SoupDragon · 12/08/2006 20:43

I made a pole out of copper pipe once but that was a square bay.

You can buy rings for your pole called "passing rings" or something - they're C shaped and pass over the brackets.

BLACKSMITHY · 07/09/2006 09:17

It's probably too late now, but for future reference please see www.blacksmithcollection.com. We've been supplying bay poles for over twelve years and make them to measure using measurements you can take at home quite easily. We do black and stainless steel. Prices start from £110 for a 2 bend bay with up to 2m of pole, 20 passing rings, 5 brackets and 2 finials. We also do long poles, a stainless DIY bay pole system (award winning), drapery arms and accessories.

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