Curtains for French doors are beautiful; these sheer curtains offer a certain level of privacy and help to slightly reduce the amount of light allowed to pass through your French doors. There are several unique fabrics for French door drapes, and these doors can be decorated in a variety of ways that make your French door treatment unique and eye-catching.
You might use sheer curtains for French doors to create a traditional window treatment for your doors. You can get semi-opaque panels and you can hang them from two curtain rods that run parallel to one another. One rod is positioned at the top portion of the window and the second rod is positioned at the bottom of the window’s edge with the appropriate hardware.
You have to measure the window size on your French doors to get custom made French door curtains. You will sometimes want the panel of the curtains to be two to four times wider than your window’s width; this will allow you to gather up the fabric on the rod and to create interesting folds.
If you want to stray from the traditional look, you can set up your curtains to have an hourglass appearance as well. With the hourglass setup you would still hang the curtain as you would with the traditional French door style, but you would use a curtain tie to bring the curtain together in the middle. You can also give your door a layered hourglass look too.
This is where you have one curtain layered on top of another before you tie it off in the middle of the curtain. If you are serious about finding curtain ideas for French doors then you can give consideration to getting a flounced top panel or you can set up the hourglass style window treatment so that the top half of the treatment is a different color from the bottom; here you can mix metallics with lace, contrasting solid colors, or coordinating fabrics to create a seriously intriguing look.
Sheer curtains for French doors come in an array of lovely fabrics. You can choose from cotton, mottled, or printed sheer fabric, lace, metallic fabric, opaque fabric, burnished sateen fabric, embroidered fabric, small prints, and there are even children’s fabrics that can be used for your curtains. If you are looking for maximum privacy, you can use curtains that are mottled, metallic, or fabric with prints. You will want to match your curtain’s coloring and style with surrounding decor.