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Staging Diva Home Staging Tip: Low Ceilings? Drapes Too Short?

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Home Stager with Staging Diva / Six Elements Inc.

I almost always use pre-made drapery panels with tie backs to quickly dress up a window without blowing the budget. It's a great idea to hang drapes as high as possible to make the ceiling look higher.  But, what do you do when you can't buy pre-made drapery panels that are long enough?

Buy fabric and have someone sew a coordinated border onto the bottom of the pre-made panels.

This is such a simple sewing project, you can probably get a dry cleaner to do it for you.

I've also been known to use two-sided tape in a pinch!

 

If you've already got exceptionally high ceilings, your drapery rod can be hung about half way been the top of the trim and the ceiling. 

Debra Gould

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva

Home Staging expert Debra Gould has been a published writer on the subject of marketing and how to grow your small business since the 1980s. More recently she completed:

The Staging Diva has trained over 600 others in the US, Canada, Australia, England, Portugal, Italy, South Africa, Wales and New Zealand to start and grow their own house staging businesses. She brings a unique perspective to training and the business of home staging, based on her experience of growing her own home staging company Six Elements Inc. Home Staging, from scratch (not as a sideline to selling real estate), being a self-supporting entrepreneur since 1989 and having her MBA in Marketing.

Val Allocco
Staged 2 Sell New York & Long Island - Northport, NY
HSE; ASHSR - Home Stager, for Manhattan, Brooklyn & Long Island

Hi Debra,

I'm with you about using store-bought drapery panels and i pick them up every time that I find them on sale.  Now you see, I knew about adding fabric to the panel in order to add length, but never thought to actually do that while on a job!  Thanks for the reminder!

VAL

Sep 22, 2007 03:48 PM
Lori Kim Polk
Premiere Home Staging : Home Staging Services - Roseville, CA
Home Stager - Roseville, Sacramento
Love the two sided tape or the ironing tape.  We aren't much for window treatments out here in NCal, but I have used these in a pinch ;)
Sep 22, 2007 04:40 PM
Susan Peters
Dove Realty Inc. - Seattle, WA
The Better it Looks the Better it Sells

Debra,

I totally agree with you. Hanging drapes as high as you can, in a lackluster home, ads almost an architectual element where none existed before.

I'm always on the look out for cheap 90" panels and whenever I find them I buy everyone in sight. I picked up 20 pairs in a neutral camelish color at Tuesday Morning the other day. They were under $30 a pair. IKEA has even longer ones. I've used the border technique too.

Sep 22, 2007 05:22 PM