{"id":6574,"date":"2022-09-18T13:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T13:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2022-12-31T01:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T01:51:37","slug":"home-diy-curtain-poles-supports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6574","title":{"rendered":"HOME\/DiY: Curtain Poles & Supports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New draught-excluder curtain over the lounge to kitchen door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Teresa\u2019s been on at me for some time, asking that I put up more curtain poles and supports, mostly for doorway draught exclusion porpoises. Oh, and Teresa is making the curtains. So it\u2019s a joint effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we also have he added economic impetus of looking to rent a room, and needing to get the property as a whole up to snuff for sharing with a rent paying tenant. So we need, amongst a zillion other things, curtains in the bathroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I already did a draught-excluding curtain pole thingy in the kitchen some while ago. And I want all the ones I make around our home to share a design, which is based, I guess, at least to some degree, on the classic \u2018ogee\u2019 profile. Incidentally, I\u2019m talking about the two pole supporting doodads!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making these in the workshop is fun. Although that said, my workshop is in such an awful mess it\u2019s not that<\/em> much fun! There\u2019s another ongoing project; the new shed, finishing the damn thing, and getting stuff moved into it! Using the router to create the profiles \u2018caps\u2019 was especially gratifying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did want them all to have curved grooves (is that \u2018fluting?\u2019) in the ogee profiles, so you\u2019d get that classic, er\u2026 classical look, of fluted verticals surmounted by profiled \u2018pediment\u2019 (?) tops. The result is, as Teresa put it, a bit pedestal-like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to paint all the house woodwork in oil-based gloss white. I just feel it\u2019s a classic timeless style, and that it works well in Victorian properties like ours. So I\u2019m doing so with these, inc. the poles, which are 22mm hardwood dowels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The older yet unfinished kitchen\/back door one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Attaching the ornamental pole supports can be tricky , as getting wall-plugs in to walls reliably in old (or is that any<\/em>?) homes is a challenge. Then there\u2019s the depth of wood to get through in the wider top part. I\u2019ve developed a method I\u2019m happy with. And so far it\u2019s worked well enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see on these thicker and as yet unplugged and uncapped kitchen ones the holes for the screws. These get filled with dowels, or just some filler. These kitchen ones are ticker than the others. So the ornamental caps will need to be bigger. Not gotten around to making them as yet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next sequence of four pictures shows how, despite masking around these fixtures, I tend to get white paint on the walls. And in this instance (in the lounge the original paint colour – Egyptian Cotton – still matches), rather annoyingly, the paint colour, Asian Silk, which is literally from the same paint pot,<\/em> doesn\u2019t match! Gaaah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later the same day\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not so easy to see, on account of the use of transparent shower curtain (fabric curtain eventually get mouldy and disgusting!), with all the daylight flooding in! At least the blotchiness of the touched up paint is less noticeable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A double layer of transparency protects our modesty.*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* Or our neighbours delicate sensitivities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teresa\u2019s been on at me for some time, asking that I put up more curtain poles and supports, mostly for doorway draught exclusion porpoises. Oh, and Teresa is making the curtains. So it\u2019s a joint effort. And we also have he added economic impetus of looking to rent a room, and needing to get the … <\/p>\n

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