Awoken to the wonderful sound of hundreds, perhaps thousands of singing birds, an exciting new day has dawned. Yawning, stretching and shaking away the sleep, the first stop is the kettle switch to get that all important first cuppa of the day underway. Then it's a tour of the house in the ritual that is opening all the curtains to let the light of the brand new morning come streaming in.
If it's my turn to perform the curtain opening ceremony, you can rest assured it doesn't take very long at all, I am a guy after all and pulling each curtain as far to the side as possible is really all it involves. However, if it was my turn with the curtains, there will, without fail be a secondary and far more important ceremony.
My wife will take one horrified look at all the skew-whiff curtains and set about carefully rearranging them all, sometimes closing them completely again to ensure perfect drape and hang levels are attained! You see, sometimes what us blokes don't understand (and perhaps that's a good thing) is that there is an art and a skill involved in making the home look nice.
My wife knows full well that it doesn't matter how beautiful or expensive the curtains may be, that if they are just indiscriminately pulled across the window, they might as well be just any old bits of cloth. She understands that for the curtains to attain their full potential they have to interact carefully and gently with the curtain poles. After all, without the poles, the curtains themselves would have little reason to exist and would certainly have nowhere to flourish.
So, when it comes to window decoration, accessories and adornments, the curtain poles rule! They are the king and queen of window space and deserve the respect of any home improvement guru and homemaker.
Having established the respect that is due, the world of curtain poles takes on a whole new complexion when you realise just how important they are to get right. There is so much variety and choice that decision making becomes of paramount importance. Wooden curtain poles, metal ones or bay window poles and their size are just some of the initial decisions to be made before you even go down the route of style, colour and decoration.
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