How to Draw Back a Sheer Curtain

Sheer curtains add a translucent depth to windows. Draw sheer curtains to let in your favorite light, to make a room darker or to filter the view from outside. How you draw a curtain creates a variety of visually pleasing lines to frame your windows and coordinating draperies. Play with aesthetic touches to a room by trying different ways of drawing sheer curtains.

Curtain tieback hooks
Curtain tiebacks
Curtain holdbacks

Instructions

- 1
  Pull back sheer curtains all the way to the sides to let all the light into a room. Drag each curtain to its outer side along the curtain rod. Allow them to hang straight down, alone, beneath a heavier curtain.
- 2
  Leave your sheer curtains in place on the curtain rod while pulling back the curtain at mid-length with tiebacks coordinated to your curtains. Screw a curtain tieback hook midway down the wall, along the outer side of each sheer curtain. Use a tieback hook that matches your curtain rod. Hang a tieback loop from each hook. Wrap the tieback around the curtain and pull the curtain back. Attach the remaining tieback loop to the tieback hook.
- 3
  Use a curtain holdback to keep your sheer curtains drawn back and in place. Use a decorative curtain holdback to match your curtain rod around which to drape a sheer curtain. Screw the hook into the wall at the point where you want the curtain to pull against the wall. Pull the curtain around the hook.

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