How to Use IKEA KVARTAL Track Curtains In Every Room (Image credit: Country Living) IKEA products have proven their value time and time again — useful not just in the way they were originally designed, but in the endless ways people have adapted them in multiple contexts. IKEA's KVARTAL ceiling mounted curtain tracks pop up everywhere, and give us plenty of ideas for installing them throughout the home. 1. Above, Emily Henderson used the system in lieu of a regular shower curtain rod in the Country Living Home of the Year. (Image credit: Design Sponge) 2. A curtain, in this studio from Design Sponge, acts as a room divider, separating the bedroom from the rest of the living space. (Image credit: Jelanie Shop) 3. This Scandinavian home was for sale a couple of years ago. It used the curved tracks to create a closet in the bedroom. (Image credit: House Tweaking) 4. What kid wouldn't want this bunk bed hideout from House Tweaking? (Image credit: Chez Larsson)

5. Benita from Chez Larsson converted her basement into a bedroom. She used a wall of curtains to camouflage all the stored items and keep the space neat and clean. (Image credit: Janel Laban) 6. We featured Killy and Oliver's hideaway office, cleverly tucked away in their Harlem apartment, years ago. (Image credit: Patrick J. Hamilton) 7. Ann used IKEA's curtain panels to create a bed canopy of sorts. When all pushed together, they surround her sleeping space like a cozy cocoon. (Image credit: Duo Ventures) 8. Duo Ventures shows how they used the curtain tracks to hide the hot water heater in their utility room. Learn more about our finance options Kvartal panels mounted inside a sliding glass door January 1st, 2013 | Materials: May need a grinder, or the exact sized screws (sheet metal screws for metal framed doors), plus the regular Hide wallmounted bookshelf with Ikea panel curtains December 21st, 2012 | Materials: Old bookshelf from ikea, Kvartal curtain hangers, Anno Inez panel curtain Description: We have a quite small apartment, with

Old Expedit to Dressing/Storage May 5th, 2012 | Materials: EXPEDIT 2X4 AND 4X4 + KVARTAL + ANNO Description: I used my old 4X4 EXPEDIT (already hacked as a Stairway handrail to heaven! March 7th, 2012 | Materials: Kvartal ceiling fitting Description: I wanted to improve safety of stairways leading to the basement in my house byIkea Burbank Patio Furniture Hang more than curtains with a Kvartal Curtain RailWolf Pups For Sale In Dallas Texas January 26th, 2012 | Mobile Homes For Sale Near Penn Yan Ny Materials: Kvartal curtain rail, saw, drill, hammer, desk Description: Vintage desks are beautiful, but not always functional & standard “add Kvartal Shower Curtain for Dormered Bathroom

July 18th, 2011 | Materials: 2 Ikea Kvartal Corner fixtures, 2 Kvartal Wall hardware, 1 Kvartal rod, 1 DEKA Curtain wire, Saltgrund Shower curtain, Ikea’s Kvartal – A super-easy bike rack January 17th, 2011 | Materials: Kvartal Wall Fitting Description: I love Ikea’s Stolmen for building a bike rack, yet my current apartment required a Hi-tech desk frame , minimal art October 15th, 2010 | Materials: KVARTAL bottom rail Description: I was looking for a stylish, hi-tech frame that fits to interiors with minimum design My daughter likes to read in the bottom section of her KURA bunk bed. My wife saw this shower curtain rod idea on pintrest and thought our daughter would like have a private reading area away from her siblings. It worked but the curtain rod kept getting knocked down. I designed these little brackets and it hasn't fallen down since. Uses a #6 pan head wood screw.Rafts: Doesn't MatterSupports: Doesn't Matter by matt448 is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.

The Urban Garden: Low-Cost Solutions from Ikea Sold by CSTMALL and Fulfilled by Amazon. Ikea Riktig Stainless Steel Curtain Hook with Clip, 24 CountDetailsCurtain Wire Rod Set Stainless Steel, Multi-purpose, 16.5' Wire, 2 Mounting Pieces FREE Shipping on orders over $49. DetailsIkea Dignitet Stainless Steel Support/Corner Fixture for Curtain Wire FREE Shipping on orders over $49. 4.2 x 2.3 x 1 inches #2,980 in Home and Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home and Kitchen) #63 in Home & Kitchen > Kitchen & Dining > Kitchen Utensils & Gadgets > Kitchen Accessories > Refrigerator Magnets #74 in Home & Kitchen > Home Décor > Window Treatments > Draperies & Curtains Nice finish, strong clips, and they worked perfectly to create a divider in my basement, using a curtain suspended from a tension wire! Gives the bathroom a fresh look These hooks can come off the wire if you don't pull the curtain JUST right. Other than that they are exactly what I needed. I was so happy to find these on Amazon.

They are very well made and are easy to use and assemble. I use them to hang my bonnets and hair accessories in my newborn studio. Just what I was looking for to replace my verticle blinds with curtains. this are tiny !!!I used them for curtains and a tapestry and they are holding up perfectly! I have a shower without anywhere to store anything- so these hooks with clicks go on my shower curtain rings and allow me to hand my squeegee and scrufffy nearby. Cannot really write more about these except I have tons of them and keep reordering. So easy to use and very lightweight. See and discover other items: silver curtain rings with clipsOne of my lovely readers recently asked if I would write about curtain rods. What size, what colour, which finials? Wood, metal, or something else? Rods can frame a room, or they can be made to visually disappear. Generally speaking, they should be chosen with contrast in mind. Think of them like eyeliner: they're there to frame the room and give it depth, but not to command all the attention for themselves.

To my eye, slim rods look better than fat ones, so I always look for drapery rods that are close to 1". Rarely should you go thinner than 1", that's when it usually looks cheap and like you bought them from IKEA. Just buy the 1" rods at IKEA instead. Nothing wrong with buying your rods there! These rods would look better if they were closer to 1", and better still if they were black to coordinate with the ottoman legs and picture frames. Look at the dark furniture in the room when choosing a colour for your rods. The beams, accent chair, and the base of the lamp relate to the espresso rod. Here again, the thin rods are repeated in the canopy bed and the bedroom accent These rods appear to be white, which works in this mostly white room. Brushed stainless rods relate to the light fixture and grey tones in this interior. These brass rods relate to the gold tones in the room. There is very little brass in this room to relate to the rod.

The rod would also look nice in brown to tie in with the accent furniture. Sometimes, a full-length rod is unnecessary. Above, there is a panel only the right, and it cannot be drawn closed. There's probably a matching window out of frame on the left to make this asymmetrical treatment work. Notice the rod is gold, which picks up the accessories and mirrored frame. Hanging drapery on a track works if you want a clean look and don't have too much space above your window. It would have been nice if this track was painted the same colour as the ceiling. In my living room, I opted for brushed stainless rods because I already have lots of contrast and didn't need to add more by introducing black rods. I have crystal finials on my rods because they work with the glam feel of this room, but nine times out of ten, I will choose a simple ball finial. I'm not usually looking to draw attention to the finials, although a lot depends on the way the interior is decorated and how important the window treatments are to the final look and feel of the room.

Which rods are the most timeless? Go for simple and slim, and your rods will look timeless. Go flashy, chunky, and attention-grabbing, and they'll be as trendy as anything else in your house that can be described the same way. (Did you really think I would say anything other than "simple"?) I always use metal over wooden rods. Little-known fact is that wooden ones have to be turned occasionally so they don't bow, and really, do you want to add that task to your to-do list?  Should adjoining rooms have the same rods? If you can see all the windows at the same time, then yes. You might even need the same drapery between rooms if your home is very open concept. The more obvious separation there is between rooms, though, the less you need to be concerned with coordinating rods between them. In a house I'm decorating right now, we have introduced brass pendants in a kitchen that adjoins the living room. The two spaces are separate enough to allow for different rods and drapery treatments, so we will install gold rods in the kitchen to repeat the colour of the pendants, and espresso rods in the living room to repeat the colours of the floor and millwork.

HOW TO RUIN YOUR PERFECT RODS If you are selecting rods for your home, make sure you read this post on measuring. So many people get this piece wrong, and it ruins the final effect. So tell me about the drapery rods in your home. What do they relate to? I'm sure you'll have ideas I haven't covered here! How to Measure for a Curtain Rod Easy Way to Create Drama with Curtains I've just launched 3 dates for my next Specify Colour with Confidence Training, we'll be in Chicago, Toronto and Vancouver this Spring, you can register here. "Maria Killam's course was the best design course I have ever taken. Her hands-on approach and practical methodology lead me to quickly understand so much of what I had been missing about color in the past. The top two things I learned were: 1. How to differentiate between clean and dirty colors 2. How to determine the undertone of neutrals. I can never look at design the same way again and I am amazed that so many designers miss these crucial steps to introducing color in their design work."