We have a fairly old house and the previous owners installed a curtain
track rail in both our bay windows. This was great as they left the hooks
that fitted it behind. All has been well until that is in recent years
the now very old hooks have started to break and we have fewer and fewer
hooks to hang the curtains up with resulting in badly hung and difficult to
close curtains.
Modern hooks would not fit around the rather wide curtain rail and with
fewer hooks, the curtains were hanging on about half the number they really
needed.
The obvious solution was to replace the entire rail with a modern one that
would take modern hook sizes. However, that is expensive and not
something we really want to invest in at this point in time.
We also found curtain rings that would go around the rail but as they were
solid circles it would have meant taking down and refitting the entire rail,
which is time-consuming and again was not something we wanted to do at this
time.
So we needed a solution that was effective, looked good and was reasonably
easy to fit. I knew there must be something out there.
Eventually, I found these solid, well made and robust open and close
curtain rings that actually open and close so you can easily fit them around
the track or curtain pole.
They are brilliant as they can be used all the way along a curtain track or
pole. You simply clip the ring around the pole or track with the small hole
hanging down.
You attach the small white curtain clips to the curtains first in the usual
way, then easily hang the curtains by slipping the white hooks through the
curtain ring's smaller hole.
The result is a sturdy fix and smooth closing curtains. I do find the more
we use the better the fit of the curtains, so we space them every few
inches, especially for heavy curtains.
They are also useful if an existing curtain ring has broken and then
instead of taking the whole pole down you can simply clip this over the pole
and refit the curtain.
Some open and close curtain rings have a clip attached instead of the
smaller hole so you can simply clip the curtains onto it. It all depends on
what you need and prefer.
We went for a lovely antique bronze colour but they do come in different
colours to fit most styles of home decor. I have seen them in bronze, silver, gold, black
and white.
These open and close curtain rings can also be used on tab top curtains.
I do not think they are designed for this purpose but I tried them and
they do the job just fine! Simply clip them around the fabric tab and then
close them around the pole or track. So this is ideal if you love a design
or colour of a tab top curtain but do not want, or are not able to take
down the pole to fit them across it.
We looked for curtain rings open and close that are well made and very
sturdy as curtains can be heavy. When they are pulled back and forth to open
and close several times a day it can put stress on the rings. Also, hanging
curtains can be hard work and not something I want to be doing for repairing
broken rings every few months!
We discounted curtain rings made of plastic or that looked weak and flimsy
as we would prefer to buy good quality that will last, rather than very
cheap ones that need replacing every few months.
You do need to apply a decent amount of pressure on each ring to open and
close it but the fit is good and none of them have opened on their
own.
They slide back and forth on the rail very well and smoothly and look much
better than the old curtain track hooks that were originally
there. So we find these open and close curtain rings a very inexpensive and easy
to use solution to our curtain hanging issues and one I will certainly use
in any home.
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