Hi Claire:

Have you seen in recent magazines where the curtain is going to be stationary on a window and the rod is a "half rod"? For example, if a window is 40" across, you would have the rod regularly mounted to one side with a finial at the outside end. Going towards the middle of the window, the rod would end on a bracket but without a finial and would go only 20" inward. Does that make sense? And would that be something that would work for you? I'm going to research some of my magazines and see if I can find what I am referring to. The look is beautiful, and works especially well if you are never going to draw the panels.

Hi again:

Well I did find one of my "save for later" magazine pictures and it is in Traditional Home Holiday 2000; page 78, but I cant find a link for the photo on the internet, and I'm not sure my scanner will work well enough to try to post it. If you can get your hands on a copy of this, you'll see what I'm describing. Hope this helps!

Angeldog,

Thank you so much for your help, sorry to not get back here sooner.

I've been really working on this drapery project and although I liked the short rod concept I've decided to go with a long rod that is custom cut, this way there won't be a seam.

Thanks again...Claire