Cafe Curtains

Cafe curtains in 100% cotton at 200 gsm with a 2 in. double-turned hem and a 1.5 in. rod pocket taking a rod to 16 mm — three drops (24, 30, 36 in.) that cover a sill mount, a two-thirds mount and a mount at the top of a lower sash. Our cafe curtains solve privacy at eye level from a street without deleting the upper-window daylight. Why cafe curtains are nearly a free lunch A café curtain covers the lower portion of a window and leaves the upper portion bare. It sounds like a compromise and it is very nearly a free lunch, because of a fact about how windows work that full-length curtains ignore: almost all the useful daylight in a room arrives through the top third of the glass, and almost all the loss of privacy happens through the middle. The Parisian bistro logic So covering the bottom half costs you very little light and buys you complete privacy at standing eye level from the street. In a ground-floor room on a pavement — a kitchen, a bathroom, a front room in a terrace — it is a better answer than any full-length curtain, and it is why every Parisian bistro on a street has them and why the style is named after that. Cafe curtains keep the ceiling line uninterrupted It also does something no other treatment does for the room itself: it keeps the ceiling line uninterrupted. A full curtain frames a window and visually shortens the wall; a café curtain leaves the top of the window and the wall above it entirely clear, which in a small room reads as considerably more space. Cafe curtains vs tier curtains — the same product If you searched for tier curtains, this is the same product. The two words are used interchangeably across the market; a tier is a café curtain, usually sold as a pair to cover a wider window, and there is no construction difference at all. We list both because pretending otherwise helps nobody. Three drops, three sash relationships Three drops as standard — 24, 30 and 36 in. — which cover a sill-height mount, a two-thirds mount and a mount at the top of a lower sash. Measure from where the rod will sit to where you want the hem: on a sash window the correct line is the meeting rail, so the curtain finishes exactly where the two sashes cross and reads as deliberate. Cloth and hem construction Cloth is 100% cotton at 200 gsm with a 2 in. double-turned hem and a 1.5 in. rod pocket taking a rod to 16 mm. 36 in. per panel; use two per window and allow 1.5× the width for gather. Alabaster, Bone, Fog Gray, Sage, Clay and Indigo. Warm wash, tumble low. Cafe curtain size guide DropSash relationship 24 in.Sill-height mount 30 in.Two-thirds mount 36 in.Mount at top of lower sash / meeting rail How to care for your cafe curtains Warm machine wash on a normal cycle Tumble low — the cotton relaxes cleanly Iron warm from the reverse for a crisp finish Skip fabric softener — dulls the crisp cotton hand Frequently asked questions Are cafe curtains and tier curtains the same thing? Yes — same product, two names. Both cover the lower half of a window. What drop cafe curtain for a sash window? Measure from where the rod will sit to the meeting rail. 36 in. is the most common. How many cafe curtain panels do I need? Two per window, at 1.5× the width, gathered on a rod. Do cafe curtains work in a bathroom? Very well — ground-floor bathroom on a street is exactly what they’re for. See our sheer cafe curtains for a bathroom with a view worth keeping. Complete the window See our linen cafe curtains, gingham cafe curtains, or sheer cafe curtains for other cloths. Match with kitchen curtains in the same window.