postum, Thanks for your input. My problem is, I like everything be it neutrals, colorful, contemporary, traditional, etc. lol. The door opening is 95" x 95" with 2-1/2 inch of trim all around. JCPenney salesperson gave me 100 inches of fabric height so I will have 2-1/2 inches of fabric above the trim. The rod won't have any rings. She said it's easier to slide the curtain without the rings. The curtain will be attached directly to the traverse rod. I'll tell her to go a bit higher. Yes, I do plan to get a longer rod so that the drapes move away from the window. I'll have 6-1/2 inches of fabric beyond the 95" on the left and 10" on the right (door opens and slides to the right) for a total of 113" of fabric. There will be some overlap against the glass though because I don't want to hit the chair. I have 64 inches from the side of the door opening to the wall where the chair is. The chair is placed at a 45 degree angle in the corner. About the liner. I just wanted a second opinion. I never got custom curtains before. Thanks. :) oceanna, All the furniture have the same cherry finish: 4 poster bed, a tall armoire, a 5 drawer chest, 2 nightstands, and the lingerie chest in the corner. Bedding is all white including the duvet cover. There are no pictures or anything else for inspiration. My bedding also includes some stripes and florals. What complicates matters is that some of the floral stuff have a white background. The custom floral chair slipcover has to be replaced because it strunk. I might go for neutral there too. I want the bed to be the focal point. The reason I wanted a neutral light ivory curtain is that I can I can change out my duvet cover and shams without worrying about the curtain color. And the ivory curtain will hopefully contrast nicely with some paint I have in mind. Complication #2 is the tan carpet, which I happen to love but it's hard to decorate around that color. It's new and came with the house. Having very white walls looks very harsh in my house and looks much whiter than in the pic. Nothing seems to look good against it. Ivory against white. Dark against white. That's what I meant by clash. It may be the wrong word to use. lol. I know I'm approaching this the wrong way. I have to get protection from the sun soon. I only had 30 days to close and didn't have time to choose paint colors first. I could always change out the ivory curtain and rotate it with something else. The only thing in the house that inspires me greatly is my tile floor throughout the rest of the house: a lookalike travertine porcelain tile by Daltile, color is Pietre Vecchie. Was thinking of a Tuscany look with faux painted walls but I'm getting white shutters for most of my windowss so I guess the Tuscany look is out. The mood I seek is definitely calm and soothing so I guess I'll stick to the neutrals and try to work in whatever bedding I have. When I get the chance, I'll post better pics which will include the entire room and the other side of the room. I tried looking at the photo galleries but I couldn't find anything. As I'm typing this, I just pulled up the iVillage Home Inspirations Gallery on another screen. Is this what you meant? It's very helpful with great pictures. Thanks so much for the tips. I'll be back with more pics of the room and some of my bedding stuff too! lindybarts, Thanks a bunch for the photo. I'm going to learn how to do that too. So resourceful of you. :) The colors do look good, don't they? From the photo, I do prefer the darker shade but DH likes lighter colors because it gets so hot out here. I have to go back to the store and finalize my order soon. If I go darker, it might limit my choices of paint color. Thanks again. One last question. Sheers or no sheers? On a separate traverse rod? Will it be overkill for my sliding door? Or should I keep it simple with a single curtain?

update on the plan! Shannon- thanks- I love Candice too! If I weren't using a solid color sheer in the center of the door I would definetly consider doing a solid vertical stripe up edges. The fabric on these panels will never be closed completely. Tam184- The seamstress asked me to describe the pattern and I spoke with her about "matching the repeat" (all new terms for me!) so I am assuming she knows how to do this. She said she would come out to the house and measure the door herself because I was a novice with giving her concrete measurements for sewing. Ajsmama- This is a local women here in Florida that the fabric store recommended. They gave me 2 names and warned me that one was a little bit more expensive, but that both were very good. As I said before, I live in a pretty small town. I have a feeling prices vary depending on where you live. Have you checked locally? I bought the fabric yesterday. After all of this information ( thank you all a million times over) I have decided to have them sewn professionally. The fabric was pretty expensive for my budget, and I don't want to risk ruining it. It will mean waiting a bit longer, but I have been in the house for 6 years without curtains for the door, so what's another month or two! I would rather wait to save up to have it done properly. Thanks again, and will post pics as soon as they are done!

Dissenter here, although my reason is that my windows are more obviously different sizes, on the front it is 63in long to sill but 120ish wide. the other window on the side is 120 wide but 24 inches to sill. ( very old house can you tell) I have valances on both and lace to the sill on both. of course the jabot hits the sill on the short window. I do have an old upright grand in front of the short window now so it does look ok. Long way to go to say I think it depends on how your furniture is arranged and what may interfere with full length. I have radiators in front of the 63 window. I also don't think 10 inches will make that much of a difference and would be easy to disguise with a table or chair in front of the shorter window. oh my room is the dining room if that helps.

What's a drapist and why would they want to cover the rod if you're using a rod and rings? Normally, you'd want the rod to show if you're using rings. A professional would never use pleater tape because custom would require them to figure pleat and space figures, which would be different for each job, depending on several factors. So, sewn in pleats (I guess what you mean by pre stitched?) would look better.