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Colo Williams
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Hanging 108" Curtains - 9 ft ceiling...Tips please
Comments (6)Hang them high and wide. I would remove the mirror because you want the open panels to lie against the wall and there shouldn't be room for much between the center panels. If this is a dining room, most people don't like to watch themselves masticate anyway. Unless doing over the top glam style in the room, puddling and breaking are usually discouraged. If you like the look, try it, but rings take the look toward casual, so a contraction with the puddling. One long rod with an additional support in the center should easily span both windows, giving you room to pull the curtains back and away from the window. Finials are an option, but you do lose that wall space with them. Buy all the panels you think you may need and experiment. Be sure you can return the ones you don't need in the end. The rod needs to look substantial enough to support the visual weight of the drapes, so you may want to experiment with that as well - returnable, of course. Try one long and then two short is you need to and vary the thickness. Get a friend to help hold things in place while you look from a distance. Hope that helps some....See MoreWhich pendants over 9ft island with 9ft ceilings
Comments (8)Thanks for the quick replies! Here are the pictures of the lights. Im not sure I have a look I’m going for, but I have looked at thousands of lights and these are the ones I liked. I want it to feel homey, but also pretty and I think the kitchen needs a pop that the lights can provide. I thought either of these would be good but when I realized how wide the Minka light is and how long the hvl esopus is, I realized I could use some help....See MoreAre 9ft ceilings high enough? Will it feel cramped at all?
Comments (15)I find the drive for higher and higher ceilings baffling. I have never yet felt cramped in a room with 8' ceilings. These were standard for much of last century. Many (most?) of us probably grew up with 8' ceilings. Anyone living in a tract-built home from before 2000 probably still has 8' ceilings. And the average height for men in the U.S. is 5' 9". So unless you play in the NBA, you'll probably have between 1.5' and 3' clearance above your head while standing. (Anecdotally, my 6'4" husband just looked at me like I was insane when I asked him if he'd ever wished we had higher ceilings. :) ) If you're making decisions strictly on an aesthetic basis, then I'd say optimal room height depends on the use and size of the room. A large room that you want to feel grand and impressive would probably benefit from a high ceiling, but it runs the risk of feeling cold and exposed. An area that you want to feeling cosy (e.g. a reading nook) could have a lowered ceiling. Sara Susanka talks about ceiling heights extensively in The Not So Big House. Higher isn't necessarily better. A 9' standard will likely do you just fine in most areas of your home....See MoreShould we put 9 ft. or 10 ft. ceilings in a new Craftsman build?
Comments (100)cpartist give excellent suggestions for how to deal with 10 foot tall kitchens, keeping the ambiance Craftsman and attractive. I will note I find 9 foot tall ceilings plenty fine for me, but go with feels comfortable to you. Although I do have a cathedral ceiling in the public part of the house.... (No, my house is not Craftsman). As someone else noted, you'll have to change your door heights and other aspects of your home to go with the increase in ceiling height - and that's not going to be cheap. Even at six foot one, I don't feel cramped in homes that have 8 foot ceilings - I was just in one (probably built in the 60s or 70s) this past Sunday (after months of not being to get out and visit folk very often at all). It was fine. But 9 doesn't affect pricing as much as 10 feet would. Please don't do without upper cabinets. You'll hurt resale, as not everyone is going to want to stop everything and remodel as soon as they move in. Even though I mostly have drawers, the lowest one is always a pain to access anyway.....See MoreColo Williams
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