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I’m currently planning a living room project and I’m interested wave/ripple fold curtains.

The overall window (plus the sides I want to be covered) width is approximately 390cm, and I’ll be installing a ceiling-mounted track. However, I don’t intend for the curtains to ever close. Instead, I’m aiming for a purely decorative look with stationary wave curtain panels dressed permanently open at each side. Ideally, I’d like the curtains to dress to around 160cm total width when stacked open (approximately 80cm per side), leaving the centre section of the window permanently uncovered.

The made to measure website references wave ripple fold curtains at 87.5% fullness, so I wondered: Would ordering based on the approximately 160cm coverage I need in this scenario cause any issues in terms of ‘fullness’?

What I mean is, I don’t necessarily need it to ‘look’ like there is enough fabric up there that they could close, just enough that it doesn’t look obvious that they wouldn’t or that it doesn’t look like there’s only like 3 waves or something 😂

Any thoughts? Just to clarify in the 8 years I had the previous curtains up they were never ever closed (we have blinds) and I don’t have the budget to buy the full whack!

In the last 12 months I have achieved/received the following:

- got registered with an NHS dentist approximately 2 minutes from my front door
- received 2 same day appointments at said dentist to get a tooth extracted (free of charge as I was pregnant!!?) and given a future appointment in July for checkup/hygiene
- delivered my daughter in the Royal Hospital under the care of two midwives (who can only be described as angels on earth), and came home with her less than 12 hours after she was born
- had at least 4 same day GP appointments with the same GP and was taken seriously every time
- got my son a place in a nursery school really close to my home (even though he was an underage applicant, so he does another year come September)
- got my son quickly into speech and language therapy again 2 minutes from our home (…he did suddenly just learn about 900 words right before the appointment to make me look like a maniac but that’s besides the point)
- had my car stolen (not ideal and absolutely the most mental thing), but, had the police out to my home same day, had the insurance pay out the exact price I’d paid for the car a year prior, and ultimately had the person caught and prosecuted!

When the system works, it’s absolutely brilliant. All of it totally free. And no I’m not sharing what town I’m in lest ye’s all slabber at me for living in a shithole!