Obviously where you hang your curtain rod will have an impact.
Hang heavy curtain rod drywall.
Tips and suggestions designers and decorators have access to specialty curtain rods designed for heavy drapery which are not readily available in retail outlets.
These wouldn t work on a door window or someplace that did not have a wooden trim.
This quick guide is designed to help you learn how to hang curtain rods in drywall but the same basic process applies with only minor variations if you re mounting your hardware on another surface.
Hanging curtain rods is fairly simple and you don t need many tools to do it.
Brands like kwik hang and others make a curtain rod that taps into place behind the wood trim surrounding your window.
Hang the curtains on the rod.
Geefix drywall anchors pack of 4.
The curtain curtain rod combo is heavy enough that in an ideal situations your brackets would go into wood.
But since we were just replacing our old bedroom curtains when we wrote that post we skipped the crucial step of actually hanging the curtain rods themselves.
Geefix are heavy duty drywall anchors so ideal for mounting curtain rods in drywall for heavy curtains or drapes.
Run a stud detector over the wall where you will hang the curtain.
Lightly mark the studs with a pencil so you can find them later.
If you re purchasing ready made drapes it will be a bit of a balancing act to determine what length to get and where to hang the rod.
Last fall we shared our trick for hanging affordable ikea curtains so they look a lot more expensive than their 14 price tag per panel would suggest across an entire house you can save thousands with that trick these curtains alone.
How to attach a curtain rod to drywall.
Drywall may look solid enough but it won t hold a screw and if you mount a curtain rod improperly you ll end up with a sagging curtain and a hole to patch.
In the typical recently built house this means getting your screws through the drywall and into a stud.
No drill curtain rod brackets.
Another type of nailless hanging system for curtain rods is a no drill bracket.