The added weight of the material requires you to invest more effort into the hanging process.
Hanging heavy curtains on 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.
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.
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.
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 heavy curtains in drywall needs to be done with a fixing that can take the weight of the curtains.
Depending on what you re hanging or mounting you may want to use a specific kind of drywall anchor and there are several to choose from.
Hang the curtains on 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.
Geefix are heavy duty drywall anchors so ideal for mounting curtain rods in drywall for heavy curtains or drapes.
Geefix drywall anchors pack of 4.
Then you screw into the anchor so everything stays in place.
A drywall anchor goes between the screw and the drywall biting into the drywall much more effectively than a screw would.
Hanging curtain rods is fairly simple and you don t need many tools to do it.
How to attach a curtain rod to drywall.