It's been 6 years since you made this, and I'm SO glad I found it! Just yesterday I saw the RITVA curtains at IKEA, now with a 65" long option (and they're so popular they were out of stock) and your explanations/descriptions have really helped me understand all the possibilities. For you and anyone seeing this, I've also learned about C-rings (just like the rings you used but shaped like a C rather than and O) for hanging drapes when there's a bracket in the middle of the rod. Many thanx!

I realize this is an old video, but wanted to let you know I have come back to watch several times. Just shopped for my curtains at Ikea and without your video I would have been clueless. Thank you.

12 years later and this is still helpful! Thank you! :D

Thank you so much for this video! These are things we are not taught in schools. My curtains are now up and look great because of you x

I have the same white IKEA curtains in my bedroom and I am not happy with the way they look, but you've given me several new options to try. Thank you!!!

The quality of how we vlog is so different. Awesome for you being a pioneer! 😊

This is so helpful! I’ve been looking for all the different hanging options! Thank you for explaining so well and having all the examples!

Thanks so much, Jenna. I bought curtains on Overstock and they had a strip along the top of the curtain with a long pocket, strips along the back every 2 inches or so and eyelet holes. Didn't know what all of them were for. Your video was very helpful. Thanks for taking time out to do the video .. for the 920th time.

I end up finding his helpful video EVERYTIME I launder my curtains and then can't remember how to re-install the hooks. Thank you! 1 million views, that's just bananas!

You literally answered every question I had RIGHT as it entered my brain. Fantastically informative video. Thank you!

btw, another method that I ended up doing was turning the pleater hooks backwards so that I could still use the rod pocket fiber things. No rings yet I still get a deep pleat. The hook part of the pleater hook is hidden in the pleat. Allowed me to hide the pole and still get the very formal look. Thank you!

Jenna you leave an excellent informative video on the curtain hanging choices. Your voice is very pleasant, you're organized, very thorough, well spoken, and adorable in style, but not annoying or cutesy. I'm an older retired educator, but YOU taught me a lot without wasting my time! LOVED it. (this is my first comment and I surf cyberspace a LOT!)

Wow, this video was amazing. Thank you so much Jenna for making everything so clear and easy. And your personality and sincerity is so refreshing. Take care of yourself and thanks again.😊

Thank you for this excellent video. I did not realize that IKEA curtains were so versatile! And thank you for sharing your beautiful home and other ways to hang curtains.

I know this is an older video but it helped me so much. Thanks!

I love how she is such a mom making sure we got all styles! So nice. Thank you, I got it!

Thanks so much! I chose to use the method you used in your bedroom. It actually solved 2 problems for me...how to make my ring clips look better/more formal with my curtains...and how to lift my curtains a little higher to get them off the floor. I'm so happy...my curtains look way better now! Thanks!

Hi Jenna, Great video, you taught me many tricks. I love to make a pretty home for my family as obviously you do too. You seem like such a lovely, dear young woman. I thought your pronunciation of curtain was incredibly charming and I cannot believe people made such comments. I wish you were my neighbor and we could share a cup of coffee and you could give me decorating ideas. Keep up the great work as a mom and a woman! Post more ideas! Lisa

Je suis française 🇫🇷 Et c’est une vidéo vraiment vraiment utile, merci beaucoup ! This is a very useful video thank you !

This has been so helpful! Thank you :) I was hanging my Ikea ones completely wrong and couldn't figure out why they just didn't look right!

you're the best thank you! You made my life so much easier. I bought these pleater hooks and was using them ALL WRONG until your video. Many thanks!

Thx for all the ideas ! It’s now 2020 (and your kids are now 8 yrs older !) and I’m just now buying the white Ritva curtains. I want them on aaaaaaall of my windows in every room - family room, kitchen, dining room, living room, master bedroom and sitting room, and 3 other bedrooms. That’s a lotta curtains lol but I love them. And these ideas are great because I may now decide to hang the curtains differently in the dining room and living room versus the family room & kitchen & bedrooms. Now I just hope that I can still get my hands on these IKEA white panels ..

Give the lady a break. She is demonstrating curtains not entering a competition on language or speech. Thank you for the video and your time Jenna Qu. You are helping to show the way for us to have better curtains. Much appreciated.

Hi Jenna. Thanks for the detailed vid.. much appreciated. I truly like the different styles, especially the pleater hooks with the rings. My decor dilemma is now solved. BTW, love the layout of your home...also excellent idea showing curtains in different rooms. Well done!

I learned from this, thank you. I enjoyed your appreciation of the attractiveness of the various styles -- creating and enjoying beauty is what this is all about.

you answered every question I've ever had about curtains. Ikea should pay you because we are all just guessing about how to hang their curtains lol. Thank youuuu!

Finally, a nice video with different styles of drapes! Thank you much!!

Very helpful. I hv an older window in a very tight powder room. I want to elongate the window but I barely hv space to put a rod up. Now with the hidden rod method, I can use my ikea clip rings and do a no-sew method and get the fabric that’s been sitting in my closet for nearly a year, finally hung. 👏🏼

Thank you so much for this video! I just purchased curtains, rings and pleat clips from IKEA, but was having a hard time understanding how to use them and ran across your video. Great content!

Ooooh I love the fabric on your sofas!!! That's like what I want for my bathroom curtains I am going to make....er.....TRY to make. lol And I love your choice of fabric for your dining room.. The wall color in your dining room is the color I chose for my boudoir, lol, and the curtains,fabric and style, are JUST like what I am trying to make! And it gives me a nice visual of how it WILL look, so thank you. And on to your room, with the blk and white curtains THAT is a great idea and THAT is what I will do! Your house if beautiful, too. Thanks, glad I checked out your video!! It was most helpful. Take care.

S Nguyen, they are called Riktig. The link to my blog is above in the description and I have a picture of the box posted there. Hope that helps!

Thank you so much! I learned more from your video than actual professional ones. Thanks for the different looks.

I used 20 pleater hooks on each panel. I honestly can't remember how far apart I spaced them. I did have to cheat a little - skipping four slots on some and three on others. I know that's not extremely helpful, but hope knowing that I used 20 per panel helps a little.

Good tips for us old men who live alone, but still want our units/flats to look decent. A really nice woman who seems also to be a very good mother/houswife.

I love it and I was over here stuck at first but thanks to u I’m feeling confident 😀

Thanks Jenna. Very informative. I'm a total newbie who is going to put up some black out curtains and want to get that pleated look. Those riktig's look intimidating, but now, thanks to you not so much.

I think this is a super cool tutorial on how to hang the curtains.

Those are awesome panels! Thanks for showing all the different ways to hang them! Never seen anything like it and what a giant time and work saver!! Your choice is amazing! Wow! The crisp white over wood shades (my favorite) - great contrast! Good job young lady! Keep em coming!

So grateful I happen upon your video! Love the explainations and visual of different style something I never got school on. Thanks!

Thank you! This was great - the clips had me confused and you helped clarify how they're used. You should take a look at the Kvartal system from IKEA...absolutely amazing...you can hang up to three different depths of drapes on the track system - or create panels to create whole new spaces within a room. I'm using the three part system to hang sheers behind opaque. You'd love the system :)

Thanks! Loved the video...it was so helpful. I am going to hang new curtains in my bedroom and I have been scared to death! Now....I can see there are so many different methods and all are relatively easy! Thanks!!

Thankyou! I was clueless about hanging curtains and you gave me some really good ideas! PS...your voice is soothing and pretty, and you have perfect grammar. Ignore those picky people

Thank you for this video. I have been wanting to go to IKEA desperately to get curtains. My parents had those pleating pins. I haven’t seen those in forever

I have some fabric that is almost the same as your chair fabric! I'm working on a massive drape project, but YT's have been invaluable. One question I have is who taught so many young people to pronounce curtains as "curt-ens", "mitt-ens", etc. You didn't do it all the way through, but my husband and I chuckle to hear so many younger people emphasize the 2nd syllable. Great job on the video!! Thanks for letting us see your house!

Dear JennaThank you for this guidance. I followed yesterday your video, learned a lot and went today to our IKEA in Sunrise Florida. I looked at the curtains and as I touched that beautiful curtain to look how it's hung, it landed on my head, rod with heavy curtain, and caused a severe injury. IKEA should definitely pay you for your wonderful presentation, but, should compensate me for their negligence in their showroom upstairs, my pain, loss of days of work. Had it happened to a child, it would be fatal. I'm fortunate to be able to function and be alive.It's by no means a finger pointed at you, no. It's a little warning to those who go to IKEA. Sorry to use this platform for this report, but, it may save others lives.Yael Shany

Thank you! I was overwhelmed with so many options, but you explained everything very well.

Thanks Jenna! Very informative and helpful. Thanks for all the details on the different styles.

I never knew those pleater hooks exsisted, and when i saw them online there were no instructions, so Thanks for the video, very helpful!

Thank you for this. I am making my own curtains and wasn't sure of the best option but now I feel informed :)

My husband actually made. We use 1 1/4″ EMT steel conduit. You can buy it at Home Depot. The one you are referring to without the center bracket is just one piece of conduit. The really long one in the living room {which has a center bracket} is two pieces he welded together. He also made the brackets which he cut to size and shaped from steel flat stock {again from Home Depot}. We painted them all with Rustoleum’s Oil Rubbed Bronze spray paint to get the color we wanted.

I can't even tell you how helpful this video was!! Maybe I missed it - but do you have an idea of about how many pleater hooks you used on each Ritva panel?

really helpful! Now I know what to buy to get the look I was wanting! thanks so much!!

Loved your video!! you did a fantastic job of explaining and getting to the point! Thank you!

Thank you, Jenna. This is a great help to me. I just bought some gorgeous drapes on Amazon, of all places. I have been at a loss about how to hang them to the best effect. I guess I will experiment around and see which method you suggested looks the best.

What a great video; you were very through and the information was perfect for me. Please make a video on how to measure you window for drapes. Thank you

Thank you so much! It seems simple but not easy for everyone of us.

From my husband, "I clamped it on my workbench between two pieces of stiff angle iron. Then using the Vise Grip Sheet Metal bending tool, I bent the flat stock against the angle iron to make the sharp 90 degree bend {where the bracket goes flat against the wall}."

Pinch pleat pins have been around forever. They definitely give a nice touch to curTains instead of just running fabric onto a rod.

Thanks so much for this, I just opened my package of Ritva panels and was lost until I saw this! So helpful!

Thank you so much for this wonderful video I think you did an awesome job elaborating and being so informative for each type of curtain at least for me ...this was helpful because I am looking to add drapes to my new living room so I really don’t know how to do this or where to start and this was very useful.

Many thanks for sharing your experience with these different types of Curtain hem type's 👏👏👏😀

Hi Jenna....I know I'm coming in on the back end but Kudos for creating this video and sharing all your great ideas especially having three kids...ugh some people just need to get a life. I will reserve my comments as two don't make a right. I love Ikea merchandise as well.....very reasonable and the quality is very good.

Very helpful, now I can go and the supplies needed. Thanks sweetie!

+Lauren Lauderback - for some reason I can't reply to your comment directly. The more pleats, the less width. The way mine are, I'd say I have about half the width of the panel alone. I never close mine, so it's not an issue for me. But if you want to close yours, I'd suggest less pleats or adding an additional panel on both sides. Hope that helps!

Family room - NO center bracket - 10' feet wide window. There is absolutely no bending or even a hint of drooping. The curtains are not heavy, but I believe the rod would stand up to a lot more weight than what is on it. Living room - center bracket - 12' wide window. The main reason we added a center bracket was to hide the weld joint in the middle. However, I still think the rod would support the weight of the curtains without bending without a center bracket.

Thanks much, just hung curtains today and winged in .. hung in tabs on back but curtains do not slide open and close very well, in fact they are heavy so its a struggle, going to go back and add the pleat hooks then ring clips will be so much better but not sure how much lower they'll hang now.. anyway, thank you for solving this mystery for me.

I actually made it. You can search for the tutorial on my blog if you want to make your own (super-easy!). Serach for: pennant banner. Or I'm sure you could purchase something similar on Etsy.

Great video - very helpful! Thank you for the tips. I found them useful for my home.

Jenna, Love your curtains. I am choosing wall colors right now for my living room and I love love love the color behind the white rod and curtains. It's where your dining room table is, I believe. Can you let me know what color it is? Thanks a bunch!

Thanks so much, I was so confused about how to put these up.

Thanks for the compliments! The gray in my dining room is Functional Gray by Sherwin Williams. After a year I'm still very happy with it! You can see a few more pictures on my blog - search for "Tweaking the Dining Room" {I'm not able to put a direct link here.}

I was trying to figure out how we can use that kind of ring....Thanks so much!

thank you for the video, showed me how to use riktig, plus pleats

IKEA is where most of the curtains are from as well as the pleater hooks. The rods were a DIY project. The ring clips and eyelet clicks were from Amazon.

Hello Jenna, Just wanted to ask you, how did your husband bend/mold the steel flat stock? My wife is really interested in making our own curtain rods. Also for your living room curtain rod you mentioned you didn't use a center bracket, did the pipe bend when the curtains are hung? I know steel pipes are heavy duty but those curtains can be heavy. Thank you in advance for your answer.

Thanks! I love your last DIY method.

Continued..."To make curved bend, I first determined where I wanted the bend to start and then repositioned the piece between the angle iron to about 1.5" before where I wanted it to bend. Then with the Vise Grip tool I slowly bent the piece to the shape of the pipe."

REALLY GOOD INFO. FABRIC OF WHITE CURTAIN

Thank you for the video! It helped me in my first and new apartment

It looks like there's one more option on how to hang it (Ritka)... there's that knotted string at the end... you pull that tight, evenly distribute pleats through the fabric, use those hooks, every 4-ish pleats (or your preference), then hang them on the curtain rod - but it won't work with your rods without the rings - you need a metal flat kind (i believe)(2 1/2" continental rod - see joann.com) to do it without rings. The string hanging out the end should not be cut but folded into a pocket up top so it can't be seen. Truthfully, I think the rings with the hooks looks like you used a 'bandaid' to get it to work on your rods, but it still looks pretty.

Thanks for this Jenna. Helped me a lot.

Omg thank you. I have no idea about curtain but I’ve been trying forever to figure out if I can put pleather hooks on the Ike as curtains

Just put up curtains with the clip rings thx for the idea 👍

Love your video, love your home, very helpful, thank you!

So enjoyed your video, very informative!! Blessings

Very informative, thank you!

Nice, informative video. Thanks!

just the information I was looking for. great video, very useful, thanks!

This is super-helpful. Thank you!

Thank you. I liked the hidden clip pleat best. As a guy, i can not seem to get a great pleat right to the base which drove me crazy so i settled for the pole right through . Now the ties are not right to my eye. Woman seem to do it far better :)

Thank you, just found this video and it was so very helpful, best curtain vid ever 🙌🏻👏🏻

I wish I would have found your channel months ago! This is a great video! Thank you! I am dying to know where you got your curtain rods!! I LOVE that they don't have a center bracket. Where oh where did you get it?

Thank you so much you gave me more options to hang my drapes keep up the good work!

Thank you for your tips👍❤️😘

Thank you. Great job.

Great video with Great details! THANK YOU!

Hi Jenna - I am in the process of purchasing curtains for our new home and there are so many things to think about, it is overwhelming. Your video helped a TON. But I have one very important question: When pulling the drapes to close them over the window, how does the pleating and pins alter the width of the window panel? I

Thank you for this,God bless you x

This helped me so much, thanks! Ikea should pay you:)

This video was so helpful, thank you!