When you have corner windows, it’s because you want to showcase a view, not hide it! However, curtains are necessary for privacy, light control, and to create a finished aesthetic around your beautiful windows.
To ensure a polished look, take inspiration from these types of curtain rods. There’s something to fit every style, whether you love sleek and modern decor, traditional vibes, or something a little more unique!
Types of Curtain Rods for Corner Windows
First, you’ll want to figure out how to hang your curtains. Luckily, you can find curtain rods especially made for corners. It’s important to use these rods for a seamless look. While you can extend traditional curtain rods to meet in the corners, you will not be able to get the curtains to meet seamlessly.
Here are options for a variety of different styles, plus tips on how to find them:
Modern Corner Curtain Rods
A corner window can light up a room and add a modern look and feel. But when you want privacy with the modern aesthetic, a sleek and minimal corner curtain rod can help. These curtain rod corner connection pieces are part of an interchangeable system that allows you to customize your curtain track. Plus, the track system is clean and simple, merging into a modern design with virtually no visual clutter.
Traditional Corner Curtain Rods
Traditional rods, like these French return corner rods, offer a classic and elevated look. Timeless and sophisticated, these rods have a specific design that prevents light from peeking through the sides of the curtains.
For a true seamless look, you’ll need bypass mounts to ensure your curtains aren’t hemmed in by the supports. But for a corner window with traditional style, you can find plenty of curtain rods that offer the timeless and classic look and feel you want.
Custom Corner Curtain Rods
These made-to-order curtain rods will perfectly suit your space, as they are manufactured to your exact specifications. When you have a corner window, you want to be sure your curtain rods fit perfectly to showcase your home and your view. These custom-made curtain rods are handmade to fit your space and the exact angles of your windows.
Plus, with many different colors, materials, and finials, the style of your rods can mirror the style of your space, from rustic to luxe and glam.
Corner Curtain Rod Adaptors
Available in many colors and finishes, these curtain rod adaptors can make your existing curtain rods work for a corner window. This is also helpful if you want a very specific style that isn’t available for a corner window — take another curtain rod and adapt it to your corner window with this handy device.
How to Choose Curtains for Corner Windows
Once you have your curtain rods chosen, you can decide what types of curtains you want to hang. Curtains add texture, visual aesthetic, and functionality to your space. Plus, they can showcase a beautiful view. Picture your space with a corner window!
Sheer curtains are thin and translucent, so they won’t offer much in the way of privacy or room darkening, but they do soften incoming light and create an ethereal look. These are perfect for offices, living rooms, and dining rooms, where natural light is a must and privacy isn’t a concern.
Light-filtering curtains are slightly thicker or denser than sheer curtains but still allow light to filter through. They are opaque and provide moderate privacy over sheer curtains. The light that filters through is glowy and soft, and these curtains help protect furniture and textiles from UV rays that will fade over time. Light-filtering curtains are excellent for main living areas where you want soft, natural light as well as privacy.
Blackout curtains let very little light in, with a tightly woven, lined curtain design to block up to 99% of light. These curtains are often heavy and insulating, which means they are great for bedrooms, nurseries, or theaters. If you have corner windows in a room where you want more control over the light, blackout curtains may be the right choice.
Valences and cornices are not curtains, but can add additional style to your windows. Valences are fabric treatments, and cornices are rigid fabric boxes that hide the curtain rods. If you have rods for your corner windows that you want to disappear into the decor, you can use these options to help them blend in.
Installing Corner Windows
TonyView™ offers patented, load-bearing corner windows that can be installed in existing homes without complex engineering.
TonyView™ windows are installed into the header beam and concrete foundation, and can support up to three stories. Our windows are seamless once installed, creating a beautiful panoramic view that you can frame with stunning curtains and corner curtain rods.
Learn more about installing TonyView™ windows today and join the waitlist.
