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It's Curtains for my Interior Decorating Career

I live in an age of convenience, and as a result I expect everything I buy to be pretty much plug-and-play. This includes all the little things that you have to buy to take a house and turn it into a home.

Take curtains, for instance.

Here's what annoys me about curtains. You have to:

1) Iron them. What the hell? I haven't ironed a shirt since my last job interview, and before then I hadn't ironed one since my previous job interview a couple of years ago. There are fabrics (I think it's called GloWeave) that don't require ironing, they are naturally wrinkle-free. That's the way it should be. To iron a shirt is a hassle. A curtain is, like, 20 times the surface area of a shirt. It's big, and I don't wanna iron it. The haberdashery industry needs to take a leaf out of men's fashion.

2) Pleat them. I mean honestly! I expect to be able to take them out of the packet and hang them up, but noooooo. You have to work out all these measurements, and then pull some strings at the top and tie them at the right place, and then space the pleats out and, ugh, it's just all too much work. I understand that this is to take into account different size windows and stuff, but that's what different sized curtains are for! When I buy a shirt I don't want to have to adjust the sleeves or the collar or take up the bottom to be the right length -- I just want to buy the right size in the first place!

And don't even start me on fixing the curtain rod to the wall.

Tags: curtains, plug-and-play, handyman, haberdashery, shirts