Arched PVC rod

It was exciting to recently get my copy of Drapery & Design Professional Magazine in the mail.

In it was an article that I had written about bending PVC to create a drapery rod for an arched window.

A year or so ago, we were asked to create a window treatment that was similar to one that a client had seen in a magazine. It was a beautiful treatment of swags and cascades hung on an arched window. The only thing that stumped us was the arched rod. The article mentioned that it was PVC. From there, we were lost. We actually knew the person who had done that treatment in the magazine, and after speaking with her and doing some added research, we figured out how this can be done. If a client wants iron hardware, then companies can normally bend the iron to fit a template as requested. If wooden hardware is requested, that's not so easy to do. Using PVC for the actual rod, then matching it to chosen finials is the perfect solution. And, as well as anything else, if you know the tricks, it's not that difficult to do!

Here is a picture of the rod that we had bent for the picture in the article.