Repairs, alterations and care

Bringing curtains back

Repair, alteration, shortening and cleaning of curtains and bedding, from the Sherbrooke atelier. Text a photo and you will know quickly whether it is worth doing.

Text me a photo

The simplest way to find out whether your curtain can be repaired is to show me. A photo from your phone is enough in almost every case.

  1. Take two photos: one of the whole curtain hanging, one close up on the problem.
  2. Text them to 873 200-4056 with a line about what you want: shortened, lengthened, repaired, cleaned.
  3. I reply with an estimate, or I tell you straight that it is not worth doing.

What repairs well

  • Shortening or lengthening curtains that hang at the wrong height.
  • Redoing a hem that has come undone, gone wavy, or been cut too short.
  • Replacing a worn lining while the face fabric is still good.
  • Heading repairs: tape, hooks, grommets. And bedding.

When I will tell you no

I do not take every repair. It has to cost clearly less than remaking the curtain, otherwise you are paying to extend something that is already finished.

The two cases where I will point you toward new work instead:

  • Fabric cooked by sun exposure. It tears again right beside the repair.
  • A big-box panel whose fabric is worth less than the bench hours.

In that case I say so, and give you a sense of what a new curtain would cost. A text estimate is free, and I do not push anyone toward new work when repairing is right.

Cleaning and pressing

A lined curtain does not wash like a bedsheet. The face fabric and the lining do not shrink at the same rate, and an ordinary cleaning is enough to twist a panel that used to hang perfectly. The pleats go on the first dry.

The cleaning itself goes to a specialist cleaner equipped for large lined panels. What I do is the before and after: checking that the fabric and lining will survive the treatment, then resetting the pleats and the drape before they go back up. If your curtains were made elsewhere, that is fine. I take pieces that did not come from my atelier.

A good curtain deserves repair. A finished one deserves to be told.