Linen Drapery Editor

Mara Levin

Mara is the voice behind our linen drapery coverage. Her articles cover slub texture and weight, lining choices that decide whether a panel survives morning sun, pinch pleat and inverted box header behavior, and the price math behind every Liz Linen, Patti Linen and made-to-order panel before you commit. If you want to understand why a panel reads designer-grade in one room and synthetic in another, Mara's articles are where to start.
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Curtains for French Doors: The Complete 2026 Guide

Cream linen curtains on french doors

French doors are the piece of interior architecture people love and then quietly panic about at curtain time. The paned glass is the whole point of the design, but it is also full-height, west-facing on half of American homes, and swinging in and out of a room where you actually live. Standard rod-and-panel logic quits … Read more

Curtains for Bay Windows: The Complete Guide (2026)

Linen curtains on a bay window with seat

The Bay Window Price Landscape, In One Paragraph Bay window treatments span $59.99 ready-made per-pane roman shades to $200.99 custom blackout ceiling track kits. Between those two extremes sit 5 real treatment strategies, 3 physical configurations (3-pan, 5-pan, bow), and one piece of hardware that decides whether the whole install works or looks like a … Read more

What Is OEKO-TEX Certification? A Curtain Buyer’s Guide (2026)

Natural undyed linen curtains and fabric swatches

Here’s the short version: OEKO-TEX certification is a chemical-safety label for textiles. It confirms a finished piece of fabric has been tested against 1 000+ regulated substances and does not carry harmful levels of any of them. It is not an organic label, not a fair-labor label, not a carbon-footprint label. Three reasons a curtain … Read more

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Best Thermal Curtains 2026: 5 R-Value Picks by Room

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Here’s the deal with thermal curtains: most of what gets sold under that label is just heavier polyester with a marketing sticker. The ones that actually move a thermostat number share three things, a fabric construction that traps air (wool, velvet pile, or cellular honeycomb), a published shading rate above 80%, and edge coverage that … Read more

Best Curtains for Bathroom Windows (2026): 5 Picks Across Powder, Spa, Kids, Wet Zone & Cafe-Height Crossover

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Most “best bathroom curtains” lists ignore the one thing that actually decides whether a curtain survives a bathroom: which kind of bathroom it is. A powder room curtain and a shower-adjacent curtain have nothing in common. So we screened 23 Two Pages curtain collections against five bathroom-specific criteria (moisture tolerance, privacy at vanity sightline, light … Read more