Curtain solution sought...

Hello dear Ikea lovers,

I have no idea if I am even in the right place with my concern, but there are so many clever people here, I thought I’d just give it a try :cool:
My boyfriend and I are moving into the apartment of our dreams at the end of November, but the large gable in the dining/living room is giving us a headache... You can see a photo here – unfortunately I had to crop a bit at the bottom, don’t want to violate the privacy of our previous tenant



We definitely have to hang a curtain there, since directly opposite is the cemetery and the church and people can really look right in... The only question is how? From one side to the other it’s 4 m long. I once read somewhere at IKEA that a curtain rod of this length must be fastened not only on the left and right but also twice “along the way” otherwise it will sag. But where should we manage that? We can hardly drill into the plastic windows.
Does IKEA have solutions for windows like these?

Thanks and best regards
Leah

Hello, let people take a look. How did the previous tenants do it? If you can't attach anything on the side, the only option is to attach the rail to the ceiling, e.g. with steel cables. As far as I know, there is no ready-made solution from IKEA specifically for this case. I would probably make something from Dignitet and Kvartal.

Hello IKEA expert,

letting people look inside is actually not an option for us, we prefer to stay among ourselves
The previous tenant is a dentist who "only" had his office up there, he didn’t do anything to the window, for him it was always like in the picture...
I also fear that it will come down to a do-it-yourself solution, I need to take a closer look at the Kvartal system :)
In any case, thank you very much for your advice!

Best regards

I've taken a look at it now... Of course, we could just fix the curtain rod regularly on the left and right and hang a thin wire cable in the middle, which would then be held at the top of the peak by a hook. However, all the curtain rods from IKEA are too short since we need 4 m or a few centimeters more... I seem to remember that there used to be "couplings" that allowed you to connect two curtain rods. Does IKEA still have something like that, or do you have any idea where else one might get such a thing? I've already seen a connector for their curtain rods at OBI with 16 mm, but the RÄCKA rods from IKEA apparently have 19 mm (though I don't know if that is outside or inside; they are extendable and not uniformly thick everywhere).