I decided to make some curtains like these from urban outfitters. 

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=16809253&itemdescription=true&navAction=jump&search=true&isProduct=true&parentid=SEARCH+RESULTS

I’m about halfway through, and I don’t think that the first one is going to work out quite as well as I had hoped. I’ll take some photos when they are finished. I didn’t realise how ambitious sewing ruffles to that scale was going to be and it’s turning out to be quite a lot of work. I am, however queen of overambitious projects, so i guess we’ll see how these turn out.