Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a perfectly lovely, functional, and reasonably-priced curtain rod-- but I will mention that I have only had it up for one week so far. That said, don't be like me. If you don't have a power drill because you've "never needed one before" or "never understood why you can't just nail a hole in the wall and muscle the screw in"... stop hanging things immediately. Get yourself a $39 power drill, stop being cheap about things that you need in your life. Your mom is wrong, you should NOT feel OK asking a neighbor every time you need to borrow a drill (or honestly, every time you need to hang something, because who are you kidding - you should not borrow a drill if you've never owned a drill). SO. Step 1: Buy a drill if you don't already have one. Speaking of not borrowing a drill if you've never owned one... Definitely request assistance if you have never used any kind of drill. Drill demos and testers on YouTube assume that you have actually held a drill in your hands at some point in your life... so does the drill's instruction manual. It took me almost 2 hours to figure out how to insert a bit into my brand new drill so I could put holes in my wall to hang this lovely, functional, reasonably-priced curtain rod. Learn thrice, drill once. Step 2: Make sure you know what you're doing before you drill holes in your wall. These are not small holes. Toothpaste will not cut it as a filler. This might be the most important part (if you're still reading). THERE IS A MIDDLE BRACKET FOR THIS LOVELY, FUNCTIONAL, REASONABLY-PRICED CURTAIN ROD. If your window already has blinds, check yourself. Make sure you are planning on hanging the rod ABOVE the frame or the header thing for the blinds. You need to make sure you can drill holes and mount all three brackets - outside the left edge, above the middle of the top edge, and outside the right edge. If that doesn't make sense, take a friend on a virtual tour. Two grown-up minds work better than one + a 5yo. Step 3: Don't be like me, start drilling holes ABOVE your existing blinds header thing. Here's where it gets fuzzy. I want to tell you what you Should do... But I also want to be honest with you about what actually happened. As you may have guessed, I did not start drilling holes where I should have. But I'm a renter, and I was SO tired of learning how to drill once I noticed my error, I went ahead and drilled the right side at the same level as where I started with the left. This meant... NO MIDDLE BRACKET FOR ME. I bagged up the middle bracket and the corresponding screws and [plastic thingies that help screws be better in drywall], stuck a label on it that says "THIS SHOULD BE ON THE LIVING ROOM CURTAINS" , and locked it away in my "tool box". Step 4: Do not take my experience as science. I have two curtain panels hung on this perfectly lovely, functional, and reasonably-priced curtain rod. Everything is copacetic at the moment. The panels are too narrow for the window. They BARELY cover it when closed. This tells me the curtains are not as heavy as what a better, more domesticated, person would have hung on the rod, meaning... PLEASE CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE PROCEEDING. But. I'll go ahead and tell you that my curtains have survived so far... so... I'm either an expert handy-woman (with the perfect weight curtains).. or this perfectly lovely, functional, and reasonably-priced curtain rod is sturdier than expected. WHO KNOWS. Step 5: Follow me for more DIY tips. (That's a joke. Don't.) :-p