The Number One Tip to Nail the IKEA Track Curtain Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere

Floor-to-ceiling curtains are trending right now — and that’s for more than just window treatments. This look is super luxe, but it’s totally possible to mimic that high-end style on an IKEA budget, as DIYers prove with IKEA HANNALIL, LENDA, or HILJA curtains, for example. 

On TikTok and Instagram, I’ve spotted several DIYers using IKEA curtains to create luxe-looking window treatments and add some flowy texture to their spaces. 

One of the keys to getting this dramatic, elongating look is to use a track system, like the IKEA VIDGA, to install the curtains. “This VIDGA system is a total game changer,” DIYer Jen (@maeisonjen) said in her IG post. A track will ensure that your curtains can nestle as close to the ceiling as possible — as opposed to a rod, especially one right at the height of your window — and will draw the eye upward. 

But if you truly want to pull off the curtain-coated look, you’ll have to follow this golden rule.

DIYer Holly Light, who also added dramatic drapery to her bedroom, says when you’re thinking about the trend, “consider installing your curtains to be wall-to-wall as well as floor-to-ceiling.” 

“It makes the room feel so cozy and hotel-like when closed,” she says. “When open, they are really decorative and help to give interest to empty walls.” If nothing else, she says to “always go wider and taller than your window to give the illusion of a bigger space.”

Keep in mind that with this direction, you might need more fabric than you think. Light used pinch-pleat hooks for her curtains, but she still wanted them to pool, drape, and overlap, post-pleat. “Using pleat hooks will reduce the width of your curtains, so make sure you buy enough curtain panels to account for this reduction to cover your windows when the curtains are pulled closed,” she says.

DIYer Marian Papadea (@___mrdna)actually recommends making sure the width of the curtains is about three times the actual width of the space you are covering. 

Curtains can easily be sewn together, Light adds. If you don’t have a sewing machine, she recommends using iron-on hem tape instead.

And you can create a layered look with extra curtains, like TikToker Isabel Velazquez did; this helps to cover up the curtain track, too.

Apartment Therapy’s Home Director, Danielle Blundell, says that wall drapery is 2025’s answer to now-dated geometric accent walls of the 2010s and that “curtain panels that are used to cover a wall or walls in a room essentially from floor to ceiling, regardless of whether windows are present” can add luxe texture to a room, of course, but they can also cover up apartment eyesores, add wall-to-wall color without paint, and even soften noise from neighbors a bit. 

Papadea’s curtain hack is actually completely renter-friendly because she used extra-strong double-sided tape to affix the track to the ceiling rather than screws.

Overall, the IKEA curtain hack is a very budget-friendly way to create floor-to-ceiling drama— and there are tons of curtain panels and track and hook options to get the look you’re after, no matter what you’re going for. But to paraphrase the old DIY adage, make sure to measure twice, shop once!