I would try 2 things - first, take them off the rod and throw them in the dryer again (or wash them first, if they haven't been washed in a while). Add several dryer sheets, if you use them, to break up an hard-water buildup or detergent residue that might be weighing one or the other of them down. Then I would iron them both - ironing VASTLY improves the way my curtains hang. When you rehang them, remember to check that they are both hanging right-side out - sometimes it's hard to tell, and I've hung curtains upside-down or inside out many times!!

I'm no expert, but to my eye, the width at the top is wider on the right than the left. Also, the curve of the tree trunk in the background may be be misleading the line of the curtain from this angle.

You sound like me! It takes me so long to get curtains to look right...constantly fiddling.

I see a little bit where it seems to poof out wrong and fold in at the top of the tieback on the right. Maybe just trying it again making sure to pull the outer edge straight...not sure my comment was helpful but you do have my sympathy!! :)

It looks like the fullness at the top is not distributed evenly on the curtain rod on the right panel. It's spread out a little at the end in the center and spread out quite a bit at the far end, plus you have a fold that is crossing over on the far end.

Undo the tieback and adjust the fullness at the top as evenly as possible. This is pretty easy to do just by eyeballing it. Then gather the fullness at the tieback height and do a temporary tieback with something like a silky scarf that will let you pull out more fullness on the center edge of the panel to match how you have it on the other panel. Then tie it back to match the other.

Personally, I'd go for looser tiebacks. It looks kind of pinched the way you have them. A little looseness will look softer.

It looks like the left curtain has more material bunched up at the edge, where the curtain on the right has material bunched in the center. It also looks like the folds start in opposite directions.

Untie the right, get material to the edge and get some folds in there, matching the first fold to the one on the left then re-tie.

Just like my hair. One side combs back perfectly, the other never does. It's part of the mystery of life. Relax: I wouldn't have noticed it. And in any house with kids or a dog, the curtains will have been touched and fluffed and moved in a few minutes and there goes the perfection, anyway.

Oh my do we have a OCD going on here. The cutains are fine, move on!

REALLY? I thought this was a joke at first. Since you are the type who normally wings it, then why the search for perfection in folds and poofiness? The curtains look nice, there is no such thing as perfection. Embrace the choice your curtains have made to be DIFFERENT! Seriously, there is more to this story right?

exactly cittykitty

The stylist's trick is not to eyeball it but to use something, let's say a thumb or a wooden spoon, to help you evenly measure/tuck the fabric at each stage. For instance for evenly spacing the gathers along the curtain rod at the top. Hand pleating the hanging fabric so you'll have the same upper hang (it helps to determine where your tieback point is and put a cross-stitch X at that point, measuring equally on both panels, that X will be hidden underneath the tuck later). Then you use the same hand pleating technique, with equal measures, to arrange the bottom hanging fabric.

I am joining the cry from the peanut gallery that says you will drive yourself crazy trying to make them "bookend" perfect.

I worked in the Paris Hotel/casino in Vegas doing all the window facade interiors when it was being built. Over two hundred windows, each with drapes that needed to hang "perfectly" as, once the windows were bolted down and the slot machines came in, they could never be touched again. Maddening.

On an unrelated note, I think the issue is that the window still looks a little bare. If my opinion were being asked (it's not, Smarteralec) I'd hang a matchstick shade just under the rod and let it hang down the wall to the top of the glass to create the illusion of a bigger window. Also I think it would add depth to the whole window treatment. Good luck.

Honestly, it took me several looks to even see the issue here. No one will ever notice besides you, unless you hang out with a bunch of extremely critical people with OCD. Nice pattern, by the way.

It's true -- it's the difference in the "bunching/spread-out-ness" at the top that's making the right-hand one wonky.
Ignore those people. Some of us (I am one) love the romantic drape of a curtain hung in just a particular way. I still haven't gotten the ones in my bedroom right, although I've tried three entirely different methods.
Keep at it! You'll get it right.
Rucy, thanks for that tip. I must try it!

Glad this post wasn't under the heading "Good Questions". I thought curtains were made to be opened and closed anyway.

The curtains are fine.

I'm not sure why exactly this has pushed me over the edge, but this question might very well be where AT has jumped the shark. Logging off now.

Can't see what the problem is -- with the curtains, anyway.

Tanya, this would be a good time to pop in and thank everyone for their input, dontcha think?

I really appreciate the tips and will re-work the top of the right panel and maybe try looser ties. I just added a matchstick blind actually, and it looks so much better. I happened to go to Big Lots and found one for $19.99. Deal of the month.

@*spanky*, sorry if my delay in responding bothers you. I didn't know this posted.

I've found that if you make the top bunching (at the curtain rod) as symmetrical as possible, the bottom looks more even when you pull it back