You can use the elbow to make this a continuous corner blackout curtain rod.
Look at first photo, please, of a small window and the beginning of a bigger window. I don’t know what the architect was thinking when he designed that stupid little window and put the bigger window in the corner of the wall instead of the middle of the wall, but it was stupid and nobody likes it. Year ago we hired a curtain person and she said “awe have to make that window go away.” And did a good job. I just got sick of it and wanted something simpler. There’s not even a view other than our backyard out that window. The corner window makes it hard to find curtain rods for and the little window is extremely hard as it’s small. It measures about13 inches. The blinds we have for it had to be custom made.I do have blackout blinds for these windows, but a little bit of light still comes in where the blinds meet the wall.This brand is the only wrap around blackout rod that I could find that makes a rod that’s a 16 inch. When I first was looking for curtain rods, I wanted a continuous corner one because the corner where the two meet needs the most coverage. I didn’t want two curtain rods that both fastened to the wall in the corner. The corner needs the most coverage as that’s where the most light comes in. I gave up on a continuous wrap around rod as they were too expensive, and I couldn’t find any that let me have 16 or so inches on one side and 78 or so on the other. So I decided on these because they were the blackout type, the price was good, and I could get one that was 16 inches. The box mine came in said the 48-whatever size, so I don’t know if I got the 16 inches, but it works. More over, my daughter’s partner looked at everything for 5 minutes and had it fitted together in the corner as a continuous corner piece. That is not in the directions but it works perfectly. See second and third photo. Since the curtain rods came with four elbows and four bases, Justin used an elbow in the corner to make it a continuous curtain rod. So it’s only held to the wall on each end, plus a bracket supporting it. Really, I wish the brand would write it in their description that it can be connected to use as a corner courts on rod. Seems like a good sales thing and would have saved me time. I have three blackout curtains on there and the curtain rods are holding them up just fine. We put in one of the two included braces and not on the corner so the curtains cover that corner. The curtain rod is very nice and sturdy. Daughter’s partner didn’t like the plastic screw anchor things and used his own.The curtain rods were pretty easy to install and seem very sturdy. The decorative things on the elbows, including the ones connected to the part that’s connected to the wall, look nice, but interfere with opening and closing my curtains.The one thing that is a pretty big draw back for me is the decorative parts on the elbow. See photo where I circled the parts. Even though the directions call for the elbows to be connected to the part that goes onto the wall these decorative pieces might affect you. One photo shows the measurements of the curtains I bought, including the diameter of the rod it fits. The curtains move just fine on the rest of the curtain rod. However, it is difficult getting the curtain over the decorations on the elbow. You probably won’t use the elbow as a corner piece like we did, but if you want to draw the curtain all the way open, and the hole in your curtains aren’t bigger than the ones in my curtain, you’ll have problems. I have to use a long stick to get the curtain over the decorative parts. If you don’t draw your curtains over the elbow at all, you won’t have the problem.