# \[Suggestion\] Adding the ability to remove curtains from windows
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-adding-the-ability-to-remove-curtains-from-windows/6156
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [May 16, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-adding-the-ability-to-remove-curtains-from-windows/6156 "2014-05-16T22:00:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@MisterFox](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MisterFox)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-adding-the-ability-to-remove-curtains-from-windows/6156/1 "2014-05-16T22:00:57Z")
Right now, unless there’s some way I’m not aware of, you can’t remove the curtains from a window with curtains without a) bodyslamming it apart or b) deconstructing the window.
I’d like to just pull the sheets off a window. Is that possible?
Vache(2) suggested in IRC about using scissors to cut the curtains down. Maybe something that can cut?
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-adding-the-ability-to-remove-curtains-from-windows/6156/2 "2014-05-17T03:31:41Z")
[quote=“MisterFox, post:1, topic:6156”]Right now, unless there’s some way I’m not aware of, you can’t remove the curtains from a window with curtains without a) bodyslamming it apart or b) deconstructing the window.
I’d like to just pull the sheets off a window. Is that possible?
Vache(2) suggested in IRC about using scissors to cut the curtains down. Maybe something that can cut?[/quote]
Idle speculation: have a construction option to convert residential back to basic window?
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2014, 3:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-adding-the-ability-to-remove-curtains-from-windows/6156/3 "2014-05-17T03:36:30Z")
Some options:
Give windows an 'e’xmine option that includes open/close and ‘tear down curtains’ (shouldn’t even require a tool IMO)
Apply cutting tool to curtains
Make phase 1 of deconstruction remove curtains.
Overload item pickup to pull the curtains off the wall.
Several of the above.
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### Author:  [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2014, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-adding-the-ability-to-remove-curtains-from-windows/6156/4 "2014-05-17T07:31:44Z")
Good idea.
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### Author:  [@Creamy\_Goodness](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Creamy_Goodness)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-adding-the-ability-to-remove-curtains-from-windows/6156/5 "2014-05-18T21:00:48Z")
[quote=“Kevin Granade, post:3, topic:6156”]Some options:
Give windows an 'e’xmine option that includes open/close and ‘tear down curtains’ (shouldn’t even require a tool IMO)
Apply cutting tool to curtains
Make phase 1 of deconstruction remove curtains.
Overload item pickup to pull the curtains off the wall.
Several of the above.[/quote]
Any of those sound great to me kevin, +1 This to be added to game, fuck tearing apart my evac shelter so I can get some makeshift slings
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2014, 7:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-adding-the-ability-to-remove-curtains-from-windows/6156/6 "2014-05-21T07:58:07Z")
done [https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/7713](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/7713)
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### Author:  [@Creamy\_Goodness](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Creamy_Goodness)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2014, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-adding-the-ability-to-remove-curtains-from-windows/6156/7 "2014-05-21T08:07:34Z")
> [@Kevin Granade](#):
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> done [Its curtains by kevingranade · Pull Request #7713 · CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA · GitHub](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/7713)
Mad props on the peeking through windows change, that is a legendary necessity that i did not even think of