The metal tracks come in two long pieces. We adapted one track to hang curtains to cover the laundry area in our cottage hallway. Spouse cut track length to size, and we hung it from the plywood under the marble counter top. I used two IKEA curtains (which had many built-in hanging options) with IKEA curtain hooks, hemmed to length, and removed any excess unused "carriages" from the track. We added small curtain wands to enable us to open/close w/o grabbing the white curtains (which open from the center), and it really works well! The plastic "carriages" run smoothly along the track. We used many of the carriages--one for each pleat shown-- (since I didn't want a lot of sagging or to see exposed curtain hardware) and since they're approx 1/2" wide they do take up some room (i.e., the curtains don't open ALL the way to each side). But the washer/dryer open up facing each other so one can easily access each. There is one "fixed" carriage on each end, but if needed, one can simply unhook the curtain from that carriage and move the whole thing entirely to one side. We are very pleased with how adaptable this curtain system was and are very happy with the look and functionality of this product. Also, we now have a separate length of track we can used for another project.