Beach Side And Canal Side
Custom blinds, curtains and Thermalite shutters for Burleigh Heads homes and units — measured at your window, fitted by the third generation of a family business trading since 1978, and specified for which way your glass actually faces.
Why Lusso, Burleigh Heads
Ask Which Way The Glass Faces
Every quote you get in Burleigh will open with a fabric book, and fabric does matter — it is just the second question. Burleigh Heads runs from the beachfront and the hill down to the canal streets of Burleigh Waters behind the highway, and the two halves want opposite blinds. The beach side is fighting glare off the water early in the morning. The canal side is taking a low western sun on the glass at five in the afternoon. Same suburb, same enquiry form, genuinely different answers.
The range
Local conditions
The Glare Arrives Early Here
On the beach side the main glass looks out over the water to the east and north-east, which is the opposite problem to the one most blind advice is written for. The sun comes up out of the sea, low and level with the window, and doubles itself off the surface. By nine it is off the glass entirely. That is a glare problem for two or three hours, not a heat problem all day, and the honest answer is usually a sunscreen fabric rather than the blockout people ask for — a blockout solves an eight o’clock problem by making the room dark.
The hill behind it turns that again. North-facing living rooms up there get sun across the whole year, and north is the aspect that behaves: high in summer, where an eave or an awning can hold it off, low and welcome in winter. It is the one orientation where the building can do most of the work and the blind only has to finish the job.
Then you cross the highway into Burleigh Waters and everything inverts. Those streets are built around canals, so the good view faces the water and a great many of those wide sliders face west over it. A western sun in the last two hours of the day sits at eye level, comes in under every eave, and bounces off flat water on the way. No internal blind wins that fight on its own, which is why shading the glass on the outside beats fighting the heat once it is in the room — an outdoor blind or an awning on the deck, and the internal blind for privacy after dark.
Two more things worth knowing here. Salt reaches the working parts of a blind before it touches the fabric, which is covered properly on our Gold Coast roller blinds page. And if you are in one of the towers or walk-ups along the front, your building may have a by-law about what the street sees, the same way they do in Southport — worth reading before you fall for a fabric, because the backing is fixed at order time.
The detail that matters
Three Things Worth Settling First
None of these three is a fabric, and all three of them decide whether the blinds still suit the room in five years. Nobody quoting you will raise them unless you ask.
It is the first question we ask and the one almost no quote starts with. East and north-east glass over the water wants glare control in the morning; west glass over a canal wants heat kept off it in the afternoon; a south window in the same house may want nothing at all. Aspect narrows the fabric before colour ever comes into it, which is why we measure at your place rather than quoting off a phone call.
Sunscreen fabric is sold by how much of it is hole rather than thread, and we carry 1%, 3%, 5% and 10%. Most homes here over-specify blockout and under-specify sunscreen: the blockout gets used at night, when a curtain or a blind of any kind would do, while the fabric that earns its keep is the one holding the morning glare off without taking the outlook away. The openness factor is the number that decides it.
A whole-house order costs meaningfully less per window than the same blinds bought three at a time, because the measure, the delivery and the installation day cost us the same either way. It also keeps the fabrics specified against each other and the make consistent, so you are not trying to match a dye lot two years later for the last room. If the budget only stretches to part of it, start with the rooms that face the water.
Gold Coast clients
Houses, Units, And The Second House
A good share of the work on this stretch is someone who used us at the last place and rang again at the next one. That is the only review metric I would trust.
I've used Lusso fashion's before and have been happy with their service and quality, so much so that I've called them to another of my home, recommending to family members. You'll never be sorry to have had Tehran…
Rose Raso
Dealing with Debbie is a pleasure. I have a house full of Lusso blinds and the after sale service is terrific. I highly recommend Lusso blinds for your purchase of new blinds.
Michael Whyte
Fantastic quality blinds. Prompt and professional service. Would definitely recommend to friends and family.
Kirrily & Adrian Kitchin
Where they go
What I Would Actually Specify
A sunscreen at a low openness on the water-facing glass, because the problem is two hours of morning glare rather than all-day heat. Spend the rest of the budget on the mechanism — see what salt air does to the working parts.
QuoteSun across the whole year, high in summer and low in winter. Honeycomb holds the heat at the glass without making the room dark, and a venetian lets you throw the light up onto the ceiling instead of across the floor.
QuoteStop it outside the glass. An outdoor blind or an awning on the deck does more than anything hung inside, and the internal blind then only has to handle privacy after dark rather than the sun as well.
QuoteBlockout, fitted so the light cannot get around the edges, because what wakes you comes past the blind rather than through it. Cordless where a child sleeps, every time.
QuoteNot a fabric blind. Steam, salt and humidity are unkind to fabric, so I would put Thermalite shutters in those rooms — they wipe down and they do not hold a smell.
QuoteHow it works
Three steps, quote in 48 hours
We come to you anywhere on the Gold Coast. Detailed quote within 24 to 48 hours, valid for 30 days — no deposit to get a price.
We need the dimensions and the aspect of every room before we can quote, and in Burleigh the aspect is the half that changes street to street.
Itemised component by component, so you can see what each window costs and take one out if you want to, and valid for 30 days.
Nothing starts until you are 100% comfortable with the selections. We install, take the packaging with us, and are on the same number afterwards.
Where we work
Mermaid Beach To Currumbin
From Byron Bay to Brisbane, across the whole Gold Coast and inland to the hinterland. If you're anywhere on that stretch, we'll come to you.
Before you ask
There is no honest figure before someone has measured. The price is set by the size of the opening, the fabric, whether the blind is corded, cordless or motorised, and how many windows are on the one order — a whole house costs meaningfully less per window than the same blinds bought a few at a time. You get an itemised quote within 24 to 48 hours of the measure, valid for 30 days, and there is no deposit to see it.
Roller, venetian, vertical, pleated and honeycomb blinds run two to three weeks from check-measure to installation. Curtains are two to four depending on the fabric, roman blinds and panel glides three to four, and Thermalite shutters four to six. Motorisation adds about a week. They are good-faith estimates rather than guarantees, and the date for your job goes on the quote.
Yes, and to Burleigh Waters, Palm Beach, Mermaid Beach and Currumbin. Burleigh sits in the middle of the corridor we work, from Byron Bay to Brisbane, so the drive is part of the job rather than a favour. We bring the range to you, because a fabric judged on a bench indoors is not the fabric you get on a window facing the sea.
A sunscreen on the water-facing glass in most cases. The glare here arrives early and low off the water, and a blockout only solves that by making the room dark at eight in the morning. Pair the sunscreen with a blockout on a double bracket if the room also has to go dark at night. Then ask about the componentry rather than the fabric — near the water it is the chain, the clutch and the brackets that age first.
That is a heat problem rather than a glare one, and it is the harder of the two. A western sun in the last hours of the day comes in under every eave and reflects off the canal on the way, so shading the glass outside — an outdoor blind or an awning over the deck — does more than anything you hang inside. Where an internal blind has to do the work, honeycomb and metallised SilverScreen fabric are the two worth asking about.
Often, and it is worth asking rather than assuming. Bring us the old blind or a photo of the bracket at the measure. Fabric ranges do get discontinued, and where an exact match is no longer made we will say so rather than fitting something that is nearly right and hoping you do not notice from the hallway.
Yes — sheer, blockout and decorative curtains on runnered track, and Thermalite polymer shutters in hinged, sliding or fixed panels. We do not sell plantation or timber shutters, and we do not do rods or eyelet curtains, so if either of those is specifically what you want we are not the right people and I would rather say so now.
All of the Gold Coast and beyond it — Palm Beach, Mermaid Beach, Currumbin, Broadbeach, Robina, Southport, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise and Coolangatta, and inland to Nerang and the hinterland. If you want the whole picture, blinds on the Gold Coast covers the range across the city.
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Tell us which rooms and we'll come to you with the fabric range, measure properly, and tell you honestly which windows need side tracks and which don't.
