Fitted On Both Sides Of The Border
Custom blinds, curtains and Thermalite shutters for Tweed Heads homes — measured at your window and fitted by the third generation of a family business trading since 1978, from Coolangatta down to Pottsville.
Why Lusso, Tweed Heads
Fitted On Both Sides Of It
A fair few Tweed enquiries open with someone checking whether we actually come down, because the number on the website is a Queensland one. We do. The Tweed sits inside the stretch we have always worked, Byron Bay to Brisbane, and Coolangatta is a quarter of an hour from Tweed Heads. What changes at the border is not the drive — it is the clock and the planning rules, and both of them land on your windows.
The range
Local conditions
The Clock Changes. The Sun Does Not.
New South Wales puts the clocks forward on Sunday 4 October 2026 and back on Sunday 4 April 2027. Queensland does not, which is why Tweed Heads and Coolangatta spend half the year an hour apart. It sounds like trivia until you own west-facing glass. From that Sunday the sun that used to be off your windows by six is on them at seven, right through dinner, and the living room that was perfectly comfortable in September is unusable in October. Nothing about the sun moved. Your evening did.
So on this side of the border we specify a west-facing room for the daylight-saving evening rather than the winter afternoon, because that is the hour you will actually be sitting in it. It is also a glare problem rather than a heat one at that time of day — the sun is low and level with the glass, and stopping it outside the window beats fighting it once it is across the room.
The other thing that changes at the border is the paperwork. NSW runs BASIX, which covers water, energy use and thermal performance, and it applies to new homes and to renovations over $50,000 — a threshold a Tweed renovation clears without trying. We are not your certifier and I am not going to pretend a blind earns you a credit. What is worth doing is asking what your BASIX certificate assumes about the glazing before the windows are ordered, because we can supply what the plan calls for, and retrofitting a thermal answer afterwards is the expensive way round.
Beyond that it is the geography you already know: the river mouth and the canal runs behind Banora Point, the ocean strip from Fingal down to Kingscliff, and the hinterland road out to Murwillumbah. Salt gets into the working parts of a blind here exactly as it does up the coast — that argument, and what to do about it, sits on our roller blinds page. The blinds do not know which state they are in. Everything else does.
The detail that matters
Three Things The Border Changes
Same coast, same weather, same salt. These three are genuinely different on this side of the line, and no competitor ranking for Tweed mentions any of them.
Ask for the west-facing rooms to be quoted against the daylight-saving evening, not a winter afternoon. Between October and April that is when the glare arrives and when you are home to notice it. A sunscreen at a low openness holds it off without darkening the room at dinner time; a blockout solves the same hour by turning the lights on, which is not solving it.
If your renovation went over $50,000 or the house is new, there is a BASIX certificate with thermal performance commitments in it. Read what it says about the windows before you choose anything. We will supply what it calls for and say so plainly if a fabric will not do what someone has told you it will. This is the one piece of homework that is genuinely different from doing the same job in Coolangatta.
Roller, venetian, vertical 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, Thermalite shutters four to six. Those are good-faith estimates rather than guarantees, and the one for your job goes on the quote before you pay anything — which is worth asking for, because not one competitor on this search publishes a lead time at all.
Gold Coast clients
Including One From Down Here
Eighty-five five-star reviews, and the one that matters most on this page is about a storm in the Tweed and what happened afterwards.
Best Blind Company ever. They made my blinds and gave great after service when the huge wind storms came to my place in Tweed a while back. They didn't think twice about coming to check the blinds and make sure everything…
Judith Taylor
Our building company Allwood Contractors has been using Lusso blinds for over 10 years. Their product is excellent and so is their after sales
Jeff Baker
Flawless service and awesome blinds, terrific value
Craig & Jill Busfield
Where they go
What I Would Actually Specify
The daylight-saving room. A sunscreen at 1% or 3% openness holds the low evening sun off without taking the room dark at seven. Most homes here over-specify blockout and under-specify sunscreen, and this is the room where it shows.
QuoteLight comes off flat water from below the horizon and arrives under a blind lowered from the top. A double roller — sunscreen for the day, blockout behind for the night — is the honest answer on a room facing the Tweed or a canal run.
QuoteSalt reaches the chain, the clutch and the brackets long before it touches the fabric, so spend on the mechanism and on something we can still get parts for. The detail is on our roller blinds page.
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, without exception.
QuoteNot a fabric blind. Thermalite shutters wipe down and do not hold a smell, which matters more in a humid coastal laundry than anything a fabric can offer.
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 each room before we can quote, and we come to you in Tweed Heads the same as anywhere else on the run.
Itemised component by component, with the lead time on it, 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
Coolangatta To Pottsville
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. Cost is driven 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, with no deposit to see it.
Yes, and we have for years. The corridor we work runs from Byron Bay to Brisbane, so Tweed Heads, Tweed Heads South, Banora Point, Terranora, Fingal Head, Kingscliff, Casuarina, Cabarita Beach, Pottsville and Murwillumbah are all routine. Coolangatta is fifteen minutes up the road from the Tweed Heads shops. The border makes no difference to the drive or the price.
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. These are good-faith estimates rather than guarantees, and the date for your job goes on the quote.
Indirectly, and it is worth understanding before you order. BASIX applies to new NSW homes and to renovations over $50,000, and it covers water, energy use and thermal performance — so how your glazing is treated is part of the certificate. We are not certifiers and we will not tell you a blind earns you a credit. What we will do is read what your certificate assumes about the windows and supply what it calls for. Ask your designer or certifier for that section before the windows go in.
A sunscreen, in most cases. From the October change the sun is on west glass at what your clock calls seven, low and level with the window, so the problem is glare at eye height rather than heat. A sunscreen at 1% or 3% openness cuts it while keeping the room light; pair it with a blockout on a double bracket if the room also has to go dark later. Shading outside the glass does more again where there is room for it.
Yes — sheer, blockout and decorative curtains on runnered track, and Thermalite polymer shutters in hinged, sliding or fixed panels. We do not sell plantation, timber or aluminium shutters, we do not do roller shutters or security screens, and we do not supply curtain rods or eyelet curtains. If one of those is specifically what you want, we are not the right people and I would rather say so now than at the measure.
The same thing it does on the Gold Coast: it reaches the working parts first. The chain, the clutch and the brackets stiffen over a few summers while the fabric still looks fine, so near the water the blind that lasts is the one you can still get parts for. Our warranty covers our workmanship for 12 months and the product for its manufacturer term of 12 months to 7 years, and it excludes salt-air, moisture and fading damage — which is worth knowing before you order.
Tweed Heads and Tweed Heads South, Banora Point, Terranora, Fingal Head, Kingscliff, Casuarina, Cabarita Beach, Pottsville and Murwillumbah, plus Coolangatta and Currumbin over the border. We work the whole corridor from Byron Bay to Brisbane — blinds on the Gold Coast covers the northern half of it.
Get in touch
Free measure & quote, Gold Coast wide
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.
