Notes from the trade
Honest, practical writing about window furnishings — how to choose fabric, what actually affects light and heat, and the details most people only learn after they have already ordered.
They solve different problems at different times of day, so choosing between them is usually the wrong question. Sheers handle glare and daytime privacy; blockouts handle sleep, heat and night-time privacy. Run sheer and blockout curtains on a double track and you get four distinct settings from one window — instead of the usual compromise where the curtains stay half-drawn all year.
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The room decides the material, not your taste — timber warps in steam, aluminium dents, PVC sags on long runs. Plus the slat width to pick, where to mount them, and why no venetian blind will ever truly black out a bedroom.
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The heading sets how the fabric falls, how much fabric you pay for and how much window you lose when the curtain is open. Including the stackback numbers nobody publishes — and what has to be in your ceiling to hold the track up.
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Windows are the weakest thermal point in most Australian homes. We look at what lining, pelmets and side returns genuinely contribute — and where the marketing claims outrun the physics.
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1%, 3%, 5%, 10% — the number on a screen fabric sample tells you how much you will see out, how much glare gets through, and how much privacy you keep after dark. Here is how to pick.
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Styling
Measuring the frame instead of the finished wall. Forgetting cornice depth. Ignoring stack space. If you are getting quotes from more than one supplier, these are the errors worth checking for.
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Fabrics & care
Never machine wash interlined drapery. Vacuum on low with a brush head. Steam vertically, never press. A short, practical care routine that keeps a good curtain looking new for a decade.
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Styling
Pulling cushions, bedheads and curtains from one fabric library is how a room reads as designed. Pulling them all in the same colour is how it reads as a showroom. The difference is in the weave.
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Fabrics & care
Showroom lighting is warm, even and controlled. Your north-facing living room is none of those things. Always live with a sample for a few days before you commit — here is what to watch for.
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One is chosen for how it looks, the other for what it has to hold. What each system carries, which headings fit which, and the fixing question that quietly decides it.
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For high windows, wide spans and anything above a stairwell, yes — comfortably. For a single bedroom window you walk past every morning, probably not. Where the money is genuinely well spent.
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