Made To Measure, Not To A Packet Size
Custom made curtains for Brisbane homes — sheer, blockout and decorative — measured at your wall rather than your window, and fitted by the third generation of a family business trading since 1978.
Why Lusso, Brisbane
Buy Once, Hang Once
A ready-made curtain off a shelf costs a fraction of a custom one, and for a spare room you walk into twice a year that is a perfectly sensible decision. It stops being sensible the moment the window is a size the packet does not come in — which, in most Brisbane homes, is most of them. Cheap curtains are only cheap once, because you end up buying them twice.
The range
Local conditions
The Wall Decides The Curtain
Brisbane's housing stock runs from 1920s Queenslanders in Paddington and Bulimba to slab-on-ground new builds out past the airport, and the two want completely different curtains. A Queenslander hands you three-metre ceilings and casement windows that swing outward, so a curtain has to clear the sash or it never really closes. It also hands you a verandah that already shades the north face — which is why, nine times out of ten, it is the west-facing rooms that need the work.
The part people forget is what sits behind the lining. VJ boards over hardwood studs will hold a track all day. The plasterboard ceiling of a newer build will not, at least not on its own, and a lined blockout curtain spanning a wide opening is heavier than it looks. Finding the stud or the noggin is the difference between a track that stays straight and a track that lets go in year two.
Then there is the humidity. Brisbane's mean 3pm relative humidity is 59% in February and 43% in July — a swing you can feel, and one that a heavy lined curtain pressed against a cold pane in a closed-up room will happily hold onto. Leave the fabric somewhere it can dry out. Curtains are more forgiving than most window furnishings, but they are not waterproof, and a bathroom is still a job for Thermalite shutters rather than fabric.
The detail that matters
Where The Job Is Actually Won
Fabric is the part you choose and the part everyone photographs. These three are the part that decides whether you still like the curtains in five years, and nobody quoting you will raise them unless you ask.
A curtain measured to the glass is measured wrong. The track wants to run well past the reveal on both sides so the fabric stacks off the window instead of across it, and the drop wants to finish at the floor. Light that ruins a dark room comes around the edges, not through the middle — which is exactly why a ready-made sized to the window never quite works.
Brackets go into studs, noggins or solid timber, spaced to the weight of the fabric rather than to whatever is convenient. A track fixed into plasterboard alone will fail; it is only ever a question of when. This is the least glamorous part of the quote and the one that decides everything else.
Sheers own the daytime and give you nothing once it is dark outside and lit inside. Blockouts own the night and turn a living room into a cave at ten in the morning. A double track lets each do its own job, and it is the reason a room stops having curtains that sit half-drawn all year because no single position is quite right.
Gold Coast clients
The Part We Cannot Write Ourselves
Most of them mention the same two things — that somebody listened, and that the fitting was tidy. After 48 years that is more or less the whole business.
Thank you to Deb and the team for their guidance in selecting the perfect blinds and curtains for our home. Prompt service, great workmanship and professional to deal with.
Michael & Louise S
I love my curtains! Thank you Debbie for really listening to what I was after. They are beautiful, soft and quality. Thank you for your professionalism.
Julia Harrison
We love our shutters and curtains that were installed by Lusso Fashion for Windows. Friendly, professional and efficient service. Highly recommended.
Kelly Hunter
Where they go
What We Would Actually Specify
Blockout, lined, and run to the floor with a generous overlap at the centre. This is the one room where the fabric genuinely has to do the work — and if a child sleeps there, it is specified cordless, no exceptions.
QuoteA double track: sheer for the day, block out for the evening. It costs more than one track and it is the difference between curtains you use and curtains you leave half-drawn for a year.
QuoteBrisbane afternoons land hardest here, and shading the glass beats fighting the heat once it is inside. Verosol SilverScreen is worth asking about — the metallised backing reflects solar radiation rather than absorbing it, so the fabric is not sitting there re-radiating heat into the room by five o'clock.
QuoteCordless or motorised, blackout fabric, and nothing loose within reach. Corded window coverings are covered by a mandatory safety standard for good reason, and we would rather talk you out of a cord than fit one.
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 the room before we can quote. Aspect decides the fabric as much as the window does.
Itemised component by component — fabric, heading, track, fitting — and valid for 30 days.
Nothing starts until you are 100% comfortable with the selections. Curtains run 2–4 weeks depending on the fabric.
Where we work
North, South And The Inner City
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, because the cost is driven by the things nobody can guess over the phone: the width and drop, the fabric, how much fullness the heading carries, and whether it hangs on a plain track or a decorative one. What we can promise is the shape of it — an itemised quote within 24 to 48 hours of the measure, broken down component by component so you can see where the money goes, and valid for 30 days.
Two to four weeks from order, depending on the fabric you choose. Sheer, blockout and decorative curtains all sit in that same range. If a fabric has to come in, that is the part that moves the date, and we will tell you at quote time rather than after you have ordered.
A ready-made curtain is cut to a standard size and you fit the room to it. A made to measure curtain is cut to your opening, with the track set past the reveal and the drop finishing where you want it — at the floor, usually. The practical difference shows up as light leaking around the edges of a ready-made, and as a hem that either puddles or hovers. For a rarely-used room a ready-made is fine. For a bedroom or a west-facing living room it is a false economy.
Yes. We measure at your place, because we need the aspect of the room as well as the dimensions, and because what a track can be fixed into is not something you can describe over the phone. We would rather look at the actual windows than have you choose from samples on a bench.
We make S-fold, pinch pleat and reverse pleat. S-fold gives you soft, even vertical waves and suits tall modern openings; pinch pleat is the more traditional, structured look and holds its shape well; reverse pleat is the quieter version of the same idea, with the pleat turned to the back for a flatter face. Heading affects how much fabric is in the curtain, so it affects the quote — which is why it is itemised separately.
Yes, and it is the most common way we work. Curtains in the bedrooms and living areas, blinds where a curtain would be in the way — kitchens, bathrooms, sliding doors. One measure, one quote, one fitting day. Have a look at what we make for blinds in Brisbane if you want both priced together.
All of it — north, south and the inner city. We work the corridor from Byron Bay to Brisbane, so New Farm, Ascot, Hamilton, Bulimba, Paddington, Toowong, Chelmer, Clayfield, West End and Camp Hill are all routine, and we travel further for larger jobs.
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.
