The Heading Decides Everything Else
Custom curtains in pinch pleat, pencil pleat and S fold, made to the fullness the fabric actually needs and hung on componentry that still runs in ten years. Brisbane, the Gold Coast and down to Byron Bay, from a family business trading since 1978.
Why Lusso, Brisbane & Gold Coast
Fullness Is The Whole Argument
People compare curtain quotes on fabric and then wonder why one looks like a hotel and the other looks like a shower curtain. The variable that decides it is fullness — how many metres of fabric are gathered into each metre of track. Ready-mades sit at about 1.5 times. We make at two to two and a half.
The range
Local conditions
Long Drops And Hard Light
Houses here run to high ceilings, stacker doors and glass that goes most of the way up the wall. That is lovely to live in and unkind to curtains: a long drop shows every millimetre of a crooked track, and a pale fabric in this light will fade on the leading edge if it spends four summers in the western sun.
So we specify for the aspect. North and east rooms take almost anything. West-facing glass wants a fabric with some UV tolerance and, honestly, something outside the window doing the real work — the Your Home guidance on glazing explains why the glass matters more than the cloth.
The other Queensland detail is stack space. A wide opening with a curtain either side loses a surprising amount of glass to the stacked fabric. On a stacker door we will often run the track past the frame onto the wall so the curtain clears the glass entirely when it is open. That decision is made at the measure or not at all.
The detail that matters
Choose the heading for the stack, the hardware and the fabric
Everyone compares headings on appearance, and appearance is the part you can already see. The three decisions that actually matter are how much window the curtain gives you back when it is open, what it can hang from, and which fabrics suit it. Get those right and the look follows.
S fold stacks tightest, because the fabric folds into a consistent wave with nothing sewn into it. Pinch pleat stacks deeper. Pencil pleat sits in between and is the least predictable. On a tall narrow window nobody notices; on a wide opening it is the difference between seeing the garden and seeing curtain.
Pinch pleat and pencil pleat will go on a track or a decorative rod, so if the hardware is part of the look you have both options. S fold needs its own channelled track and is only ever a track product. Choose the heading and the hardware together, because one rules out the other.
A heavy textured linen carries a pinch pleat and fights an S fold. A crisp sheer waves beautifully and gathers into something shapeless. We bring the range to you and hold the fabric up in your own light, because the swatch on our knee in a showroom tells you almost nothing about the room it is going into.
Brisbane & Gold Coast clients
Beautiful, Soft And Quality
Curtains are the product clients name most often in their own words. These three are unedited, and the middle one is from a designer who works with us on other people's homes.
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
I am a designer on the Gold Coast and love working with Lusso! They are efficient, thorough and always on time with appointments and delivery of curtains and blinds. I would highly recommend this company
Lyn
Curtains are an amazing quality and look beautiful in our space. The gentleman who installed them was lovely to deal with and very professional.
Ashley
Where they go
What We'd Actually Specify
S fold in a mid-weight fabric, track run wall to wall, curtain stacking off the glass. This is the room the fullness ratio is for — it is where people sit and look at it.
QuotePinch pleat reads well here and takes a blockout lining without losing its shape. If the room needs to go properly dark, the blockout curtain specification is a different conversation and worth having.
QuoteThe one room where a decorative rod usually beats a track. Pinch pleat on a timber or metal rod, hung high, floor length, and the hardware is allowed to be part of the look.
QuoteLong drops are unforgiving. We fix into structure rather than plasterboard alone, and we run the track past the opening so a three-metre door does not lose half a metre of glass to stacked fabric.
QuoteCurtains for the softness, a roller blind behind for the function. It is often cheaper than one curtain doing both jobs badly, and it looks considered rather than compromised.
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 is not a formality — it decides the specification.
Itemised component by component, so you can see where the money actually goes. Valid for 30 days.
Nothing starts until you are 100% comfortable with the selections. We fit them and we come back if they need us.
Where we work
Brisbane and the Gold Coast
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.
Layering is the usual answer here: a sheer curtain in front for the day, and something with a blockout lining behind it for the night.
Before you ask
The pleat is sewn either way; the look is what changes. A pinch pleat is gathered into fixed groups and sewn, so it holds a tailored, formal shape and stacks in deep folds. A pencil pleat is drawn up on a tape into a row of narrow upright gathers, which is softer, more traditional and usually less expensive. Both hang from a track or a rod.
S fold, sometimes called wave, runs the fabric through a channelled track on gliders set at a fixed spacing, so the curtain falls in an even continuous wave from top to bottom with no sewn pleat at the head. It is the most contemporary of the three, it stacks tightly, and it needs the right track — you cannot convert a curtain to S fold afterwards.
Ready-made curtains are typically made to around one and a half times the track width. We make to between two and two and a half times, depending on the heading and the fabric. That ratio, not the fabric price, is why one curtain looks thin and the other looks full — and it is the number worth asking any supplier for.
In a room you sit in, yes. A curtain that stops short of the floor draws a line across the wall and makes the ceiling look lower, and it never reads as deliberate. We hang to within a few millimetres of the floor as standard, and break the fabric on the floor only where someone specifically wants that look.
Drop and width first, then the heading, then the fabric. A tall window costs more than a wide one for the same area of glass because the fabric runs vertically. We quote itemised within 24 to 48 hours of the measure, valid for 30 days, and there is no deposit to get a price.
A full, floor-length curtain in a heavy fabric absorbs reflected sound inside the room, so the room feels calmer. It does very little about sound coming through the window itself. If traffic noise is the problem, glazing is the fix and a curtain is a comfort.
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.
