Keep The View. Lose The Glare.
A sheer blind is an open-weave roller that takes the glare out of a room without taking the daylight or the view with it. We make them to your openings in 1, 3, 5 and 10 per cent openness, and fit them from Byron Bay to Brisbane.
Why Lusso, Brisbane & Gold Coast
Four Rungs Between Glass And Dark
A sheer blind does one thing extremely well — it kills glare and keeps the room bright. It gives you nothing after dark, which we come back to below. Most homes still over-specify blockout and under-specify sheers, and there are four openness factors sitting between clear glass and a dark room. We carry all four, so the trade-off is yours rather than the fabric book’s.
The range
Local conditions
The Light That Ruins A Room Comes In Sideways
From Byron Bay to Brisbane, the light that makes a room unusable at four in the afternoon has usually hit something else first. Water, a pool deck, the pale render on the building opposite, a neighbour’s white roof. It arrives low and diffuse, from an aspect the eaves were never built for, and it does not care that the window it comes through faces south. In Main Beach, Currumbin and Hope Island we see it on windows the owner had written off as the shady side of the house.
That changes which openness you pick. Reflected glare fills a room rather than throwing one bright rectangle across the floor, so a weave that handles direct sun at ten per cent will still have you squinting at a screen. On the coastal strip we usually land a step tighter than the aspect alone would suggest — and because glass is where most of the heat gets in, the tighter weave usually earns its keep twice. The openness factor guide works through the numbers window by window.
The second local fact is humidity. Open-weave fabric in a bathroom or a laundry that never quite dries out will grow mould in the weave, and it is excluded from every fabric warranty we have read — so we would rather talk you out of one in there than fit it and wait.
The detail that matters
The Three Numbers Nobody Publishes
Openness, width and bracket depth settle whether a sheer blind works in your opening. We have yet to find a competitor page that gives you all three.
Openness is how much of the weave is open. Lower blocks more light and shows less of the outside; higher keeps more view and more glare. We carry 1, 3, 5 and 10 per cent, which is four rungs rather than the two most fabric books offer. One per cent on a west wall where glare is the problem, ten where the view is the point. Nothing in that range gives you privacy after dark, and no weave ever will.
A single sheer roller blind runs to about three metres. Past that we move to a 60mm tube so the blind stays straight instead of bowing in the middle, and some fabrics can be railroaded — turned sideways so the roll width runs across the blind — which takes it wider again. Not every fabric survives the rotation, so the real number for your opening comes off the measure rather than off a web page.
Want the sheer by day and dark at night on one window? That is a dual blind: two rollers on a single bracket. The bracket projects between 115 and 122mm depending on the system, and the fabric needs clearance on top of that. Measure the reveal before you fall in love with a fabric — how dual rollers actually go together covers the rest.
Gold Coast clients
Sun Out. View Still There.
Eighty-five five-star reviews across 48 years. These three are the ones about sun, glare and heat.
We are very happy with our sun blinds, they are very effective in keeping sun and glare out. The installers were very professional and we would have no problems recommending Lusso blinds to anyone.
Lyell Crapper
So good! I love the blind, the way it looks and the amount it has minimised the sun and heat.
Dayana Winnall
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 Baker
Where they go
Five Rooms, Five Different Answers
The room a sheer blind was made for. Three or five per cent takes the glare off the screen and the floorboards and you keep the yard, the pool and the daylight. It is also the room where a blockout gets specified out of habit and then sits half-drawn all year, because no position is quite right.
QuoteOne per cent, and be honest about what an internal blind can do. Late western sun through glass is a heat problem before it is a light problem, and shading the glass from outside beats anything we hang inside it. If an awning or an external blind will fit, do that first and put the sheer behind it.
QuoteNot on its own. A sheer gives you the day and nothing after dark, however tight the weave, so a bedroom wants a blockout roller or a dual blind with the sheer in front of it. Ask for the dual on one bracket, and check the reveal depth before you choose the fabric.
QuoteThree per cent, and mount it high. Screen glare arrives off the wall behind you as often as through the window in front of you, which is why the study is the one room where people who came in wanting the view leave having chosen a tighter weave than they planned.
QuoteWe would talk you out of fabric here. Open weave, steam and subtropical humidity add up to mould in the weave, which no fabric warranty covers, and a Thermalite shutter wipes clean instead. If it has to be a blind, keep it well clear of the sink.
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 on a sheer blind — it is what sets the openness.
Itemised component by component, so you can see what the fabric costs and what the hardware costs. Valid for 30 days.
Nothing starts until you are comfortable with the selections. Fifty per cent on order, the balance on the day it goes in.
Where we work
We Come To You, With The Fabric
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
On most Australian price lists, nothing. They are the same open-weave roller fabric under two names, and the naming is genuinely inconsistent across the trade — some suppliers treat sheer as a separate, looser fabric chosen for looks, others use the two words interchangeably. Ignore the label and ask for the openness percentage. That number tells you exactly what you are buying; the name does not.
Yes. You see from the darker side into the brighter one, so by day you look out and nobody looks in, and after dark with the lights on that reverses. That is physics rather than a product gap, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. If you need the window covered after dark, the answer is a second layer — a dual roller on one bracket, or a sheer with a blockout curtain behind it.
They cut some of it, and they are not the tool for the job. An open weave intercepts direct radiation and knocks the glare down, but the energy that gets through the holes still lands in the room, and a darker fabric absorbs heat while a lighter one reflects it. Verosol SilverScreen changes the mechanism — a microscopic metallised layer on the back reflects solar radiation instead of absorbing it. For a genuine heat problem, shade the glass from outside first.
Close, and worth pinning down before you order. “Light filtering” describes what the fabric does — it softens and spreads incoming light — and an open-weave sheer does exactly that while keeping a view through the weave. Some fabrics filter light without giving you any view at all, which is a different result in the same room — that is what our light filtering blinds page covers. Ask which of the two you are being quoted, because the words do not settle it.
It depends on which you would rather lose, glare or view, and that is a decision only you can make in your own room. As a shape: 1 and 3 per cent for west and north-west glass, screens and anywhere the glare is the complaint; 5 per cent as the middle ground for a living room; 10 per cent where the view is the reason you bought the house. We bring all four to the measure and hold them against your actual window, because a sample in the hand behaves nothing like a sample at the glass.
We do not publish a figure, because a number without a measure is a guess and you would be right not to trust it. What we will commit to is the process: the quote is free, it arrives within 24 to 48 hours of the measure, it is itemised component by component, and it holds for 30 days. Fifty per cent on order, the balance on the day of installation, and no deposit to get a price.
Two to three weeks from check-measure to installation for a roller blind. Motorising adds about a week, more if power has to be run to the opening. Those are good-faith estimates rather than a guarantee, and the number that applies to your job goes on the quote rather than turning up after the deposit.
Regular light dusting or a vacuum on the lowest setting, with the blind down and the brush attachment on. Spot-clean marks with a barely damp cloth and let it dry fully before rolling it up. Do not soak an open-weave fabric or put it in a machine — the coating and the shape are what keep it rolling straight, and both go once it has been drenched.
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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.
