04 · Curtains
Curtains for Maitland and Hunter homes
The soft category, specced with the same discipline as the hard ones: drop measured to the millimetre, tracks rated for the fabric's weight, headings chosen for how the room is actually used. A curtain here is a made-to-measure fitting, not a packet off a shelf.
04.A The layers
Sheer by day, blockout by night, or both.
A sheer softens the light and holds daytime privacy while the room keeps its view. A blockout drape closes the room down properly at night and takes the edge off winter glass. Layered on a double track, the two run independently, and the window works around the clock.
Where a bedroom wants one treatment doing both jobs, a blockout curtain alone often beats a blind for edge darkness, because fabric overlaps the frame instead of stopping at it.
04.B The spec
| Decision | The options | How we call it |
|---|---|---|
| Heading | S-fold (soft continuous waves), pinch pleat (tailored), eyelet (casual). | S-fold for most modern Hunter rooms; pleats where the room is formal; the fabric's weight gets a say. |
| Track or rod | Ceiling-fixed track, wall-fixed track, or a visible rod. | Ceiling tracks make windows taller and suit S-fold; rods suit eyelets and older rooms with height to show off. |
| Drop | Sill, below-sill, or floor-length; puddled only on request. | Floor-length almost always. The tall openings around Lorn and Morpeth in particular deserve their full height. |
| Fabric weight | Sheer, light-filter, blockout-lined, thermal-lined. | By the room's job: the same transparency logic as every other category. |
| Operation | Hand-drawn, wand, cord, or motorised track. | Wands and motors for family rooms; corded tracks installed to the child-safety standard when chosen. |
04.C On the schedule
Where curtains take the row.
Living and dining rooms that need dressing as much as covering. Main bedrooms where softness and darkness should arrive together. Big spans where fabric stacking off to one side clears the whole opening. And the period rooms of the older streets, where floor-length drops sit right with the proportions the house was built with.
Where they hand the row to a neighbour: wet areas (a PVC shutter or venetian lives longer in steam), and hot western glass, where the honest fix is outside.
Free measure & quote
One visit. Every opening. A written quote.
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