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The supporting cast
Roman blinds and roller blinds in Newcastle
We are a curtain workroom first, and we will not pretend otherwise. But plenty of windows genuinely want a blind, and a made-to-measure blind deserves the same care as a made-to-measure curtain. Here is where blinds fit in our book.
Fabric first
Roman blinds: half curtain anyway
A roman blind is sewn from drapery fabric and folds up in soft horizontal pleats, which makes it the natural blind for a soft-furnishings house. It gives you the fabric warmth of a curtain in the footprint of a blind, and it is our first suggestion wherever a full-length curtain will not work:
- Window seats, desks and beds pushed against the wall, where a drop to the sill is all the room allows.
- Small terrace rooms where a stacked curtain would eat the wall.
- Kitchens and dining nooks that want softness without floor-length fabric.
Romans take the same fabric conversation as our curtains: sheer they are not, but light-filter faces and blockout linings both work, and the fabric can match or answer the drapes in the next room.
They are fabric, so we keep them out of steamy bathrooms and splash zones, and we will say so at the measure rather than sell you mould trouble.
The straight answers
Roller, venetian and vertical
Some windows just want a practical blind. We supply and fit them made to measure, and we will tell you plainly when that is the better call than a curtain.
Roller blinds
The quiet workhorse, in the same transparency scale as our curtain fabrics: sunscreen, light-filter or blockout, singly or as a day-night dual roller. Tidy in a recess, happy behind a curtain as the darkness layer.
Venetian blinds
Tilting slats for rooms that need fine light control or wipe-clean surfaces. Aluminium and timber-look PVC venetians are the honest choice for kitchens, laundries and bathrooms, where our fabrics should not live.
Vertical blinds
Still the sensible answer for sliding doors and very wide openings on a budget, and modern fabric vanes have shed the office look. Where budget allows, an S-fold sheer over a wide opening is the soft alternative; we quote both.
Safety, because it is not optional
Corded blinds and little hands
Corded internal window coverings are covered by a mandatory Australian safety standard: loose cords must not form a loop a child can reach, cords are kept taut with a cleat or guide fitted well above little hands, and the installer labels the fitting. We install to that standard as a matter of course, and in homes with young children we will usually steer you to cordless or wand-operated options so the question never arises.
Sources: ACCC Product Safety: blinds, curtains and window fittings mandatory standard · NSW Government: blind and curtain safety.
And the edges of the range
Shutters and outdoor
Plantation shutters suit some Newcastle rooms well, particularly wet areas and coastal windows that cop weather, and we can include them in a quote when the room calls for it. Outdoor blinds and awnings sit outside a textile workroom's lane; if that is the heart of your project, a dedicated outdoor specialist will serve you better, and we would rather say that than pretend.