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Curtain guides, in plain English
Custom curtains come with a vocabulary nobody was born knowing, and too many places use it to sound clever rather than to help. These guides hand the language over. Read one before the measure and you will know exactly what you are asking for.
Wet curtains after a storm roof leak: what to do in the first two days
If a storm pushes water through your roof and onto your curtains, you have about a day to get them drying, not a week.
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Thermal vs blockout curtains: what a thermal lining does, and how to choose
Thermal and blockout curtains overlap more than the labels suggest.
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When daylight saving ends: switch your curtains to keep the heat in
Between April and July, Newcastle's average overnight low falls from 15.4°C to 8.5°C, according to the Bureau of Meteorology's long-term mean minimum temperatures for Newcastle (Nobbys), all years of record.
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Material for curtains: which fabric suits which room
Pick a curtain fabric for what the room has to do, then hang it so the fabric can do that job.
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Types of curtain headings: how each one looks, hangs and stacks
The heading is the top few centimetres of a curtain, and it does more work than its size suggests.
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Heading styles, explained
S-fold, pinch pleat, pencil pleat, eyelet. The fold at the top decides the whole curtain; this is the guide to choosing it.
The flagship guide
How curtains should fall
Drop, break, puddle, fullness, stack-back. The quiet numbers that separate a made curtain from a bought one.
The craft guide
Tracks, rods & pelmets
The hardware decision, made simple: what carries each heading, what hides, what shows, and why a pelmet is not just decoration.
The hardware guide
Fabric weight & light
Sheer, light-filter, blockout, thermal-lined: what each weight actually does to light, privacy and warmth, told in cloth.
The fabric guide
The drapery glossary
Every term the trade will use at you, defined in one plain sentence each. From architrave to wave fold.
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The Fold & Fall Planner
Reading is one way in. Trying the choices on a window, room by room, day and night, is faster. The planner does that.
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