Category: Guides & Advice

Half of curtain buyers want linen. The other half want how linen looks without what linen does — and buy polyester. Which one you are decides the fabric, the heading and how the curtain will behave for the next decade.

Lining is the part of a curtain nobody asks about, and on a quote it is usually a single word. What each type actually does, and the failure that shows up eighteen months in.

Two quotes for the same window, and no obvious reason for the gap. The four things that have to match before you can compare them — and where Annie would tell you not to spend.

Pencil pleat and pinch pleat are the two headings most people weigh up, and most assume the first is the cheaper one. It is not. A direct comparison on fullness, cost, stacking and fabric — and which one to choose for which room.

Pencil pleat is the heading most people can name, and the one most assume is the budget option. It is not — done properly it needs more fabric than a triple pinch pleat, and on Perth's large windows it carries some real disadvantages. What it is, why it costs what it does, and why almost nobody asks for it anymore.

Pinch pleat is the heading most people envisage when they picture curtains — but the difference between a good one and a flat one sits in a measurement almost no quote mentions. What single, double and triple pleats actually mean, how much fabric goes into each, and when another heading is the better answer.

What is genuinely moving in window treatments this year, what has gone quiet, and why the fabric you choose should outlast the trend that suggested it.

S-wave curtains hang in a continuous soft wave rather than gathering into pleats. Here is how the heading is made, what fullness it needs to look right, and the three situations where we would suggest something else.

We sew Roman blinds and we supply roller blinds, so this comparison names the windows where the roller is the better answer. Six questions that settle most of them.

Floor-to-ceiling curtains from a Perth workroom — why full-height fabric transforms tall windows and big glass, and how to get the track, fabric and drop right.