Hay Interiors is a long-established Perth curtain maker based in Nedlands, an easy drive from Fremantle. We’ve been making custom made curtains in Perth since 1969, and Fremantle — with Australia’s best-preserved heritage streetscapes, character cottages, warehouse conversions and a growing apartment scene — is a suburb whose homes we genuinely understand. Everything we sell, we make or expertly source, and the person who advises you is the person who oversees the making.
Few Perth suburbs reward sympathetic window treatments like Fremantle. Victorian and Edwardian cottages, limestone workers’ homes, grand Federation residences and converted warehouses all have proportions, mouldings and original windows that off-the-shelf products rarely flatter. Annie’s training in Southampton, England included heritage houses and museums — exactly the settings where correct proportion, traditional technique and period-appropriate detail matter most.
For Fremantle’s period homes we make traditional lined curtains with pinch and goblet pleat headings, tailored pelmets that conceal modern tracks while keeping period character, and the decorative styles few Perth makers still offer — London blinds, Austrian blinds and swags & tails. Annie also sources period-appropriate fabrics, including classic Victorian-style prints through specialist suppliers. See our heritage curtains page for the full story, and our curtain fabrics library for the ranges she draws on.
Being a short drive away matters in practical ways. You can visit our Nedlands showroom and workroom to explore hundreds of fabrics in natural light — and often watch curtains being made while you’re there, which tells you more about our standards than any brochure. Annie can be at your Fremantle home quickly for a consultation, and returning a fabric sample or checking a detail doesn’t mean crossing the city.
It also matters after installation. If anything ever needs adjusting — a track tuned, a hem revisited after floors are changed — we’re an easy drive away. Fremantle clients often tell us this closeness, and dealing directly with the maker rather than a sales chain, is what made the difference.
Fremantle’s vibrancy comes with noise — port sounds, traffic, weekend crowds. For a recent Fremantle client we made acoustic curtains in a sheer style for their living room: soft, light-filtering sheers made with specialist acoustic fabric that measurably improves a room’s sound comfort while keeping the light and outlook. As the exclusive Western Australian partner of Australia’s leading acoustic fabric supplier, we can offer acoustic performance — in sheers, lined curtains and blinds — that no other Perth curtain shop can match. For apartments near the cappuccino strip, homes on busier roads or anyone wanting a calmer interior, it’s a genuine solution rather than a marketing claim.
Alongside its heritage streetscapes, Fremantle has a growing contemporary side — warehouse conversions with exposed brick and double-height windows, new apartments near the waterfront and the arts precinct, and renovated homes where original limestone frontages meet thoroughly modern interiors. These spaces bring their own window treatment challenges, and they’re ones we handle well.
Warehouse conversions often have unusually large, tall or irregularly shaped windows where custom making — rather than off-the-shelf products — is the only way to get a result that actually fits and looks intentional. New waterfront apartments need glare control without losing the outlook, and the noise from Fremantle’s busy port and entertainment precincts makes our acoustic curtains — through our exclusive Western Australian acoustic fabric partnership — a genuinely useful solution rather than a luxury. For contemporary spaces wanting softness alongside practicality, soft sheer curtains layered with roller blinds or blockout curtains give flexibility from bright Fremantle morning to private evening, with motorised curtains on quality Acmeda and Somfy systems making large or high windows effortless. Explore our curtain fabrics library for the full range Annie draws on for these projects.
“Annie at Hay Interiors was a joy to work with. I was looking for acoustic sheers to improve sound absorption in my living room. From the measure to the final fitting, everything was performed perfectly. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.” — Liam D, Fremantle
Read more genuine feedback on our reviews page.
Our showroom and workroom are on Stirling Highway — an easy drive from Fremantle, and well worth the trip. Browse hundreds of fabric samples, see finished examples of curtain headings and Roman blind styles, and often watch curtains being made in the attached workroom.
For Fremantle clients who prefer to start at home, Annie offers free in-home consultations throughout the suburb — she’ll bring samples, assess your windows and light, and give honest advice on what genuinely suits your home. Many clients do both: a showroom visit for fabrics and inspiration, and a home visit for measuring and finalising the details.
Yes — heritage work is one of Annie’s great strengths. Her training in England included heritage houses and museums, and we make traditional styles by hand in our own workroom, with period-appropriate fabrics sourced through specialist suppliers.
Yes — as the exclusive WA partner of Australia’s leading acoustic fabric supplier, we make acoustic curtains and sheers that measurably soften noise. They make a clearly noticeable difference, though no curtain blocks sound entirely.
Yes — apartments are a speciality of ours, and warehouse conversions with tall or unusual windows are exactly where custom making matters. Annie assesses each space individually.
Yes — in-home consultations are free and without obligation throughout Fremantle and surrounds.
