Perth asks more of a window covering than most cities. Coastal light strips colour out of fabric within a few summers. West-facing glass turns a room unusable by five. Homes on the arterials live with traffic noise that never quite stops. And the character housing in the older suburbs was built to proportions that modern off-the-shelf treatments simply do not fit.
Everything below is made or specified for those conditions, from one workroom in Nedlands.
Sheer, blockout, acoustic, motorised, and the traditional treatments most Perth workrooms no longer offer – swags and tails, goblet pleats, tailored pelmets. Cut and sewn by hand in Nedlands, in fabrics chosen for your light rather than for a supplier’s range.
Our genuine speciality, and the reason many clients find us. Proper sewn Roman blinds using real curtain fabrics rather than simplified roller-fabric versions – classic, relaxed, waterfall and soft, plus London, Austrian and Festoon styles that very few Perth makers can execute well.
Practical answers for the windows that need them – blockout and sunscreen rollers, insulating cellular honeycombs for west-facing rooms, and plantation shutters. Made to our specification by trusted specialists, selected and fitted by us, with honest advice on when they are the right choice and when they are not.
Upholstery, bedheads, bedspreads, cushions and window seats, made or overseen in the same workroom. Also boat and caravan curtains, and commercial work.
We also undertake commercial projects with the same standards of quality and professionalism.
Most Perth companies that sell Roman blinds order them in, made from roller-blind fabric on a simplified mechanism. We sew ours in Nedlands from proper curtain fabric, which is why they hang the way a curtain hangs. It is also why we can still make London blinds, Austrian blinds and festoon blinds – decorative traditional styles that need skills very few workrooms have kept.
Hay Interiors is the exclusive Western Australian partner for Australia’s leading acoustic window furnishing supplier. That means acoustic curtains with independently tested figures behind them rather than a heavy curtain sold on the assumption it will help.
It also means the right diagnosis. Noise arriving from a busy road is a different problem from echo bouncing around a hard-surfaced room, and the two need different treatments. Annie will tell you which one you have, what will fix it, and when it is not worth doing.
These curtains are ours. We were invited to propose window dressings for a suite at Parliament House in Perth, against a brief asking for rooms that would feel lighter, brighter and more cohesive while respecting the heritage architecture. Annie submitted a proposal and design, and it was accepted.
Those two requirements pull against each other, which is what made it interesting – and the answer was restraint rather than more decoration. That is the judgement heritage work actually asks for, and it comes from Annie’s training in Southampton, England, on heritage houses and museums.
Most window furnishing companies in Perth are showrooms that order in. We are a workroom that consults – a genuine Perth curtain maker, led by Annie, master curtain maker trained in Southampton, England, and a Member of the Design Institute of Australia.
That difference shows in the details. Because we make rather than resell, we are not tied to a single supplier’s range – fabric advice draws on Warwick, Nettex, Charles Parsons and the designer collections, so the recommendation is the right fabric for your home rather than the one on our shelf. Motorised curtains run on quality Acmeda and Somfy systems. And because the person who advises you is the person who oversees the making, nothing is lost between the consultation and the finished window.
Many of Perth’s interior designers bring their projects to us from drawings stage. More on what separates a maker from a reseller is on why Hay Interiors.
Hay Interiors has been making curtains and blinds for Perth homes since 1969. Our showroom and workroom sit together on Stirling Highway in Nedlands, and from there we serve homes across the western suburbs, the coast and both sides of the river.
Distance never decides the outcome. Clients near Nedlands often call in – browse full-width curtain fabrics, take samples home, and watch curtains being made in the workroom behind the showroom. For everyone else, Annie brings the consultation to you: measuring at your windows, assessing your actual light, advising with samples in hand.
Either way the work runs through the same workroom, is installed under our own supervision, and is backed by after-care that goes straight to the maker rather than a reseller’s service queue.
Every suburb is different. Coastal light in City Beach punishes fabric that would thrive in a shaded Shenton Park cottage; a heritage home in Mount Lawley asks different questions than a river-view apartment in Crawley. That is why each suburb we serve has its own page, covering its homes, its light and our work there.
Every suburb below has its own dedicated page — select yours to see how we work in your neighbourhood.
Our reputation travels further than our suburb list. Hay Interiors has undertaken heritage work at Hoover House in Leonora and Allora House in Kalgoorlie, dressed substantial homes as far afield as Esperance, and Annie works regularly in Mandurah. Heritage commissions in particular travel well: the skills these buildings need — traditional treatments, period-correct headings, fabrics true to the era — live in very few workrooms, and clients who need them done properly have learned where to find us. If your project is outside Perth, distance is a logistics question, not an obstacle.
Wherever in Perth you are coming from, the starting point is the same: our showroom and workroom at 5/150 Stirling Highway, Nedlands, with parking on site. Handle full-width fabrics, see finished examples, often watch work in progress, and take samples home to judge them in your own rooms and your own light.
Or skip the trip and book a free in-home consultation. Annie will come to you, anywhere on this page, and tell you plainly what will work at your windows – including when the answer is simpler or cheaper than you expected.
All the suburbs listed on this page — spanning the western suburbs, the coast and both sides of the river — with free in-home consultations throughout. We also work regularly in Mandurah and take on projects much further afield, including heritage commissions in the Goldfields.
No — consultations are free and without obligation wherever you are on this page, and quotes reflect the work, not the postcode.
Yes — curtains and Roman blinds are sewn by hand in our own Nedlands workroom, not ordered from interstate or overseas. Roller blinds, cellular blinds and shutters are made to our specification by trusted specialists.
Call (08) 9386 1986, enquire online, or drop into the Nedlands showroom. Annie will arrange a free in-home consultation for your suburb.
Yes. Curtains and Roman blinds are cut and sewn by hand in our own Nedlands workroom. Roller blinds, cellular honeycomb blinds and shutters are made to our specification by trusted specialists and fitted by us. Everything is measured, specified and installed through the same workroom, so there is one point of accountability from consultation to installation.
It depends on the window and the room, and most Perth homes end up with both. Blinds suit windows with furniture beneath them, kitchens and bathrooms, and anywhere you want the glass to clear completely. Curtains suit rooms that need genuine darkness, softness, or acoustic performance – and they are the only reliable answer for a corner window. Annie will go through it room by room at the consultation.
Usually six weeks from the consultation, depending on fabric availability and the size of the job. Because the making happens in our own workroom rather than being ordered in, we control the timing rather than waiting on someone else’s queue.
