…a sun problem at times during the day (heat, glare, damage furnishings), lessen the light of a bedroom for morning sleeping or a TV room for daytime viewing, a privacy problem in the daytime or night, security issue when the house is vacant, purely decorative function only, make the room more cosy, or a combination of some of these.
Working through these questions will help and guide the consultant’s thinking, and your thinking about No 1 what types of fabrics and No 2 what track installation are going to answer.
Fabrics first: Unlike upholstery fabrics, window furnishing fabrics and treatments are classed as blockout (for, well, blockout curtains), or translucent (which allows light through), or transparent (which can be seen through) fabrics. Transparent is usually referred to as a ‘sheer’ in curtains, or a sunscreen as a particular type of roller blinds sheer fabric. Answers to the questions above about why the need for the window treatment help determine fabric type and curtain styles.
Track Types: the simplest track arrangement is a plain single track installation, for example Styleline made to measure tracking. Styleline is the basic professional custom track system. Continuous lengths of sturdy aluminium section are cut to size to make tracks up to 6 metres in one length. The difference between this basic track and a whole variety of ‘decorator tracks’ discussed later is that the curtain heading is designed to cover the track when the curtain is closed, as opposed to hanging below the track to make the track a feature.
Track installation types: Having determined with your custom curtains Brisbane consultant that a single layer curtain is going to suit your needs, the next question to be sorted is whether the custom made curtains and blinds should be centre open i.e. the curtain in two pieces that meet at the centre, or one way draw i.e. the curtain in one piece that opens or stacks to one side usually to match a one way sliding window or door.
Centre open made to measure curtains are often favoured for one way sliding windows however, for the sake of appearance when the curtain is open. Stackback should be allowed in this case. Stackback means that the track extends past the opening to allow the curtain to be stacked off the opening to some degree.
Stackback custom curtains are also a consideration with narrow width openings such as single double hung windows in a Queenslander. In this case, if stackback is not allowed, most of the opening remains covered even when the curtain is open.
An alternative to stackback in such situations is tiebacks or holdbacks.
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