Living room curtains, cut for wide glass
The living room usually has the widest window in the home and the longest drop, which makes it the room where the measurements matter most and where something off the shelf almost never fits.
We make them to size and fit them ourselves, across Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The fabric range comes to you on the free measuring visit.
The range comes to you
There's no walk-in counter. Someone brings the fabric books to the room itself, so you choose against your own walls, floor and light.
Cut for the span
A wide window is measured end to end and made as one pair or a centre split, with the fullness you want in the folds.
Fitted, then looked after
We install what we make and fit the track or pole, then alter, repair and clean the same curtains later on.
How much light do you want to keep?
Living rooms here tend to face a lot of glass, and from the middle of the afternoon a west-facing window carries real heat as well as glare — enough to wash out a television and warm the room the air conditioning is trying to cool.
That's the argument for two layers, and it's a practical one rather than a decorative one. A sheer against the glass keeps the daylight and takes the hardness out of it; a heavier curtain in front closes for the worst of the afternoon and for the evening.
If you'd rather not give up the view, a roller blind at the glass with a sheer in front of it does much the same in less depth. It depends on the window, and on which hours you actually use the room.
Book a free measuring visit
Tell us the room and roughly how wide the window is, and we'll bring the fabric range to you.
Fabric, fullness and how it hangs
Three things decide how a living room curtain looks once it's up: the cloth, how much of it there is, and what the top is gathered into.
Linen has an open, slubbed weave and hangs soft rather than sharp. Cotton is crisper and holds a fold. Silk catches the light differently through the day and is the one that most wants a lining behind it. A sheer will read warmer or cooler depending on what sits behind it, which is another reason to hold the cloth up at the window rather than choose from a photograph.
Fullness is the part people don't expect. A curtain gathered to twice the width of its track uses twice the cloth, and it's the difference between deep, even folds and a flat panel. The heading follows from it: a pinch pleat holds fixed groups of folds, a wave runs one continuous S-curve on a corded track, and eyelets sit straight on a pole and pull with one hand.
Living room curtain styles
What gets decided on the measuring visit
Four things, and none of them can honestly be settled over the phone:
- Where the curtain hangs from — a ceiling pocket that's already there, a new track, or a pole — and what the ceiling above it will take. A gypsum bulkhead needs an anchor that finds the framing behind it.
- How far the track should run past the glass, so the curtains stack off the window instead of covering it when they're open.
- Where the drop finishes. A floor-length curtain usually stops about a centimetre clear of the tiles so it hangs without dragging.
- Which fabrics you actually like, held up against your own wall and floor.
Nothing is cut or drilled before the measurements and the price are agreed. Call or WhatsApp +971 50 280 8765, or email info@curtainsexpress.ae.
Tell us about your windows
Call or WhatsApp with your area and roughly how many windows, and we'll arrange a time to measure.