Motorized curtains for Dubai homes and offices
A motorized curtain is an ordinary made-to-measure curtain on a track with a motor at one end. What changes is the pull: a remote, a wall switch, a phone, or a timer that opens the living room in the morning and closes it at sunset.
The useful cases are the ones where a cord is awkward. Glass running the full height of a double-volume room, a curtain behind a fixed sofa, a long run of office glazing, or a bedroom where you would rather not get up.
The same thing goes by several names — electric curtains, remote control curtains, smart curtains, and motorized or motorised depending on who is spelling it. They all describe a curtain that opens on a switch instead of a cord.
Free measuring visit
The track run, the power and the fabric all get looked at in one visit, before anything is ordered.
Track, motor and curtain together
The curtain is made to the track it runs on, so the fabric stacks where the motor stops instead of fighting it.
Fitted and serviced by us
We install the track and the motor, and handle alterations, repairs and cleaning to the curtains afterwards.
Somfy and Dooya motors
The curtain is made to your measurements. The motor on the track is a Somfy or a Dooya unit, fitted and set up by the same people who hang the curtain.
Where the power comes from
This is the question that decides the whole job, and it is far easier to answer before a ceiling is closed than after. A mains-wired motor needs a spur near one end of the track: clean, permanent, nothing to recharge. In a finished apartment it usually means a cable run and making good afterwards.
A battery motor avoids that. It is a rechargeable tube sitting inside or beside the track that comes down for charging every few months, or takes a small solar panel on the glass. In a rented apartment or a retrofit it is often the only sensible route.
Weight comes into it as well. A wide, lined, floor-length pair asks more of a motor than a light sheer does, so the fabric and the motor get chosen together rather than one after the other.
Book a free measuring visit
We will look at the track run, what sits above the glass and where the power can come from, then quote from that.
How you actually control them
Remote: a handset paired to the motor, usually with a channel per curtain and one that drives them together. The simplest thing to live with, and the thing that gets lost down the sofa.
Wall switch: a fixed plate by the door, wired or wireless. Worth having in a living room even if there is an app, because a guest can use it without being shown.
Phone: a hub on your network puts the curtains in an app alongside timers and scenes, and is how they join a wider home system if you have one.
Timer or sensor: opening on a schedule, or closing when the sun reaches a west-facing window. This is where the automation does something a cord cannot, rather than replacing it.
Motorized curtains in different styles
What to check before you commit
Noise. Motors differ, and a quiet one matters most in the room you sleep in, so it is worth hearing one run before choosing.
What happens in a power cut. Most motors can be pulled by hand or have a manual release. Confirm which yours has, because a curtain that only opens on electricity is a curtain that sometimes does not.
The stopping points. The motor learns where the curtain opens and closes to, and those can be reset later, which is useful when a new sofa means the curtain should stop short of it.
And the ceiling. A motorized track carries the motor at one end and takes the load of starting and stopping a heavy pair, so what it fixes into is the same question as any other track, only less forgiving. A gypsum bulkhead needs an anchor that finds the framing behind the board.
Wired, or battery?
Call or WhatsApp +971 50 280 8765 and say whether the ceiling is still open or already finished. That is usually what decides it.