Office curtains in Dubai, for boardrooms and walls of glass

Office curtains are made-to-measure curtains for a workplace. A sheer takes the glare off screens and keeps the view, and a blackout or dimout curtain darkens a meeting room for a screen or a projector.

Ours hang from a white ceiling track, usually in a wave heading, whose even folds suit a modern office, cut to the full drop of the glass. A sheer and a blackout can share one double track, which is included in the price, so a meeting room has both.

From

AED 35 per m²

for a sheer, with the track and the fitting included.

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Boardroom on a high floor with white sheer wave curtains drawn across the glass and charcoal blackout curtains stacked at each end, towers soft behind

A blackout is AED 45 per m², on the same terms. Curtains Express measures, makes and fits every curtain, usually within about a week of your go-ahead, with a two-year warranty on stitching and fitting.

Free visit to your office

There's no walk-in counter. Someone comes to the office with the fabric book, measures every run of glass and checks the ceiling pocket, anywhere in Dubai.

Track and fitting included

The price per m² includes a white ceiling track and the fitting. A sheer and a blackout on one double track cost nothing extra for the second track.

Two-year warranty

Every curtain is covered for two years on stitching and fitting. When the layout changes, we alter and refit what we made.

Office curtains, in short

Office curtains, also called office drapes or office window curtains, usually come in two layers, a sheer for the working day and a blackout or dimout for presentations.
Curtains Express makes office curtains to measure, from AED 35 per m² for a sheer and AED 45 per m² for a blackout, with the track and the fitting included.
A meeting room usually takes both, a sheer on the track nearest the glass and a blackout in front, on one double track that is included in the price.
Curtains suit boardrooms, meeting rooms, executive offices and tall reception glass; along open-plan desks, blinds usually work better because they sit close to the glass and take little room when open.
A sheer stops glare without hiding the view, but it doesn't make a room private after dark, because once the lights are on inside the room shows through it.
Curtains soften the echo of a glass-walled meeting room, but no curtain soundproofs one.
Office curtains from Curtains Express are usually fitted within about a week of your go-ahead and carry a two-year warranty on stitching and fitting.

Glass meeting room with white sheer curtains drawn inside it, and light grey roller blinds lowered along the open-plan windows beyond — Curtains in the room, blinds on the floor

The fabrics are covered one by one on our sheer curtains and blackout curtains pages, and the blinds for an open floor, with their prices, on office blinds.

The same boardroom, bare and dressed

Move across the picture. Both sides are illustrations of one room, not a job of ours: the glass as a fit-out hands it over, and the same glass with a sheer drawn and a blackout stacked at each end.

Boardroom with bare floor-to-ceiling glass at midday, sunlight and reflections across a long polished table — Illustration · Bare glass, sheer drawn

The same boardroom with a white sheer drawn across the glass and charcoal blackout curtains stacked at each end — Illustration · Bare glass, sheer drawn

Bare glass

Glare on the table and every screen

Midday sun lands on the table and on any screen facing the window, and at night the glass gives the room back as a reflection.

Sheer drawn

The glare gone, the city still there

The sheer takes the glare off the table and the screens and still shows the city. The blackout at each end closes the room for a presentation.

Curtains or blinds, room by room

Most office floors end up with both. Curtains go where a room is closed for meetings or seen by visitors, blinds along the windows people sit at all day.

Curtains or blinds, room by room
	Curtains	Blinds
Boardrooms and meeting rooms	A sheer and a blackout on one double track, daylight for a meeting and dark for a screen	Blackout blinds darken it; most let light in round the edges
Open-plan desks along the glass	The stack takes wall space beside the desks	Sunscreen louvres or rollers keep the light and cut the glare, close to the glass
Reception and tall glass	Long sheers from a ceiling track, motorized where the glass is out of reach	Rarely, on glass this tall
Executive offices	A sheer with a dimout or blackout in front	Faux wood or roman blinds, which tilt or fold
Sound in the room	Lined curtains soften the echo	Little effect on echo

Boardrooms, meeting rooms and reception glass

Grey wave curtains on a ceiling track inside the glass walls of a meeting room, half drawn beside an open-plan office — A glass-walled meeting room

Boardrooms
A long glass wall and a long table. A sheer on the track nearest the glass for the working day, and a blackout in front that closes for a screen; one double track, inside the ceiling pocket where there is one.
Meeting rooms
Smaller glass, the same two layers. Where a room is used for calls and screens more than for the view, a dimout in front brings the light down without making the room feel shut.
Training and presentation rooms
Blackout, with the track run past the glass at each side, the pair overlapping at the centre and the hem close to the floor, so no line of daylight crosses the screen.
Executive offices
A sheer drawn for the day and a pinch pleat or wave curtain in a heavier face fabric at the sides. Pinch pleat is the more formal of the two.
Reception and double-height glass
Long sheers from a ceiling track, made with vertical joins where the drop is taller than the fabric's roll. Glass out of reach is the case for a motor.
Glass-walled meeting rooms
A ceiling track along the inside of the glass lets a meeting room close off from the open floor, then stack back to the corner when it doesn't need to.

Glare, screens and the Dubai afternoon

Office hours run straight through the worst of the sun, and each side of the building gets it at a different hour.

West glass from mid-afternoon

From the middle of the afternoon the sun comes in low on west-facing glass and lands on whichever screens face it. A sheer drawn across takes the glare off them while the floor keeps its daylight and its view.

East glass in the morning

On east glass the low sun arrives with the first meetings of the day, since in summer it is up before half past five. A sheer softens it; an east-facing meeting room wants a blackout in front.

A projector or a screen

A projector needs the room properly dark, and the light that spoils it comes round a curtain more than through it. Run the track past the glass at each side, let the pair overlap at the centre and bring the hem close to the floor, and blackout does the rest.

After the lights go on

A sheer keeps an office private only while it is brighter outside. When the floor is lit and the sky is dark, the room shows through it, which is what the blackout in front is for on a ground floor or a room facing another tower.

Training room with charcoal blackout curtains closed, daylight showing along the top, at a gap between two panels and under the hem, and a projector screen lit — Light round the top, a gap and the hem

Curtains soften a glass room; they don't soundproof it

A meeting room of glass, plasterboard and a hard floor rings. A lined curtain drawn along one wall of it takes the edge off that echo, which is most of what makes a call in that room sound hollow.

It won't stop the room being heard outside, though, and it won't keep the open floor out. Sound travels through the glass, the gap under the door and the ceiling void, and no curtain closes those. If a room has to be private to speech, that is a job for the partition, not the window.

Conference room with linen-look curtains drawn along one glass wall, a white table and black chairs, towers outside — Curtains along a glass wall

Motorized curtains for long glass walls

Any pinch pleat or wave curtain we make can run on a motorized track, with Somfy or Dooya. On a long boardroom wall, or reception glass nobody can reach, the curtains open and close from a switch by the door.

What a motorized wall costs

A 6 m boardroom wall with a 3 m drop, in a blackout wave curtain, takes 45 m² of cloth, which is AED 2,025. On a Dooya ripple fold track (AED 150 a metre, so AED 900) with a Dooya wired motor (AED 700), it comes to AED 3,625, fitted and programmed. On Somfy's track and a Glydea Ultra 35e motor it is AED 4,475. Remotes and switches are priced on top. All the rates are on our motorized curtains page.

One motor per 6 m

One motor pulls up to 6 m of track; wider glass takes a motor for each run. On a double track the sheer and the blackout each have their own motor, so they move separately.

Switches, remotes and timers

A wireless wall switch by the door, a remote on the table, or the app, with timers that open the curtains in the morning and close them at sunset. One remote or app runs curtains and blinds of the same brand, so a floor can share them.

Power in the ceiling

A wired motor needs a power point inside the curtain pocket at the motor end, which is easiest to arrange during a fit-out, before the ceiling closes. A battery motor needs none.

Double-height office reception with ivory sheer curtains hung in wave folds from the ceiling down the full height of the glass — Tall glass, out of reach

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Tell us the building, which rooms and roughly how wide the glass is. Someone brings the fabric book to the office and measures every run, anywhere in Dubai.

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Fitting curtains in a working office

The ceiling pocket

Most tower fit-outs leave a pocket in the gypsum ceiling above the glass, and the track fixes up inside it so nothing shows. For two layers the pocket needs 20 to 25 cm of depth for wave, or 10 to 15 cm for pinch pleat, which is checked at the visit.

No pocket

Where there is none, the track fixes to the ceiling or the wall, into the framing behind the plasterboard rather than the board itself, and runs past the glass at each side so the curtains stack clear of it.

When the layout changes

Offices move walls. We alter the curtains we made to a new width or drop, take them down and rehang them, and fit new track where the rooms have moved.

Out of hours

Where an office can't stop, we fit in the evening or at the weekend, at an extra charge shown in the quote.

Invoices and deposits

Companies get a VAT invoice with our TRN. A deposit is taken before the curtains are made, and the rest when they are up.

Several rooms or floors

A larger order, several meeting rooms or a whole floor, is priced at a better rate than a single room.

Fire-rated fabric

Some buildings ask for fire-rated sheers. We source them on request for the job rather than stocking them, so ask us at the measuring visit and we will tell you what can be supplied for your building.

Executive office with a white sheer drawn across the window and taupe pinch-pleat curtains at each side, hung from a ceiling recess — Curtains from the ceiling recess

Questions offices ask about curtains

How much do office curtains cost in Dubai?

At Curtains Express a sheer starts at AED 35 per m² and a blackout at AED 45 per m², with the track and the fitting included. A 400 × 300 cm meeting-room window in a wave heading costs AED 1,050 for the sheer, or AED 2,400 with a blackout in front on a double track, which is included too.

The fabric, the heading and a motor move the figure. Measuring is free.

Curtains or blinds for an office?

Curtains for boardrooms, meeting rooms, executive offices and tall reception glass, where a room closes for meetings or is seen by visitors. Blinds along open-plan desks, because they sit close to the glass and take little room when open. Most office floors end up with both.

What curtains are best for a meeting room?

A sheer and a blackout on one double track. The sheer stays drawn through the day for soft light and the view; the blackout closes for a screen or a projector. In a ceiling pocket, two layers need 20 to 25 cm of depth for wave, or 10 to 15 cm for pinch pleat.

Do curtains stop glare on computer screens?

A sheer does, without blocking the view. Drawn across west glass in the afternoon, it softens the light that would otherwise land on the screens. For a room that has to go dark, a blackout does the rest.

Can people see into the office through sheer curtains?

By day, no, because outside is brighter than the room. After dark, with the lights on inside, yes. A ground-floor office or a room facing another tower needs a heavier curtain to draw in the evening.

Do curtains soundproof a meeting room?

No. Lined curtains soften the echo inside a glass room, which helps calls, but sound still passes through the glass, the door and the ceiling void. No curtain makes a room private to speech.

Are your office curtains fire-rated?

Not as standard. Fire-rated sheers are sourced on request for the job, so ask us at the measuring visit and we will tell you what can be supplied for your building.

Can office curtains be motorized?

Yes, in pinch pleat or wave, with Somfy or Dooya. One motor pulls up to 6 m of track, each layer of a double track has its own motor, and a wired motor needs a power point in the curtain pocket. Eyelet curtains can't be motorized.

Can you fit curtains to a glass-walled meeting room?

Yes, on a ceiling track along the inside of the glass, so the room can close off from the open floor and stack back when it doesn't need to.

Do you alter or move office curtains?

Yes. We alter the curtains we made to a new width or drop, take them down and rehang them, and fit new track when the rooms change. We don't clean curtains.

Can you fit office curtains outside working hours?

Yes. Evenings and weekends are possible, so meetings aren't disturbed, at an extra charge that is shown in the quote.

Do you invoice companies with VAT?

Yes, every company job gets a VAT invoice with our TRN. We take a deposit before making and the balance once the curtains are fitted.

How long does it take, and is there a warranty?

Usually about a week from your go-ahead to fitted curtains, after a free measuring visit. Every curtain carries a two-year warranty on stitching and fitting.

Send us the office's glass

Send the rooms, the rough width and height of the glass in each, and which way the building faces, and we will tell you what each room needs and what it costs.