Red curtains, made to measure in Dubai
Red is the colour that changes most between the swatch and the room. The same dye reads burgundy in a matt velvet, brick in a linen and almost orange in a faux silk, because what you are looking at is mostly how the weave takes the light.
Which is the argument for holding it up at your own window. The fabric range comes to you on the free measuring visit, so a red is judged against your walls, your floor and Dubai daylight rather than under someone else's lighting.
Seen at your own window
The fabric range comes to you on the free measuring visit. A red that looks warm indoors often reads pink or brown against afternoon light, so it is worth judging it there.
Cut and sewn by us
We make what we fit, so the heading, the lining and the hem are settled before anything is cut.
Fitted, altered, repaired
Installation and <a href="/curtains-accessories/">track fitting</a> are ours too, along with alterations, repairs and cleaning later on.
Where a red curtain works
Red carries a room rather than sitting behind it, so it usually wants quiet walls and floor around it — a majlis or a formal sitting room in pale plaster, a dining room, a media room where a heavy dark red also kills reflections off the screen.
In a small bedroom a full drop of strong red is a lot of colour to wake up to. Two gentler ways round that: a neutral curtain with a red lining, which only shows as a warm edge in daylight, or a red sheer behind a plain blackout so the colour reads only when the sun is behind it.
Deep burgundy and wine behave almost like a neutral once the light is off them. Scarlet and pillar-box stay loud all day. It is worth knowing which of the two you are actually asking for before the cloth is cut.
See the reds against your own light
We will bring the range — velvet, faux silk, linen, sheer and blackout weaves — to your window on a free measuring visit.
Weave, weight and washing
Red comes in most of the cloths we make up: a matt velvet with real weight to it, a faux silk with more sheen, a slubbed linen that hangs soft rather than sharp, plain blackout, and a red sheer for the daytime layer.
How much light a red curtain stops is a question of the cloth and the lining behind it, not the colour. An unlined red glows when the sun is behind it, which is pleasant in a sitting room and no use at all in a bedroom. A blackout lining ends that, and it takes some of the heat off a west-facing pane through the afternoon.
Care is the ordinary one for a dyed fabric: a cold wash where the cloth allows it, no bleach, a cool iron. Strong colours fade faster than pale ones in direct sun, which is one more reason to put something behind a red on a west-facing window.
Red curtains in different shades
Ordering red curtains
- Tell us the room, which way the window faces, and whether the red is the layer you see or the one behind it.
- We bring the reds to you and measure the windows on the same visit. Nothing is cut or drilled before the sizes and the price are agreed.
- The curtains are cut and sewn by us, so a hem, a heading or a drop can be altered later without going back through anyone else.
- Installation and track fitting are done by the same team, in Dubai.
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Tell us about the window
The room, the direction it faces and what is above the glass are usually enough for us to say what the job involves.