Window Treatments

Every window has a job. Bedrooms want blockout for sleep. West-facing living rooms want glare control without blocking the view. Bathrooms want privacy without losing the light. Kitchens want easy-clean fabric. We specify fabric, opacity and system on a room-by-room basis rather than defaulting to one fabric for the house.

For high-end homes we also design dual-fabric systems - translucent for daytime glare control, blockout for privacy and sleep - on a single track.

• 01Blockout, translucent, screen (1-10% openness) and dual-fabric options.
• 02Roller blinds, romans, cellular, curtains, external shades.
• 03Stainless and marine-grade for coastal homes.
• 04Colour-matched cassettes and pelmets to hide the hardware.

Lutron Sivoia QS is the quietest motor we install (28dB, effectively inaudible in a bedroom). Somfy Sonesse 40 RTS and DC are the workhorses. Both integrate with Lutron, Control4, Crestron, Home Assistant and Apple Home so blinds are part of scenes, not a separate app.

Battery-powered options exist for retrofits where cabling isn't possible, though we always prefer hardwired for reliability.

• 01Sivoia QS (silent), Somfy DC (near-silent), Somfy RTS (retrofit).
• 02Integrated with Lutron, Control4, Crestron and Home Assistant.
• 03Solar-cell recharged battery motors for retrofit rooms.
• 04External Ziptrak and Ceduna for verandah and pergola shading.

Blinds should never move at the same clock time every day. We schedule to civil dusk and civil dawn (adjusts through the year), pause opening on days above 35°C to keep the house cool, and hold blinds down in Cinema mode until the film ends.

Every install includes a scene walkthrough at handover and a return-visit tuning session after a few weeks of real use.