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Book the private view: a free home visit. We measure every window, then make each piece in our own workshop.
Book a free home visit050 257 7765WhatsAppLanguage:Englishالعربية planned
Blackout blinds
For sleep in daylight
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
If a bedroom in your Dubai home must stay dark after 8 am, blackout blinds belong on its window; for an evening-only room, dim-out is enough. Lowered, a blackout blind lets daylight in only at its edges, in narrow strips. Our free home visit measures each window and settles, with you, the fit that keeps them narrowest.
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It stops the light, whatever colour faces the room, so blackout needn't be black.
Upright strips each side hold the fabric's edges, so little daylight slips past.
A box that hides the roll and shuts the gap above it.
For a nursery, blackout blinds guard against two kinds of wake-up light: the June sunrise, around 5:30 am, and the sun at the 1 pm nap. Keep every cord and chain out of a child's reach. We fit child-safe controls on request, so tell us at the visit that the room is a nursery.
Check where it glowed. Lines down the sides come from gaps beside the fabric; a band along the top comes from an uncovered roll. Ask each firm where its blind will sit: in the recess, over it, or in channels under a cassette.
The darkest fit, channels under a cassette, usually takes the most screws. We fix every blind with screws and don't fit tension or adhesive systems. At move-out we take the blinds down; filling the holes and painting aren't part of our work. Measure the next flat's window before counting on reusing this blind.
Blackout is more than a desk needs: closed at 3 pm, it leaves you typing by lamplight. For screen glare, a sunscreen roller lowered partway is usually enough, and you keep daylight to work by.
Daylight round the edges
Blackout roller blinds in side channels under a cassette make a bedroom darker than other blind types do. With a lined curtain in front, the room gets darker still. Roman and vertical blinds let in more light; slatted and day-and-night blinds aren't blackout.
A lined curtain in front of the blind
| Blind and fit | How dark at noon | What still glows |
|---|---|---|
| Blind in channels and lined curtain in front | Darkest | A faint line above the curtain |
| Roller in side channels under a cassette | Very dark | Faint lines at the joins |
| Roller over the recess | Dark | The wall round its edges |
| Roller inside the recess | Dark, bright edges | Above the roll, both sides, the sill |
| Roman blind with blackout lining | Dark, bright edges | Sides; pinpoints at stitching |
| Vertical blind with blackout slats | Dim | Slat overlaps, top and bottom |
| Venetian, faux-wood or zebra blind | Not blackout | Gaps between slats, or sheer bands |
We make blackout rollers, open or in a cassette with side channels, and Roman blinds with a blackout lining. A child's room is where the control matters most.
The chain, clipped to the wall
Pull the bottom bar down; a light tug sends it back up.
Clipped tight to the wall, so no loop hangs free.
Nothing to pull; the controls depend on the motor.
Strong sun decides what colour the blind's back should be, and when you lower it. Renting decides how the blind is fixed.
In an east-facing bedroom, a lined blackout curtain in front catches the light that gets past the blind. For softer folds, choose a Roman blind with a blackout lining; for no pull cord at all, a blind that runs on a motor.
A desk by the window does better with roller blinds in sunscreen fabric; the blinds page compares the types.
A pale back and a dark back
Enter the width and height, and the estimate prices each square metre of blind at our blackout roller starting rate, making and fitting included. Roman blinds have their own starting rate, and a motor is priced on top. The fabric you choose and the measurements from the free home visit fix the final price.
Side to side, across the window
Top to bottom, where it will hang
Blackout blinds
Estimate
Enter a width and a height to see an estimate.
Charged at the 2 m² minimum.
Charged on 2 m² at least.
The final price depends on the fabric or material you choose and the measurements we take at the free home visit.
Before you compare quotes, see what a full quote lists, part by part.
One roller fitted inside the recess.
One roller in side channels under a cassette.
One roller fixed over the recess, past the frame.
The Curtains Dubai measures your windows at a free home visit, makes your blackout blinds to measure in its own workshop, and fits them.
Inside the recess
Over the recess
Where the blind is fixed
Who sleeps in the room, and when? Do you rent? Your answers shape the visit.
We measure the recess and the wall beside it, since a blind over the recess needs room there. We work anywhere in Dubai and bring blackout samples to try against your window. A deposit confirms the order.
We cut every blind to its own window in our workshop in Dubai. If a blind we measured doesn't fit, we alter or remake it at no charge. Expect fitting 3 working days after you approve, or longer for a large or complicated order. Tell us if the room must be dark by a certain date.
We fix any channels or cassette and hang each blind. Before the fitter leaves, lower every blind in daylight and look at its edges. Making and fitting each carry a 2-year warranty; sun fading isn't covered. The free home visit turns what you tell us about sleep times and renting into a blind and a fit for each bedroom.
Anything else, ask on the phone: 050 257 7765
Each quote for blackout blinds should price the fabric, any cassette or channels, the control and the fitting, and give the area. We list each window and part on its own line. Our blackout rollers start at 120 per square metre of blind, made and fitted, with a 2 m² minimum. The fabric you pick moves the final price.
Closed at midday, a blackout blind leaves the room dark enough to need lamps. Without side channels, light shows at the edges. The coating can crease or crack if the fabric is forced, and a coated fabric looks stiffer and plainer than a soft, woven one.
Dim-out fabric softens daylight to a glow: it cuts glare and blocks the view, but the room stays dim, not dark. Held up to a sunny window, a blackout sample shows no glow at all, which is the quickest way to tell the two apart.
Most coated blackout fabrics shouldn't go in a washing machine. Brush or vacuum off the dust, clean marks with a damp cloth, and let it dry before rolling it up. Some Roman blind fabrics come off for washing: follow the label.
Your existing curtains usually leave room for a blackout blind behind them. Inside the recess, the blind sits back from the wall, so your curtain slides past it and covers the side gaps. Over the recess, it stands further out, and the track may need longer brackets.
A lined curtain over the frame, alone or in front.
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
Sunscreen fabric for a desk, dim-out for evening rooms.
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
Soft folds, with a blackout lining for bedrooms.
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
We call or message you on the number you gave to agree a day for the visit. Then we visit and measure every window. The visit and the measuring are free.
