Curtains in Dubai, made to measure

How well a curtain keeps out light and heat depends on its lining and what it hangs from. With a blackout lining, the fabric itself lets almost no light through. A pale lining on the window side also reflects much of the sun before it warms the room, even behind a dark fabric.

DEWA's own summer advice includes shading glass. For a west-facing room, read our guide to heat-blocking curtains.

A bright line down each side of a closed curtain usually means the track ends at the window frame. Extend it past the frame and the curtain covers a strip of wall at each side. A ceiling track, or a pelmet over a wall track, keeps light from showing above the curtain.

The heading decides what the curtain hangs from. A wave heading, the even folds seen in many modern rooms, runs on a track, and a pinch pleat hangs from a track or a rod. We can add a motor to curtains you already have, on a new, motorized track.

An eyelet curtain threads onto a pole, so light can show above it, and a standard motor track won't carry it.

The Curtains Dubai is a Dubai curtains and blinds company that measures your windows at a free home visit, makes curtains and blinds to measure in its own workshop, and supplies and installs motorized and smart curtains and blinds.

In a rented home, new holes need the landlord's permission first (Article 19 of Dubai Law No. 26 of 2007). Article 21 adds a second duty: leaving the flat as it was when you moved in (Khaleej Times on the law). This is information, not legal advice.

Some tenancy contracts let you drill if you fill every hole before returning the keys. Every track and pole we put up is fixed with screws, so settle that permission first.

Towers often set rules for fitting day as well. We arrange whatever the building asks of us as the contractor. If an NOC must come from you as owner or tenant, you request it and pass it on to us.