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Book the private view: a free home visit. We measure every window, then make each piece in our own workshop.
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Sheer curtains
The daytime layer by the glass
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
If your Dubai flat looks straight into the tower opposite, sheer curtains let the daylight in and blur the view into your room by day. The fine, see-through fabric softens strong sun, and you still see out. Once your lights go on at night, the neighbours see in. We measure at your home, and the visit is free.
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Two details decide how a sheer hangs: a weave heavy enough to drape, and folds of one even size.
A heavier voile hangs in round, steady folds; a fine chiffon in looser ones. Hold both against your glass.
Linked at a fixed spacing, so every wave fold is the same size.
Where a track or pole is up, a sheer with a matching heading can usually hang from it without new holes. A second layer means a new track unless the existing one is double, and every track we fit is drilled and screwed in. When you move, the sheer fits only a window of similar width and drop.
Sun on your desk washes out the laptop screen. A sheer spreads direct sun into even light, so the screen is easier to read. For strong glare, add a roller blind between the sheer and the glass, at the cost of some view.
Ready-made sheers often stop short of tall villa glass. A made-to-measure sheer can hang from ceiling to floor. Most of our fabrics now come 280 to 320 cm wide, so a sheer with a drop up to that width has no seam across it. Double-height glass means our fitters work from scaffolding, charged separately.
Fabric for a sheer runs far wider than its track. That extra width, the fullness, decides the folds, how much the sheer hides and the price. We make eyelet and wave headings at 2.5 times the width, pinch pleat at 2 times. On any quote, check whether its metres are fabric or track.
By the balcony door
A sheer curtain gives little privacy once your lights are on at night: people outside look from the dark into a lit room.
Illustration, not a measurement
In daylight, neighbours opposite see mostly the sheer's bright surface. White hides more than grey of the same weave; grey gives a clearer view out.
As the sky dims and the lights come on, shapes in the room show from outside, often before the window looks dark to you.
Draw a lined curtain or lower a blind before the lights go on; a sheer alone shows shapes and movement to anyone opposite.
Whether a window needs more than a sheer depends on three questions. Can anyone see in when the room is lit at night? Does the afternoon sun heat the glass? Does someone sleep there after sunrise, around 5:30 am in June? A yes to any one means a second layer.
Sheers after dark, a lined curtain open
| Your window | What suits it | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Overlooked by another tower | Sheer and a lined curtain | Neighbours can see in at night |
| Open view, no afternoon sun, used by day | A sheer alone | Only glare to soften |
| Faces west, hot by mid-afternoon | Sheer and a lined curtain or a blind | A sheer cuts glare but little heat |
| Bedroom | Sheer and a blackout-lined curtain | Sleep after sunrise needs darkness |
| Beside the kitchen hob | A wipe-clean blind, not a sheer | Keeps fabric away from heat and grease |
For a sheer, you choose the fabric, the heading and a track or pole.
Voile in daylight
Smooth and fine; usually polyester, so it hardly creases.
Usually polyester, made to look like linen.
The real fibre, with a natural texture and soft creases.
Very fine and floaty; it snags easily.
Eyelet
Pinch pleat
Wave
How each heading hangs
Even, rolling folds on a track.
Stitched, upright pleats on a track.
Rings that slide along a pole.
Hung from the ceiling along villa glass
Fixed to the ceiling, so no wall shows above the sheer.
Fixed above the frame, so some wall shows above it.
Before anything is fixed, settle the layers, the heading and, if you rent, whether you may drill.
Judge texture and colour in your own light: linen curtains can be sheer too, and a sheer in a strong colour such as red tints the daylight. Sheers in a living room pair with an evening curtain; the rest of our curtains are on one page.
Sheer by day
Lined at night
Two layers on a double track
Pick a heading, then enter the window's width and height. The calculator multiplies width × height by that heading's fullness to find the fabric, then prices it per m², making and fitting included. The measurements at the free home visit and the fabric you choose set your final price.
Side to side, across the window
Top to bottom, where it will hang
Sheer curtains
Estimate
Enter a width and a height to see an estimate.
Charged at the 6 m² minimum.
Width × height × fullness gives the fabric; it is charged on 6 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 sheer on a wall track above the frame.
A pair on a ceiling track, meeting in the middle.
Made to measure, from ceiling to floor.
The Curtains Dubai measures your windows at a free home visit, makes the sheers to measure in its own workshop, and fits the track and sheers.
A weighted hem
A fine weight sewn into the hem holds a light sheer straight in the air-conditioning.
Let us know which rooms need sheers, what each window faces and how tall the glass is. A photo of any track or pole helps. Home visits run Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 7 pm.
You choose the layers and the heading while we take each window's width and drop. We work anywhere in Dubai and bring the fabric samples with us.
A deposit confirms the order. Your sheers are cut and stitched in our Dubai workshop, and fitting follows 3 working days after approval; big or complicated jobs take longer. Share any move-in date before approving.
On fitting day we put up the track, hang the sheers and set their folds. Once you book the free home visit, we go window by window: which take a sheer alone, which need a second layer.
Anything else, ask on the phone: 050 257 7765
Made and fitted by The Curtains Dubai, sheer curtains start at 40 per m² of fabric; the fabric you pick sets the final price. A wave or eyelet heading takes more fabric than a pinch pleat, so the same window costs more. Every window and part has its own line on our quote, which holds for 30 days.
Sheer describes how open a weave is, while linen is a fibre, so a linen sheer is both. Choose voile for a smooth look, real linen for texture with a few creases, and a heavier linen for more privacy by day.
You can see shapes through voile, chiffon, net and lace, so each makes a sheer curtain, though none is fully transparent. Voile and chiffon are plain, fine weaves, net an open mesh and lace an openwork pattern. A fabric that lets light through but hides shapes is light-filtering, not sheer.
Most of the sun's heat passes through a sheer curtain's open weave, though the sheer cuts glare and some UV. UV readings published for Dubai reach 11 to 12 in late July. On hot west glass, add a lined curtain or a blind; DEWA's own summer advice is to shade glass.
Dust comes off a sheer where it hangs, with a vacuum's soft brush. To wash it, follow the care label. Most polyester voile takes a short, cool machine cycle and creases less if hung back up damp; real linen can shrink at its first wash. We don't clean curtains ourselves.
The lined layer for privacy and darkness at night.
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
Real linen, sheer or lined, and how it creases.
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
Daytime sheers and evening curtains for the main room.
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.
