Drapehaus
Drapehaus
Preparing the room
Drapehaus
Preparing the room
Curtain simulator
A swatch tells you the colour, not what the room will feel like at four in the afternoon or at ten at night. This curtain visualiser hangs each kind of curtain in the same Goan room so you can see the difference for yourself.
Sheer + blackout · Midday
Treatment
Time of day
Two layers on a double track: the sheer stays drawn for the day, the blackout closes over it at night. The most flexible answer for a bedroom.
In short
Sheer keeps the view and the light but hides little after dark. Linen glows and gives daytime privacy. A lining adds night-time privacy and protects the fabric; blackout adds darkness. Sheer and blackout together on a double track cover every hour, which is why the simulator opens on that setting.
Using the simulator
Pick a fabric in the Treatment row: Sheer, Linen, Lined, Blackout, or Sheer + blackout.
Move the Drawn open slider. At 0% the two panels meet and overlap in the middle; at 100% they stack back to either side of the window.
Tap Morning, Midday, Golden and Night in turn. The sunlight moves across the terracotta floor, and at Night a lamp comes on inside.
Watch the four meters — Daylight in, View out, Daytime privacy and Sun and heat cut — and read the tip line under them for what that fabric does best.
What the simulator shows
It is a room many Goan houses will recognise: lime-washed walls, a terracotta floor, a blue-and-white azulejo dado and timber rafters overhead. The window is tall and arched, with a radial fanlight and green shutters folded back into the reveal. Beyond it are a verandah, palms and the sea.
We drew it this way because curtains are judged against a real window, not a white box. The same fabric looks different against a deep reveal and a bright sky than it does in a showroom.
The brass pole extends well beyond the frame on both sides. Drawn back, the curtains stack against the wall rather than over the glass; closed, they cover the opening, frame and all.
That is how a well-hung curtain works in real life, and it matters most for the darker fabrics. A curtain that only just reaches the edge of the frame lets light round its sides whatever it is made of.
Daylight in and View out tell you what you keep. Daytime privacy tells you how much of the room a passer-by would make out; at Night it becomes Privacy, lights on, because a lit room behind fabric reveals far more than a dark one. Sun and heat cut shows how much direct sun the curtain stops, and rests at a dash after dark.
Each meter reads None, Low, Some, Good or High. They are relative guides, drawn from how each kind of material behaves, so you can compare one option with another. They are not measurements of any particular fabric.
Close each curtain at Midday and look at the panels. Sheer lets the sea show through. Linen lights up from behind. A lined curtain shows only a faint warm glow, and blackout shows none.
Look too at the leading edge, where the two panels meet. Lined and blackout curtains show a thin strip of lining turned at that edge — the part of the construction you will actually see from inside the room.
| Sheer | Linen | Lined | Blackout | Sheer + blackout | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight in (midday) | Good | Some | Low | None | None; Good with only the sheer across |
| View out | Some | None | None | None | None; Some with only the sheer across |
| Privacy, lights on | Low | Some | High | High | High |
| Sun and heat cut | Low | Good | High | High | High |
See it at your own window
The simulator narrows the choice. At the house we bring the real fabrics, hold them up to your light and measure every window.
In Goa
Many Goan rooms have to manage two very different lights: soft morning light, and hard, low sun from the west in the late afternoon, especially on sea-facing walls. Try Golden in the simulator to see how each fabric handles it.
For living rooms, a sheer or linen usually does the daytime work. For bedrooms, add a lining or a blackout layer for the night. Near the sea, salt air and monsoon humidity favour fabrics that wash and dry well, and linings that shield the face fabric from sun.
FAQ
The simulator shows a drawn room in perspective, not a photograph of yours, but it lets you compare how each fabric handles light, view and privacy at different times of day. For your own windows, we bring full-length samples to the house.
Most living rooms want light and a view by day, so a sheer or an unlined linen is the usual starting point. If the room is used for films or faces the western sun, add a lined curtain on a second track.
A bedroom needs privacy with the lamps on and, for many people, darkness in the morning. A lined curtain gives the first; blackout gives both. Sheer + blackout adds a daytime layer so the room is not closed off all day.
It is the arrangement that covers the most situations, so it is a useful place to start. Move the Drawn open slider and you will see the sheer stay in place while the blackout panels move.
No. They are relative guides so you can compare treatments. Colour, weave, fullness and the window itself all change the real result, which is why we hang samples at the glass before anything is made.
