Privacy & Security Tips

The modern home is a sanctuary from all the hustle and bustle of the outside world. When relaxing in the evening or retreating during the day, curtains and blinds are an essential part of maintaining your privacy and ensuring that any prying eyes are kept out.

Complete Window Coverage

To ensure complete privacy the blind or curtain should be made to fit across the entire window area. Blanket coverage of the window can be easily produced with most blinds, but more particularly the solid variants such as the Roman blind and the Roller blind. Whether fitting in a recess or as an exact blind measure the appropriate dimensions accurately to ensure that the necessary coverage is achieved.

Flexible Privacy Solution

If, however you would prefer something a little more flexible, Venetian blinds or Vertical blinds may well provide the solution. Their adaptability means that they can not only be fully drawn or completely open, but also partially drawn for when you need a little light and a touch of privacy. The thin horizontal slats on the Venetian and the wider strips of fabric that make up the Vertical blind can be adjusted using a chord to provide you with the window coverage required.

Automated Curtain Tracks

Maintaining the security of your home whilst away on holiday can be a real headache. Relying on a neighbour to water the plants and feed the cat as well as flick on a light and close the curtains or blinds at night is not always a preferable or, for that matter, a possible solution. Timers for lights are now fairly commonplace; however we now stock an electric curtain track, which also has the same timer functionality.

Closing curtains and leaving lights on has become an extremely popular deterrent amongst homeowners to warn off potential wrong doers. Running on an electric track with automated timings and light sensors, the Silent Gliss track will automatically open and close your curtains when day turns to night, creating the illusion of a house full of inhabitants; all without needing to bother a neighbour. Of course this can also be used in the winter months, when returning home late or as an easy alternative to trudging around your home to close curtains individually.