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The Curtain Lab measures, makes and installs custom curtains and blinds for homes across Cronulla, from beachfront apartments along the Esplanade to renovated cottages a few streets back from the Cronulla Mall shops. Every order is made to measure in our Sydney workshop, and it starts with a free in-home measure and quote, so you know exactly what you're getting before you spend anything.

Cronulla sits on a narrow peninsula with ocean beach on one side and Gunnamatta Bay and Port Hacking on the other, which means a lot of the homes here were built to make the most of a water view. That's great for light. It's less great for glare, fading fabric and the general wear that salt air puts on anything cheap. We see a lot of older beach cottages that have been renovated with big glass doors facing the water, sitting next to newer unit blocks that went up closer to the station end of the suburb. Both need different things from a curtain or a blind, and we'll tell you honestly which is which rather than selling you the same thing for every window.

If you're in a strata building near the water, check your by-laws before you settle on a style. A lot of Cronulla apartment blocks have rules about what colour or type of blind can face outward, and we're used to working within those restrictions, we just need to know about them before we quote.

Curtains for Cronulla homes

Blockout Curtains | The Curtain Lab
For living rooms that catch direct afternoon sun off the water, blockout curtain fabric is usually the first thing we recommend, particularly in a west-facing room where the glare gets sharp in summer. Bedrooms get the same treatment for a different reason: better sleep, less streetlight, and a room that actually cools down after the sun's gone. Where you want the light without losing the view, sheer curtain fabric does the job, filtering the glare without blocking the outlook entirely, which matters more here than in most suburbs given how many living rooms face straight at the water. For a softer look that still holds up to coastal humidity, our wavefold curtains sit well in open-plan spaces, and pinch pleat curtains suit the older, more traditional cottages if you want something with a bit more structure than a wavefold gives you.

Blinds for Cronulla homes

Roller blinds are the most requested option for Cronulla apartments, mostly because they're compact and don't intrude on a room the way heavier curtains can in a smaller space. We fit them in sunscreen, light-filtering and full blockout fabric depending on which room and which direction it faces, and motorised versions are worth considering for anything above ground level where reaching a cord isn't practical. Venetian blinds give you finer control over how much light gets in through the day, which suits a lot of the north-facing living areas around North Cronulla. For bedrooms and studies, roman blinds add a fabric finish without the bulk of a full curtain, useful in some of the smaller rooms typical of older Cronulla cottages.

Nearby areas we also service

Sheer Curtain & Blockout Curtains | The Curtain Lab
  • Woolooware - just inland from Cronulla and home to the Sharks Leagues Club, mostly established family homes a short walk from the beach. Covered as part of our wider Sutherland Shire service area.
  • Burraneer - a peninsula suburb on Port Hacking rather than the ocean, so the glare and privacy problems come from a different direction to Cronulla's beach-facing homes. See our Sutherland Shire coverage.
  • Greenhills Beach - a newer, master-planned pocket at the southern end of the peninsula, mostly contemporary builds with larger glass openings than the older Cronulla streets. Also part of our Sutherland Shire coverage.
  • Kurnell - across the bay, more spread out, with a mix of older and newer housing. Covered under Sutherland Shire.
  • Bundeena - reachable by ferry from Cronulla wharf, a smaller village fringed by the Royal National Park. We service Bundeena as part of the wider Shire, see Sutherland Shire.
  • Caringbah South - just inland from Cronulla, with waterfront homes along Port Hacking. Full details on our Caringbah page.

Why homeowners in Cronulla use us

We're an Australian owned business, and everything is made here rather than shipped in pre-cut to standard sizes, which matters in a suburb where a lot of the housing stock is older and doesn't sit at standard dimensions. Most orders are fitted within about ten days of the measure, and every installation carries a five-year warranty, so if something isn't sitting right months later, it's still covered. We've got over fifteen years in the trade between us, enough to know which fabrics actually hold up near the water and which ones look fine in the showroom and fade within a year. You can see some of our past work on the projects page if you want a sense of what we've done in similar homes.

Call 1300 034 818 or book a free measure and quote online to get started. We also cover Miranda, Caringbah and the rest of the Sutherland Shire.

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Common questions from Cronulla customers

Yes. Tell us about any building by-laws before your measure and we'll work within them, whether that's colour, fabric type or how the blind sits from the street.

Cheaper synthetic fabrics do degrade faster with sustained salt exposure. We'll point you toward the ranges that are built for it if you're in a water-facing or beachfront property.

Most Cronulla jobs are fitted within ten days, though it can shift slightly depending on the fabric you choose and how busy the workshop is that month.

Yes, and it's a common setup here specifically because it lets you keep the water view filtered through sheer fabric during the day while still having full blockout for the evening.

We are an Australian owned company based in Sydney that specialize in Curtains for residential, commercial and architectural projects.

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