Choosing
Most people start from “which one looks good” and get caught out later when it does not work the way they pictured. This page starts from the room instead — what the room actually needs — and works backwards to the product.
The biggest mix-up is thinking darkness comes from the type of blind. It comes from the fabric. A roller blind in sunscreen and a roller blind in blackout are the same product and give you completely different rooms. Decide first whether you want to keep the view, just take the edge off, or actually be in the dark.
A room that takes the afternoon sun and a room that takes the morning sun need different answers, but people usually buy the same thing for the whole house. Stand in the room and see which way the window faces — next section.
A motor earns its money where you cannot reach, or where you would have to walk over every day — not because it is a new toy. High windows, transoms above doors, and windows with a sofa or bed parked in front of them are where it genuinely changes things. On a small window you can pull in two seconds, the motor mostly goes unused.
You do not need a compass — open the map on your phone and see which way the building faces. These four cases really are different problems.
Sun from early morning through mid-morning. Bright, but the heat has not built up yet, so the problem here is not temperature — it is getting light too early. A bedroom facing east is a bedroom that wakes you up before your alarm does.
The hard one. The sun arrives in the afternoon and evening, when the air is already at its hottest, and it comes in at a low angle that reaches deep into the room instead of stopping at the sill. Thin fabric does not cope here. If you are only going to do one room properly, do this one.
Gets sun for most of the year, but less punishing than west because it arrives around midday when the sun is high. It reaches furthest into the room in the cool season, roughly November to February, when the midday sun sits lower in the south.
The easiest aspect, which is why people assume a north window needs nothing. Not quite true. Bangkok sits only a little north of the equator, so from late April to mid-August the midday sun is north of us. North-facing windows take direct sun through exactly that stretch — which happens to be the hottest part of the year.
PickMotorized roller, blackout fabric
A bedroom wants two opposite things: dark at night, and openable in the morning without getting out of bed. Blackout fabric handles the first, the motor handles the second.
See Motorized Roller Blind →PickRoller blind, sunscreen fabric
Most living rooms do not want to be dark — they want the glare and the heat gone. Sunscreen fabric cuts both while keeping the view, so the room never feels boxed in.
See Motorized Roller Blind →PickWooden blind
The problem at a desk is not sunlight, it is glare on the screen — and glare comes from one angle. Tilting the slats kills that angle without shutting the whole window and darkening the room.
See Wooden Blind →PickVertical blind
Separate vertical louvres let you walk through without raising anything first, and they scale sideways — unlike one big sheet, which only gets heavier and saggier the wider it goes.
See Vertical Blind →PickMotorized curtain track
If the fabric is fine and you only want the convenience, the track can be changed on its own. Nothing gets thrown away and the cost stays with the track.
See Motorized Curtain Track →PickRoom divider
Splits the sleeping corner from the living corner without building a wall — which matters in a condo where you cannot touch the structure — and it comes back out when you move.
See Room Divider →PickMotorized roller blind
Anything out of reach is where a motor pays for itself, because the alternative is fetching a ladder every time — which means nobody ever opens it.
See Motorized Roller Blind →PickCurtain
Rollers and blinds give you a flat, tidy face — they will never give you folds. If the picture in your head has fabric falling in waves, it has to be curtains. The track can be motorised later.
See Curtain →A roller is open or shut, but it is one clean face and stacks up thinner. A wooden blind tilts, so it controls the direction of the light far more precisely — better at a desk. It costs more per area, and its motor costs a great deal more, because the mechanism has to both turn the slats and lift the whole stack.
If you want it genuinely dark, start with blackout fabric, then decide between a roller and curtains. The motor earns its place by letting you open up to the morning sun from bed — most obvious if the room faces east.
Start with whichever room takes the western sun; that is where you will feel the difference most. And if you want motorisation but not yet, fit curtains on a normal track now and change to a motorized track later using the same fabric.
Yes — nothing needs knocking out. You just need a socket near the headrail, and if there is none, a battery motor does the job without new wiring.
Yes. You are welcome to come and look at fabric samples at the shop — address and opening time are at the bottom of this page. If that is awkward, message us on LINE with the tone you are after and we will suggest options first.
Tell us the room, which way the window faces, and how dark you want it. That is enough for us to point you somewhere — you do not need to know product names.