Winter at Home: Your Guide To Stylish, Thoughtful Interiors
As Melbourne settles into the heart of winter, it’s the perfect time to turn your attention into the home to ensure warmth, comfort, and thoughtful design. To do this, let’s look at how curtains and blinds can transform your home during these cooler months. Whether you’re refreshing a single room or planning a full house update, our expert insights will help you create spaces that are as functional as they are beautiful.
Winter Styling Tips: How Curtains & Blinds Can Transform Your Space
Window furnishings do more than dress a window aesthetically – they insulate, soften and transform your space.
We recommend layering to achieve warmth and flexibility, particularly useful in winter. By pairing sheer curtains with blockout drapes or soft Roman blinds, you gain flexibility in light control and temperature regulation. This approach creates visual depth while letting you adapt your space from day to night, allowing sunlight to filter through during the day, while the heavier layers keep warmth in during those long winter evenings.
Heavier fabrics such as velvet, wool blends, and lined linen add luxurious texture and help trap heat inside your home. Blockout linings not only prevent heat loss but also provide excellent privacy and light control, particularly in bedrooms and living areas.
Rich, earthy tones are also on trend for your home’s colour palette. Think earthy shades like clay, oatmeal, soft charcoal, sage green, and rust. These hues bring a grounded feel and complement the lower natural light levels of winter. For a more timeless look, deep navy, olive, and warm taupe are elegant options that work beautifully with most interiors.
Why Made-To-Measure Matters in Winter
In a season where warmth, texture, and quality matter most, made-to-measure window treatments truly make all the difference. Custom-fit curtains and blinds help retain heat, improve comfort, and ultimately reduce energy costs and look effortlessly polished. This ensures a snug fit, helping to block out draughts and reduce energy costs. Motorised options can also add convenience and efficiency, particularly in hard-to-reach spaces.
At Nicholls Interiors, we know that ill-fitting or off-the-shelf solutions often leave gaps around windows, allowing cold air to creep in and warm air to escape. Our custom-made window furnishings are tailored precisely to your space, reducing draughts and improving insulation without sacrificing style.
We offer an obligation free measure and quote in your own home, and we also recommend visiting our Brighton showroom for advice and to view our extensive range of blinds, shades, shutters and awnings.
Choosing the Right Fabric For Your Home
From sheer bedroom curtains to durable block outs in living areas, the right fabric choice makes all the difference. From classic designs to contemporary prints, we’ll help you find the perfect curtain fabric to transform your home.
Here are five of our favourite fabrics:
- Mokum – Lino: 100% linen wide-width sheer with a divine softly tumbled handle.
- Linea – Linesta: 100% linen that is natural, soft and stonewashed, Linesta is a fusion of European finesse and pure linen fibre.
- Catherine Martin – Bespoke Velvet: Made up of 54% Viscose, 34% Cotton and 12% Polyester, this divine textured velvet is the ultimate luxury velvet, one with both a linen velvet aesthetic and a soft and sumptuous handle.
- Catherine Martin – Grand Boucle: As its name suggests, it is a dimensional bouclé fabric beloved for its luxurious weight and composition – a blend of natural fibres give the textile a soft handle while synthetic fibres increase its performance. Made up of 33% Acrylic, 32% Viscose, 16% Wool, 8% Polyester and 7% Cotton.
- Villa Nova Baltimore: This wide width, multidirectional fabric has the luxurious look of silk, but with a more durable composition using 67% Polyester and 33% Viscose (Rayon).
The team at Nicholls Interiors are here to help you create spaces to elevate the way you live, all year round. Visit our showroom or contact us today to explore window treatments for your home.
📍Nicholls Interiors, 159 Martin Street, Brighton
📞(03) 9596 2335