eHaus Manawatū build homes that are engineered to perform, so when they asked us to dress this one, the brief had the same flavour: make it beautiful, and make it work. The owners wanted the light, airy softness that only a sheer can give a new build's clean lines. But nobody wants to sleep behind a sheer in the middle of summer daylight-saving, and no one wants to give winter warmth away through the glass.
So the windows got two personalities. By day, James Dunlop's Scandi sheer filters the light into something soft and worth lingering in. You can see the pattern come alive when the sun moves through it. By night, our Dynamo blackout thermal lining takes over: proper darkness for sleeping, and an extra layer of insulation working with, not against, a home built for warmth. A house this well insulated deserves better than bare glass after dark.
Most people who walk through this Palmerston North new build will never once look up at the curtain track. That's sort of the point.
Then there's the detail we're quietly proudest of: the corner. Where the windows meet, the track doesn't stop or join.
It's one continuous run, bent to sweep smoothly around the internal corner, so the sheers travel both walls in a single unbroken wave.
Tracks sit tight to the timber-lined ceiling, hardware all but invisible. And at the floor, a woven border hem gives the Scandi just enough weight to hang true and finish crisply. Not puddling, just kissing the carpet the way made-to-measure should.
Building new? This is the stuff worth deciding early. Tracks, corners and ceiling fixings come out perfect when they're planned with the build, not bolted on after the paint dries. Ask your builder, or ask us.
