Blackout Curtains Victory Heights, Dubai Sports City Villa

Project Overview

On 22 and 23 September 2026, the Fixing Expert crew worked through a villa in Victory Heights, Dubai Sports City. We hung dusk-blue chenille and ivory sheers in the living room, fitted a two-layer blackout setup in the master bedroom, added sage green blackout curtains to a child's room and hung one tall sheer on the staircase landing. Four spaces, two days, one team from the first measurement to the last steam.

How the project started

The homeowner wrote to us on WhatsApp on a Sunday evening. He finishes his shift at a hospital around 8 a.m, gets home by 8:40 a.m and goes to bed while the sun is already on the bedroom wall. The existing cotton curtains let light through the weave, and the old roller blind left a bright strip down both sides. His son's room had the same problem, and the living room doors faced the garden with nothing but a thin net.

The site visit

Two of us visited on Tuesday and walked through every room before taking out the tape. In the living room, two sliding doors open onto the garden, and the ceiling sits at about 3 m. In the master bedroom, the plaster above the window is thin, so we found the solid lintel behind it and planned the fixings into that instead.

We measured each width, each drop and the stack-back space, then checked every number a second time. Our advice for the master bedroom was short. A curtain alone always leaks light at the sides, so it needed a roller blackout blind inside the window recess as well. The other rooms needed one layer of blackout each, and the landing only needed softer light.

Fabric and colour choices

The villa already had pale oak floors and white walls, so the owner wanted colour that felt calm rather than another beige. She picked each fabric standing at the window with the swatch against the daylight.

The living room chenille is a dusk blue with a ribbed, slightly slubbed texture and a soft pile. The master bedroom uses a cocoa-brown basketweave with a thick blackout backing. Her son's room has a sage green cotton and linen blend, and the landing sheer is an ivory voile with a fine uneven thread you can see when the light passes through it.

Installation Process

Day 1

1. Floor sheets went down in the living room before anything came in from the van.
2. We marked the rod height with a laser level and drilled the brackets into the wall.
3. The double rod went up, then the sheer, then the chenille, each hung ring by ring.
4. On the landing we set up a tall ladder, fixed the rod high and hung the ivory sheer from the top.

Day 2

1. In the master bedroom we fixed the brackets into the lintel and the roller blackout blind into the recess.
2. The curtain went up on a wide ceiling track in front of the blind.
3. In the child's room we hung the sage curtain and fixed the tiebacks high, out of reach.
4. We closed every curtain, switched off the lights and checked each room for gaps before we left.

Living room

The two garden doors are full height, so the curtains needed to look right from the sofa and from the garden. We used eyelet curtains in the dusk-blue chenille, with the ivory sheer on an inner rod so it shows by day. Both hang from a matt black double rod, and the stack-back is wide enough that the doors slide fully open with the curtains drawn aside.

An eyelet heading hangs in even, round folds and moves easily on the rod, which matters on doors people use all day. The question of curtains or blinds on sliding doors usually comes down to this kind of daily use, and curtains win when the doors open often.

Master bedroom

This was the room that needed real darkness. Behind the cocoa basketweave curtain we fitted a white roller blackout blind inside the window recess. The blind seals the glass, and the curtain covers the gaps at the sides and adds weight and warmth to the room. Roller is one of many types of blinds, and it was the right pick here because it rolls up out of sight and sits flat inside the recess. The idea of layering curtains with blinds works best when the blind is set deep in the recess and the curtain hangs wider than the frame, which is how we did it here.

The curtain runs on a ceiling track so it covers the full width of the wall. At 8:40 a.m on the first morning after the install, the homeowner told us the room stayed dark enough to sleep without a mask.

Child's bedroom

The room is small, so we kept it simple: one sage green blackout curtain with a pencil pleat heading on a white rod, hung 15 cm above the frame to make the ceiling feel higher. The tiebacks sit at adult height so a seven-year-old cannot pull them down. Blackout cloth comes in different weights, and the heavier blackout fabrics block more light and keep more heat out, which is why we chose a thick one for a room that gets the afternoon sun.

Staircase landing

The landing window runs from about 40 cm above the floor to nearly the ceiling, and it gets hard sun in the afternoon. We hung a single ivory sheer from a high rod so it reached the floor. A sheer like this takes the glare off the stairs and blocks the view from the villa next door .

Curtains cut from figures taken on site hang better than ready-made ones, which is the main reason custom made curtains fit so closely. The crew that measured is also the crew that hangs them, so the curtain fixing and installation never goes to someone who has not seen the room.

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