A One Curtains and Blinds supplies and installs blinds in Birkdale for two quite different kinds of customer: investors fitting out a rental, and owners upgrading the home they live in. We make vertical, roller and Roman blinds, curtains, plantation shutters and security and insect screens to measure in our own Hillcrest workshop. The measure and quote at the property is free, whether it's tenanted or not.
Birkdale in numbers
Birkdale is in the northern Redlands, 22.9 km east of the Brisbane CBD. Thorneside and Waterloo Bay are to the north, Wellington Point to the east, Capalaba and Alexandra Hills to the south, and Tingalpa Creek forms the western edge with Brisbane City.
The suburb takes its name from Birkdale House, the home of settler and vigneron James Baron, and the name was given to the railway station built in 1889. The old US Army radio receiving station on Old Cleveland Road East is heritage listed.
At the 2021 census Birkdale had 14,816 residents. About 84% of homes were separate houses and 11.2% were townhouses or similar, and 19% of dwellings were rented. That means a steady share of our work here is for landlords and property managers as well as owner-occupiers.
Blinds in Birkdale rentals
A rental needs coverings that cope with a new tenant every so often, work without fuss and don't need fixing every few months. Our usual suggestions:
- Vertical blinds for sliding doors and wide windows. Individual slats can be replaced if one gets damaged.
- Roller blinds in blockout for bedrooms and light filtering or sunscreen fabric for living areas. Few moving parts, easy to wipe down.
- Venetian blinds in aluminium or PVC for kitchens and laundries.
- Insect screens on opening windows, which tenants notice quickly in summer.
We'd also steer investors toward cordless or chain-safe options. Every corded internal blind we install meets the ACCC mandatory safety standard for corded internal window coverings, and you never know who the next tenant will be. Our article on child-safe blinds goes into more detail.
Upgrades for owner-occupiers
When it's your own home, the brief usually shifts from "hard wearing" to "how do I want this room to feel". Owners in Birkdale tend to ask us about:
- double roller blinds for a day-and-night setup on one bracket
- zebra blinds, which let you shift between sheer and solid bands
- sheer and blockout curtains, or both together as double curtains
- motorised roller blinds on Somfy or Alpha motors, with timers, app or voice control
- PVC plantation shutters, from $250 per square metre
Plenty of people land somewhere in between. Practical rollers in the kids' rooms, something nicer in the lounge. We're happy to quote it that way.
Security and insect screens
Screens are one thing both groups ask for. Our security screens and doors come in heavy duty and diamond grille styles, with welded corners, for hinged and sliding doors and for fixed or hinged windows. Pet mesh is available if a dog or cat keeps testing the flyscreen.
If it's just bugs you want to keep out, standard insect screens do the job. We can measure screens and blinds in the same visit.
How it works for landlords and owners
- Call 0425 241 013 or book a consultation. For a tenanted property, let us know and we'll fit the visit around the tenant.
- We measure every window and door you want covered and bring full-size samples.
- You get a quote. The visit costs nothing.
- We make the order in our Hillcrest workshop.
- Our own team installs it and shows whoever is living there how everything works.
Why Birkdale owners and investors call us
We handle design, manufacture and installation ourselves. No subcontractors, so if a landlord or tenant has a question later, they're talking to the people who did the job. Everything is Australian made in our own workshop, and we also offer repairs and professional deep cleaning between tenancies.
Our Google rating is 5 stars across 59 reviews, and customers regularly name our installers, Jessy and Puneet.
Nearby suburbs we also cover
Birkdale's neighbour Wellington Point is a regular stop for us, and so are Ormiston and Cleveland further along the bay. We also cover Thorneside, Capalaba and Alexandra Hills.
Need blinds in Birkdale for a rental, your own place or a bit of both? Call 0425 241 013 or book your free measure and quote and we'll price it to suit the property.
