A One Curtains and Blinds designs, makes and installs custom curtains and blinds in Flagstone, with a focus on the parts of a modern home that take the most sun: alfresco areas, big sliding doors and west-facing living rooms. Everything is made to measure in our Hillcrest workshop in Logan and fitted by our own team. We come out to your place for a free measure and quote.
Living in Flagstone
Flagstone takes its name from Flagstone Creek, which runs down to the Logan River near South Maclean. Suburban development started here in 1996, Flagstone State School opened in 1998, and the state declared the Greater Flagstone Priority Development Area in 2010. Peet's Flagstone master-planned community is the big one on the ground now, with thousands more homes planned over the coming decades.
For window coverings, that history shows up in the houses. Most homes here are recent builds with open-plan living, wide stacking or sliding doors and a covered alfresco that's meant to be used as a second living room. The trouble is the sun. Western light across a tiled alfresco in February will send everyone back inside, and glare through a three-panel door can make a TV unwatchable.
Our curtains and blinds for Flagstone alfresco areas
The alfresco is where we'd start in most homes out this way, because it's the space people most often give up on.
Motorised outdoor blinds drop down the open sides of the alfresco to block low sun, wind and rain. They're made to measure for each opening, so they close properly at the edges. A remote or wall switch runs them, and with a timer or light sensor they can come down on their own in the afternoon.
Why motorised? Outdoor blinds are big, and big blinds are a nuisance to wind by hand. If a blind is hard to use, it tends to stay up, and then it's doing nothing. A button fixes that.
We also look at what the outdoor blind does to the room behind it. With the alfresco shaded, the living room gets less direct sun through the glass, and the inside blinds don't have to do all the work.
Big sliding doors
Most of the homes we see have at least one wide sliding or stacker door between the living area and the alfresco. There's no single right answer for them, but these are the options we'd talk through:
- Curtains on a track, in sheer for daytime privacy or a double sheer and blockout for evenings. They stack neatly to the side when the door is open.
- Motorised curtains if the door is very wide. One button beats walking a four-panel curtain across the room.
- Vertical blinds, which are practical if the door gets used all day by kids and dogs.
- Zebra blinds for a cleaner look on doors that open less often.
And because the door is open so much, it's worth pairing it with an insect screen or a security sliding door with welded corners in diamond grille, heavy duty or pet mesh.
Sun control inside the house
Not every window needs the full blockout treatment. For living rooms that face west, sunscreen roller blinds are one of our most useful products. The mesh fabric cuts glare and heat while you can still see out, which is exactly what you want at 4pm on a hot day.
Double roller blinds put a sunscreen or light-filtering blind and a blockout on the same bracket, so the same window works for afternoon glare and for sleeping. They're popular in bedrooms and media rooms. For wet areas, PVC plantation shutters handle moisture and start from $250 per square metre.
How the free measure works
- Book a time online or call us.
- We come out to your home at no cost and measure every window, door and alfresco opening.
- We check where the sun lands, which doors you use most and where you need privacy from neighbours.
- You see full-size samples in your own light.
- We send a quote. No pressure, no obligation.
- Everything is made in our Hillcrest workshop and installed by our own team, who show you how the motors and controls work.
Why choose A One
We're a Logan business that makes its own product. That means Australian made curtains, blinds and screens, measured and installed by our own people with no subcontractors in between.
Our Google rating is 5 stars from 59 reviews, and customers often name Jessy and Puneet from our install team. After the install, we're still around for repairs and professional deep cleaning. If you have young kids, it's also worth knowing that corded internal coverings must meet the ACCC's mandatory safety standard. Motorised blinds and curtains take cords out of the equation altogether.
See our nearby work
New Beith is Flagstone's neighbour, and our New Beith gallery shows photos and videos of installs there.
Other areas we cover
We also work across Greenbank, Yarrabilba and Park Ridge.
Book your free measure
If your alfresco is too hot to use or your sliding doors need something better, let's have a look. Call 0425 241 013, email info@aonecurtainsandblinds.com.au, or book a free in-home measure for curtains and blinds in Flagstone.
