Planning
The order to do a new house's windows
A new build is handed over with bare glass in every room. You rarely need to cover it all in the first week, and you rarely can. Here's the order we'd suggest, and the reason behind each call.
Start with the rooms that make the first night work
The night you move in, two things matter: everyone can sleep, and nobody can see in. That's the whole do-first list, really.
- Kids' bedrooms and the nursery. A child who won't settle in a bright room makes the whole house tired. These want blockout, and cordless controls so there's nothing dangling near a cot or a toddler.
- The main bedroom. Same logic, blockout to actually sleep past dawn, especially through a Maitland summer when it's light early.
- Bathrooms and the ensuite. Frosted glass isn't privacy once the light's on inside at night. A moisture-suitable privacy blind sorts it.
- Any room the street sees into. On the newer estates the lots are tight and the road is close. The front rooms want privacy from day one.
Then the living zones, when it suits
The open-plan living, the kitchen, the study and the big rear slider can follow. They're where you want the light and the view, so they're less urgent than a dark bedroom, and they're usually the bigger, more considered coverings anyway.
- Open-plan living. Light-filter rollers or sheers keep the outlook and take the glare and heat off the couch and the TV.
- Kitchen and meals. Something easy to wipe near the bench, and light control at the window over the sink.
- Study or home office. Screen glare is the enemy here, a light-filter or dual roller fixes it.
- The rear slider. The big glass out the back wants a covering that clears the doorway, verticals, a panel glide, or a single wide roller.
Put it on paper before anyone quotes
The single most useful thing you can do is walk your own house with a notepad and count. Room, number of windows, the job each one does. Do that and a measure takes half the time, and nothing gets forgotten. Our Move-In Order planner does exactly this, and hands you a tidy list to bring along.
Related
- Bedrooms that actually go dark: getting blockout right in the do-first rooms.
- Staging a fit-out on a budget: spreading the later rooms out.
- How a whole-home fit-out works: the measure, the schedule, the fit.
One measure, the whole house
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