Blinds in Moira: Custom Window Solutions for Goa Homes

A restored house in Moira raises a fair worry: will a modern blind look wrong beside hand-made shutters and a timber lintel? It need not. Roman blinds in plain linen or cotton, and wooden venetians stained to match the frames, sit quietly with old joinery, where a white plastic roller would jar. What matters is how they are fixed. The shutters open inward, so the blind goes above or outside their swing, and every screw goes into the frame or lintel because old lime plaster will not grip one. There is no salt this far inland, so wood slats are safe, though in the rooms nearest the flooded fields a fabric blind may mildew and wants airing.

• Front rooms with tall shuttered windows: roman blinds fixed above the shutter swing, screwed to the lintel and never the plaster.
• The balcão and side verandas: bamboo blinds rolled down against low evening sun, in keeping with a tiled roof and old timber.
• Studies and studios of writers and artists: wooden venetians, whose slats tilt to give even working light on a desk or easel.