Custom Curtains in Patnem: Bespoke Designs for Your Home

Owners in Patnem want rooms that look good in a photograph and are still presentable after a season of guests. For curtains those two aims meet in polyester woven to look like linen or cotton: it looks soft and natural and goes through a washing machine at every changeover. Sand, salt marks and sunscreen show on very pale and very dark plain cloth alike, so choose a mid-tone or a pattern. Close to the beach, wind-blown spray reaches the windows; hang curtains a little short of an open window so the hem stays dry, and use aluminium tracks, nylon gliders and stainless screws. Before the monsoon, curtains from the huts should be washed, dried right through and packed away.

• Beach huts put up for the season: light washable sheers on simple rods, taken down, laundered and stored dry before the rains.
• Rooms above a family home: linen-look polyester with a blackout lining, on an aluminium track with nylon gliders.
• Villas among the trees behind the beach: fuller curtains in a patterned mid-tone, with a separate washable lining.