Curtains from Shenzhen

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Just returned from excellent shopping trip in Shenzhen. I bought 21 curtains for the whole three floor house for just $8,950 - that included black out lining for bedrooms, rails fitted already with roman blinds as well as expensive pelmets and borders on some of the curtains. I had a few roman blinds made up the same day and took them to the house and they fit PERFECTLY ($350 for one roman blind)! All I need to do is just drill two holes in the wall as the rail comes with all the fittings. for the curtains, I will need to get teh tracks done in HK but this is easy as my contractor will fit them. In HOng Kong I was being quoted $35,000 and $28,950 for EXACTLY the same material. It can be quite overwhelming when you are buying so many curtains and looking at so many different samples. the trick is to go into the nice comfortable curtain shops in HK to look at materials to get ideas then get a sample if you can which you can take to Sehnzhen and show them and they are amazing at pulling out the same fabrics from their swatch books. If you can get swatch or material number that is even better. I am waiting to take delivery of the curtains next week so will let you know how they all fit ($250 for delivery charge for heavy 21 curtains!). I also got wooden blinds made for the kitchen. I was quoted $1240 in HK for two blinds - I bought 2 in Shenzhen for total $425 including fittings. Go to see Annie at Shop 3066 on 3rd floor (near BBC restaurant). She speaks excellent english and is very knowledgeable and professional about curtain sizes etc. Truly worth it to get them made in Shenzhen as most curtain shops in HK send them to China to be made anyway. If you don't want to trek out to Shenzhen the I would recommend The Cotton Shop in Li Yuen West Street - they have amazing selection at reasonable prices for HK but you will stay pay 3 times more getting them made in HK compared to Shenzhen..... let me know if you need any more details on this. BTW, I went to Shampshuipo and I found that it is mainly material for clothing and not for curtain fabrics....

Dear Tulip,

I am desperate to get curtains made for my flat but every time I go to Lowu I come away completely uninspired by the fabrics (both in the ground floor soft furnishings shops and the 5th floor fabric market). I find the colours and patterns SOOO boring. Any suggestions on where to go to find some more unusual curtain fabrics?

The only measurements I had was the inside frame size i.e. the width and height of the inside window frame as well as the length as I wanted to the floor. The tailor is an expert at advising you how to measure and what length and size you will need.

Hi Tulip

I will be going there on saturday...would you pl advice me the name of the shop

do they have nice fabric for kiddies room, is most of the fabric from china or do they have stuff from france /uk as well

would you have any clue if i can get upholstery for my sofa's as well in shenzen

Go to see Annie in Shop 3066 - head to 3rd Floor towards BBC restaurant and it is on a corner near there. You will see all cushions outside the shop. They have lots of material. I just had my 4 sons bedrooms done (two little ones, two teenagers) with gorgeous material. They do have books with materials from Europe but they may need time to order. I believe most of the material is probably from China but that does not mean it is not of good quality. I am delighted with everything that i have had made. She had all the same books and material that the expensive shops on Queen's Road East had. You just need to have some sort of idea of what you want before you go in there. yes, they also do upholstery as well and can advise you on measurements and material..... good luck!

HELP!!! just got mine made up there but looks like somewhere the measurements for 2 rooms have gone wrong. Does anyone know a good person to alter / does she have someone who fits curtains

Sorry to hear that -a real shame. There are two curtain tailors in Li Yuen West Street in Central. Never used them but guess they should be more reasonably priced. Otherwise you could go back to Shenzhen Tailor and ask them to alter although maybe hassle for you. I was lucky that all my curtains including wooden blinds fitted perfectly so sorry to hear that yours didn't work out.

Well, this is what I did. I got some advice and couriered the curtains and 1 incorrect blind back to Annie at shop 3066 and went back to Shenzhen and paid for the curtains to be altered. They then couriered them back to me. I probably spent an additonal 2000 I guess but at least I have the curtains and they now fit perfectly.

Wow - an additional $2000 for altering?? that would be more than the actual curtains cost? I didn't expect they would charge for altering unless the measurements you gave them were totally wrong. I have even just faxed them measurements and drawings for curtains and they have delivered them to me and fit perfectly. Sorry to hear that you had such bad experience.

tulip,


hi, if you are still on asia expat!! can you tell me a year on, how are your curtains... i went to cotton shop, they want 40k!!! for mine. So im going to SZ sat, ideally i want hand stitched edges, and triple french pleats.... do you think she can do this?


thank you

tulip,


hi, if you are still on asia expat!! can you tell me a year on, how are your curtains... i went to cotton shop, they want 40k!!! for mine. So im going to SZ sat, ideally i want hand stitched edges, and triple french pleats.... do you think she can do this?


thank you