Are you winter-ready? Our guide to thermally insulating your home using window furnishings

Thermal insulation is great news for your home, your energy bills and your carbon footprint.

Thermal insulation helps keep your home warm and snug when it's cold outside. It works by trapping warm air in your home, rather than letting it escape through your windows and doors, ceiling, walls and floors. In scientific terms it reduces heat transfer caused by heat radiation and conduction.

Premium quality window furnishings that incorporate blockout linings are made specifically to stop heat escaping and block cold draughts. They meet high standards for thermal insulation. Adding motorisation helps you stay in constant control of your home's temperature; you can use your phone or your voice to program your blinds to close before outside temperatures plummet.

Read on to find out about all the window furnishings that will help thermally insulate your home over winter. This includes our fabulous lined curtains, luxe double curtains, sleek double roller blinds, blockout roller blinds and effortless motorisation.

Installing a blockout roller blind behind sheer curtains is one of our most popular combinations. The functional roller blind insulates your room, controls light and privacy and sits discreetly behind your curtains. The sheers become the defining detail, bathing your space in diffused sunlight and making it feel cosy.

A sheer curtain + blockout roller blind combo is a great all-rounder and a fantastic space-saving option. Fitting your blockout roller blind within your recess is super discreet. It won't project into your room and it helps seal in the warmth on wintry days. Your beautiful sheers can be wall or ceiling mounted to skim over your blinds.

Every blockout roller blind in our range is incredibly insulating, excluding our Focus, Solitaire and Qube ranges. Choose a textured sheer from our curtains fabric range to transform your home into a cosy, tranquil retreat.

Double curtains are two barriers against the outside elements. Just like you layer your clothes to stay warm, you can layer your sheer and blockout curtains on two tracks for a warm, cosy home. The blockout fabric is thermally insulating, whilst the sheer gives you daytime light control and creates a luxury hotel look.

Keep your sheers closed during the day to diffuse bright sunlight and add texture. Close your blockouts at night to layer up and stop cold air seeping in. Blockout curtains are specially made using thermal linings. They are poor conductors of heat, which means the heat stays inside your room.

The combination of two layered curtains has a seriously plush feel. In fact many of the world's top luxury hotels are choosing double curtains for their suites. You won't help but feel deliciously snug with double curtains in your home.

Our blockout roller blind fabrics have an acrylic lining, with the exception of our Focus, Solitaire and Qube ranges. The acrylic lining helps prevent heat from escaping your room. Meaning a more energy efficient home and reduced electricity bills. Adding a pelmet to your blinds is an extra layer of protection from cold draughts and heat loss. Roller blinds look sleek in period homes, and perfectly complement modern minimalist abodes.

Double roller blinds are perfect for winter. Combine a thermally-insulating blockout roller blind with a light-filtering or sunscreen roller blind, and choose from our amazing range of fabric colours and textures. Having two blinds means two layers of protection when it's cold outside. They are affordable and premium quality, and you can choose the best fit option to seal in the most heat.

Choose between regular and slimline double brackets, or opt to combine a recess fit and face fit using two single brackets. Call us or email a photo of your windows for help choosing the best roller blind brackets, fit and roll direction.

Make your thermal insulation smart. Motorised blinds and curtains can help you maintain a warmer home, reduce your heating costs and lower your carbon footprint. You've got to love a blockout roller blind that can close automatically when temperatures drop outside.

Add Somfy motorisation to your blinds or curtains order. Purchase the Somfy Connexoon Window RTS Hub to control your blinds via your phone and set up timers for all your blinds. You can also pair your Hub with your existing home automation device like Amazon Alexa and Google Home. It opens up a world of incredible options, like voice control and triggers to automatically close your blinds at sundown, based on the local weather or before your central heating kicks in at night.

You can also retrofit our premium Somfy motors into your existing roller blinds. Take the quick retrofit quiz to check if your roller blinds can be retrofitted with motorisation.

Motorised blockout roller blinds and curtains are great value and easy to set up. Our installation guides are super clear and take you through every step. Choose between battery-powered and wired motors when you order your blinds. The battery only needs charging once per year, and our wired motors run off your home's power. All our Somfy motors are whisper quiet and an absolute delight to control.

Lined sheer curtains are one of the most insulating window furnishings. They're made of a sheer and a blockout lining joined together on one curtain track. Architects and designers love lined curtains for many reasons: they're super versatile, they're plush without projecting too far out from windows, and they add sophisticated drama to any room.

Pick a luxe sheer to soften your space and add texture, and choose a blockout lining. Our customers can now choose any sheer curtain in our range, and line it with a designer fabric. They look fantastic and work really hard to insulate your home all year round.

To help prevent cold draughts, choose floor-to-ceiling lined curtains and go for a wall-to-wall look to minimise any gaps around your curtains. We can help you design, measure and install your curtains for maximum insulation.

You can order all our thermally-insulating products online.

Follow our 4 easy steps to fantastic thermal insulation this winter.

1. Order your samples. Order your free samples for your curtains or blinds, and we'll express deliver them to your door.
2. Measure up like a pro. Use our super handy guides to measuring your windows and get a quick price online.
3. Customise your order. Customise and order your curtains or blinds, including designer curtains, curved curtains, box and bay window curtains, lined curtains, double curtains, and blockout roller blinds. Add on any motorisation accessories you need.
4. DIY install. We'll deliver your Aussie made curtains or blinds direct to you, then you install using our easy installation guides.