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A light-filtering curtain filters light instead of blocking it. It blocks around 70% and lets a soft, diffuse brightness through, lighting the room without glare. It is the middle ground between sheers, which are almost transparent, and blackout curtains, which create total darkness. It is also known as a semi-blackout curtain.
The Kurtens linen-look light-filtering curtain dresses your window in a fabric with the look of linen while keeping the daylight. By day, it protects your privacy like frosted glass and preserves the brightness indoors.
The choice depends on how you use the room. A light-filtering curtain keeps the daylight and your privacy, ideal in a living space. A blackout curtain blocks 100% of light for total darkness, ideal in a bedroom. Here is how the three families compare:
- Sheers: let almost all light through, little privacy. To dress the window without blocking light.
- Light-filtering curtain: blocks 70%, keeps the daylight and protects your privacy by day. For living spaces.
- Blackout curtain: blocks 100% of light, total darkness and full privacy. For bedrooms.
Looking for total darkness instead? Explore our made-to-measure blackout curtains. For complete privacy in the evening, layer a light-filtering curtain and a blackout curtain on the same window.
By day, a light-filtering curtain shields you from outside view like frosted glass: no one sees you from outside, and you keep the light. In the evening, with the lights on, a semi-blackout curtain reveals only silhouettes. For complete privacy at night, layer your light-filtering curtain with a blackout curtain on the same window.
The Kurtens light-filtering curtain is 100% polyester with a linen look. It captures the texture and color of linen, without the creasing or shrinking of natural linen. The drape stays even and care is simple. You keep the charm of linen without its demands.
The light-filtering curtain suits rooms you want bright but shielded from view: living room, dining room, kitchen, conservatory and bright bedroom. It filters the daylight without darkening and softens the contrasts through the hours. In a bedroom where you want darkness to sleep, pair it with a blackout curtain.
Each light-filtering curtain is made to your dimensions, in standard sizes or made-to-measure to the exact centimetre, with no limit on width or height. Six linen-look colors: beige, white, blue, mauve grey, sand and green. Four headings to choose from: 40 mm eyelets, pencil pleat, rod pocket or multifunctional. Choose your color and dimensions above.
Light-filtering or blackout curtain: which should you choose?
The light-filtering curtain filters light and keeps the daylight while protecting your privacy, ideal in a living space. The blackout curtain blocks 100% of light for total darkness, ideal in a bedroom. The two can be layered on the same window.
What is the difference between sheers and a light-filtering curtain?
Sheers let almost all light through and offer little protection from view. A light-filtering curtain blocks around 70%, filters the light and genuinely protects your privacy by day.
Does a light-filtering curtain darken the room?
No. It lets around 30% of light through, which it diffuses without glare. It filters the daylight without plunging the room into darkness.
Does a light-filtering curtain protect privacy at night?
By day, yes, like frosted glass. In the evening, with the lights on, a semi-blackout curtain reveals only silhouettes. Layer it with a blackout curtain for complete privacy at night.
What is a linen-look curtain?
It is a 100% polyester fabric that captures the look and texture of linen, without the creasing or shrinking of natural linen. The drape stays even and care is simple.
Light-filtering or semi-blackout curtain: are they the same?
Yes. A light-filtering curtain is a semi-blackout curtain: it blocks around 70% of light. Light-filtering is the everyday term, semi-blackout the technical one.
What is the difference between an opaque curtain and a light-filtering curtain?
A blackout curtain aims to block as much light as possible. A light-filtering curtain blocks around 70% of it and lets some through, keeping the brightness of daylight.
Which room should you put a light-filtering curtain in?
In the living spaces you want bright yet shielded from view: living room, dining room, kitchen, conservatory and bright bedroom.
How do you care for a linen-look light-filtering curtain?
Its 100% polyester fabric with a linen look is easy to care for and does not crease like natural linen. Follow the care instructions provided with your curtain.
Which light-filtering curtain color should you choose?
Six linen-look colors: beige, white, blue, mauve grey, sand and green. Light shades like white or beige diffuse the light and make the room feel larger; mauve grey or green set a cozier mood.
