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Installing curved electric curtain tracks in an extraordinary luxury house

30th August 2024

An extraordinary conversion of farm silos into a luxury home

We've been working on this remarkable farm building conversion for a couple of years. It's a luxury house; the product of an extraordinary conversion of a barn and old agricultural silos. As the project moves into the finishing stages, we've been on site installing very large curved electric curtain tracks for the living room. The curtain tracks are by Lutron; they're such a specialist specification we had to get technical sign off from the most senior level of Lutron's window treatments technical team in the States.

The Silos is an extraordinary luxury house converted from farm silos. — The Silos, a unique luxury development, nearing completion

The challenges for elelctric curtains and blinds are obvious; there's barely a straight line anywhere. The circular windows are very large with high ceilings. Simply getting an accurate measure to order the blinds required a totally new approach for us.

We tried templating the recesses but we weren't happy with the accuracy. The tolerances for the electric curtain tracks don't offer much room for errror. We needed something better. We worked with a local specialist company to get an accurate scan of the room. It's amazing technology that builds an accurate 3D scan of the space that can be read into AutoCAD. We can then take 2D slices of the model at different heights and ultimately translate those slices to a drawing and an exact set of dimensions for the curtain tracks.

Internal scan of the recess for the curtain tracks at The Silos

Processing the 3D scan to prepare a 2D slice for AutoCAD

Measure twice, cut once. They fit perfectly. The install pictures below give a better idea of the scale of the install and the precision needed. Nerve-wracking and deeply satifying in equal measure.

Matt & Kieran carrying one of the electric curtain tracks into the building — Matt & Kieran getting the curtain tracks onto site

Fran getting one of the electric curtain tracks into location — Fran getting one of the curtain tracks into position in the recess

Matt, Joe and Fran securing an electric curtain track with Kieran watching on — Team effort with Matt, Fran and Joe securing an electric curtain track

Matt and Fran fine-tuning the curtain track install — Matt & Fran fine-tuning the fixings for curved electric curtain tracks

Matt surveying the finished curtain track install — Matt checking the install

Elecrtric curtain tracks and blinds are ideal for high-end developments like The Silos. This is probably the most complex and demanding Lutron window treatment we've done and it's been a great team effort. We hope to be able to do a photoshoot of the finished project so we can show off more of this unique house.