Curtains and home textiles in Batumi: rugs, bedding and decor for your apartment

What the package includes and where to start

We put together curtains and home textiles for an apartment room by room, and the list starts with the windows: how many there are, how wide they are, whether there is a door to the balcony, and what kind of ceiling is above the window. The curtain rail and the curtains depend on this, and they are the largest and slowest part of the package. Everything else is chosen around them in one colour scheme: rugs, bed linen, towels, pillows and throws, mirrors and pictures.

For short-term rental the list is longer; the full set of things for guests is covered on the page about furnishing for short-term rental.

The curtain rail is decided before the ceiling

A concealed curtain track in a ceiling recess looks neatest of all, but the recess is built at the ceiling stage, together with the lighting, as described on the page about multi-level ceilings. In a stretch ceiling the rail is fixed to the slab or to a timber batten built in for it, not to the membrane, and that too is decided before the membrane goes up.

We make the rail 15–20 cm wider than the window on each side, so that a drawn-back curtain doesn't cover the glass. For heavy curtains we choose a profile track with gliders: heavy fabric runs along it more easily than rings along a pole, and doesn't pull on the brackets. If there is to be a sheer behind the main curtain, the rail needs two tracks.

Curtains: ready-made or made to measure

Ready-made curtains 140 cm wide and 245–300 cm long suit an ordinary window and a standard ceiling height. Made-to-measure curtains are sewn to a measurement taken from the installed rail to the floor. We use roughly twice the rail length in fabric, so the curtain falls in even folds and isn't pulled flat when closed.

A bedroom needs blackout or a curtain with a heavy lining. For the kitchen and the balcony door a roller blind fitted on the sash is more practical: it doesn't catch on the handle and doesn't get in the way when you open the window. Roller blinds, blinds and roller shutters are things we fit to the windows as products in their own right; they are covered on the page about roller blinds, blinds and mosquito screens.

Rugs and mats

By the sea, wool absorbs moisture from the air, dries slowly and starts to smell in a closed apartment in winter. So we more often choose synthetics, polypropylene or polyester with a short pile. A vacuum cleaner pulls beach sand out of a short pile, but hardly at all out of a long one.

Under a rug on porcelain tiles we put an anti-slip underlay. On SPC vinyl we choose an underlay that the flooring manufacturer approves for vinyl: a rubber backing can leave yellow stains on it over time. By the entrance and in the bathroom, on the tiles, we put rubber-backed mats that can go in the washing machine.

Bed linen, towels and pillows

We choose bed linen in cotton or cotton with a small share of polyester: it washes clean more easily and creases less. We choose towels of medium weight, around 450–500 g/m². Heavy terry towelling by the sea in winter takes a day or more to dry and starts to smell if the bathroom has no heated towel rail.

Pillows and duvets with a synthetic filling cope with damp better than down and feather ones. Feathers take on moisture and smell, while synthetics can be machine-washed and dried in a day.

Decor and things on the walls

There isn't much decor on our list, but every item hangs securely. A heavy mirror goes on two fixings, and what to fix with into concrete, blockwork and plasterboard is described on the page about furniture assembly and fixing to the wall.

Paper posters behind glass ripple over time in humid air, so for apartments that stand empty in winter we choose prints on canvas or on photo paper in a frame with a solid backing board. We only put in live plants if there is someone to look after them.

Textiles for letting: practicality and spares

In a rental apartment textiles are replaced more often, and they have to be bought one item at a time. So we sew the curtains for the whole apartment from one batch of fabric and put one pair aside as a spare: a year later the same fabric may come from a different batch, and a new curtain would be a noticeably different shade. Towels, pillowcases and mats come from permanent ranges that aren't discontinued every season.

We choose colours on which small stains don't show after washing. One or two decorative cushions on the sofa is enough: any more end up on the floor or in a cupboard anyway. How many changes of linen each bed needs depends on how often guests change over and who does the laundry; this is covered on the page about laundry and linen changes between guests. A tenant on a one-year lease needs a more modest set: the curtains and mats stay, and tenants often bring their own bed linen. There is more about this on the page about furnishing for long-term rental.

Curtains and home textiles in Batumi: how much the package costs

A textiles and decor package for a one-bedroom (1+1) apartment, with the curtains hung, costs from 4,200 to 6,600 ₾. It usually includes curtains, bed linen, towels, pillows, a rug and decor, and we adjust the contents to the apartment. The exact figure within the range comes from the approved list.

The windows move the total more than anything else. A ready-made 140 × 245–300 cm curtain costs 51–78 ₾ per panel, made-to-measure tailored curtains 200–300 ₾ per linear metre of rail, and made-to-measure roller blinds 75–100 ₾ per m². A curtain rail costs 78–120 ₾, the labour to install it 15–18 ₾ per linear metre, and a concealed curtain track in a ceiling recess, installed, 215–250 ₾ per metre.

Made-to-measure curtains across a whole wall of panoramic glazing, a double track with a sheer, and wool rugs cost more. Ready-made curtains of standard length and synthetic rugs from stock cost less. The final cost is set after the windows are measured and the list is agreed.