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Nobody Cleans Their Curtains, and the Reason Is Always the Same

Taking curtains down is a two-person job with a ladder, and rehanging them straight afterwards is worse. So they hang there quietly filtering every bit of airborne dust in the house, year after year.

Hawksburn is small, tightly held and sits between Toorak and South Yarra around the village on Malvern Road. Period terraces, converted mansion flats and art deco apartment blocks, on narrow streets.

The furniture and floor coverings here are typically a step up, which changes the job rather than just the price. Wool carpet, hand-knotted rugs and better upholstery are common, and all three are exactly the things that get damaged when someone applies a standard synthetic-carpet method to them.

The deco blocks bring their own quirk. Original parquet or timber under carpet, small lifts or no lift at all, and body corporate rules about contractor access. None of it is difficult, but it needs to be known before we arrive rather than discovered in the stairwell.

The heading tape at the top collects the worst of it, because that is where the fabric bunches into permanent folds. It is also the part nobody can see from inside the room, which is why curtains that look acceptable from the sofa are still releasing dust every time they are drawn.

Open out a pleat and look at the fabric inside the fold. It has been shielded, and the colour difference against the exposed face is usually more than people expect. That difference is exactly what comes out, and cleaning on the rail means the hang and the hem line stay precisely where they are.