Buying Guides Published 15 October 2026 10 min read

Best Bedroom Blinds in Perth: Sleep Better Through Summer

Perth bedrooms face early sun, brutal summer heat and streetlight glare. This guide compares the blinds that actually deliver darkness, cool and privacy, plus the fitting details that make or break your sleep.

Blockout roller blind closed over a bedroom window in a Perth home

Bedroom blinds in Perth have a harder job than in most Australian cities. The summer sun is up at 5am, brick homes hold the afternoon heat until midnight, and streetlights and security lights seem to find every gap around the frame. A bedroom blind has to do three jobs at once: keep the room dark, keep it cool, and keep your sleep private at night. Here is what we have learned fitting bedrooms across the metro area about which blinds actually deliver.

We measure and install bedroom blinds all over Perth every week, so this is not a showroom pitch. It is the honest rundown: which products give you a properly dark room, which ones look beautiful but leak light, and the fitting details that decide whether you sleep through a January heatwave or stare at the ceiling at 4am.

In This Guide

Why Bedrooms Are the Hardest Room to Get Right in Perth
Blockout Roller Blinds: The Best All Rounder
The Double Roller Trick: Day and Night on One Window
Plantation Shutters in Bedrooms: Honest Trade Offs
Sheers Plus Blockout: The Softest Route to a Dark Room
What Actually Steals Sleep in Perth Summers
Kids Rooms, Nurseries, Shift Workers and Rentals
Getting Measured and Installed the Right Way
Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why Bedrooms Are the Hardest Room to Get Right in Perth

Most rooms ask one thing of their blinds. The living room wants to look good and the kitchen wants easy cleaning. The bedroom wants all of it at once: darkness for sleep, insulation against a 40 degree day, privacy when the lights go on at night, and something you will not hate looking at every morning. Get one of those wrong and you feel it every single day.

Perth makes the brief tougher. Our summer sun rises early and hangs around late, so bedrooms cop light long before the alarm. Brick and tile homes soak up the afternoon heat and release it slowly, which means the room can still feel warm at 11pm. Add the Fremantle Doctor rattling a loose blind on a February afternoon and headlights leaking around the edges, and you see why bedroom blinds deserve more thought than the rest of the house.

Darkness is job one, and gaps around the edges matter more than the fabric itself
Heat is job two: a west facing bedroom runs much hotter than the rest of the house
Night privacy is job three: with lights on, sheers and open slats show silhouettes
A rattling blind in the sea breeze will wake a light sleeper

2. Blockout Roller Blinds: The Best All Rounder

If we had to pick one product for Perth bedrooms, it would be a blockout roller blind. A quality triple layer blockout fabric stops the light, the flat panel wipes clean in seconds, and there are no slats for dust to settle into, which matters in a city as dusty as ours.

The part most people miss is the fit. A blockout roller on an inside mount leaks light at both edges and across the top, and that glowing border is exactly what wakes you at dawn. For a properly dark room, fit the blind as an outside mount, wider than the opening, with a pelmet or cassette across the top. That closes the gaps and turns a good blind into a great one.

Choose a thermal backed fabric if the room runs hot, and consider motorisation for blinds behind the bed or over high windows. A remote on the bedside table beats climbing over the mattress twice a day. See our roller blinds and blockout blinds ranges for fabrics and colours.

Near total darkness as an outside mount with a pelmet
Flat wipeable fabric that suits Perth dust
Thermal backed options add real insulation
Motorised versions for hard to reach windows
Typically the most affordable path to a dark bedroom

Grey blockout roller blind fitted over a small bedroom window in a Perth home

3. The Double Roller Trick: Day and Night on One Window

Some bedrooms need two personalities: soft filtered light and street privacy by day, full darkness at night. A double roller puts a sunscreen blind and a blockout blind on one bracket. By day the sunscreen sits down, cutting glare and giving daytime privacy while you can still see out. At night the blockout drops in front and the room goes dark.

This shines in rooms that do double duty, like a home office that becomes the spare room, or north facing bedrooms with light you do not want to shut out all day. It costs more than a single blind because you are buying two, but it ends the old dance of opening and closing curtains twice a day. Mention it at your free measure and quote and we will show you how the pair looks on your window.

4. Plantation Shutters in Bedrooms: Honest Trade Offs

Plantation shutters are the prettiest thing you can put on a bedroom window, and for street facing bedrooms they are hard to beat for daytime privacy. Tilt the louvres and you get light and airflow with no view in from the footpath. They suit everything from character cottages in Fremantle to new builds in Alkimos.

The honest trade off: shutters will not give you a dark room. Light seeps between the louvres and around the frame, and at 5am in January you will notice it. If you are a light sleeper, do not rely on shutters alone. The setup we recommend is shutters for the day look with a blockout roller fitted behind for the night.

Near the coast in Scarborough, Trigg or Cottesloe, choose PVC or aluminium over timber. Salt air is brutal on natural timber, and the synthetic options give the same look with none of the worry. See the range on our plantation shutters page.

White plantation shutter panels open in a Perth bedroom with louvres tilted for light

5. Sheers Plus Blockout: The Softest Route to a Dark Room

For a master bedroom that should feel luxurious, layer sheer curtains over a blockout roller. Sheers on a ceiling mounted track soften the daylight into a beautiful diffused glow, and they take the sting out of the afternoon glare when the Fremantle Doctor is up. At night the blockout layer drops and you sleep in proper darkness.

Remember that sheers alone give daytime privacy only. Once the lights go on after dark, the room is on display, which is why the blockout layer matters. Keep sheers full length, just kissing the floor, and the room looks far more expensive than the price suggests. Browse fabrics on our sheer curtains page.

6. What Actually Steals Sleep in Perth Summers

Light gets the blame, but heat is the bigger thief. A west facing bedroom in Canning Vale or Baldivis can pump heat in all afternoon, and brick walls hold it until the early hours. Indoor blinds help, but once heat is through the glass, an indoor blind can only slow it down.

The biggest win is stopping the sun before it hits the glass. Outdoor blinds, awnings or shade over a west facing window drop the room temperature far more than any indoor blind. Inside, choose thermal backed blockout fabric as an outside mount to trap still air against the window, and keep the blind down during the day so the room starts the evening cooler.

Noise is the third thief, and honesty matters: no blind will soundproof a bedroom on a busy road. Solid products like shutters take the edge off rattle and sharp high frequency noise, but for real traffic noise, better window seals or secondary glazing are the bigger levers. We will tell you that straight rather than sell you a blind as a fix it is not.

Block heat outside the glass first with outdoor blinds or awnings
Thermal backed blockout adds genuine insulation
Outside mounts trap still air against the window
Close bedroom blinds during the day
Blinds take the edge off noise but will not soundproof

7. Kids Rooms, Nurseries, Shift Workers and Rentals

Kids rooms have their own rules. Babies nap through Perth summer afternoons, so the room must go properly dark at 1pm, not just at night. A blockout roller with a pelmet is the workhorse, in a wipeable fabric, and always cordless or motorised. Loose cords and curious toddlers are a combination no one should risk.

Shift workers get the toughest brief. If you sleep at midday after a night shift, you need night time darkness in full daylight. The only honest answer is a blockout blind as an outside mount with side channels and a pelmet, sealing every gap. We have fitted plenty of these for nurses, miners and emergency workers, and the sealed setup is what actually works.

Renters have fewer options. Most proper blinds need screws, so check with your landlord first. Many are fine with it as long as the blinds stay when you leave. If drilling is truly off the table, stick on blackout films and tension rods are stopgaps, not solutions, but they beat a sheet pinned over the window.

8. Getting Measured and Installed the Right Way

Bedroom blinds punish bad measuring more than any other room, because every millimetre of gap is a shaft of 5am light. Older homes in Subiaco, Fremantle and Mount Lawley often have reveals that are not quite square, so we measure each window in three places and fit to the tightest point.

Decide inside or outside mount before you fall in love with a fabric. Inside mounts look neat but always leak some light at the edges. Outside mounts cover the whole opening and, with a pelmet, give the darkest result. For motorisation, think about real life: blinds behind the bed, high windows and double rollers are all worth motoring, and a timer that closes everything at sunset is a small luxury you will wonder how you lived without.

The quote should be per window with every option itemised, so you can adjust room by room. That is how we do it at a free measure and quote. Bring the awkward questions about light gaps and heat, because those decide whether you sleep well.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is the best blind for a really dark bedroom in Perth?

A blockout roller blind fitted as an outside mount, wider than the window opening, with a pelmet or cassette across the top. That closes the edge and top gaps where dawn light sneaks in, and it is the setup we install most for light sleepers. Ask about side channels too, which seal the last slivers at the edges. Simple, affordable and easy to clean, it beats fancier options at the specific job of going dark.

Q. Do plantation shutters block enough light for sleeping?

Not on their own. Shutters look beautiful and give excellent daytime privacy, but light seeps between the louvres and around the frame, and Perth summer dawns are unforgiving. If you love the look, pair shutters with a blockout roller fitted behind for the night. Each product then does what it does best.

Q. Will new blinds make my bedroom cooler in summer?

They help, but keep the physics honest. Thermal backed blockout fabric as an outside mount adds genuine insulation and takes the edge off heat through the glass. The bigger wins come from outside: awnings, outdoor blinds or shade over west facing windows stop the heat before it reaches the glass, which no indoor blind can match. Close the blinds during the day so the room starts the evening cooler.

Q. Are blockout blinds safe for kids bedrooms?

Yes, when cordless or motorised, which is how we fit every kids room. Loose cords are a real hazard for toddlers, so cordless operation or a remote is standard in our nursery fits. Choose a wipeable fabric too. Tell us the kids ages at your free measure and quote and we will spec the room accordingly.

Q. How much do bedroom blinds cost in Perth?

It depends on window size, product and how many windows you are doing, so any single figure would mislead. Roughly, a standard blockout roller is typically the most affordable, double rollers and shutters sit higher, and motorisation adds to any of them. Whole house packages usually work out better per window. The accurate answer is a free measure and quote with each window priced individually.