Blinds & shading for Graanendal & Clara Anna Fontein

New — our free Durbanville Window Field Guide reads the light on a wine-valley home elevation by elevation, then hands you a two-minute ballpark or a free measure at the end.

Graanendal and Clara Anna Fontein are two of the newer lifestyle estates filling in the edges of Durbanville's wine country, and the building brief here looks nothing like an older, established suburb. These are brand-new homes with floor-to-ceiling glass, open-plan living areas and, in a lot of cases, an estate-wide architectural style to work within.

What a new estate build usually needs

• A full-house fit-out — every window and door specified together, so finishes, colours and control types match room to room instead of being decided piecemeal after move-in.
• Motorised from day one — new builds increasingly wire for motorisation during construction, which avoids retrofitting chains and cords later and gives every blind app or schedule control from the start.
• Estate-appropriate exterior colours — both estates carry design guidelines on approved exterior finishes; we confirm this against your scheme before quoting external products.
• South-easter-ready exterior shading — the same wind that sweeps this side of the valley in summer applies here, so wind sensors on awnings and roller shutters on exposed glazing are a sensible line item on a new build, not an afterthought.

We're happy to work directly with your builder or project manager while the windows are still going in, and being based right in Durbanville makes the free measure easy to schedule around a build programme.