Durbanville · Cape Town
Made-to-measure blinds, motorised shading and child-safe control for Durbanville’s wine-country family homes — from the front stoep to the last west-facing window.
Free read: The Durbanville Window Field Guide — which blind suits which window here →
From the deep-set gable window on an older wine-farm-style home to the floor-to-ceiling glass going into a new Graanendal build, every product below is made to measure — pick what suits the room, and we’ll confirm the rest at the free measure.
Blockout, sunscreen or a double day/night fabric on a clean tube, sized for Durbanville’s wide lounge and stoep-facing openings.
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Align the bands for a filtered vineyard view, offset them for near-solid privacy from the road — one blind, two moods.
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Aluminium for kitchens and bathrooms, timber for the Cape Dutch-style study — tilt for light, close flat for privacy.
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Trapped air cells take the edge off a hot winelands afternoon and a damp Cape winter morning alike.
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The practical answer for wide sliding doors onto the garden and pool deck — tilt for light, draw fully clear.
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Fabric drops from a slim ceiling slot or bulkhead — the window stays clean when the blind is up, gable glass included.
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Tensioned systems that hold flat on an angle, for the gable ends and roof glass nobody else quotes.
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Remote, app, schedule or sun sensor — the upgrade every wide, view-facing window eventually asks for.
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Heat stopped at the glass, not inside the room — the premium answer for north-facing vineyard-view facades.
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External slats that read as architecture, keeping heat and glare off exposed glass through long wine-country afternoons.
Shading, not security. Our roller shutters are made for sun, heat and glare control on the outside of the glass. They are not security-rated shutters — that is a different product, which we can quote on request.
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Retractable shade over the stoep and braai area, with a wind sensor that protects it before the south-easter gets going.
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Zipped side channels seal a patio against wind, sun and insects without a single flap in a Cape summer breeze.
ExploreWide stoeps built for a Sunday lunch, kitchens that open onto the garden, and windows angled to catch the vineyard view — this is what made-to-measure is for.
Durbanville hasn’t fully let go of being farmland — the suburb is still ringed by working wine estates and rolling, vine-covered hills, and plenty of homes were built, or styled, to look out over them. That view is the whole point of a lot of Durbanville glass, and it shapes what a window treatment actually has to do here.
Older properties lean on Cape farmstead details — gables, deep stoeps, wide sash and French doors — while new lifestyle estates like Graanendal and Clara Anna Fontein are going up with floor-to-ceiling glass built for the same view. Both need the same honest answer: something that controls a valley’s worth of afternoon sun without blocking the reason the window is that big in the first place.
We wrote the whole playbook for shading a wine-valley home — how the summer sun swings around to the west by four o’clock, which blind suits north, west, east and south glass, and where the cheaper option is honestly the right one. Free to read, no sign-up, and it hands you straight into a two-minute ballpark or a free measure at the end.
No online measuring tools, no guesswork — every window gets a real consultant with a tape measure before a single fabric is cut.
Chat, form or call — tell us the rooms, the product interest and roughly when you’d like it done.
An expert consultant visits with samples, measures every opening precisely and talks through fabric and motorisation for that room’s light — vineyard view included.
Made-to-measure pricing per window, every option itemised — no surprises when the invoice arrives.
Manufactured to order and professionally installed, level and tested, with an operation demo before we leave.
Based in Durbanville, working right across the surrounding wine-country belt.
Yes — it’s most of what we measure here. Deep-set Cape farmstead windows and gables need a careful on-site measure, and the newer Graanendal and Clara Anna Fontein builds usually mean a full house of openings going in together. Either way, nothing gets quoted until a consultant has actually measured it.
An expert consultant visits with fabric and finish samples, measures every window you want quoted, and advises on fabric, openness factor and motorisation for each room’s actual light and privacy needs. It’s free and there’s no obligation to proceed.
Yes. Chain and cord tensioners anchoring the loop taut to the wall are standard on our installs, wand-tilt and cordless options are available for nurseries and kids’ rooms, and motorisation removes cords and chains entirely — ask about child-safe controls for any room.
Across the range — rechargeable battery motors suit a retrofit without wiring, wired motors suit a new build or renovation, and app, schedule or sun/wind sensor control can be added to any of it. On the wide glass a lot of Durbanville homes are built around, it’s often the only practical option anyway.
Awnings, zip screens and external venetians should always be specified with a wind sensor so they retract automatically before a gust does damage — the same south-easter that clears the Cape sky in summer will happily destroy an awning left open. We’ll flag exposed positions at the measure.
Everything is made to order, so timing depends on the product and how much is on the order — your written quote will confirm the lead time for your specific job rather than a generic estimate.
Free in-home measure, a written per-window quote, and a straight answer if a product isn’t the right fit for your room.
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