The mountain stays in the window. The four o’clock sun doesn’t get the last word.
Made-to-measure blinds, roller shutters and folding-arm awnings for Oranjezicht’s Victorian and Edwardian homes — fitted to hold a Table Mountain view through a Cape Doctor summer and a wet Bowl winter.
Built for sash windows, big glass additions and a swinging sun
Twelve ways to answer a City Bowl window, from an original narrow Victorian sash to the floor-to-ceiling glass extension behind it. Every piece is made to measure, chain, wand or motorised.
Blockout Roller Blinds
Total light stop for bedrooms and media rooms, with the thermal benefit of a proper insulating layer.
Explore →Sunscreen Roller Blinds
A fine mesh weave that keeps the mountain view while cutting the glare and UV off big glass.
Explore →Day & Night (Zebra) Blinds
Alternating sheer and solid bands — privacy without darkness, tuned hour by hour.
Explore →Timber Venetian Blinds
Wide slats that tilt the light on an original sash window — the natural heritage fit.
Explore →Aluminium Venetian Blinds
Slim, sealed-finish slats for kitchens, bathrooms and any room that stays damp through a Cape winter.
Explore →Cellular Honeycomb Blinds
Trapped air cells insulate the glass — the warmest answer for a cold, shaded lower-Bowl room.
Ask about this →Concealed Ceiling-Recess Blinds
Fabric drops from a slim ceiling slot — raised, a double-volume extension shows nothing but glass.
Explore →Vertical & Panel Blinds
Wide vanes and sliding panels for full-height sliders and the glass wall behind an old facade.
Ask about this →Folding-Arm Awnings
Retractable shade over the stoep or garden terrace — gone the moment winter sun is welcome.
Explore →Motorised Awnings + Wind Sensor
Auto-retracts before the Cape Doctor hits, so a gust never takes the fabric with it.
Explore →Zip Screens
Mesh locked into zipped side channels — it holds tension in real wind instead of flapping loose.
Ask about this →Roller Shutters (Shading)
External aluminium slats for sun, heat and glare on the west glass — shading roller shutters, not security-rated ones.
Ask about this →Motorisation & App Control
Quiet motors on wall switch, remote or phone — with a wind sensor on anything mounted outside.
Ask about this →Blind Repairs & Re-Fitting
Seized tubes, worn chains and cords, a slipped bracket, slats that no longer tilt, or a blind hanging crooked after a wall was re-plastered. We service and repair existing blinds — whoever originally fitted them. Tell us what it’s doing and the consultant brings the likely parts to the visit.
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Two houses on one street, two different windows
The original front rooms want the sash respected and the light tilted, not blocked. The glass extension at the back wants a motorised system that disappears into the ceiling. One consultant, one visit, a written answer for each window.
Victorian sash windows, a mountain that swallows the winter sun, and a wind with a name
Oranjezicht climbs the lower slopes of Table Mountain in classic Victorian and Edwardian streets — tree-lined, mature gardens, narrow-sash windows built for a view rather than a heat load. Part of the suburb, together with all of neighbouring Tamboerskloof, sits inside the City Bowl’s Heritage Protection Overlay Zone, and any change to the outside of a building older than sixty years can need a Heritage Western Cape permit before work starts. A blind fitted inside the reveal is a furnishing decision, not a structural one — but we say so plainly rather than call an approval a formality.
The sun does something specific here: at December’s solar noon it stands almost overhead at 75°, high and easy; by June it has dropped to 31°, still due north but sliding in low and searching under any eave that shaded it in summer. West is the elevation that costs money — the afternoon sun sets south of west and keeps dropping through the day, so heat, glare and fabric fading land together with nothing to block it. Then, from October to March, the City Bowl gets the south-easterly harder than most of the city: air funnels between the mountain and the sea and accelerates through the bowl, with gusts recorded up to roughly 160km/h over Table Bay. Anything mounted outside a window here gets specified for that wind, not around it.
- Inside- or outside-mount chosen at the measure to suit the sash you actually have, not a standard bracket
- Motor-plus-wind-sensor as the default on any awning or zip screen, not an upsell
- Concealed and recessed systems for the double-volume glass extensions common behind original facades
- Sealed, corrosion-resistant hardware for a genuinely coastal setting — lighter than the exposed Atlantic Seaboard, but real
Solar-noon elevation at Cape Town’s latitude, 33.9°S — the swing that decides which elevation of the house needs which product.
From enquiry to fitted, in four steps
Enquire
Tell us the rooms, the products you’re considering, and roughly how many windows. Takes two minutes.
Free in-home measure
A consultant measures every window on site, checks sash or frame condition, and brings fabric samples.
Written quote
An itemised, per-window quotation — no surprises between what you saw and what you pay.
Made & fitted
Every piece is manufactured to your measurements and fitted by the installation team, cleanly, room by room.
The hardware is chosen for the Cape Doctor, not just the room
Powder-coated aluminium and sealed cassettes on anything exposed outside, marine-grade fixings for a coastal setting that’s real even if it’s lighter than the Atlantic Seaboard, chain and cord tensioners fitted as standard, and motorised options with a wind sensor wherever a product sits outside the glass. It’s the unglamorous part of the job, and it’s the part that keeps working after the next south-easter.
Oranjezicht and the neighbouring City Bowl suburbs
The same free-measure, written-quote process, adjusted for what each street and each sash actually needs.
Before you enquire
Do you cover Oranjezicht and the surrounding City Bowl suburbs?
Yes — Oranjezicht is our home ground, and we measure and fit across Higgovale, Tamboerskloof, Gardens and Vredehoek too. If you’re just outside those, ask on the enquiry form and we’ll confirm.
Can blinds be fitted without damaging a heritage sash window or breaching the Heritage Overlay Zone?
Generally yes. We assess frame type and reveal depth at the free measure and choose inside- or outside-mount with a fixing method that suits the sash you actually have, rather than forcing a standard bracket onto it. A blind fitted inside the room is a furnishing decision. It’s only work fixed to the OUTSIDE of a building older than sixty years — an awning cassette, an external screen channel, a roller-shutter headbox — that can need a Heritage Western Cape permit, and a sectional-title exterior change needs body-corporate sign-off. We’ll say plainly when that applies rather than call it a formality.
How do you handle the Cape Doctor wind on anything mounted outside?
The City Bowl gets the south-easterly funnelled and accelerated between the mountain and the sea, harder than most of the city. Anything outside — an awning, a zip screen, a roller shutter — gets specified with motor-plus-wind-sensor as standard, not an upsell, so it retracts or seals before a gust arrives rather than relying on someone being home.
What about our wet winters and damp, shaded rooms?
Cape Town's winters are genuinely wet — roughly 70% of the year’s rain falls June to September, arriving on north-westerly cold fronts about once every six days. Anything outside gets a sealed cassette and powder-coated, corrosion-resistant hardware. Indoors, we lean towards sealed-finish aluminium venetians or moisture-tolerant fabrics in the rooms that stay cold and shaded, and cellular honeycomb where the room needs real insulation.
Do roller shutters make the house more secure?
Not the ones we fit. Our roller shutters are a shading product — rigid aluminium slats rolling down from an external headbox for sun control, heat and glare on hard west-facing glass, plus privacy. They are not security-rated. If you want a security-rated shutter, that is a different product, available on request, and we’ll say so honestly rather than let the two blur together.
What about child safety with cords and chains?
Every corded or chained blind is fitted with a tensioner as standard. For nurseries and kids’ rooms we generally recommend wand-tilt, cordless or motorised options — ask your consultant and it’ll be built into the quote.
Let’s get your windows measured
Free in-home measure, a written per-window quote, and a consultant who already knows how an Oranjezicht sash and a City Bowl south-easter behave.
Tell us about your windows
Share a little about the rooms and products you’re considering. One of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange your free in-home measure.
- No obligation, no call-centre — a consultant calls you directly
- Fabric samples brought to the measure, not just a screen swatch
- Written, itemised quote before anything is ordered