Glass on every wall. No plan yet for three o'clock.
Made-to-measure blinds, external shading and motorised awnings for Kraaifontein's new estates and established family homes — specified for whichever way your stand actually faces, not the way a showhouse assumed it would.
Twelve ways to dress a Kraaifontein window
A bare aluminium slider in a brand-new Zonnendal build, a settling sash in an older Windsor Park lounge, a braai patio that needs shade before the Cape Doctor gets going — twelve products, made to measure for the window in front of you.
Sunscreen Roller Blinds
The first answer for bare new-estate glass, whichever way your stand ended up facing — glare and UV down, the street or the garden still in view.
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Blockout & Double Roller Blinds
Proper dark for a school-morning bedroom, or blockout and sunscreen on one bracket for a room that needs both.
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Day-Night (Zebra) Blinds
Tune the light band by band through the day — the usual pick for an open-plan living and dining wall.
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Aluminium Venetian Blinds
Built for the wet-winter damp in a kitchen or bathroom, where fabric is the wrong material for the job.
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Timber Venetian Blinds
Wide 50mm slats for a study or main bedroom that wants a natural, warmer material than aluminium.
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Cellular Honeycomb Blinds
Insulation for a compact new-estate bedroom or nursery, holding its temperature through a hot dry summer and a wet cold winter alike.
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Vertical & Panel Blinds
Wide vanes that tilt or draw clear across the sliding doors most Kraaifontein living rooms open onto the garden through.
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Concealed Ceiling-Recess Blinds
For the double-volume glass some of the newer estate designs bring in — hardware planned into the ceiling, not bolted on after.
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Roller Shutters
Full heat, light and glare control from outside the glass. Shading, not security — that's a different product, available on request.
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Folding-Arm Awnings
Shade over the braai patio before the south-easter gets going — wind-sensor motorisation as standard, not an upsell.
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Zip Screens
A wind-proof patio enclosure that holds taut instead of flapping — closes a braai room in without permanent building work.
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Motorised Blinds & Automation
One app or remote for a growing household of blinds — no cords near small hands, no chain to reach on a double-volume window.
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Proper dark for a 6am start, whatever the season's doing outside.
Every room asks a different question
A living room wants the garden kept in view without the glare that comes with it. A kid's room wants total dark on a winter morning that doesn't argue with a 6:30 alarm. A braai patio wants shade that survives a south-easter afternoon instead of folding up in one. One consultant, one visit, a written answer for each.
Shade held over the braai table long before the Cape Doctor picks up.
Fitted to the bracket your window actually needs, not a generic one.
The hardware is chosen for the wall, not just the fabric
Chain and cord tensioners fitted as standard, cordless or motorised operation wherever a chain isn't the right answer near a child's room, and brackets chosen for a plastered new-estate reveal or a settling older frame — the two rarely take the same fixing. We check which one we're dealing with on site rather than assume.
Most Kraaifontein measures start with the same question: is this a new estate wall or an older frame that's moved a little since it was hung.
On-site measure, KraaifonteinA road grid decides your orientation before the sun does
Kraaifontein sits astride the N1 roughly halfway between Cape Town and Paarl, and most of its growth over the last few years has come from new estates like Zonnendal and Camelot, sitting alongside long-established family suburbs like Windsor Park and Zoo Park. That split matters for a spec: a new estate's stands are laid out on a road grid, not oriented to the sun, so a living-room slider ends up facing whichever way the plot points — the same aluminium door design turns up on a north wall two houses down and a west wall next door. We start every new-estate measure by asking which way the glass actually faces, because a showhouse layout tells us nothing useful about it.
The sun itself is predictable even if the plot isn't: at this latitude the winter sun sits at roughly 33° at midday, low enough to rake deep into any west-facing room for months either side of June, while the summer sun runs close to 80° overhead and a normal eave copes with it on its own. The Cape Doctor south-easter is the other constant — strongest from September through May and busiest in January, which is exactly when a Kraaifontein back garden is doing the most braai-weekend work, so a folding-arm awning or zip screen gets a wind sensor specified as standard, not offered as an upgrade. Established Windsor Park and Zoo Park homes bring a second, quieter issue: older aluminium sliding and casement windows on a settling frame, where a bracket that worked on a brand-new estate wall needs rechecking on site.
- Orientation confirmed on site for new-estate glass, never assumed from the plot number
- Blockout or double roller specified for west-facing rooms catching the low winter sun
- Wind-sensor motorisation as standard on any awning or zip screen over a braai patio
- Aluminium venetians over timber in wet-winter bathrooms and kitchens
From enquiry to fitted, in four steps
Enquire
Tell us the rooms, the products you're weighing up, and whether the house is a new estate build or an established one. Two minutes on the chat or the form.
Free in-home measure
A consultant measures every opening on site, confirms which way the glass actually faces, and brings fabric samples.
Written quote
An itemised, per-window quotation with lead times stated upfront — no surprises between what you saw and what you pay.
Made & fitted
Every piece is manufactured to your measurements and installed cleanly by our own team, new bracket or old one.
Kraaifontein and the neighbouring suburbs
The same free-measure, written-quote process, adjusted for what each suburb's housing stock actually needs.
Before you enquire
Do you cover Brackenfell, Durbanville, Kuils River and Bellville as well as Kraaifontein?
Yes — Kraaifontein is our home ground, and we measure and fit across Brackenfell, Durbanville, Kuils River and Bellville too. If you're just outside those, ask on the enquiry form and we'll confirm.
Our new estate home came with bare glass on every window — where do we start?
With which way each window actually faces, since a new-estate stand is laid out on the road grid rather than the sun. A free in-home measure covers that room by room, and most new-build enquiries end up with sunscreen roller blinds as the first layer across living areas, with blockout added in bedrooms.
What actually stops the afternoon sun on a west-facing window?
A blockout or double roller blind on the inside handles most Kraaifontein west-facing rooms — the winter sun here sits low enough to rake in for months either side of June, and a fixed eave doesn't reach it. For a patio or braai area on the same wall, a folding-arm awning or roller shutter stops the heat before it reaches the glass at all.
What's the difference between roller shutters and security shutters?
The roller shutters we fit are a shading product — external aluminium slats that roll down from a headbox to cut heat, glare and light from outside the glass. They're not the same as a security-rated shutter, which is a different, heavier product available on request. Tell us at the enquiry stage if security is the main goal and we'll point you to the right spec.
Are your blinds safe for small children?
Every corded or chained blind is fitted with a tensioner as standard. For nurseries and children's rooms we generally recommend cordless, wand-tilt or motorised operation — ask your consultant and it's built into the quote.
What does the free measure and quote actually cost?
Nothing. The measure, the samples, the consultation and the written per-window quote are all free, with no obligation to order.
Your windows, measured this week.
Free in-home measure, a written per-window quote, and a consultant who already knows the difference between a new-estate bracket and an older one.
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
