The oldest trees in the neighbourhood — and what they don't cover
Fourways Gardens has something the newer estates around it simply cannot buy yet: mature street and garden trees. Many rooms here get genuine dappled shade for part of the day, which changes the specification. You often need less blind than a comparable house in Steyn City or Helderfontein.
What the trees do not solve is the late western sun across the covered patio and braai area, which on the standard plan here faces exactly the wrong way. That is where almost every enquiry from this estate starts.
Windows that want a bit of thought
The dominant design language is classic — symmetry, columned entrances, tall multi-pane sash-style windows — updated over four development phases and endless renovations. Those tall proportions suit a blind that reads vertically: a well-proportioned roller in a recess, or timber venetians whose slat width is chosen against the pane size rather than the window's overall height. Fitting a 50mm slat to a delicate multi-pane window makes it look heavy; a narrower slat sits properly.
- Timber venetians in living and dining rooms — tilt suits dappled light that changes through the day.
- Blockout rollers in bedrooms, chosen to sit neatly inside a reveal rather than face-fixed over cornicing.
- Folding-arm awnings over the braai patio, with the pitch set to block a low western sun rather than just overhead glare.
- Zip screens down the open side of a covered patio — the only thing that answers a sun sitting at eye level at five o'clock.
- Aluminium venetians in bathrooms and sculleries, where timber would eventually complain.
- Flatlet windows priced separately, since self-contained flatlets are common here and often let out.
Renovation timing
Plenty of homes here are on their second or third update. If you are replacing windows, wait for the glazing and the plaster before we take final measurements — but talk to us first if you want blinds concealed in a new bulkhead, because that has to be built in.
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Most asked for here
- Roller blinds — blockout for bedrooms, sunscreen where the view matters.
- Motorised blinds — for the high glass nobody reaches by hand.
- Folding-arm awnings — patio shade that retracts before a storm.
- Day/Night blinds — privacy after dark, the view by day.
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Free measure in Fourways Gardens
Tell us which rooms and roughly how many windows. One of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange a free in-home measure with samples.
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What happens next
- A consultant phones you back to understand the rooms and agree a time.
- The measure happens at your home, with samples in the actual light of the room.
- You get a written quote, per window, that you can cut down or add to.
- Only then does anything get made. Nothing is ordered off a phone call.