Roller Blinds
One clean sheet of fabric on a tube. Blockout for bedrooms, sunscreen to cut glare while the fairway stays visible, or both on a double bracket.
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Dainfern · Johannesburg
Keep the fairway view. Lose the glare that comes with it.
Made-to-measure blinds, roller shutters, awnings and motorised shading — measured, made and fitted across Dainfern and the estates around it.
Or read Terracotta & Glass first — our free Dainfern shading dossier
Free in-home measure and a written quote, priced window by window
Specified for fairway-facing glass and Highveld afternoon sun
Child-safe chain tensioners fitted as standard
The range
Every way to steer the light in a fairway-facing home
Twelve made-to-measure options, plus repairs. Which one belongs on a window depends on where it faces, how wide the glass is, and whether you want the view kept or the room properly dark.
Day/Night Blinds
Sheer and solid bands in one blind. Line them up for privacy after dark, slide them apart to see the course by day.
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Timber Venetians
Warm horizontal slats you tilt rather than simply open or close — a natural match for terracotta-and-render interiors.
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Aluminium Venetians
Slim metal slats that shrug off steam and splashes — the sensible pick for bathrooms, sculleries and laundries.
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Cellular / Honeycomb
Honeycomb cells trap a layer of air against the glass — the quiet fix for a double-volume room that bakes by day and chills at night.
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Vertical Blinds
Hanging vanes that rotate to follow the sun and stack right off the opening — still the most practical answer to a very wide slider.
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Panel Blinds
Broad flat panels gliding on a track. Calm, architectural, and the tidiest way to dress a glazed wall without a hundred slats.
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Skylight & Shaped Blinds
Roof lights, arched heads and raked gables. Made to the shape of the opening and held in channels so gravity never gets a say.
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Concealed Blind Boxes
The blind disappears into a ceiling recess or bulkhead when it is up. Best planned during a renovation — the ceiling has to be ready for it.
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Roller Shutters
Rigid aluminium slats that roll down on the outside of the glass, stopping heat and glare before it reaches the window.
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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Folding-Arm Awnings
Patio shade with nothing standing in the way — the canopy rides out on hinged arms and rolls back into its cassette when the storm clouds build.
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Zip Screens
Mesh held tight in side channels, so wind cannot flap it. Turns an exposed patio into a usable room on a hot afternoon.
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Blind Repairs
Snapped cords, a tube that will not hold, a tilt mechanism gone lazy, blinds knocked loose by painters. We restring, re-fit and replace parts — including blinds we did not supply.
Book a repairMotorisation
The windows nobody reaches are the ones that matter most
Double-volume glass above a stairwell, a clerestory strip over the living wing, a six-metre slider onto the patio — these are the openings that cook a room, and they are exactly the ones you stop operating by hand after the first month.
Rechargeable tubular motors retrofit without chasing walls or lifting tiles: charge them, mount them, run them from a remote, a wall switch, an app or a timer. In a new build or a renovation we would rather run cable while the ceiling is open — say the word early and we will spec it that way.
How motorisation is specified
In Dainfern homes
Three rooms, three completely different problems
Estate light
Why a Dainfern window needs a specification, not just a size
Dainfern was South Africa's first gated golf estate, and the Tuscan and Mediterranean-revival homes built through the nineties and two-thousands set the template every later Joburg estate borrowed — warm render, terracotta roofs, arched openings, wrought iron. Plenty of those homes have since been remodelled with far more contemporary glazing behind the original roofline.
That combination is what makes shading here specific. The glass is bigger than the house was designed for, it is pointed deliberately at the course, and there is nothing on a fairway to shade it.
- AspectLiving areas are oriented to the fairway on purpose, so the glass faces wide-open exposure with no neighbouring building to break the afternoon sun.
- OpeningsArched heads and wrought-iron detail from the original Tuscan builds sit alongside newer square, floor-to-ceiling sliders — one home often needs two different approaches.
- WeatherThe November-to-March storm season decides everything outdoors: awnings and screens must retract quickly, which is why we fit wind sensors rather than trusting anyone to be home.
- Estate rulesAnything visible from outside gets specified in restrained profiles and estate-friendly colours, and we hand over the product detail owners typically need for an aesthetics submission.
- VillagesSherwood, Hampstead, Highgate, Montagu, Riverwood, and the more compact Mediterranean homes up on Dainfern Ridge — different stand sizes, different window schedules.
The three-o'clock traverse — scroll and watch the afternoon cross a fairway-facing arch
Free to read
We wrote down what the sun does here
Before you choose a fabric, it helps to know which wall the room sits on. So we put the whole brief in writing — sun angles, storm season, estate glass — and left it un-gated.
The dossier
Terracotta & Glass
The Dainfern fairway shading dossier: a 1990s roofline with 2020s glazing behind it, pointed at open ground. What that does to each elevation, and what we would fit on it.
- The sun's actual angles here, solstice to solstice, and why the problem window moves
- North, west, east and south — which rooms suffer, and what fixes each
- Every product we would recommend, with the catch written down next to it
- Estate sign-off: what needs it, what genuinely doesn't
- The five things only an on-site measure can settle
Free, no email needed, sources listed at the foot. Nine minutes to read.
How it works
Four steps, no surprises
01
Tell us about the windows
The form, or the chat in the corner. Rough is fine — room names and a guess at how many windows is plenty to start.
02
Free in-home measure
A consultant measures every opening properly, brings fabric and slat samples, and looks at where the sun actually lands before recommending anything.
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A written quote
Priced window by window, so you can keep the bedrooms and think about the patio — or the other way round. No pressure either way.
04
Made and fitted
Manufactured to your measurements, installed by the team that measured, and left clean with the offcuts taken away.
Where we work
Dainfern and the estates on its doorstep
Every one of these is a different building era with a different window problem. Pick yours and we will get specific.
Good to know
Questions we get asked in the estate
Do you handle estate aesthetic approvals?
Interior blinds almost never need approval. Anything visible from outside — awnings, roller shutters, zip screens — usually does, and the estate wants product detail rather than a brochure. We give you the profile, the colour reference and the fixing method in writing so your submission has what it needs. We can't approve it for you, but we can make sure nothing gets sent back for missing information.
We're renovating — when should the blinds be measured?
Final measure once the glazing is in and the reveals are plastered, because a 10mm skim changes a blind. But talk to us before the ceiling closes if you want concealed blind boxes or wired motors — those need a recess and a cable, and both are cheap before the bulkhead goes up and expensive after.
What actually works on a west-facing fairway window?
Usually a sunscreen roller — an open-weave fabric that kills the glare and the worst of the heat while you can still see the course through it. Where the room also has to go properly dark, a double bracket carries sunscreen and blockout on the same window. If the heat is the real complaint rather than the light, stopping it outside the glass with a roller shutter or a zip screen does far more than anything fitted inside.
Are your roller shutters security-rated?
No. Ours are shading shutters — external aluminium slats that roll down over the glass to control sun, heat, glare and privacy. They are not security-rated, and we won't pretend otherwise. Security-rated shutters are a different product built to a different standard, which we can quote on request.
Can motorised blinds go into a finished house?
Yes. Rechargeable tubular motors need no wiring at all — they charge from a USB lead a couple of times a year and run from a remote, a wall switch or an app. Wired motors are neater and never need charging, but they mean opening a ceiling or chasing a wall, which is why we normally only recommend them in a build or a renovation.
Do you repair blinds you didn't supply?
We do. Restringing, replacement tilt mechanisms, new brackets, refitting blinds that came down when a room was painted, and re-tensioning tubes that have lost their grip. If a part is obsolete we'll say so honestly rather than string you along — sometimes remaking one blind is cheaper than chasing components for it.
Free measure
Tell us about your windows
One of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange a free in-home measure with samples. No obligation, and no one arrives with a clipboard and a hard sell.
Thank you — that's with us.
One of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange your free in-home measure.
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.