Made-to-Measure Roller Blinds

Fabric types — the decision that actually matters

Blockout stops light completely — right for bedrooms, nurseries and any room that needs a proper afternoon nap through harvest-season heat. There's a genuine thermal benefit too, an insulating layer against a Boland summer and a cold, wet valley winter alike.

Sunscreen mesh (3%, 5% or 10% openness) cuts glare and UV while keeping the view — the standard answer for the big glass a wine-estate living room is built around. Lower percentages block more heat and glare but show less of the vines; 3–5% is the usual view-preserving choice. Worth knowing: sunscreen gives daytime privacy but reverses after dark, when lights on inside make the room visible from the garden — worth pairing with curtains or a second roller in a bedroom.

Light-filtering / translucent fabric softens daylight and gives full privacy without a view — a middle ground for bathrooms or street-facing rooms along the oak avenues.

Options worth knowing about

• Double roller (day/night combo): blockout and sunscreen sharing one bracket — the practical answer for a bedroom that still wants a vineyard view during the day
• Chain, spring-assist or motorised control (chain systems get a wall-anchored tensioner as standard, for child safety)
• Cassette or pelmet valances to hide the tube, with the fascia colour-matched to your window frames or heritage timber trim
• Wide spans: a single blind runs to roughly 3m of fabric; beyond that we either split it with a central join or motorise linked blinds so the join disappears into the operation, not the view

Where rollers win, and where they don't

They're the right call for new-build wine-estate glass, apartments, and anywhere you want an easy-clean, budget-to-premium fabric that suits the room without a fuss. On a very wide unbroken span the join line becomes visible, and on a Cape Dutch cottage's sash window a timber venetian usually reads more at home — we'll say so plainly at the measure rather than sell the wrong product for the room.

Fitting rollers across Stellenbosch

Sunscreen rollers hold the valley view on a hillside stand in Paradyskloof, run motorised and linked across a wide glass elevation on the golf and wine estate in De Zalze, and go blockout for family bedrooms in Welgevonden Estate. Out at the working farms of Jonkershoek Valley, they're the usual answer for newer glazed additions once the wind-rated exterior shading on the hardest elevation is sorted.