Rondebosch bay windows, built in 1910. Blinds that actually fit them.
Made-to-measure blinds, external shading and motorised awnings for Rondebosch's Victorian and Edwardian homes — measured to the reveal, not to a standard size, with a free in-home consult built around the school run.
Twelve ways to dress a Rondebosch window
An oak-shaded bay window, a wide Edwardian sash frame, a glass extension bolted onto the back of a 1920s semi — this suburb rarely gives you one standard opening twice. Twelve products, made to measure for the one in front of you. The external three — external venetians, roller shutters and zip screens — are the premium end of the collection, and on a hot north- or west-facing extension they are what we lead with.
Sunscreen Roller Blinds
A fine mesh that keeps the oak-lined street in view while cutting the low afternoon sun through a west-facing bay.
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Blockout & Double Roller Blinds
Total dark for an early school morning, or blockout and sunscreen on one bracket for the same window.
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Aluminium Venetian Blinds
Slim tilting slats built for a family kitchen and bathroom, where fabric doesn't survive the steam.
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Timber Venetian Blinds
Wide 50mm slats sized to the deep sash-window reveals in Rondebosch's Victorian and Edwardian houses.
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Day-Night (Zebra) Blinds
Privacy from the pavement without losing the light, tuned band by band through the day.
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Cellular Honeycomb Blinds
Insulates the room above the garage that's always the coldest, and takes the edge off De Waal Drive noise.
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Vertical & Panel Blinds
Wide vanes that tilt or draw clear across the sliding doors onto the back garden.
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Concealed Ceiling-Recess Blinds
For the double-volume extensions going up behind Rondebosch's original facades — hardware fully hidden.
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External Venetian Blinds
Stops the heat at the glass on a north-facing extension, before the aircon has to fight it.
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Roller Shutters
Full light and glare control from outside the glass. Shading, not security — that's a different product.
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Folding-Arm Awnings
Turns a north-facing stoep or braai corner back into shade for the after-school hours.
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Motorised Blinds & Automation
One app for a whole house of blinds, so the school run doesn't stop for a stuck chain.
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Total dark by 6am, whatever the season's doing outside.
Every room asks a different question
A lounge bay window wants the oak-lined street kept in view, not blocked out. A child's room wants proper dark on a 6am winter morning regardless of the canopy outside. A converted garage office wants the cold snap out of the room without losing the one window it has. One consultant, one visit, a written answer for each.
Shade held over the braai long after the sun's moved off the lawn.
Fitted to the frame you have, not the one a catalogue expects.
The hardware is chosen for the reveal, not just the room
Chain and cord tensioners fitted as standard, wand-tilt or motorised operation wherever a corded blind isn't the right answer near a child's room, and brackets chosen to sit cleanly on original timber reveals rather than forced flush against them. Older frames don't always sit square after a hundred years of settling — we check on site rather than assume a bracket that worked next door will work here too.
Most of the fittings we do in Rondebosch start with a tape measure against a window frame that predates the blind industry itself.
On-site measure, RondeboschAn oak canopy older than the blinds industry, and a school run that sets the clock
Rondebosch's older streets run under an oak canopy planted generations before anyone here was fitting blinds — nowhere more so than around Rondebosch Common, ringed by the schools that give the suburb its twice-daily rhythm of lift clubs and staggered pick-ups. That dappled, broken light is a gift and a complication: it's the view every bay window wants to keep, and it also means a flat sunscreen reads darker here than the same fabric would on an open street — most Rondebosch measures land on a lighter mesh openness than a generic calculator would suggest.
Most of the houses we measure are Victorian or Edwardian semis and villas — deep sash-window reveals, the odd bay window sized to nothing a modern blind track was built for, and increasingly a double-storey addition or a glassed-in rear extension bolted onto the original footprint. Homes backing onto De Waal Drive pick up real traffic noise along with the low winter sun off the mountain's eastern slope; cellular blinds earn their keep there as much for the quiet as for the insulation. The south-easter everyone associates with the coast reaches this far inland too, funnelled along the same mountainside in summer — which is why anything left outside, an awning or a roller shutter, gets a genuine wind rating rather than a decorative one.
- Deep sash and bay-window reveals measured on site, not assumed to a standard bracket
- Lighter sunscreen openness specified for oak-dappled, tree-filtered light
- Cellular blinds specified for noise as much as heat on De Waal Drive-facing rooms
- Genuine wind-rated hardware on anything left outside, south-easter included
From enquiry to fitted, in four steps
Enquire
Tell us the rooms, the products you're considering, and whether the windows are original or already replaced. Two minutes on the form, or say it on the chat.
Free in-home measure
A consultant measures every opening on site, checks the reveal depth on any original sash or bay window, and brings fabric samples.
Written quote
A per-window quotation, itemised, with lead times given upfront — what you were shown and what you pay are the same thing. A number to hold on to until then: across everything on this site, expect R1,000 to R7,500 per square metre installed, a plain manual blind at the low end and motorised outdoor shading at the high one. A small pane is charged at a minimum, and the real per-window figure only arrives with the quote.
Made & fitted
Every piece is manufactured to your measurements and installed cleanly by our own team, old joinery and all.
What we make, and the order it happens in
Rondebosch Blinds measures, makes and fits window shading across Rondebosch and the suburbs beside it — Newlands, Claremont, Kenilworth and Bishopscourt. Roller blinds, day/night blinds, venetians and cellular blinds are each made to the dimensions measured in your own rooms. In a suburb of Victorian and Edwardian houses that is not a preference but a requirement: a century of settling leaves a lot of these frames slightly out of true, and nothing off a shelf sits square in one.
The sequence is the same on every job. You enquire through the form or the chat, and one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange a free in-home measure, built around the school run if that is what the week looks like. On the visit every opening is measured to the reveal, both diagonals checked on the older joinery, and fabric, mesh openness and control chosen room by room. A written quote follows, itemised per window. Approve it and everything is manufactured to those measurements and installed by the fitting team, old joinery and all.
Enquiry details are handled under POPIA, and they serve the call-back and nothing beyond it.
Rondebosch and the rest of the schools belt
The same free-measure, written-quote process, adjusted for what each street and each era of house actually needs.
Before you enquire
Do you cover Newlands, Claremont, Kenilworth and Bishopscourt as well as Rondebosch?
Yes — Rondebosch is our home ground, and we measure and fit across Newlands, Claremont, Kenilworth and Bishopscourt too. Sitting just beyond that ring of suburbs? Put it on the enquiry form and we'll tell you either way.
Will a blind actually fit our original sash or bay window?
That's the question most Rondebosch enquiries start with, and it's a fair one — a lot of stock blind tracks assume a modern, square opening. Our consultant measures the actual reveal depth and any out-of-square settling on site, and specifies the bracket, cassette or face-fix that suits the joinery you have rather than the one a catalogue expects.
What actually stops noise from De Waal Drive?
Cellular honeycomb blinds are the one interior product that dampens sound as well as heat — the same trapped air cells that insulate also absorb some of the road noise. It won't replace double glazing, but it measurably softens a bedroom or study on a De Waal Drive-facing wall.
Is a roller shutter a security shutter by another name?
No. What we fit is a shading product: aluminium slats that run down from a headbox on the outside of the window, taking heat, glare and light out before they reach the glass. A security-rated shutter is a heavier build altogether, and we can quote one if you ask for it. Say so on the enquiry form if security is the point, and we'll steer you to the right spec.
Are your blinds safe for small children?
Any blind that runs on a cord or a chain leaves here with a tensioner already fitted. In a nursery or a child's bedroom we would usually steer you towards wand-tilt, cordless or motorised operation — mention it on the visit and the consultant prices it in.
Are the measure and the quote genuinely free?
They are. The visit, the fabric samples, the advice and the written per-window figures cost you nothing, and you are under no obligation to order.
Your windows, measured this week.
Free in-home measure, a written per-window quote, and a consultant who already knows how to fit a bracket to a 1910 sash frame.
Tell us about your windows
Tell us which rooms you're doing and what you have in mind. 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
