About

About Noordhoek Blinds

Made-to-measure blinds, outdoor screens and awnings for the Noordhoek valley and the suburbs on either side of it. One consultant, your own windows, your own light — and a straight answer about what each opening actually needs.

This valley writes half the specification

Noordhoek opens west to the Atlantic with the mountain standing over its eastern side, and that one fact decides most of what we specify. Morning sun takes its time coming over the ridge, so east rooms stay dim and cool later than people expect. The last two hours of the afternoon are the opposite entirely: light arrives almost flat off the water, runs the full length of a living room and lands on the far wall. Tinted glass does not fix it. Shading does.

Wind is the second decider. Summer south-easters push across the valley floor, and the winter fronts come in off the sea with the rain behind them. Anything left hanging loose over a veranda will flap, then fray, then tear — which is why we fit zip-guided screens here, and why we say so plainly when somebody asks us to quote a cheaper open-sided drop blind instead.

Salt handles the rest. Coastal-grade brackets, powder-coated finishes and stainless fixings are the baseline down here, not an upsell we invented on the driveway.

The houses we work in

Thatch and whitewashed Cape farm-style homes with deep verandas. Smallholdings where the stable yard sits closer to the kitchen door than the garage does. Glass-forward newer builds on the valley floor, estate houses around the Lake Michelle water, and — over the hill in Sun Valley and Sunnydale — sensible family homes with ordinary aluminium windows that still take a full afternoon of western sun.

Hardly any of it comes in a standard size. Deep reveals in thick walls, skew heads on older openings, sliding stacks four and five panels wide, doors that stand open all day because the outdoor room is the room everyone actually uses. We measure each opening on its own merits and manufacture to it. Nothing is cut down from stock.

How a job runs

1. We come to you, at the hour your light misbehaves. If the glare is a four-o'clock problem, we would rather be standing in it than hear about it. Samples come with us; nothing gets measured off a photograph.
2. You get the quote in writing, priced per window, in Rands. Where a simpler product will do the job on a particular opening, we say so and quote it that way, even when it costs us the bigger line item.
3. Our own team installs it. Made to order for your exact openings, fitted carefully around thatch eaves and old plaster, with child-safe controls on anything corded.

Things we will not do

• Talk you into motorising a small bathroom window because automation sounds impressive.
• Put a fabric that hates moisture into a south room on the valley floor and hope the winter is a dry one.
• Hang an unguided blind on an exposed veranda and let the next south-easter teach you the lesson.

We would rather do fewer windows properly and still be the people you phone in three years, when the next phase of the house happens.

Arrange a free measure