Blinds for Gardens' Victorian terraces and apartment glass.

Gardens sits at the town-facing edge of the City Bowl cluster, closest to the CBD and to the Company's Garden it takes its name from. That position means it carries the widest housing mix of any suburb in this group: an original narrow-sash Victorian terrace can sit metres from a mid-rise sectional-title block built decades later, each with a completely different window specification to solve.

For the apartments, street-facing glass is usually the main brief — privacy from the pavement and from neighbouring units, without losing what natural light or outlook the unit has. For the Victorian terraces, it's the same heritage picture as the rest of the cluster: a blind fitted inside the sash reveal is a furnishing decision, not a facade change, while anything fixed to the outside of an older building can fall under the National Heritage Resources Act.

What we usually end up quoting here

• Day & night blinds for street-facing apartment glass — the classic body-corporate brief, privacy by day and the view back by evening.
• Roller blinds for a Victorian terrace's original sash, blockout for the bedrooms and sunscreen for the living-room glass.
• Cellular blinds for an older terrace's draughtier rooms through a wet winter.
• Motorised options for taller apartment windows that are awkward to reach safely.

We also cover the rest of the City Bowl cluster around Gardens — Tamboerskloof itself, Oranjezicht, Higgovale and Vredehoek.