Roller blinds for the sash window and the renovated glass wall.

A roller blind is the simplest treatment there is: a single smooth panel of fabric wound onto an aluminium tube, made to measure for the opening in front of it. No folds, no slats — just flat fabric that rises clean into a plain tube or slim cassette at the top. Because it fixes inside the window reveal rather than onto the facade, it's a furnishing choice on an original sash frame, not a building one — no heritage sign-off required.

The fabric is the decision that actually matters. Blockout suits bedrooms, nurseries and any room where you want total dark, and it doubles as a useful thermal layer against the west sun in summer and the chill off a south-facing wall in winter. Sunscreen fabric — usually 3% or 5% openness — cuts glare and UV on the sash or apartment glass while keeping the view of the mountain or the street intact through the day; it does reverse at night once the lights go on inside, worth knowing before you specify it for a street-facing room.

Choosing the fabric

• Blockout — total light stop, for bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms.
• Sunscreen (3%, 5%, 10% openness) — glare and UV control with the view preserved; the lower the percentage, the more heat and glare it blocks.
• Light-filtering — softens daylight with full privacy where an open view isn't the priority.
• Double roller — blockout and sunscreen on one bracket, for a bedroom that wants both a view by day and total dark at night.

West glass, handled properly

Tamboerskloof's west-facing sash windows are the elevation that costs the most: the sun sets south of west through summer and keeps dropping through the afternoon, so no overhang shades it — the light arrives from underneath. A 3–5% sunscreen roller takes the worst of the glare and UV load off that glass without losing the view, and it pairs well with a blockout roller on the same bracket in a bedroom that wants both.

Fits inside the reveal, frame untouched

Because a roller blind mounts inside the window opening rather than onto the facade, it doesn't touch the sash frame or the wall around it — the part of a heritage building that a permit or Heritage Protection Overlay Zone rule is actually concerned with. In a sectional-title block, that also usually means no body-corporate application, since nothing changes on the outside of the building.

Child-safe as standard

Chain-driven rollers are fitted with cord and chain tensioners as a matter of course. For nurseries and children's rooms, we'll talk you through cordless and motorised options at the measure — no dangling chain is the safest chain of all.

We measure and fit roller blinds across Tamboerskloof and the rest of the City Bowl — Oranjezicht, Higgovale, Gardens and Vredehoek.