Roller Blinds
A flat sheet of fabric for the valley's most reliable problem: too much glass, too much afternoon sun.
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Jonkershoek · the valley behind Stellenbosch · Cape Winelands
Blinds and shading for Jonkershoek farmhouses and wine-farm glass — the valley view you moved here for, without the sun that comes with it.
Made-to-measure blinds, external shading and motorised awnings for the farmhouses and wine-estate homes up the Jonkershoek valley, and the Stellenbosch-area homes on the roads in and out of it.
Free in-home measure and a written, per-window quote
Motorised, wind-sensored shading built for two different windy seasons
Child-safe as standard — no dangling cords
The range
Made for a valley of two very different building eras
A deep-set Cape Dutch sash window and a new glass-forward wine-farm wall want opposite answers. Twelve product families, made to measure per opening, in fabrics and finishes chosen for Jonkershoek's sun, wind and reserve-edge damp.
Day & Night Blinds
Zebra bands that dim a farmhouse living room hour by hour as the kloof's shadow moves across it.
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Timber Venetian Blinds
50mm basswood slats built for the deep-set sash windows this valley's older homesteads are full of.
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Aluminium Venetian Blinds
Tilt-adjustable slats for the wet rooms, standing up to a stone-and-lime farmhouse's humidity.
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Skylight & Shaped Blinds
Tensioned systems for the raked gable glass that barn-conversion tasting rooms keep adding.
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Insulating air-cells for the room that's always cold on a valley-floor morning.
Vertical & Panel Blinds
Wide track systems for the sliding doors between a living room and a vineyard-facing stoep.
Concealed & Recessed Blinds
Fabric drops from a ceiling slot, for the newer glass-forward homes higher up the valley.
Motorised Blinds & Automation
One remote for a whole wall of glass, with sensors that handle both of the valley's wind seasons on their own.
Folding-Arm Awnings
Retractable shade over a stone stoep, gone the moment the wind sensor calls it.
Zip Screens
Zipped mesh that seals a braai deck against the valley's afternoon gusts without losing the view.
Roller Shutters
Top of the valley range: rigid aluminium slats roll down outside the glass for shade, blackout and quiet.
Shading shutters, not security-rated shutters — a different product, available on request.
Every product above is made to measure per window after a free in-home visit — nothing is quoted sight unseen.
Working homes, not show homes
What the blind is actually doing, room by room
Jonkershoek is not a suburb of matching windows — a centuries-old werf, a renovated cottage and a new glass-forward wine-farm home can share a boundary fence. Each gets measured on its own sun, its own wind, and its own reveal.
Spec logic
How we specify for Jonkershoek
The valley runs from working vineyards at its mouth into roughly 11,000 hectares of CapeNature reserve at its head — the Eerste and Berg rivers both rise in those mountains. That range, from farm gate to fynbos boundary, is the reason no single specification works for the whole valley.
01 · Orientation and sun path
At Stellenbosch's latitude, close to 34°S, the sun sits almost overhead at midsummer noon — about 79–80° — and drops to a low, welcome 32–33° by midwinter. A deep eave self-shades a December window; that same eave lets a June sun reach right into a north-facing room. We spec for both ends of that swing, not just the hot one.
02 · Two wind seasons, two different reasons
A summer south-easter funnels straight up the valley floor most afternoons, cooling the vines and rattling anything unshaded. Winter brings a different problem entirely: stacked cold fronts that have driven gusts past 100–120km/h through the Winelands, arriving with heavy rain rather than a dry-season blow. Exterior products here need genuine wind ratings and sensor-retract, not just a heavier bracket for one season.
03 · A heritage overlay, and two building eras under it
Stellenbosch Municipality's rural conservation overlay covers Jonkershoek along with Idas Valley and Dwarsrivier, and any structure over 60 years old or heritage-graded needs approval before its exterior changes — a process that can add four to eight weeks. The valley's older H- and T-shaped homesteads keep deep sash reveals; its newer wine-farm builds run frameless glass instead. We bring drawings to the approval conversation early, and spec the two eras differently rather than force one answer onto both.
04 · A winter-rainfall valley on a reserve boundary
This is a winter-rainfall climate, not a Highveld hail season — wettest in June and July, driest in January and February — so the failure mode we design against is sustained wet-season wind and rain, not an isolated hailstorm. South-facing slopes here also run noticeably cooler than the rest of Stellenbosch, and plenty of Jonkershoek homes back directly onto CapeNature land, which we treat as a genuine reason for damp-tolerant fittings, not a reason to skip a property.
“A farm gate and a fynbos boundary can sit on the same title deed — we spec each window on its own sun, wind and reveal, not on how far up the valley the property happens to sit.”
How we approach every Jonkershoek quote
How it works
Four stops, one visit
No pressure, no invented turnaround promises — just what happens, in order.
1
Tell us what's fighting you
Old homestead or new build, which room, and whether it's heat, glare, wind or privacy driving the call.
2
Free in-home measure
Every window, door and stoep opening measured to the millimetre, on-site, at your property.
3
Written, per-window quote
Product, fabric or slat choice and price for every opening — nothing verbal, nothing vague. As a starting range, everything on this site falls between R1,000 and R7,500 per square metre installed, a manual roller sitting at the bottom of it and a motorised awning over a stoep at the top. A small opening is charged at a minimum, and the real figure only exists after the measure.
4
Made to measure & fitted
Manufactured to your exact openings and installed on a day that works around harvest or a heritage approval.
About
What we make, and how a job runs
Jonkershoek Blinds is a made-to-measure window shading service for the valley and the roads either side of it — Stellenbosch, Paradyskloof, Simondium and Groot Drakenstein. Roller blinds, timber venetians, cellular blinds and folding-arm awnings are each built for one opening in one building, which is the only workable approach where a small-paned homestead sash and a wine-farm glass wall can sit on the same property.
Every job follows the same order. You enquire through the form or the chat; one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange a free in-home measure. On site, every window, door and stoep opening is measured to the millimetre, and fabric, slat and control are chosen against the light and the exposure that opening really has. A written quote follows, priced per opening. Once you approve it the work is manufactured to those measurements and fitted, on a day arranged around whatever else the property has going on.
Contact details are used to arrange your call-back and for nothing else, in accordance with POPIA.
Where we work
From the reserve gate, down into town
Jonkershoek sits at the end of its own road — everything below is on the way in or out, each with a different read on wind, sun and building stock.
Questions
Before you enquire
Do you cover both the reserve-edge farms and the Stellenbosch-area homes on the way in?
Yes — a working farm up near the reserve boundary, a renovated cottage lower down the valley, or a home in Stellenbosch, Paradyskloof, Simondium or Groot Drakenstein. Every property gets the same free in-home measure and written quote, whichever end of the valley it's on.
What's actually different about a heritage homestead's windows versus a new wine-farm build?
A heritage-graded Cape Dutch homestead keeps small-paned sash windows set deep into thick lime-washed walls, so a timber venetian or a slim inside-mount blind respects that reveal rather than fighting it. A newer glass-forward wine-farm home runs full-height frameless glazing instead, built for the mountain view first — that wants shading that stops heat before it reaches the room, often an external product or a dense sunscreen weave.
Will an awning or external shading actually survive Jonkershoek's wind?
The valley gets wind from two different seasons for two different reasons — a summer south-easter that funnels up the valley floor most afternoons, and winter cold fronts that have driven gusts past 100km/h through the Winelands. Every awning, zip screen and external venetian we fit here carries a motorised wind sensor as standard, not as an upgrade.
Do roller shutters double as security shutters?
No — the roller shutters we fit are a shading product: heat, glare and blackout control for the glass, rolling down from outside on rigid aluminium slats. A security-rated shutter is a different, heavier-duty product, available on request if that's specifically what's needed.
Do I need heritage or estate approval before fitting anything visible from outside?
Often, yes. Jonkershoek falls inside Stellenbosch Municipality's rural conservation overlay, and any structure over 60 years old or heritage-graded needs sign-off before its exterior changes — a process that can genuinely add four to eight weeks. We bring drawings and a colour spec to that conversation at the measure stage, so the approval and the fitting day don't collide.
Can you fit blinds on a property that backs directly onto the nature reserve?
Yes — plenty of Jonkershoek homes sit right on that boundary. We treat it as a genuine spec input (damp-tolerant finishes, wind-rated exterior products) rather than a reason to avoid a property, the same way we'd treat any other real feature of the site.
Ready when you are
Book your free in-home measure, anywhere up the valley or in the towns around it.
One team, one written quote, every window covered — reserve-edge farmhouse or new-build wine-estate home.
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Tell us about the property
A short form gets your free in-home measure booked — no obligation, and no call-centre queue. One of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to confirm a time.
POPIA notice: the details you submit are used only to arrange your free in-home measure and quote, and are never shared or sold to a third party.