A flat sheet of fabric for every werf window and glass wall
Blockout, sunscreen or a double-roller day/night pair — the volume product on this site's spec sheet, and the one that turns up in nearly every homestead and new wine-farm build we measure up the valley.
A roller blind is a single fabric panel on an aluminium tube — spring, chain or motor driven, made to measure per window, with a clean minimal line that suits both a homestead's small-paned sash windows and a wine-farm home's floor-to-ceiling glass.
Choosing the fabric
Blockout stops light completely — the right call for a farmhouse bedroom, a nursery in a converted cottage, or any room that needs to go properly dark regardless of a valley moon or a neighbour's security light. It also acts as a thermal layer against both summer heat and the damp chill of a June morning.
Sunscreen mesh (3%, 5% or 10% openness) cuts glare and UV while keeping the kloof view — the standard choice for a living room or study with glass worth looking through. The lower the percentage, the more heat and glare it blocks, at the cost of a little view clarity; 3–5% is the usual balance on the wide glass a newer Jonkershoek wine-farm build tends to carry.
Double roller (day/night): a blockout and a sunscreen fabric on one bracket, so a bedroom with a mountain view gets both privacy-with-light by day and full darkness by night, without swapping blinds.
Where they earn their place up the valley
- New wine-farm homes with big, uninterrupted glass and a kloof view worth keeping.
- Farm-worker cottages and outbuildings, where budget and turnaround matter as much as looks.
- Motorised on wide spans or above double-volume stair voids, where a chain isn't practical.
Being honest about the limits
Very wide, unbroken spans need a join line or a split into linked, motorised blinds — no single fabric width spans a whole glass wall invisibly. And in Jonkershoek's older, heritage-graded homesteads, with small-paned sash windows set deep into lime-washed walls, a timber venetian usually reads better against the architecture than a roller does; we'll say so at the measure if that's the case for your window.
Control & motorisation
Chain control needs a child-safe tensioner as standard. Motorised is the practical choice above stair voids, on wide or heavy fabrics, and anywhere a wind sensor should be doing the thinking for an exposed window on a gusty valley afternoon — see our full motorisation options at the free in-home measure.