Eikestad · Stellenbosch

Blinds measured at the glass, all over Stellenbosch. Old oaks, white gables, and windows that cook by February.

Stellies homes don't share a window between them — a Dorp Street sash, a Mostertsdrift bay, a wall of estate glass staring straight at the vines. We measure each one where it stands and fit the blind that opening actually asks for.

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The measure costs nothing and commits you to nothing
Every window priced on its own line, in writing
Cords tensioned or gone entirely where small hands live
Two olive roller blinds half-drawn over cottage-pane sash windows in a Stellenbosch farmhouse sitting room, vineyard rows and peaks in the evening light beyond

Farmhouse sitting room · rollers on the vineyard side

Measured at your window, never off a size chart
Quoted line by line so you can drop a room without redoing the sum
Timber options that sit right against old Boland joinery
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Olive external roller blinds mounted over black-framed cottage windows on a weathered whitewashed gable wall, mountains reflected in the glass, Stellenbosch Why it works here

Reading the town

Three things we check before a single millimetre gets measured.

  1. How old is the opening?

    A sash window in the historic core can be centuries older than any bracket made for it. On heritage joinery we look for fixings that leave the original timber alone wherever possible — and we'll tell you plainly when a clamp-fit or reveal-fit is the kinder route.

  2. Which way does it face?

    The same house behaves like four different houses here. A street side dimmed all day by the oak canopy, a west wing that takes the late sun off the Papegaaiberg side, a north face that bakes through harvest. Fabric, openness and colour get decided per elevation — never once for the lot.

  3. What does the estate allow?

    Plenty of Stellenbosch addresses sit behind an aesthetic committee. Where the rules limit what may show from outside, the spec shifts toward recessed boxes, colour-matched cassettes and muted exterior tones — sorted before anything is ordered, not argued about after.

The collection

What we fit, and which room it's for.

Every product below solves a specific Stellenbosch problem — glare off the vines, a west room that won't cool down, a committee that hates visible hardware. Start with the problem; the product follows.

Three motorised roller blinds lowered in step across a floor-to-ceiling glass wall at dusk, Stellenbosch wine-estate living room

Motorised blinds & automation

The problem: eight blinds, one hot afternoon, nobody home. The fix: schedules and sensors that drop them on their own, run from a single app.

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Concealed roller blind lowering from a slim ceiling slot over glass sliding doors with a mountain view, modern Stellenbosch new build

Concealed & recessed blinds

For architect-led builds where nothing may interrupt the line of the ceiling. The box lives in the slab or bulkhead; all you ever see is fabric.

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Ivory blockout roller blind above a timber cottage window in a Stellenbosch study, low sun striking the writing desk beneath it

Made-to-measure roller blinds

The everyday answer, done properly: sunscreen where the view earns its keep, blockout where sleep does, and a double bracket where a room wants both.

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Silver aluminium venetian blind tilted open in a whitewashed farmhouse kitchen window, vineyard rows beyond the glass, Stellenbosch

Venetian blinds — aluminium & timber

A slat you can angle beats a blind you can only raise. Timber earns its place in the old rooms; aluminium shrugs off steam over the sink and the bath.

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Day-night blind banding filtered oak-tree light into a Stellenbosch lounge with a rust velvet armchair and full bookshelves

Day/night blinds

Alternating sheer and solid bands you slide past each other — the neat trick for rooms that face the pavement but refuse to sit in the dark.

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Cream cellular blind lowered two-thirds in a deep timber window reveal, late light over a Stellenbosch valley bedroom

Cellular / honeycomb blinds

The pleated air pockets work like a duvet for the glass — welcome twice a year here, in February's heat and again on a wet July night.

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Oatmeal vertical blinds part-drawn at an open garden slider in a Stellenbosch dining room, proteas in a jug on the oak table

Vertical & panel blinds

Built for the big sliders: vanes that angle the afternoon light, then stack right out of the doorway when the garden calls.

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Pale grey aluminium roller shutter half-lowered over a bedroom window on a white plastered Stellenbosch home, agapanthus in bloom below

Roller shutters

A slatted aluminium curtain running in side rails outside the window — the heat and hail get stopped at the wall, not at your curtains.

Shading, not security. These shutters exist to control sun, heat and glare from outside the glass. They are not security-rated — that's a separate product we can price for you on request.

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Terracotta folding-arm awning extended from a white wall over a slate terrace with loungers, vineyards and mountains behind, Stellenbosch

Folding-arm awnings

Metres of shade off one wall bracket, no posts to trip over at the braai — and a wind sensor that folds it away before the south-easter tests it.

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Dark mesh zip screen sealing a covered patio at blue hour, fire bowl and wicker chairs glowing behind it, Stellenbosch mountains beyond

Zip screens & outdoor rooms

Mesh zipped tight into side channels turns the stoep into a room the wind can't cancel — used all through a Boland winter, not packed away for it.

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Black external venetian louvres mounted over a ground-floor window of a white contemporary Stellenbosch home, lavender bed underneath

External venetians

Louvres on the outside of the glass intercept the sun before it becomes heat in the room — the difference is measurable on any west face here.

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Pleated skylight blind half-drawn across an angled roof window in a Stellenbosch loft bathroom, one cloud in the blue above

Skylight & shaped windows

Roof windows, arches, the odd gable light — openings that don't fit a standard bracket get side rails, tensioned fabric and usually a motor.

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Motorised curtain tracks and whole-home automation tie-ins round out the list. Tell us what your windows are doing wrong →

Free to read · no email needed

The Stellenbosch Window Field Guide.

Read it before you spend anything. It walks each elevation of a Stellenbosch home — the harvest sun, the south-easter's afternoon habits, the UV that fades fabric here faster than the label promises — and says which blind we'd put where, including the trade-off nobody mentions in a showroom.

Read the field guide → Get a 2-minute ballpark

Inside the guide

  • The light here — the high summer sun, low winter sun, the south-easter's daily schedule and extreme UV.
  • Elevation by elevation — north, west, east and south, and which rooms actually suffer.
  • What we'd specify, and why — each product with the honest trade-off, both ways.
  • Heritage & estate notes — Cape Dutch reveals and estate architectural sign-off.
  • What only a site visit can settle — the five things a free measure resolves.

How it works

From "the lounge is an oven" to fitted blinds.

You never visit a showroom. The showroom drives to you, in sample form, and the deciding happens at your own glass.

01

Describe the problem

Two minutes in the form or chat. "West bedroom too bright by 6am" is a perfectly good brief — sizes can wait.

02

We measure at the glass

A consultant arrives with fabric and mesh samples, checks every opening to the millimetre, and holds each sample up in your actual light.

03

You read the numbers

One line per window, lead times stated, nothing bundled to hide a margin. Sleep on it — the quote doesn't expire at the door. Before it arrives, the shape of it: R1,000 to R7,500 per square metre installed covers everything we fit, from a plain interior fabric up to a motorised awning, with a minimum charge on small windows.

04

Fitting day

Made to your openings, installed cleanly, and demonstrated — you work every blind yourself before the bakkie leaves.

About this service

No showroom, no shelf, no two windows treated alike.

Stellies Blinds measures, makes and fits window shading across Stellenbosch and the valleys around it — Paradyskloof, Welgevonden, Jonkershoek and De Zalze. Roller blinds, venetian blinds, folding-arm awnings and zip screens are all manufactured to the sizes taken where they will hang. In a town where a Dorp Street sash and a wall of estate glass can be ten minutes apart, that is the only method that makes sense.

The route is simple. You describe the problem in the form or the chat, and one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange a free in-home measure. A consultant then arrives with fabric and mesh samples, checks every opening to the millimetre, and holds the samples up in the light the room actually gets. The quote comes back as one line per window so nothing is bundled, and there is no pressure to sign anything at the door. On fitting day everything goes in made to your openings and is demonstrated before we leave.

Enquiries are used solely to arrange that consultation call-back, and are handled under POPIA.

Where we work

Town, valley, estate — we fit all three.

Paradyskloof→ Welgevonden Estate→ Jonkershoek Valley→ De Zalze→

Questions

The things Stellenbosch homeowners ask us.

Our house near Dorp Street has original sash windows — can blinds go in without drilling the old joinery?+

Usually, yes. Deep reveals on older Boland homes often allow an inside-reveal fit where the brackets sit against plaster rather than heritage timber, and on some frames a clamp-type fixing avoids screws entirely. Which route is right depends on the specific window, which is exactly what the free measure settles.

People on the pavement can see straight into our front rooms. How do we get privacy without sitting in the dark?+

That's the day/night blind's whole reason for existing: sheer and solid bands slide past each other, so you keep the oak-filtered daylight while breaking the sightline from the street. A 3–5% sunscreen or a tilted venetian does a similar job with a different look — we'd bring samples of all three.

The south-easter flattens everything on our patio by mid-afternoon. Is an awning a waste of money?+

Not if it's specified for the wind. A motorised awning with a wind sensor retracts itself the moment gusts pick up, and on a properly exposed corner we'd often steer you to zip screens instead — the mesh is locked into side channels, so the south-easter has nothing to grab.

The valley gets properly cold in July. Do any blinds actually make a difference to warmth?+

Cellular blinds do, measurably — their honeycomb pockets trap a layer of still air against the glass, which is where most of a room's heat escapes. A blockout roller fitted close to the glass helps too. Neither replaces heating, but both mean the heating fights a smaller battle.

If we motorise blinds in different rooms, do we end up with a drawer full of remotes?+

No — one hub runs the lot from a single app, with rooms grouped however you like and schedules for the harvest-season sun. Individual remotes are still available for guest rooms or anyone who prefers a button to a phone.

What actually happens after I send the form?+

A consultant phones you back to talk through the windows and set a time for the free measure — no auto-responders, no obligation, and your details are used for that call-back only, as POPIA requires.

Ready when you are

The vines get tended weekly. Your windows need one visit.

Send the form below — an expert consultant will phone you back shortly to set up your free in-home measure.

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Start with
the window that
bothers you most.

Name a room and what the light does to it. A consultant rings you back, books a time around you, and brings the samples to judge against your own walls — not a showroom's.

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