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Blockout or sunscreen, made to measure for every cellar-door pane and homestead window.
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Stellenbosch Wine Route · Cape Winelands
The vineyard stays in view. The three-o'clock glare doesn't.
Made-to-measure blinds, roller shutters and awnings for the homesteads, cellar doors and guest cottages strung along the Stellenbosch Wine Route — fitted after a free in-home measure.
Free in-home measure & a written, per-window quote
View-preserving fabric specified for glass built to hold the vineyard
Child-safe as standard — no dangling cords
The range
Twelve ways to answer the route's windows
Every farm along this route carries the same pattern in some form: an old lime-washed core with small, deep-set windows, and a newer cellar-door or cottage wing built almost entirely of glass. This is the full range we measure and fit for both.
Day & Night Blinds
Banded sheer-and-solid fabric that tunes light hour by hour without losing the vineyard outlook.
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Venetian Blinds
Aluminium or timber slats, the natural fit for the homestead's original deep-set reveal.
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Vertical & Panel Blinds
Wide stacking doors onto the vines, covered without a single seam line.
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Cellular Honeycomb Blinds
Genuine blackout for a guest suite kept for visitors, with a real insulating bonus in a stone-walled room.
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Concealed & Recessed Blinds
Blinds that disappear into the new cellar-door wing's ceiling until you need them.
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Skylight & Shaped Blinds
Fitted to the loft conversions and gable windows other suppliers won't quote.
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External Venetian Blinds
Heat and extreme summer UV stopped at the glass, before either reaches the tasting room.
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Folding-Arm Awnings
Shade over the tasting table, gone again the moment the south-easter picks up.
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Zip Screens
Wind-proof mesh that closes the veranda in without boxing up the view.
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Roller Shutters
Sun, glare and total blackout in one motorised system on the outside of the glass.
Shading, not security. Our roller shutters are made for sun, heat and glare control. They are not security-rated shutters — that's a different product, quoted separately on request.
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Motorised Blinds & Automation
One app, every blind — including the cellar doorway nobody wants to reach with a pole.
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Glare cut, vineyard held — the argument the whole route is built on.
How we specify for the Wine Route
One route, four sun problems
The Stellenbosch Wine Route was South Africa's first — 11 founding farms, approved in April 1971, the model every other route in the country later copied. Fifty-five years on, it is still a working road network, not a scenic loop, and the homesteads along it carry a pattern we measure for on every visit: an old lime-washed core with small, deep-set windows, and a newer cellar-door or guest-cottage wing built almost entirely of glass.
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Four wards, four sun problems
Banghoek climbs to 720m on the Helshoogte Pass and catches up to 2,000mm of rain a year; Bottelary sits as low as 100m and runs the warmest, driest ward on the route; Devon Valley's small basin traps heat the wind never quite reaches; Simonsberg-Stellenbosch's farms read the mountain directly, morning sun square-on, gone fast by mid-afternoon. We measure each ward for its own numbers, not a single Winelands average.
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The old core and the new wing
Under the National Heritage Resources Act, any structure over 60 years old is automatically protected — altering a Cape Dutch gable needs a permit from Heritage Western Cape. The homestead's original small windows take an internal blind that changes nothing visible from outside; the cellar-door or cottage wing built in the last fifteen or twenty years to frame the vineyard carries no such constraint, and is where external shading earns its keep.
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Winter rain, a summer wind with a schedule
This is a winter-rainfall basin — June and July carry the wet season, not a highveld hail calendar. What we design against instead is the south-easter, which builds through spring and summer and typically peaks around five in the afternoon. Every motorised awning or screen on an exposed terrace here carries a wind sensor as standard, not an upsell.
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The glass was built to hold the view
A tasting room's whole argument is the vineyard through the window. Sunscreen roller and day/night banded fabric are the default here for exactly that reason — they cut the glare and the summer UV, which regularly reads 11 to 13 on the extreme scale, without taking the view away the way a blockout roller would.
The route
Four stops along the Wine Route
We measure and fit across the full route, but these four wards each bring a genuinely different brief. Scroll the strip below — or use the arrows — to see how the specification changes stop by stop.
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101–1,200m · mountain flank
Simonsberg-Stellenbosch
Farms on the lower slope read the mountain directly — square morning sun, gone fast by mid-afternoon.
Explore this ward 02 250–720m · the Helshoogte PassBanghoek
The highest, wettest ward on the route — up to 2,000mm of rain a year and a pass that funnels the wind.
Explore this ward 03 a small, sheltered basinDevon Valley
Tucked off the old Paarl road — less wind than the rest of the route, but heat that stays put through the day.
Explore this ward 04 100–412m · the warmest wardBottelary
Open, rolling farmland north-west of town — the driest, warmest ward on the route, with little mountain shelter.
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Shade over the tasting table, gone again the moment the south-easter picks up.
How it works
Four steps, no surprises
The same honest process whether you're fitting one homestead window or every glass pane on a new cellar-door build.
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Enquire
Tell us about the homestead, the cottage or the cellar door, and what's actually bothering you about the light or the heat, through the form or chat.
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Free in-home measure
A consultant visits with samples, measures every opening — the original sash frame and the new glass wing both — and talks through fabric and control options.
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Written quote
A clear, itemised quote per window or door — no surprises, and no pressure to decide on the spot.
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Made & fitted
Your blinds, shutters or awning are made to order and installed cleanly by hand, with the operation demonstrated before we leave.
Hardware specified for a working farm, not just a showroom.
Questions
Honest answers before you commit
Do you work on working wine farms, not just private homes?
Yes — most of our work along this route is exactly that: homesteads, cellar-door tasting rooms, farm offices and guest cottages on active, working wine estates. We're used to fitting around a harvest calendar and a functioning tasting room, not just an empty show house.
Will fitting blinds to the old homestead need heritage approval?
An internal blind fitted inside the room, with nothing visible from outside, doesn't touch the protected facade and doesn't trigger a heritage application. Any structure over 60 years old is automatically protected under the National Heritage Resources Act, so external work — new fixings on the gable itself, for instance — is a different conversation, and we'll flag it plainly at the measure rather than after the order.
What's the difference between sunscreen and blockout for a tasting room?
Sunscreen fabric, usually 3–5% openness, cuts glare and UV while keeping the vineyard visible through it — the standard choice for glass that was built specifically to hold that view. Blockout fabric stops light completely, which is right for a guest-cottage bedroom but wrong for a room where the outlook is the whole point.
Will an awning survive the south-easter on an exposed terrace?
Sheltered ward roads like Devon Valley feel less of it; open, elevated positions on Banghoek's pass and Bottelary's farmland feel the wind directly. Every motorised awning and external screen we fit on an exposed terrace carries a wind sensor as standard, so it retracts itself before a gust arrives rather than relying on someone being on-site to react.
Are your roller shutters security shutters?
No. Our roller shutters are a shading product — sun, glare and heat control on the outside of the glass, with a genuine blackout benefit. They are not security-rated shutters; that's a different product entirely, which we can quote separately if you need it.
Do you offer child-safe options?
Yes, on every corded or chained product. Cord and chain tensioners are standard on every install, and for guest cottages or family wings we recommend cordless or motorised control — nothing dangling within reach at all.
Ready when you are
Glass built to hold a vineyard view deserves a blind that was actually measured for it.
Book a free in-home measure and get a written, per-window quote — no obligation, no pressure.
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