Roller blinds, made for Broadacres & Cedar Lakes glass

The workhorse blind for open-plan estate living — blockout, sunscreen, or both on one bracket. Made-to-measure per window, fitted by people who know what an estate wall of glass actually needs.

Blockout or sunscreen — which one?

Most Broadacres and Cedar Lakes homes are built around wide, open-plan glass facing the green or a communal courtyard — so the first decision isn't colour, it's which fabric is doing the work. Blockout fabric stops light completely: right for bedrooms, nurseries and any room where an early highveld sunrise shouldn't be setting off your alarm. Sunscreen fabric — usually 3% or 5% openness on the bigger windows here — cuts glare and UV while keeping the view you bought the house for.

Worth knowing before you order: sunscreen gives good daytime privacy, but it reverses once the lights go on inside at night. On its own, it's not the fabric for a bedroom that also faces a walkway or a neighbouring stand.

The double roller answer

For bedrooms that also have a view worth keeping, a double roller — blockout and sunscreen on one bracket — is what we fit most often in cluster and estate homes here. Sunscreen down by day for the view without the glare, blockout down at night for full privacy and proper dark.

Options that matter on estate glazing

• Chain control with the required child-safety tensioners, spring-assist, or fully motorised — see motorised blinds & automation for wide or double-volume windows.
• Cassette or pelmet valances to hide the roller tube, with fascia colour-matched to your frames — useful where an estate's aesthetics committee wants a clean sightline from the street.
• Wide spans: a single blind runs to around 3m of fabric before it needs a join or a second, linked blind — common on the open-plan glass walls typical of newer Broadacres and Cedar Lakes builds.

Where roller blinds win, and where they don't

They're the right call for modern open-plan interiors, big glass, easy cleaning, and a wide budget range from entry fabrics through to premium motorised systems. They're the wrong call for very wide unbroken spans without a join, or for a heritage-cottage look — a timber venetian usually reads better there.