Craighall Park · Johannesburg
Made-to-measure blinds, child-safe controls and patio shading for Craighall Park's leafy family homes — measured on site, fitted by our own team.
A garden this established has already done the hard work — the light shouldn't still be a guessing game.
Window by window
Most of our calls here aren't for a first-time fit-out. They're for the extension that's just gone up, the family room that finally opened onto the garden, or older windows that have been living with the wrong blind for years under a canopy that's grown a lot since anyone last measured them.
So we treat the brief the way the street already has — window by window, against whatever shade or sun that particular pane actually gets today, not one blanket spec for the whole house.
The collection
From the everyday roller doing the daily work to concealed systems planned into a new extension's ceiling — one coherent spec across the original rooms and whatever's been added since.
5% mesh keeps the jacaranda-canopy garden view while the glare stays outside.
Roller blinds →
True dark for family bedrooms, with a real thermal benefit through a highveld summer and winter.
Roller blinds →
Sheer and solid bands in one bracket — light tuned like a dimmer for a room that still wants morning sun.
Day & night blinds →
The natural pick for original rooms with real period proportions, under the old gum canopy.
Venetian blinds →
Crisp, moisture-proof slats for the scullery and guest bathroom.
Venetian blinds →
Built into the ceiling while the extension's still open — invisible once the plasterers leave.
Concealed systems →
Hexagonal air cells insulate the room above a garage or a new double-volume space.
Cellular blinds →
One remote for a wide extension slider, or anything too high to reach by hand.
Motorised systems →
Post-free shade over a patio that's actually used — braais, kids' parties, long Sunday lunches.
Awnings & zip screens →
Zips the outdoor room closed against wind, dust and early-evening midges.
Awnings & zip screens →
Frayed cords, a tired mechanism, or a blind that's shifted after painting or a move — restrung, repaired or refitted without paying for a full replacement.
Book a repair →The Craighall Park brief
The plots here were laid out around 1919, and a century of gums and jacarandas has had time to close over the streets since. That canopy — and the wave of extensions being grafted onto the original houses beneath it — is what actually writes the spec for every window we measure.
Craighall Park, jacaranda season
Under mature gums and jacarandas, a window's light changes hour by hour and season by season — deep dapple in summer, bare-branch glare in winter. We choose sunscreen openness and fabric tone against the shade each pane actually sits in, not a blanket rule for the house.
Most briefs here start with the new family room or glass wall added to a house that's stood for decades. Concealed boxes get planned in before the plaster closes, and the spec is chosen so the original rooms and the new glazing still read as one home.
With Delta Park's green expanse and Jan van Riebeeck Park a short walk away, gardens here get used properly. Awnings and zip screens carry that outdoor life through midday heat, wind and early-evening insects.
Half-acre gardens and young families come as a pair in this suburb. Chain tensioners are fitted as standard, and nurseries and playrooms get steered toward cordless or motorised controls with nothing left hanging.
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We wrote down everything we have worked out about shading a house in this suburb: the Johannesburg sun path season by season, why the century-old gums and the jacarandas do opposite things to a window, what we would fit on each elevation with the honest catch on every product — and the five things we genuinely cannot answer until we are standing at your window.
Every figure in it carries a source. There is no gated version and nothing is held back.
In the home
How it works
No showroom trek, no guessing sizes — the consultation happens where the windows actually are.
Original rooms, a new extension, or both — rooms, rough sizes and what's bothering you about each.
A consultant visits with samples, measures precisely, and reads each room's actual light and shade.
Itemised, honest, with lead times confirmed upfront. No obligation, no pressure calls.
Manufactured for the exact opening and installed cleanly by our own team, with a demo before we leave.
Where we work
Questions
Yes — it's the normal brief here. We measure and spec window by window against the actual light that reaches it, not a single setting for the whole house. A window under a jacaranda canopy and one on an open north wall right next to it can end up with two completely different fabrics.
That's most of what we do in this suburb. We'll look at the new glass and the existing windows at the same measure and recommend a spec that reads as one house — whether that means matching fabrics, or deliberately contrasting a concealed system on the new wing against timber venetians on the old rooms.
Chain and cord tensioners are fitted as standard on every corded install. For nurseries and playrooms we'll steer you toward wand-tilt, cordless or motorised options with nothing left hanging within reach.
On a normal reachable window it's a comfort upgrade. On a wide extension slider, a double-volume void or an outdoor awning, it's close to essential — and it's also the safest option in a house with small children, since there's no cord at all.
Nothing. The in-home measure, the fabric samples, the consultation and the written per-window quote are free, with no obligation to proceed.
Everything is made to order for the exact opening, so lead time depends on the product and current order volume — it's stated plainly on your written quote before you commit to anything.
Ready when you are
Send the form and one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange your free in-home measure.
Request my call-backGet your quote
Tell us a little about the windows — original rooms, a new extension, or both. A consultant calls you back, arranges a time that suits you, and arrives with samples you can judge in your own light.
Or a ballpark first, if you'd rather. There is an optional sizing sheet inside the form: add rough sizes and we will send a budget range by the next working day. Skip it and nothing is lost — the free measure gives you exact per-window pricing either way.
Our consultant does five to six measures a week across this area, so the diary fills early.