Roller Blinds, Green Point

Built for the light Green Point actually gets

Apartments built around the Stadium and the V&A Marina carry more glass than wall — open-plan living rooms with a single sheet of glazing from floor to ceiling, and bedrooms that catch full sun off the water for half the day. A roller blind is the simplest way to answer that on a window shape most curtain rails were never designed for, and it's the product we fit more than any other here.

Fabric is the decision that matters

Blockout fabric stops light completely — the right call for a bedroom on a bright harbour or city-facing elevation, or for anyone doing shift work against a sunrise that arrives straight through the glass. Sunscreen fabric keeps the view instead: 3–5% openness is the usual sweet spot for a living room that looks over the marina or the Stadium precinct, cutting glare and UV without blocking what you're looking at. One honest caveat — once the lights go on inside after dark, a sunscreen blind turns see-through from outside, which matters on a lower floor facing a public walkway.

Double rollers, for a view-facing bedroom

A double roller pairs blockout and sunscreen fabric on one bracket — sunscreen down by day for the view, blockout down at night for proper dark and privacy from the block across the road. It's the answer we give most often for a bedroom that looks straight at the water.

Where a roller isn't the right call

A single blind runs to around 3m of fabric width before it needs a join line, which shows on the very widest glass walls — we'll split it with a motorised pair instead of pretending one blind can span it cleanly. And on the small-paned sash windows in the older City Bowl cottages just up the hill, an aluminium venetian usually sits more comfortably than a roller tube.

Fit and control

Chain control comes with a child-safe tensioner as standard; on a high floor we'll usually recommend motorised or spring-assist instead, since a loose chain against a floor-to-ceiling window isn't worth the risk. A cassette or pelmet valance hides the tube for a neater finish against a plastered reveal, colour-matched to your frames — and if your building specifies a uniform backing colour for anything visible from outside, we confirm that before fabric gets ordered.

Fitting roller blinds across the precinct

The same free in-home measure and made-to-measure service covers roller blinds throughout Green Point's closest neighbours — promenade apartments in Mouille Point, the dense strip along Sea Point, heritage cottages in the City Bowl, and the hillside villas of Fresnaye.