Blinds built for Chartwell's wide glass, gravel dust and highveld storms — the paddock view, without the four o'clock glare.
Made-to-measure blinds and motorised awnings for Chartwell's smallholdings and estate homes — built for wide glass, gravel-road dust and highveld storms.
Read Nothing in the Way — our free Chartwell Light JournalTwelve ways to control light, heat and privacy
Every window in a Chartwell home works differently — a paddock-facing lounge wants a view kept, a west-facing bedroom wants total dark. Open any row below to see the product on a window and the honest one-paragraph pitch; the repair service for blinds you already own closes the list.
01Roller Blinds
Blockout & sunscreen
Blockout or sunscreen, made to measure for every window in the house.
Explore02Day & Night Blinds
Sheer by day, solid by night
Banded sheer-and-solid fabric that dims the room without losing the paddock outline.
Ask about this03Venetian Blinds
Tiltable slats
Aluminium or timber slats you tilt to the exact angle of the afternoon sun.
Ask about this04Roller Shutters
Shading, outside the glass
Rigid aluminium slats that roll down outside the glass, stopping heat and glare before they reach the room. Shading roller shutters, not security-rated shutters — a different product, on request.
Ask about this05Vertical & Panel Blinds
For wide sliders
Wide sliding doors and glass walls covered in one continuous run, stacking clear of the opening.
Ask about this06Concealed Blinds
Hidden in the ceiling
Blinds that vanish into the ceiling until the sun actually needs them.
Ask about this07Cellular Honeycomb Blinds
Insulating air cells
An insulating air layer for rooms that bake in summer and chill in a highveld winter.
Ask about this08Skylight & Shaped Blinds
Gables, arches, skylights
Fitted to the gables, arches and skylights other suppliers won't quote.
Ask about this09Motorised Blinds & Automation
App & remote control
One app, every blind — including the ones over the stairwell you can't reach.
Explore10External Venetian Blinds
Heat stopped outside
Heat stopped at the glass, before it ever reaches the room.
Explore11Folding-Arm Awnings
Retractable stoep shade
A shaded stoep over the paddock in summer, open sky again in winter.
Explore12Zip Screens
Wind-proof patio mesh
Wind-proof mesh that closes off the entertainment area on demand.
Ask about this+Blind Repairs & Servicing
Service
Not every window needs something new. Sticky chains, tired brackets, slats that won't tilt, a motor that's stopped responding — we repair, restring and re-fit blinds you already own, whoever made them, including after a paint job or a move. If it's genuinely past saving we'll tell you that too.
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Shade over the stoep, the paddock view left completely intact.
A few degrees of slat tilt is the difference between glare and warm light.
Windows here work differently to town
Chartwell sits in Johannesburg's northern smallholding-and-estate belt, next to Dainfern — and that shapes what actually belongs on the windows here.
The view is the point
Big sliding doors and glass walls open onto paddocks, dams and gardens — the whole reason people buy out here. Blockout-everywhere misses the point; sunscreen fabric that cuts glare while keeping the view through matters more in Chartwell than almost anywhere else we fit.
Storm season means wind, not just rain
Highveld storms roll in fast, roughly November to March, with sudden wind and hail. An awning or external blind left open in a Chartwell gust is at real risk — a wind sensor that auto-retracts the system isn't an upgrade here, it's how you protect the investment.
Gravel roads mean more dust in the air
Smallholding access roads and unpaved stretches put more dust on glass and fabric than most Johannesburg suburbs see. Wipeable fabrics and full-cassette awnings — where the arms and canopy seal away when retracted — keep dust out of the folds.
Wide west and north glass, wide afternoon sun
Large stands and open-plan living rooms mean big unshaded elevations. The afternoon glare call is the one we hear most from this area — and it's usually solved with sunscreen roller fabric or, on the worst elevations, external venetians that stop the heat before it reaches the glass.
Dusk over the paddocks — the view every window here is designed to keep.
We wrote down what the sun does here
Before you talk to anyone about blinds, it helps to know which of your walls is actually the problem. So we did the reading for Chartwell and put it on one page.
Nothing in the Way
A free, un-gated guide to shading a house on these holdings — sun angles, storm season, gravel-road dust, and what we'd fit on each elevation, with the honest catch on every one.
- Where the sun lands on your north, west, east and south walls, month by month
- Why highveld hail peaks at exactly the hour your awning is out
- Eight products, each with the trade-off written down, not hidden
- The five things only an on-site visit can settle
Roughly eight minutes. No email needed, no form in the way — sources listed at the foot.
Four steps, no surprises
The same honest process whether you're fitting one bedroom or every window on a Chartwell smallholding.
Enquire
Tell us about your windows, the rooms and what's actually bothering you — glare, privacy, an awning idea — through the form or chat.
Free in-home measure
A consultant visits with samples, measures every window precisely and talks through fabric, openness and motorisation for each room's light.
Written quote
One line per window, priced clearly. Nothing hidden in it, and no need to decide while we are standing there. Budget on this: out here the spread is R1,000 to R7,500 a square metre installed, indoor fabric at the modest end, a motorised exterior system at the other. Tiny windows carry a minimum. A range only becomes a price at the measure.
Made & fitted
Your blinds and awnings are made to order and installed cleanly by hand, with the operation demonstrated before we leave.
A measuring tape, a written quote, and a van that knows the gravel roads
What is on offer here is straightforward: window shading made to the size of your opening, for smallholdings and estate homes in Chartwell and out across the belt to Dainfern, Broadacres and Cedar Lakes, Helderfontein Estate and Kyalami. Roller blinds, external venetian blinds, roller shutters, folding-arm awnings and motorised control are each manufactured for the window they are going onto. Nothing is a stock size trimmed down at the last minute.
The sequence is the same on every job. An enquiry lands through the form or the chat, one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly, and a free in-home measure gets booked. On the day, each opening is measured, the fixing substrate is checked, and the fabric, the openness and the control are decided for that room against the light and the exposure it actually gets. A written quote comes back itemised per window, which lets you stage the work by room rather than commit to the whole house at once. Once you sign it off, everything is manufactured to those dimensions and fitted, tested and demonstrated.
Details from the form and the chat are handled under POPIA. They exist to arrange the call-back and price the work, and go no further.
Chartwell and the neighbouring estate belt
We fit throughout Chartwell and across the smallholding and estate country immediately around it.
Honest answers before you commit
Do you cover smallholdings as well as the newer Chartwell clusters?
What's the difference between sunscreen and blockout, and which do I need for a room over the paddocks?
Will an awning or external blind survive a highveld storm?
Are your roller shutters a security product?
Does gravel-road dust affect the blinds?
Do you offer child-safe options?
From first enquiry to fitted blinds, what actually happens?
Windows that work as hard as the view does.
Ask for the free in-home measure. The written quote comes back window by window, with nothing owed either way.
Book your free expert measure
Fill this in and one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange the visit. There is no charge for it, and no commitment attached.
No call-centre hold music
A real consultant calls you back to arrange a time that suits your Chartwell property.
Nothing quoted sight-unseen
Every quote follows an in-home measure — no guessed prices over the phone.
Still deciding is a fine answer
Say so in the timeframe box and we won't phone you — we'll point you at the Light Journal instead.
