The veranda is the best room. Shade it like one.
Made-to-measure blinds, folding-arm awnings and zip screens for Parktown North — a suburb of Edwardian homes, deep stoeps and gardens built for company. Measured free, at the actual opening.
Why Parktown North specifies differently
A suburb that entertains outside, most of the year.
Between Jan Smuts Avenue and the greenbelt, Parktown North runs on its avenues — the village strip, the jacarandas, and house after Edwardian house with a stoep doing the work of a living room. The specification follows that life outdoors.
Stoeps earn proper shade
A deep veranda still cooks when the sun swings low across the avenues. A folding-arm awning adds metres of post-free shade beyond the roofline, and folds flat against the house when the evening cools — the garden keeps its sky.
Screens turn evenings into hours
Wind-locked zip screens close the open sides of a stoep against low western sun, evening midges and winter chill — without walls, without losing the garden. Entertaining season gets months longer.
Edwardian sashes, measured honestly
Original timber sashes and casements here have had a century to settle out of square. Every opening is measured individually so blinds sit flush without a bright gap down one side — the whole point of the free measure.
The storm arrives mid-braai
Highveld thunderstorms give a garden minutes of warning. Awnings in this suburb get specified with a motor and wind sensor as the baseline, so the canopy retracts itself while everyone else is still carrying plates inside.
What we'd specify here
Four answers Parktown North keeps asking for.
Folding-arm awnings
Post-free shade over the stoep and the outside table, wind-sensored to retreat before the afternoon storm arrives.
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Zip screens
Taut mesh in side channels that holds its shape in wind — the stoep becomes a three-season room with the garden still in view.
See zip screens →
Roller blinds
Sunscreen mesh for the avenue-facing bays, blockout for bedrooms — cut to openings that have settled for a hundred years.
Explore roller blinds →
Motorised & automation
Awnings, screens and tall sash blinds on one remote or schedule — with sun and wind sensors making the decisions on workdays.
See motorisation →Planning a stoep upgrade before summer? Ask a consultant →
Nearby
Also on our measuring route.
Before you choose anything
The Saxonwold Light & Shade Field Guide
Century-old avenues, tall original glass and a busy road at one edge. The guide sets out how the sun tracks over the parks belt through the year and what that means for each elevation of a house this age.
- The sun path over the parks belt, December and June
- Nine shading answers, each with its honest catch
- The sixty-year heritage rule, and where it bites
Get your quote
Free measure.
Written quote.
Zero pressure.
Tell us a little about the windows — or the stoep. A consultant calls you back, arranges a time that suits you, and arrives with samples to judge against your own walls and light.
Want a ballpark first? Pop rough sizes into the window list and we'll send a budget range by the next working day. Not sure how to measure? Leave it — our consultant measures for free and you'll get exact per-window pricing.