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Village-renovation home in Parkwood, Johannesburg with motorised blinds framing the garden view in sea-glass green and salt white tones
Parkwood · made-to-measure blinds & awnings

The renovation’s done. The windows are still guessing.

Blinds and folding-arm awnings made to fit the openings your Parkwood reno actually has — not the ones on a catalogue page.

Book a free in-home measure Read the Window Handbook — free
Free in-home measure & a written quote, per window
Made to fit original openings — no filler panels
Child-safe operation as standard, motorised or corded
The range

Eleven ways to fix a window, one honest quote

From a single bedroom roller to a whole-house motorised system — every product below is made to measure for Parkwood’s window openings, old and new.

Blockout roller blind half-lowered against midday sun in a Parkwood bungalow bedroom Roller Blinds Blockout, sunscreen or a day/night double roller — the workhorse for bedrooms and big reno glass. Explore → Day/night zebra blind filtering golden-hour light through a heritage bay window in Parkview Day/Night Blinds Zebra-banded sheer and solid stripes — dial privacy up or down without losing the garden view. Explore → Timber venetian blind angled against low winter sun in a Parktown North sash window Venetian Blinds Timber for warmth in a heritage room, aluminium for kitchens and wet-prone spaces. Explore → Vertical panel blinds spanning wide glass-stacked sliding doors in a Craighall Park extension Vertical & Panel Blinds Wide sliding-door spans and open-plan extensions, without a central join line. Explore → Cellular honeycomb blind showing its insulating air-cell structure in a Parkwood study window Cellular / Honeycomb Insulating air-cell blinds for the room that’s always too hot or too cold post-reno. Explore → Concealed recessed blind in a slim ceiling slot above a glass wall in a Craighall Park extension Concealed & Recessed A ceiling slot hides the whole system — for the architect-led extension with nothing on show. Explore → Flat skylight blind running in side channels across an angled roof window in a Parkwood loft conversion Skylight & Shaped Gables, arches and roof lights — the windows most reno quotes skip. Explore → A wall of motorised roller blinds across a Parkhurst kitchen extension window at evening light Motorisation & Automation One remote or app for every blind in the house — the premium upsell for open-plan glass. Explore → Sheer curtain on a motorised track paired with blockout drapery in a Parkview living room Motorised Curtain Tracks Touch-start electric tracks pairing sheer and blockout on the same rail. Explore → Folding-arm awning fully extended with visible arms over a small Parkhurst courtyard patio Folding-Arm Awnings Turns the patio you built the extension around into shade on demand. Explore → Zip screen lowered in its side channels enclosing a Craighall Park pool-deck patio at dusk Zip Screens Wind-guided outdoor screens that turn the patio into a room, whatever the highveld throws at it. Explore → Close-up detail of blind fabric and hardware — repairs and restringing in Parkwood Blind Repairs Worn cords, stuck mechanisms or broken brackets — we repair, restring and replace parts, then refit after a move or a repaint. Book a repair →
A room, unhidden

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Guest bedroom in a renovated Parkwood home fitted with a blockout roller blind in soft rope beige

Blockout roller, rope beige — Parkwood bedroom

Inside a Parkwood reno

What a finished room actually looks like

Spacious Parkwood entertaining patio shaded by a fully extended folding-arm awning, dining table and lounge seating beneath
The patio the whole extension was built around — shaded on demand, open when it isn’t needed.
Macro close-up of roller blind fabric edge and bottom bar finished in sea-glass green and rope beige, set in a painted window reveal
Fabric and hardware chosen to sit inside the reno’s own palette, not fight it.
Why Parkwood needs a local answer

The Parks belt has its own rules

Parkwood sits in Johannesburg’s renovator belt — older character homes bought, gutted and extended, with the new open-plan living space usually opening straight onto the garden. That means bigger sheets of glass than the original 1930s–60s window openings ever had, and a bigger job for whatever’s covering them.

Highveld summers bring two problems at once on that new glass: hard afternoon sun on north- and west-facing openings, and the thunderstorms that follow it. A fixed awning takes the full force of a hailstorm; a motorised one with a wind sensor retracts ahead of the gust and lives to shade another day.

And because a Parkwood reno is usually a considered one, the windows need to read that way too — a plastic roller on an original sash opening looks like an afterthought. Timber venetians respect the proportions the architect kept; motorised rollers and awnings handle the new glass the extension added.

Specifier note

An unshaded west-facing sliding door in a Parkwood open-plan living room can turn a freshly renovated space into a greenhouse by four o’clock in summer. The fix is a sunscreen roller or a motorised awning with a wind sensor on the glass itself — not heavier curtains layered over the problem.

Free, and genuinely useful

The Parkwood Window Handbook

We wrote down what we actually know about shading a house on these streets — the sun angles, the storm season, and what we would fit on each elevation, with the honest catch attached to every option. Read it here; there is no sign-up and nothing is gated.

  • Why the midday sun swings 47° between January and July, and what that does to each wall
  • North, west, east and south elevations — which rooms suffer and what to do about each
  • Six products with the reasoning and the trade-off spelled out both ways
  • The 60-year heritage rule that catches owners of older Parks-belt houses out
Read the Handbook Or price up your own windows

Every climate and sun-path fact in it carries a source, listed at the foot of the page.

An arts-and-crafts brick bungalow in the Parks belt with a bay window fitted with a sunscreen roller blind lowered halfway against late-afternoon light, established garden framing the porch
How it works

Four steps, one visit to get it right

01

Enquire

Tell us about your windows — or your renovation stage — through the form or the chat.

02

Free in-home measure

A consultant measures every opening on site, no obligation to book anything on the day.

03

Written quote

A per-window quote you can read line by line — no guesswork, no surprises later.

04

Made & fitted

Manufactured to your exact openings and installed — ready for the rest of the reno to catch up.

Areas we cover

Also serving the Parks belt

Parkwood sits among a run of similar renovator suburbs — we work across all of them.

Parkview Parkhurst Craighall Park Parktown North
Questions

Before you book the measure

We’re still mid-renovation — when should you come measure?
Ideally once the window and door frames are actually in and the openings are at their final size — measuring off a plan risks a few millimetres that matter once fabric is cut. If your builder can give us a firm date for frames going in, we’ll book around it. A provisional site visit earlier on is also fine if you’d rather plan the budget ahead of time.
Can one visit cover the whole house?
Yes. The free in-home measure covers every window and door you want quoted in one visit, and you get a single written quote broken down room by room — not twelve separate call-outs.
What’s the difference between inside-mount and outside-mount?
Inside-mount fits within the window reveal for a tailored, built-in look — it needs enough reveal depth to work. Outside-mount fixes to the wall or frame face, which can make a smaller original window feel taller and fully blocks light gaps at the edges. Your consultant will recommend the right one per window on the measure.
Are the cords safe with kids or pets around?
Chain and cord tensioners that anchor the loop to the wall are standard on every install. For nurseries and kids’ rooms we’ll usually recommend a wand-tilt or cordless option, and motorised blinds remove cords and chains entirely — ask your consultant about child-safe controls for any room.
How long does manufacturing take?
It depends on the product and fabric — a standard roller runs differently to a motorised whole-house system on backorder stock. Your consultant will confirm an exact timeline in writing alongside your quote, so it’s not a guess.
Will an awning survive a highveld thunderstorm?
An awning is a shade product, not a storm product — it’s not built to stay open through heavy rain or gusts. A motor with a wind sensor retracts it automatically ahead of a gust threshold, which is the responsible spec for anywhere that gets highveld storms. We’ll still recommend retracting manually ahead of a forecast storm as backup.
Ready when the reno is

Let’s finish the windows

Book a free in-home measure and get a written, per-window quote — no obligation, no pressure on the day.

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Book your free expert measure

A consultant comes to the house, measures every opening you want quoted, and you get a written per-window quote. No call-out fee, no obligation to decide anything on the day.

  • No call-out fee for the measure or the quote
  • Written, per-window quote you can take time over
  • Your details are only used to arrange this call-back — never shared

Our consultant does five to six measures a week across the Parks belt, so the diary fills early — worth booking ahead if you need a particular day.

By sending this, you agree we may contact you about your enquiry. Your details are used only to arrange your free in-home measure and quote, and are never shared, in line with POPIA.

Want a ballpark first? Pop rough sizes into the window schedule below and we will send a budget range by the next working day. Not sure how to measure? Leave it — the consultant measures for free and you get exact per-window pricing either way. The schedule is here because some people like to plan before they pick up the phone, not because we need you to do our job.

Your window schedule — about two minutes Room, rough width and drop, inside or outside the reveal, and which product. Anything you picked in the Handbook is already waiting here. Send it with the form above and a budget range follows by the next working day.

Window schedule — Parkwood Blinds

Walk the house, fill this in, then type it into the window schedule on parkwoodblinds.co.za. Measure the opening itself, in millimetres, at its widest and its tallest.

Rough is genuinely fine — nothing here is binding, and nothing gets manufactured from these numbers. Measure the opening in millimetres, width first, then drop. Prefer paper? Print it, walk the house, type it in afterwards.

Room Width (mm) Drop (mm) Inside or outside the reveal Product Remove
Nothing on the schedule yet — and that is completely fine.