Roller blinds for Camps Bay’s big glass

Roller blinds are the most common blind fitted along the Atlantic seaboard, and for good reason — they suit almost any room, they’re easy to keep clean, and the fabric choice does most of the work. The real question in Camps Bay is rarely “roller or not,” it’s which fabric, and whether one blind is enough for glass that spends half the day facing the ocean.

Fabric — the decision that matters

• Blockout — total light stop, for bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms. It also acts as an extra insulating layer, useful on the big single panes many Camps Bay homes are built around.
• Sunscreen (3–10% openness) — a mesh weave that cuts glare and UV while keeping the view out. Lower openness blocks more heat and glare but shows less view; 3–5% is the standard choice for view-preserving sun control on the wide panes typical here. Note the trade-off: sunscreen gives daytime privacy, but reverses at night once the lights are on inside.
• Light-filtering / translucent — softens the light and gives full privacy without full blockout, a middle ground for living areas.

Double roller (day/night combo)

A blockout and a sunscreen fabric on one bracket is the practical answer for a bedroom that also has an ocean view worth keeping — sunscreen up during the day, blockout down at night, without two separate blinds fighting for the same window.

Fit, finish and salt air

Chain control needs a wall tensioner as standard practice for child safety; spring-assist and motorised options are both available, and motorisation removes the chain question entirely. Because this is the Atlantic seaboard, we specify powder-coated aluminium tubes and brackets as standard rather than an upgrade — cheap hardware corrodes fast this close to the sea. Single blinds run to roughly 3m of fabric width before a join line or a linked, motorised pair becomes the better answer — common on the wide glass walls typical of Camps Bay’s newer builds.