Sunscreen roller blinds over the sliding doors of an open-plan Senderwood living room, looking out onto a leafy garden
Senderwood & the Bedfordview belt

The garden view, without the four-o'clock glare.

Made-to-measure blinds, roller shutters and patio shading for Senderwood's established homes — free in-home measure, a written quote per window, and a professional fit.

Or read the free field guide first — The Long Afternoon, what the highveld sun does to a Senderwood house
Free in-home measure & a written quote for every window
Child-safe as standard — cordless and motorised options
Fitted to suit Senderwood's mix of original frames and new glazing
The range

Every window, one made-to-measure answer

From the original lounge windows to a new set of sliding doors onto the garden — the full range, fitted precisely rather than sold off a shelf.

A blockout roller blind lowered halfway across a bright kitchen window above the sink, morning light diffusing through the top gap
Roller Blinds

The clean, made-to-measure fix for big lounge and patio doors — blockout, sunscreen or a double combination on one bracket.

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Day and night blind with alternating sheer and solid fabric bands fitted to a home office window, softly filtering midday light across a desk
Day & Night Blinds

Dial the garden view up or down through the day, without swapping blinds room to room.

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Aluminium venetian blind with horizontal slats tilted to steer late afternoon light across a Senderwood bedroom
Venetian Blinds

Tilt the light exactly how you want it — glare-free in the morning, private from a neighbour's upper storey by evening.

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Wide fabric panel blinds sliding across a full-height glass door, covering the opening without folds
Vertical & Panel Blinds

Wide sliding doors and study walls of glass, covered cleanly without a single fussy fold.

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Cellular honeycomb blind seen side-on, showing the air cells that insulate the glass
Cellular (Honeycomb) Blinds

Air-cell insulation for rooms that bake in summer and lose heat on frosty highveld mornings — a genuine energy difference.

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Blind dropping from a concealed ceiling recess above a kitchen window, with no visible track or brackets
Concealed & Recessed Blinds

Built into the ceiling line for renovations and new extensions, where a visible track just won't do.

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Blind made to the exact shape of an angled skylight in a pitched roof, softening overhead sun
Skylight & Shaped Blinds

For the arched, angled and skylight windows nobody else wants to quote on.

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Motorised roller blind lowered across a kitchen window, its remote resting on the table — no cords or chains
Motorised Blinds & Automation

Raise, lower and schedule every blind in the house from an app or a wall switch — no cords near children, ever.

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Floor-length curtains gliding on a ceiling-mounted motorised track with the drive unit visible at the end
Motorised Curtain Tracks

Sheer and blockout, layered together, gliding open with a light touch-start.

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A folding-arm awning fully extended over an outdoor dining table and chairs, viewed from the garden looking back toward the house
Folding-Arm Awnings

Turn the patio and braai area back into a room in summer, then fold away to let the winter sun through.

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External aluminium roller shutter rolled down from its headbox on the outside of a sliding door, shading the glass
Roller Shutters

Rigid aluminium slats that roll down on the outside of the glass — sun, heat and glare stopped before they reach the room, plus full blackout when you want it.

These are shading shutters, not security-rated shutters — a different product, available on request.

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Close-up of a blind headrail and tilt mechanism being serviced — the kind of repair that saves replacing the whole blind
Blind Repairs

Snapped chains, tired mechanisms, a blind that never hung straight after the painters left — repaired and rehung where it's the sensible option, replaced only when it isn't.

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In a Senderwood home

Where the blind actually earns its keep

A tidy main bedroom with a blockout roller blind lowered most of the way, soft edge-glow of daylight around the frame, in a Senderwood family home
Blockout in the bedrooms — proper dark for early school mornings and late shifts.
A built-in brick braai area shaded by a folding-arm awning extended overhead, outdoor dining table nearby, typical of a Senderwood family suburb garden
Shade the braai area, not just the house.
Extreme close-up of aluminium venetian blind slats tilted in a sunlit study, throwing sharp bands of afternoon light and shadow across a desk
Timber venetian slats in carbon and tobacco tones, finished to match the joinery.
Why Senderwood is different

Built for how this suburb actually lives

Senderwood's big, generously treed stands make for a garden that changes character through the day — dappled shade under old jacarandas and syringas for hours, then a hard band of low western sun straight through the lounge and patio doors as the afternoon turns. It's the kind of light that a single "one size" blind never quite handles.

The housing stock tells its own story too: original 1970s and '80s openings sitting alongside newly extended kitchens and stacking doors, often on the very same house. That's exactly why every quote here starts with a measure of each window on its own — no assumption that the lounge and the new scullery take the same size blind.

Then there's the highveld sky. Summer thunderstorms roll in fast and hard between November and March, with wind gusts and hail that a fixed patio roof can't argue with. Anything mounted outside — an awning, a roller shutter — is specified with that in mind: real wind ratings, and motorised auto-retract on anything left open over a braai.

And because this is a family suburb before anything else, cordless and motorised control isn't an upsell here — it's the sensible default in any room a child spends time in.

Free, and nothing is gated

The Senderwood window field guide

We did the homework for this suburb and wrote it down. Read it before you speak to anybody — including us.

A brick family home on a tree-lined Senderwood street at golden hour, viewed from the driveway with a sunscreen roller blind catching the warm late-afternoon light
The field guide

The Long Afternoon

Eight minutes on what the highveld sun actually does to a house on a big, tree-shaded Senderwood stand — and which blind answers which wall.

  • The sun's real angles here, summer and winter, with the sources
  • North, west, east and south — which rooms suffer, and why
  • Six products with the reasoning and the honest trade-off on each
  • Storms, hail and highveld UV, and what they change outdoors
  • The six things only an on-site measure can settle

No email required to read it. The only thing we ask for is if you want it marked up against your own rooms.

How it works

Four steps, no surprises

The same consult-led process every time — nothing ordered blind, nothing fitted without a written number first.

01

Enquire

Tell us the rooms, roughly how many windows, and what you're trying to solve — glare, privacy, heat or all three.

02

Free in-home measure

An expert consultant visits your Senderwood home with samples, measures every window precisely, and talks through fabric, openness and motorisation for each room's light.

03

Written quote

A proper per-window quote, options itemised — nothing verbal, nothing to remember.

04

Made & fitted

Made to order, then professionally installed — level, tested, and demonstrated before the team leaves.

Service area

Senderwood, and the streets around it

Established, tree-lined and mostly large-stand — the same specification logic applies right across the belt.

Questions

Honest answers, before you ask twice

Do you actually cover Senderwood, or just the general area?
Senderwood itself, plus the immediately surrounding streets of Bedfordview, Linksfield, Morninghill and Bedford Gardens. If you're just outside that belt, ask anyway — the measure visit is free either way.
Are your blinds safe for young children?
Cordless and motorised control is our recommended default for any room a child uses — nursery, playroom or bedroom. Where a chain or cord is used elsewhere in the house, a wall tensioner is fitted as standard to keep the loop taut and out of reach. We'll also flag it if a cot, bed or climbable piece of furniture is sitting under a corded window.
Can you match new blinds to my home's original window frames?
Yes — that's the point of the in-home measure. Inside-recess mount suits original openings where a tailored, minimal look matters (small light gaps at the edges are normal and we'll say so upfront). Outside mount covers a wider area, improves blockout and can make an older window feel larger — useful where frames have dated. We'll recommend per window, not per house.
Will a patio awning actually survive a highveld thunderstorm?
Only if it's specified properly. Wind ratings on an awning are a real limit, not a suggestion — a gust catching an open awning in a highveld storm can write it off. For anything over a braai or entertainment area we recommend a motor with a wind sensor, so it retracts itself before the storm arrives rather than after.
Do you do motorised blinds, or just manual?
Both, on almost every product in the range. Motorisation is worth it most on hard-to-reach windows, double-storey stairwells, and anywhere with young children in the house — no cords, no chains, nothing to reach for.
How long does the whole process take, start to fitted?
It runs in four steps — enquiry, free measure, written quote, then manufacture and fitting. Everything is made to order once you've approved the quote, so exact timing depends on the products chosen; your consultant will confirm real lead times on the day rather than a generic estimate.
Next step

Ready for a written number instead of a guess?

Book a free in-home measure — no obligation, no pressure, just an honest quote per window.

Get in touch

Tell us about your windows

Fill this in and one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange your free in-home measure. No call centre, no automated quote — a real conversation about your actual windows. Not ready for a visit? Read the field guide instead — it's free and nothing is gated.

  • Free in-home measure, anywhere in the Senderwood service area
  • Written, itemised quote per window — nothing verbal
  • No obligation to proceed after the quote

Our consultant does five to six measures a week across this area, so it's worth booking ahead if you need a particular day.

Want a ballpark figure first? Open this — about two minutes.

Senderwood Blinds — window list

Walk the house, fill this in by hand, then type it into the form on senderwoodblinds.co.za when you get back. Measure the width first, then the drop, in millimetres.

Pop in rough sizes and we'll send a budget range by the next working day. Not sure how to measure? Leave it blank — our consultant measures for free and you'll get exact per-window pricing either way. This is entirely optional and nothing here is binding.

Room Width (mm) Drop (mm) Inside or outside the reveal Product Remove

Nothing on the list yet — and it stays entirely optional.

Anything you enter here travels with your enquiry as plain text. No uploads, no third-party services, nothing stored anywhere else. If photographs would help, a consultant will simply ask for them in the reply. Not sure which product a window wants? The field guide runs through all of them.

Your details are used only to arrange your free measure and quote call-back, and are never shared with third parties. If you tell us you're still researching, we won't phone you (POPIA).

Thank you — one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange your free measure.