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Roller blinds measured for a valley that gives you the same window twice a day, differently
Sunscreen, blockout and double-roller fabrics, made to measure for Wellington's farmhouse and wine-estate openings — with the mesh openness chosen for a mountain-shortened day, not an open-street calculator.
A 3-5% sunscreen, recalculated for the Groenberg's shadow
On an open street, a 3% sunscreen is the usual pick for the last, hardest hour of afternoon sun. Wellington complicates that calculation: because the Groenberg and Hawequas mountains sit so close, they genuinely shorten the day, and the low sun that would arrive gently over open ground instead hits a west-facing gable end low and hard, for a shorter but more intense window. Most of our measures on vineyard-facing rooms land on a 5% openness rather than 3% — enough to hold the glare down through that compressed hour without losing the view of the vine rows the room was built to look at.
Blockout, and the double-roller answer for harvest mornings
A working farmhouse or a guest cottage on a wine estate usually wants one thing a sunscreen can't give: proper dark on a summer morning that doesn't clash with a harvest-season 5am start. A single blockout roller handles that on its own. A double roller (day/night) pairs a blockout fabric with a sunscreen on the same bracket, so a bedroom gets filtered daylight and view through the day and total dark once the blind comes down at night — no swapping blinds, no compromise.
Fitted to a reveal a century of Cape winters has moved
Cold, wet valley winters and the settling that comes with genuinely old farmhouse construction leave plenty of Wellington sash and gable frames slightly out of true, even when they look fine from across the room. Chain and cord tensioners are fitted as standard on anything corded, and we favour a face-fixed cassette over a tight inside-mount bracket wherever the reveal is shallow or uneven — it sits cleaner than forcing a track into a frame it wasn't built for. Wide wine-cellar or function-room glazing either splits with a central join line or runs as motorised linked blinds, so no single chain is doing the work of three metres of fabric.
The right mesh openness also depends on what the room actually opens onto — the same 5% that suits a vineyard-facing lounge in Gouda's open wheat country can read too dark on a tighter valley pocket near Hermon, where surrounding hills already cut some of the direct light. We check the actual aspect on site rather than quote a fixed number over the phone.
The window that gets measured twice in Wellington is nearly always the vineyard-facing one — once for the width, once for how much of that view is worth keeping through the glare.
On-site measure, Wellington- Sunscreen mesh, 3%, 5% or 10% openness
- Blockout fabric for bedrooms and harvest-season mornings
- Double roller (day/night) on one bracket
- Chain, spring or motorised control
- Face-fixed cassette option for shallow or uneven farmhouse reveals
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