Plattekloof · Cape Town
Made-to-measure blinds, external venetians and motorised shading for Plattekloof's ridge-top homes — specified to work with the view, not against it.
Or read The Plattekloof Ridge Playbook — our free window-by-window shading guide
Plattekloof ridge
The collection
From view-preserving screens on the big lounge glass to true blackout where you sleep — one coherent specification for the whole slope, indoors and out.
Total dark for bedrooms and media rooms, whatever the ridge floodlights are doing outside after dark.
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Keeps the mountain view on the big lounge glass intact while cutting the glare and UV that fade furniture.
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Tune light hour by hour on a view-facing bedroom — privacy without going fully dark, until you want to.
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Moisture-proof for bathrooms and kitchens, powder-coated to shrug off dust carried up the slope on the wind.
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Warm, architectural slats for studies and formal rooms, at home against exposed stone and timber joinery.
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Insulating air-cell fabric that takes the edge off double-volume ridge lounges, winter and summer alike.
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Built for the wide stacking doors onto a view deck, gliding clear without a fold line across the opening.
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Ceiling-slot systems that disappear into the pelmet on frameless glazing, so the view stays uninterrupted.
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Gables, apex glazing and stairwell skylights — the windows most fitters up here won't even quote.
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Sun sensors drop the west-facing blinds before you feel the heat; a schedule handles the top-floor windows for you.
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Stops heat at the glass on the worst west-facing walls — the most effective solar control there is.
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Retractable shade over the deck and braai area, wind-sensored so a summer south-easter can't catch it open.
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Every fabric and finish here is drawn from Plattekloof's own material language — basalt greys, warm dune tones and a burnished-orange accent that reads well against stone, render and timber alike. Nothing is picked off a generic swatch card; it's specified room by room, against the light each window actually gets.
Built for this ridge
Plattekloof was laid out up the slope on the eastern flank of the N1, and almost every stand here was positioned to capture a view — Table Mountain and the city bowl across the flats on one side, the Tygerberg and Durbanville hills on the other. That means most Plattekloof living rooms carry far more glass, angled harder toward the sun, than a flat-stand suburb ever would.
All that view-glass comes at a cost. West- and north-west-facing walls take the full brunt of the Cape afternoon sun for months of the year, and on a two- or three-storey home stacked up a slope, the top floor often gets it worst of all — and is the hardest to reach with a wand or a chain.
Cape Town's summer south-easter reaches inland too. Plattekloof isn't as exposed as the Atlantic seaboard, but any exterior product on a ridge-top stand — external venetians, a folding-arm awning over a view deck — still needs to be properly wind-rated, with sensor auto-retract as standard, not an optional extra.
Because the view is the whole point of the house, we specify sunscreen fabrics that keep it intact by day, paired with a blockout or cellular layer for evenings — once the streetlights and neighbouring homes light up along the ridge after dark, an uncovered window reads as fully lit from outside, even with the lights off in.
Most stands face west or north-west toward the view, so afternoon sun on the glass is the rule here, not the exception.
Multi-storey homes stacked up the ridge mean top-floor and stairwell glazing that's genuinely out of reach — a strong case for motorisation.
The south-easter reaches the northern suburbs too; exterior shading gets wind-rated hardware and sensor retract as standard.
Once the ridge lights up after dark, unlit glass reads as fully lit from outside — worth planning a second layer for at the measure.
Free guide
Before you pick a single blind, read our free window-by-window field guide to shading a Plattekloof view home — how the west-facing view glass, the low afternoon sun and the summer south-easter change what belongs on each elevation, with honest product trade-offs both ways. There's a two-minute ballpark tool at the end, and the free in-home measure whenever you're ready.
How it works
No showroom trip, no guessing sizes — the consultation happens where the windows are.
Tell us the rooms, roughly how many windows, and what the light or the wind is doing to them.
A consultant visits with fabric samples, measures every opening precisely, and checks fixing points for anything exterior.
An itemised, per-window quotation, with wind ratings and finishes confirmed before anything is ordered.
Manufactured to your exact measurements and installed cleanly by our own team, with a full operation demo.
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Questions
Yes — we specify clean profiles and finishes that sit comfortably with the ridge's mostly contemporary material palette, and supply the product documentation some body corporates or estates ask owners to submit.
In order of impact: exterior shading — external venetians or an awning — stops the heat before it reaches the glass, a sunscreen roller indoors cuts glare and UV while keeping the view, and automation makes sure it happens on schedule whether you're home or not.
Only within their rated limits, and only if they retract before the gust arrives. That's why we fit a wind sensor as standard on any exterior product we install on the ridge, rather than relying on someone being home to bring it in.
On one reachable window it's a comfort upgrade. On stairwells, double-volume glass and top-floor windows on a sloped stand, it's the difference between blinds you actually use every day and blinds you don't.
Chain and cord tensioners are fitted as standard on anything corded, and we'll steer nurseries and kids' rooms toward wand-tilt, cordless or motorised options with nothing hanging within reach.
Nothing. The measure, the fabric samples, the consultation and the written per-window quote are all free, with no obligation to order.
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Tell us a little about the windows. A consultant calls you back, arranges a time that works with the slope's access, and arrives with samples you can judge in your own light.