Apartment glazing, not ridge-top view walls
Century City is one of Cape Town's high-volume new-apartment precincts — canal-facing units and office-adjacent blocks with full-height glazing and, often, a single wide sliding door onto a balcony. It's a very different brief to Plattekloof's rambling view homes: one or two large openings per unit rather than a dozen windows, and usually a body corporate with clear rules on what can go up on a balcony or be visible from outside.
Sunscreen roller blinds are the default for the main glazing here — daytime privacy without losing the canal or city outlook, paired with a blockout roller in the bedroom. Wide sliding doors are better served by vertical or panel blinds, which draw fully clear for balcony access rather than stacking awkwardly to one side.
- Sunscreen roller blinds for full-height living-area glazing
- Panel or vertical blinds on wide sliding doors, for full balcony access
- Blockout roller blinds for bedrooms facing streetlights or neighbouring blocks
- Cordless or motorised operation where body-corporate rules restrict visible external fittings
Local note
Some Century City buildings have body-corporate restrictions on exterior-visible fittings and colours — we'll flag anything that needs sign-off before it's ordered, so there are no surprises with building management.
Served from the ridge, at apartment scale
We measure and fit in Century City the same way we do on a full house up in Plattekloof — a consultant visits, measures precisely, and returns a written, itemised quote — just scaled to an apartment's floor-to-ceiling glazing and balcony door rather than a whole facade.