Blinds & shading for Fresnaye

Fresnaye is villa country rather than the stacked apartment blocks that line Kloof Road below — freestanding houses on the slope, many of them mid-renovation or recently rebuilt, with more room to plan a shading system properly instead of retrofitting it into an existing sectional-title structure. Set back and higher up than Bantry Bay itself, Fresnaye catches less direct sea spray, but it more than makes up for that with sun exposure across bigger, often newly-glazed elevations.

What a Fresnaye renovation usually needs

• Concealed & recessed blinds — a common request on architect-led rebuilds where the brief is frameless glass and a completely clean window when the blind is up. Bringing us in at the drawing stage lets the ceiling recess be planned properly rather than added after the fact.
• External venetians on the biggest panes — Fresnaye’s villas often carry more glass than the apartments below, and stopping heat at the glass rather than after it’s already in the room matters more the bigger that pane gets.
• Motorised exteriors as standard — awnings and zip screens over a renovated terrace are nearly always specified motorised here, both for convenience and because a wind sensor is the responsible spec on an exposed upper-slope position.
• Salt-air rated hardware, still — further from the breakers than Bantry Bay’s lower terraces, but this is still the Atlantic seaboard; we don’t treat the set-back position as a reason to specify down.