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Blinds and curtains in the City Bowl

Pick your suburb, or start with your windows.

Every suburb in the City Bowl

Start with:

For example: lounge sliding door, something sheer; two bedrooms need blackout.

Pressing Next sends your words to an AI service in the US to draft your list, so leave out names and numbers. Nothing goes to an installer until you press Send.

Three short steps. A local installer then contacts you to arrange a visit to measure and quote (R750 at a home).

A roller blind drawn down on a lounge window

  1. De Waterkant and Foreshore lie within a kilometre of the sea, where salt air corrodes bare metal. Ask for coated or stainless tracks and brackets. Roller blinds or wave curtains

  2. Part of Bo-Kaap, Cape Town CBD, Gardens and others is a declared heritage area, where changes seen from outside, such as shutters and awnings, may need the City's approval. Curtains and blinds inside are not such a change. Curtains or blinds

  3. In Gardens, Salt River, Tamboerskloof and others, much of the land for homes is zoned for flats and townhouses. A body corporate may have rules on what shows from outside and on drilling into common walls, so ask it before you choose. Roller blinds or sheer and blockout

Every suburb

A number beside a name is the note above that applies there.

Blinds and curtains for City Bowl homes

Wave curtainsEyelet curtainsPinch pleat curtainsSheer and blockoutAll blindsAll curtainsWhich suits my window

How it goes

  1. You tell us which windows.In your own words, or by picture.
  2. An installer measures and quotes at home.They contact you to arrange the visit.
  3. You decide, then they fit.The quote is yours to accept or leave.

Questions

Start your request
Do you come to the City Bowl?
Yes. Sill passes your request to a local installer, who contacts you to arrange a visit at your home in the City Bowl.
What does the visit cost?
R750 to measure and quote, taken off the order if you go ahead.
Do I need to measure first?
No. The installer measures each door and window at the visit, because walls are rarely square. For a rough idea first, see how to measure.
Curtains or blinds?
Curtains can cover a whole wall and soften a room; blinds sit close to the glass and stay clear of a counter or a bed. Curtains or blinds shows both on the same windows.
Can I have sheers and blockout together?
Yes, on a double track, with the sheer nearest the glass for the day and the blockout in front of it for the night. See sheer and blockout.

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List adapted from Wikipedia, List of Cape Town suburbs (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Zoning and heritage areas from the City of Cape Town's open data.

Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 data © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.