The workhorse for Simondium's newer glass.

Fabric choices

Blockout fabric is the default for a bedroom over a farm cottage or a media room — total light stop, with a genuine thermal benefit against both summer heat and a Simondium winter's damp cold. Sunscreen fabric (typically 3% or 5% openness on this kind of glazing) is what we reach for on an orchard- or vineyard-facing kitchen or living room: it cuts glare and UV while keeping the rows outside visible, which matters more here than on a street-facing window in town. Light-filtering fabric sits between the two where full privacy without full darkness is the brief.

Built for Simondium's two eras

Rollers earn their keep on the wide, unbroken glazing a newer farm cottage or tasting room is usually built around — clean lines, a cassette that hides the tube, and a fascia colour-matched to the frame. On an original homestead's small sash window, a roller can work but rarely looks like it belongs; for that window, we'd usually walk you toward a timber venetian blind instead, sized for the reveal rather than bolted over it.

• Blockout, sunscreen (3%, 5%, 10% openness) or light-filtering fabric, chosen per room
• Double roller (day/night) combination on one bracket where a room wants both
• Chain (with a wall tensioner), spring-assist, or motorised control
• Cassette or pelmet valance to hide the tube, fascia colour-matched to the frame

Honest limits

A single roller fabric runs to roughly 3m of unbroken width before it needs a central join line or a second, linked blind — worth knowing before you fall for a wall of glass with no mullions. And sunscreen fabric that keeps your daytime view also turns two-way after dark once the lights are on inside; a bedroom wanting that view during the day usually pairs it with a second blockout roller for night.

We fit the same roller logic on new glazing right along this road — from the growing estate stock toward Klapmuts to guest cottages on the way to Franschhoek.