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Blinds and shading for Hyde Park's glazed family homes
Large stands and leafy gardens give Hyde Park houses room to build big — double-volume living rooms, wide sliding walls onto the garden, and main suites that open straight onto a view. All of it needs a shading plan that keeps up.
What homes here are like
Hyde Park is one of Johannesburg's most established high-value garden suburbs — generous stands, mature trees, and houses that tend to be built or extended around double-volume living spaces and long runs of glazing onto the garden. It sits close to Hyde Park Corner, but the residential streets stay firmly leafy-suburb rather than commercial.
What suits a Hyde Park spec
- Motorised curtain tracks for double-volume living rooms, pairing a sheer with a blockout on a single touch-start track.
- Double roller blinds on garden-facing bedrooms — sunscreen through the day, blockout at night.
- External venetian blinds for west-facing walls that take the full afternoon sun over the garden.
- Motorised everything above reach — anywhere a stair void or double-volume window puts a blind out of pole range, motorisation stops being optional.
We measure and fit across Hyde Park from our River Club base nearby — same consultant, same written-quote process, same free measure.
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Four O'Clock on the Fairway
Our shading guide was written for River Club, but the sun over Hyde Park is the same sun — 26° south, almost overhead in December and low in the north by June. Only the housing stock changes.
The sun & shading companion
What the light does to each wall of a house on this side of Johannesburg, what we’d fit on each one, and the honest catch with every option.
- The sun path at 26° south, season by season, with sources
- Seven products, and what’s genuinely wrong with each of them
- What only an in-person measure can actually answer
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