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Blinds and shading for Illovo's clusters and apartments
Illovo mixes free-standing houses with a growing number of upmarket clusters and luxury apartment blocks — a spec that has to work as well across six identical units as it does in one grand house.
What homes here are like
Illovo sits between Hyde Park and Sandton, and its housing stock reflects that in-between position — established freehold houses alongside a steady run of newer upmarket clusters and luxury apartment developments. It's one of the more architecturally mixed of the golf-frontage-adjacent suburbs we work in, which makes an honest, room-by-room recommendation more useful than a one-size answer.
What suits an Illovo spec
- Roller blinds as the volume answer for clusters and apartments — clean, consistent, and quick to specify identically across multiple units.
- Day & night blinds for apartment living rooms that need privacy from a neighbouring block without losing the light.
- Motorised blinds on battery motors where a high apartment window or a double-volume stairwell puts the blind out of reach — no wiring, and no scaffolding to get it working.
- Check body corporate or estate rules before specifying anything visible from outside a cluster or complex — we're happy to work from whatever guideline document you've been given.
We measure and fit across Illovo from our River Club base close by — 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 Illovo 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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