Roller blinds for River Club's big glass

Built for the wall of glass, not just the window

A roller is a fabric panel on an aluminium tube — spring, chain or motor driven, made to measure per window. It's the workhorse of the range for a good reason: on a fairway-facing home where the glazing often runs floor-to-ceiling across three or four metres, a roller gives you a clean, minimal line that doesn't compete with the view you bought the house for.

Choosing your fabric

• Blockout — total light stop. The right call for bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms, with the side benefit of an extra insulating layer against summer heat and winter cold.
• Sunscreen (3%, 5% or 10% openness) — a mesh weave that cuts glare and UV while keeping the fairway visible. The lower the percentage, the more heat and glare it blocks and the less see-through it is; 3–5% is the standard for view-preserving sun control on a big pane of glass. It gives daytime privacy from the cart path, but that reverses at night with the lights on inside.
• Light-filtering / translucent — softens the light and gives full privacy, with no view through — useful for bathrooms or a study that doesn't need the golf outlook.

The double roller: the River Club favourite

Blockout and sunscreen on one bracket is the practical answer for any room with a view worth keeping — sunscreen down through the day for glare-free golf watching, blockout down at night so a lit room isn't on display to anyone still out on the course. It's the combination we fit most often on the fairway-facing side of the house.

Control options

Chain control comes with child-safe tensioners as standard. Spring-assist suits lighter, more frequently used blinds. For anything wide, heavy, or awkward to reach — above a stair void, across a run of stacking doors — motorisation is worth the conversation; a single blind rarely justifies it on its own, but a whole fairway-facing wall usually does.