Blue Hills estate living room with sunscreen roller blinds over full-height glass, looking onto white post-and-rail paddocks

Blue Hills · Midrand

The paddock view, without the three o’clock glare.

Made-to-measure blinds, roller shutters and awnings for Blue Hills equestrian estate homes — built for Highveld sun, summer hail, and windows that open straight onto grazing land.

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Free in-home measure & written per-window quote
Wind-sensored for Highveld storm season
Child-safe operation as standard

The range

Built for wide glass and wider views

Every product below is made to measure per window — from a single paddock-facing lounge opening to a full house of estate glazing. Start with what you already know you want, or book a free measure and let a consultant walk the rest through with you.

Sunscreen roller blind filtering garden light through a kitchen window in a Blue Hills home

Roller Blinds

Blockout or sunscreen fabric, made to measure for wide paddock-facing windows.

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Day and night zebra blind banding light across a kitchen window in a Blue Hills home

Day & Night Blinds

Zebra-banded fabric that dims the glare without losing the view over the arena.

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White aluminium venetian blinds tilted open over a home-office window in a Blue Hills home

Venetian Blinds

Aluminium or timber slats you tilt to hand-pick the light, hour by hour.

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Linen-toned vertical blinds hanging over a wide living-room window in a Blue Hills home

Vertical & Panel Blinds

Wide sliding panels for the doors onto the veranda and pool deck.

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Concealed roller blind fabric dropping flush from a ceiling recess, no visible headbox, in a Blue Hills home

Concealed & Recessed Blinds

Blinds that vanish into the ceiling for double-volume glass walls.

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Close-up of cellular honeycomb blind air-cells glowing in the sun at a Blue Hills window

Cellular (Honeycomb) Blinds

Insulated air-cell fabric that helps hold the temperature through Highveld extremes.

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Aluminium external venetian blind louvres tilted outside a picture window in a Blue Hills home

External Venetian Blinds

Aluminium louvres outside the glass, stopping the heat before it gets in.

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External aluminium roller shutter lowered over sliding glass doors at a Blue Hills home

Roller Shutters

Motorised sun and glare control in one system, for stable-side and boundary glazing.

Shading, not security. Our roller shutters are made for sun, heat and glare control on the outside of the glass. They are not security-rated shutters — that is a different product, which we can quote on request.

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Charcoal folding-arm awning extended over a paved patio at a modern Blue Hills home

Folding-Arm Awnings

Retractable shade over the entertainment deck, gone before the first storm gust.

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Zip screen mesh enclosing a patio at a Blue Hills home, garden visible through the weave

Zip Screens

Wind-proof mesh that closes off an outdoor room without closing off the view.

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Motorised exterior screen mounted above sliding glass doors at a Blue Hills home, wall switch alongside

Motorised Blinds & Automation

One remote for every blind on a big Blue Hills stand — with sensors for sun and wind.

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Venetian blind headrail and tilt mechanism being serviced in a Bluehills home

Blind Repairs & Servicing

Sticking chains, tired brackets, a motor that has stopped answering — usually a service call, not a replacement.

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On site

Made for the way a Blue Hills home actually gets used

Folding-arm awning over a timber entertaining deck at a Blue Hills equestrian estate home, paddocks beyond
Folding-arm awning, entertaining deck — retracts before the highveld storm hits
Close-up of timber venetian slats throwing shadow bands across a limewashed wall
Timber venetian, tilted to lay the light down in bands
Specifier note

Every window in a Blue Hills home has two views — the paddocks beyond the glass, and the one the fabric gives you back at three in the afternoon. We measure for both.

Blockout roller blinds drawn down in a Blue Hills main bedroom, veld and thorn trees showing beneath
Blockout roller, main bedroom

Why Blue Hills

Windows that face the paddocks need their own specification

Blue Hills sits on Midrand’s equestrian belt — big stands, north-facing verandas and living rooms built to look straight over paddocks and riding arenas. That same glass is what turns a lounge into a viewing box in the morning and an oven by three in the afternoon.

Then there’s the other half of the year: October to March storm season, when a clear Highveld afternoon can turn to hail inside twenty minutes. Anything left open outside — an awning, an external blind — needs a wind sensor that pulls it in before the first gust, not after it.

Add the dust that comes with gravel roads, arenas and wide-open stands, and a tightly-woven sunscreen or blockout fabric earns its keep fast on a Blue Hills home. Many estates here run their own architectural guidelines too, so we work within your estate’s colour and fascia rules from the first quote — no surprises at approval stage.

Free to read, nothing gated

The Blue Hills Elevation Report

We wrote down what we know about the light up here: the sun path by season, what it does to each face of a Blue Hills house, which product we would put on which wall and why — plus the honest trade-off in the other direction every time.

  • Sun angles for this latitude, with the sources listed
  • North, east, west and south — what each one needs
  • Six recommendations, each with its catch spelt out
Read the report
View from inside a Blue Hills living room through external venetian louvres tilted against the late afternoon sun, garden and paddock beyond

How it works

From enquiry to fitted, in four steps

01

Enquire

Chat, call or the form below — tell us about your rooms, window count, product interest and which part of Blue Hills you’re in.

02

Free in-home measure

An expert consultant visits with samples, measures every window precisely, and advises on fabric, motorisation and estate-approval colours.

03

Written quote

An itemised, per-window quote in writing — every option laid out clearly, no pressure to decide on the spot.

04

Made & fitted

Manufactured to your exact measurements, then installed clean and level with a full operation demo.

Service area

Also covering the estates around Blue Hills

Same crew, same free-measure promise, in the equestrian and estate belt that runs north from Kyalami through Waterfall.

Questions

Frequently asked

Do exterior blinds and awnings cope with Highveld hailstorms?

Motorised exterior products with a wind sensor auto-retract before a gust hits, which protects the fabric and arms through most storm activity. Being honest about it: an awning is a shade product, not a storm shelter — in genuine hail, the sensor pulling it in early is the whole point.

Our estate has an architectural or aesthetics committee — can you work within their rules?

Yes. We work to your estate’s approved colours and fascia guidelines and can put together a spec sheet for submission before anything is ordered.

Our house is still being built — can you still help?

Yes — this is common on newer Blue Hills stands. We can do an early site visit for planning once glazing sizes are confirmed, then a final precise measure closer to handover.

Inside mount or outside mount for big paddock-view windows?

Inside (recess) mount sits flush and minimal but needs enough recess depth, with small light gaps at the edges being normal. Outside (face) mount gives fuller blockout coverage and can make a window feel larger — the right call depends on the frame, which we check at the free measure.

Are the blinds child-safe?

Yes — chain and cord tensioners are standard on every corded install, and wand-tilt or cordless options are recommended for nurseries and kids’ rooms. Motorisation removes cords and chains entirely, which is the gold standard if it suits your budget.

How does dust from the gravel roads and arenas affect fabric choice?

Tightly-woven sunscreen and blockout fabrics wipe down easily and show dust less than loosely woven weaves. We’ll point out the easier-clean options for arena-facing or drive-facing windows at the measure.

Get started

Ready for windows that suit Blue Hills?

Book a free in-home measure and get a written, per-window quote — no pressure, no obligation.

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Get in touch

Book your free in-home measure

Tell us a little about your home and which part of Blue Hills you’re in, and we’ll arrange a time for an expert consultant to visit with samples.

Not sure what you want yet? Read the Elevation Report first

  • No-obligation, written per-window quote
  • Estate-appropriate colours and fascia, on request
  • One of our expert consultants will contact you shortly

Our consultant does five or six measures a week across this area, so the diary tends to fill early — worth booking ahead if you need a particular day.

The more you tell us, the more useful the first visit is.

Want a ballpark figure first? Open this — about two minutes.

Blue Hills Blinds — window list

Walk the house, fill this in by hand, then type it into the form on bluehillsblinds.co.za when you get back. Measure the width first, then the drop, in millimetres.

Pop in rough sizes and we will send a budget range by the next working day. Not sure how to measure? Leave it blank — our consultant measures for free and you get exact per-window pricing either way. This is entirely optional, and nothing on it is binding.

Room Width (mm) Drop (mm) Inside or outside the reveal Product Remove

Nothing on the list yet — and it stays entirely optional.

Whatever you enter here travels with your enquiry as plain text. No uploads, no third-party services, nothing stored anywhere else. If photographs would help, a consultant will simply ask for them in the reply.

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