Roller Blinds

Bedrooms · Studies · Every window

There's a reason rollers are fitted in more Lonehill units than anything else: one hardware system, three genuinely different jobs. Blockout for the rooms that need to go properly dark, sunscreen for the big glass you don't want to cover up, light-filtering where you just want softness. Made to measure, per window, every time.

Choosing the fabric

• Blockout — total light stop for main bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms, with a thermal benefit against Highveld summer heat and winter cold.
• Sunscreen (3–10% openness) — cuts glare and UV on the big glass so many Lonehill units have, while keeping the garden view. Reverses at night, so pair with a second layer for bedrooms.
• Double roller (day/night combo) — blockout and sunscreen on one bracket, the practical answer for a bedroom that still wants a view during the day.

Being honest about the limits

Very wide unbroken spans need a join line or a second, linked blind — common on the larger sliding-door openings some clusters have. And if your unit leans heritage or cottage-style rather than contemporary, a timber venetian usually suits the aesthetic better than a plain roll.

Control & finish

Chain control with a required safety tensioner, spring assist, or fully motorised. Cassette or pelmet options hide the tube, with fascia colour-matched to your frames — the tidy look most Lonehill body corporates expect on anything visible from outside.

Before you book anything: how the sun crosses this part of Johannesburg through the year — and what we’d fit on each elevation, with the honest catch on every answer — is written up free in The Lonehill Complex Light Handbook. No sign-up, and every figure in it is sourced.

We fit rollers at this same standard right across the belt — blockout and sunscreen combinations for the new-build clusters in Fourways and Broadacres & Cedar Lakes, and for the larger openings typical of Helderfontein Estate and Dainfern homes.

What a roller blind costs in a Lonehill unit

Guides by the square metre installed. Chain or spring rollers in blockout, sunscreen or a light-filtering weave price at R1,000 to R1,600 — simple blockout cheapest, a tight sunscreen on a lounge facing a walkway or a twin-fabric double roller dearest. Motorised, the guide is R2,500 to R3,800 with motor and control counted.

Unit windows change that in one way. They tend to be small and numerous rather than few and huge, and a scullery pane consumes practically the bracket, tube and labour of a lounge one, so tiny openings attract a minimum instead of an area rate. That is exactly why a unit with nine little windows is quoted line by line. The written quote follows the free measure.