Venetian Blinds
Aluminium slats that shrug off the corridor's humidity and salt air, timber for the drier, better-sheltered rooms further from the lagoons — tilt for glare-free daylight, close flat for full privacy.
Aluminium first, near the water
25mm slats give the crisp, most popular look; 50mm reads bolder with fewer lines. Powder-coated aluminium is the moisture and humidity champion — kitchens, bathrooms, laundries, and any room near a Wilderness or Sedgefield lagoon, where the corridor's rain-in-every-month pattern keeps relative humidity high year-round. It handles the salt air at Mossel Bay's bay front too, with an occasional rinse-wipe near the water doing the rest.
02Timber, where the room allows it
50mm basswood or bamboo slats suit George's drier, better-ventilated older-town interiors, and any room set well back from the lagoons and forest edge. Keep timber out of steamy bathrooms anywhere on the corridor — that's an aluminium room, no exceptions.
03The adjustability argument
A roller is open or closed by degrees; a venetian steers light direction — tilt up for glare-free daylight off open water, tilt down for privacy from a neighbouring deck, close flat for full dark. Rooms with real hour-by-hour light swings, like a lagoon-facing lounge as the morning mist lifts, get genuine daily use out of that control.
- Powder-coated aluminium standard for kitchens, bathrooms and lagoon-facing rooms
- Timber venetians available for George's drier, sheltered interiors
- Motorised tilt available on premium lines for hard-to-reach glass
External venetians are a different product
Facade-mounted external venetian blinds stop heat at the glass before it enters the room at all — a strong option for west-facing bay windows in Mossel Bay. They're part of our full range; ask a consultant through the enquiry form or chat.
Kitchens, bathrooms and lagoon-facing lounges from George to Mossel Bay lean on venetian blinds for humidity and glare control together.
What venetian blinds cost along the corridor
Material decides the band before anything else. Aluminium in twenty-five or fifty millimetre slats runs about R1,000 to R1,500 per square metre installed with wand and cord, and R2,500 to R3,600 per square metre motorised. Timber costs more to make and to hang: allow R1,600 to R2,600 per square metre hand-operated and R3,000 to R4,500 per square metre motorised. Damp coastal rooms are aluminium country whatever the budget says.
These are guide bands rather than a quotation. Small windows carry a minimum charge, because the hardware and the fitting time barely shrink with the opening. Each window on your list is costed separately at the measure and set out in writing.
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