Irene · Centurion

Blinds and awnings measured for Irene's gabled stoeps — your veranda, minus the afternoon glare.

Made-to-measure blinds, motorised shading and veranda awnings for Irene's farmstead homes and the estates around it — measured on site, fitted by our own team.

Book a free in-home measure → Read the field guide

New — The Irene Window Field Guide: which blind suits which window here, room by room.

Free measure & written quote
Fitted to heritage sash & fanlight windows
Child-safe as standard

The collection

Every window, farmhouse to fairway.

From deep-set sash windows in the old village to full-height glazing in the estates around it — one coherent specification for the whole property.

Blockout roller blind fully lowered over a wide glass door in a quiet Irene living room, daylight edging the bottom rail

Blockout Roller Blinds

Total light stop for bedrooms and media rooms, with a genuine thermal benefit on big highveld glass.

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Charcoal sunscreen roller blinds lowered across three sash panes in an Irene sitting room, the oak avenue still visible through the weave

Sunscreen Roller Blinds

Keeps the oak-avenue view while cutting glare and UV through the day — the veranda-facing default.

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Day and night zebra blind on a wide Irene picture window, sheer and solid bands laying stripes of four o'clock sun across the rug

Day & Night Zebra Blinds

Alternating sheer and solid bands — tune light hour by hour without touching a chain.

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Honey basswood venetian blind inside the reveal of a sash window in a small Irene study, slats tilted up to bounce morning light

Timber Venetian Blinds

Warm basswood slats for sash windows and studies — the heritage-home natural.

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Slim aluminium venetian blind above the sink of an Irene farmhouse kitchen, headrail fixed into the plastered window recess

Aluminium Venetian Blinds

The moisture champion for kitchens and bathrooms — crisp lines, wipe-clean finish.

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Oatmeal cellular honeycomb blind lowered in the deep-set timber sash window of an Irene farmstead bedroom at dusk

Cellular / Honeycomb Blinds

Trapped-air cells insulate older single-glazed windows against the cold highveld night.

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Off-white vertical louvres angled across the sliding door of an Irene dining room, garden and paving showing between the blades

Vertical Blinds

Tilt for light, draw fully aside for wide sliding doors onto the garden.

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Panel glide blinds hanging from a ceiling track across a full-height glazed wall in an estate home near Irene

Panel Glide Blinds

Wide flat panels stacking clean for floor-to-ceiling estate glazing.

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Roller blind dropping from a concealed ceiling pocket above a sliding door in a contemporary Irene-area home, no headbox in sight

Concealed Recessed Blind Boxes

Shading designed into the ceiling for architect-built additions — nothing visible when raised.

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Pleated skylight blind running in side channels inside a roof window of a converted Irene loft, drawn two thirds across the glass

Skylight & Shaped-Window Blinds

Tensioned systems for gable glass and skylights — the windows nobody else quotes.

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Cream folding-arm awning bolted above the patio doors of a gabled Irene farmstead, arms out over the paved stoep in golden light

Folding-Arm Awnings

Retractable shade over the stoep — no posts, no permanent roof, gone when winter sun is welcome.

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Aluminium roller shutter half lowered over a west-facing window of an Irene home, headbox and side guides fixed to the brick outside

Roller Shutters

Motorised aluminium slats that stop heat and glare on the outside of the glass — with full blackout for exposed elevations.

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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Venetian blind tilt mechanism and slat stack being repaired in an Irene kitchen

Blind Repairs

Snapped chain, jammed tilt, a blind that won't hold its level — most faults are a worn part, not a write-off. We repair blinds we didn't originally fit too, and we'll tell you honestly when a repair beats a replacement.

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Why Irene

Oak avenues, gabled stoeps, and a highveld sky that changes its mind by mid-afternoon.

Irene's oldest homes were built as a working dairy farm village long before ceiling fans and air conditioning — wide stoeps, deep-set sash windows and thick farmhouse walls did the job of keeping rooms liveable through a highveld summer. Those verandas and window recesses are rarely a standard size, which is exactly why we measure every opening individually rather than working from a catalogue.

The climate hasn't changed. Mornings are cool, afternoons swing hard toward heat and glare, and summer brings sudden highveld thunderstorms — the kind that arrive fast and hail hard. Anything left open and un-sensored on the wrong afternoon usually ends up paying for it.

The newer estates around Irene — Cornwall Hill, Southdowns and the rest — bring a different brief: full-height glazing, contemporary lines, and a design guideline to satisfy. We're just as often measuring a 1930s fanlight window and a brand-new glass wall in the same week.

How it works

Four steps. One visit does most of it.

No showroom trek, no guessing sizes on an old sash window — the consultation happens where the windows actually are.

01

Tell us about your windows

Two minutes on the enquiry form — rooms, rough sizes, what's bothering you about the light.

02

Free in-home measure

A consultant visits with samples, measures every opening precisely and advises on fabric, openness and motorisation.

03

Written quote, per window

Itemised, honest, with lead times stated upfront. No obligation, no pressure calls.

04

Made to order & fitted

Manufactured to your exact openings and installed cleanly by our own team, with a demo before we leave.

Money, before you ask: as a rough planning band, shading around Irene falls between R1,000 and R7,500 the square metre of blind, fitted, with the product and the drive deciding where. Small windows carry a minimum, and the real number for each opening comes out of the measure, on paper.

About this service

What we actually are, plainly put.

Irene Blinds is a measuring, making and fitting service for windows in Irene and the Centurion suburbs beside it — Cornwall Hill, Southdowns Estate, Raslouw and Eldoraigne. Roller blinds, timber and aluminium venetians, cellular honeycomb blinds and folding-arm awnings are all built to the sizes taken off your own openings, because a village fanlight and an estate glass wall have nothing in common except the family living behind them.

How an enquiry runs: you send the form or open the chat, and one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to set up a free in-home measure. That visit is where the work happens — every opening measured, fabrics and slats held against your own glass, controls chosen room by room. Afterwards you get a written quote itemised per window, and nothing goes into production until you say so. Then it is made to those measurements and fitted by our installers.

The details you give us are used to arrange that call-back and nothing else, handled under POPIA.

Where we work

Irene first. The neighbours too.

Cornwall Hill→ Southdowns Estate→ Raslouw→ Eldoraigne→

Before you book — free to read

The Irene Window Field Guide

We wrote the guide we wish every Irene homeowner had before ringing a blind company: what the Highveld light actually does to each elevation, and which product suits which window — heritage sash to estate glass wall — with the honest trade-offs both ways. No brochure, no hard sell.

Read the field guide →
  • The light here — sun path, high-altitude UV and the afternoon storm season, and what each means for north, west and east windows.
  • Room by room — our pick for every elevation, and when the cheaper option is actually the right one.
  • Then two ways forward — a free expert measure, or a two-minute ballpark you can send us first.

Questions

Asked at almost every measure.

Do you fit blinds on heritage sash and fanlight windows?+

Yes — deep-set frames and slightly uneven openings are exactly what the free in-home measure is for. We measure each window individually rather than assuming a standard size, and recommend inside or outside mount based on the actual recess depth.

Can you shade a stoep or veranda without building a permanent roof?+

That's what a folding-arm awning does — it retracts into a cassette when you don't need it and drops down for shade over the veranda without posts or a permanent structure. A full cassette handles dust and weather better on an exposed elevation.

Will exterior shading pass Cornwall Hill or Southdowns' design guidelines?+

We specify clean profiles and estate-appropriate colours, and can supply the product documentation most owners' committees ask for. Well-specified exterior systems are approved routinely in estates like these.

What actually helps with the highveld's sudden afternoon storms?+

Motorised awnings and roller shutters fitted with a wind sensor auto-retract before a gust or hailstorm reaches them. The honest answer is that manual, un-sensored exterior products are the ones that end up damaged.

Are your blinds safe for small children?+

Chain tensioners are fitted as standard on anything corded, and we'll steer nurseries and kids' rooms toward wand-tilt, cordless or motorised options with nothing dangling within reach.

What does the quote cost?+

Nothing. The in-home measure, the fabric samples, the consultation and the written per-window quote are all free, with no obligation.

Ready when you are

Your windows, measured this week.

Send the form and one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange your free in-home measure.

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Get your quote

Free measure.
Written quote.
Zero pressure.

Tell us a little about the windows — old wing or new addition. A consultant calls you back, arranges a time that suits you, and arrives with samples you can judge in your own light.

We use these details only to contact you about your enquiry (POPIA). No marketing lists, no sharing.