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Light steered by hand, from a heritage sash window to a coastal bathroom
Timber and aluminium venetians, made to measure — the one interior blind that adjusts light by degree rather than by on or off, which is why it suits the province's oldest windows as well as its steamiest.
Timber, for the windows that predate the glass-box era
Wide 50mm timber slats are the natural fit on a Cape Dutch werf's sash windows or a City Bowl Victorian's original frames — real material against real material, and slats that tilt open for daylight or closed for full privacy without changing the character of a room a fitted roller cassette would flatten. On any gable older than 60 years, Section 34 of the National Heritage Resources Act means Heritage Western Cape sign-off before a fixing method changes the frame — we confirm this before ordering, not after.
Aluminium, for the rooms fabric and timber don't survive
Slim 25mm aluminium slats handle steam in a kitchen or bathroom and salt air near any of the province's coastlines without the swelling, warping or corrosion timber and untreated fixings eventually show. It's the same adjustability argument in a harder-wearing material — tilt for glare-free daylight, close flat for privacy from a neighbouring window.
In the Cape Town Metro & Peninsula, aluminium venetians are the default in any bathroom or kitchen within reach of sea spray, powder-coated against the salt.
In the Cape Winelands, timber venetians are usually the better character match on an established werf's sash windows — provided the fixing method clears heritage sign-off first.
A roller is open or shut by degree; a venetian steers where the light actually goes — the difference matters most on a room with hour-by-hour sun.
On-site measure, Western Cape- Timber, 50mm slats, for heritage and character homes
- Aluminium, 25mm slats, for kitchens, bathrooms and coastal salt air
- Heritage Western Cape sign-off confirmed on gables older than 60 years
- Tilt for daylight, close for privacy, at any height on the window
- External aluminium venetians available for hard west or north elevations
Venetian pricing across the province
Slat material sets the band before the region does. Take aluminium first: 25mm or 50mm slats work out at R1,000 through to R1,500 for every square metre fitted by wand and cord, or R2,500 through to R3,600 with a motor doing the work. Timber runs R1,600 to R2,600 per square metre hand-operated and R3,000 to R4,500 per square metre motorised — and on the coast or in a damp forest room, coated aluminium is the material that lasts, whatever the budget prefers.
These are guide bands rather than a quotation, and they hold across the province. A floor price applies to narrow windows, since the hardware and the labour do not shrink with the glass. Each window is costed one at a time after the measure and set down in writing.
A heritage window, or one that steams up every morning?
Nothing to pay for the measure, a written quotation per window afterwards, and no obligation.
