Blinds and shading for Kalk Bay

What homes here are like

Small windows, real history, harbour salt

Kalk Bay is a working harbour village of small-footprint Victorian fisherman’s cottages, most of them stacked tight on a narrow strip of land squeezed between the railway line and False Bay itself. Rooms tend to be compact, windows are often original and narrow rather than architect-scaled, and the harbour character carries real heritage weight — this is one of the Peninsula’s most photographed streets, and the fittings on a cottage here get noticed.

The proximity to the water is a different kind of proximity to Kommetjie’s: no dune belt buffering the village, boats and harbour operations right at the bottom of the garden in some cases, and salt air arriving more or less directly off the bay onto every exterior surface in the village, whatever the elevation.

What suits a Kalk Bay spec

• Aluminium venetian blinds, made to measure for narrow historic window openings that a standard-width roller doesn’t always suit.
• Bespoke made-to-measure fitting generally, since original cottage window sizes rarely match a standard catalogue width.
• Marine-grade exterior hardware as standard, not an upgrade — harbour-adjacent salt exposure here is about as direct as it gets on the Peninsula.
• Heritage-sensitive fittings that respect an original frame rather than covering it over.

We measure and fit right across Kalk Bay, cottage by cottage — same consultant, same written-quote process, same free measure we run in Kommetjie.