Blinds and shading for Simon’s Town

What homes here are like

Naval heritage, not beach-house glass

Simon’s Town reads completely differently to Kommetjie despite sitting on the same Peninsula. It’s a working naval harbour town on False Bay rather than the open Atlantic, so the water is calmer — but the salt air isn’t any less real for it. Victorian and naval-heritage architecture dominates the older streets: tall sash windows, deep window reveals, timber frames with real history in them, and a harbour-town character that puts heritage considerations front and centre in a way Kommetjie’s dune-conservation rules simply don’t.

Where Kommetjie’s big questions are wind and dune-boundary rules, Simon’s Town’s are heritage overlay and window authenticity — a sash window wants a product that respects its proportions and doesn’t swallow the frame, and a period property sometimes has a heritage body with a view on what goes up outside it.

What suits a Simon’s Town spec

• Sunscreen roller blinds fitted neatly inside a sash window's reveal, keeping the harbour view while cutting glare off False Bay.
• Timber or aluminium venetian blinds where a period room's proportions suit a tilt-slat look over a flat roller.
• Salt-air-rated hardware on every exterior product — False Bay is calmer water than the Atlantic side, not less salty air.
• Heritage-conscious fittings that don’t obscure a period frame — we flag anything worth checking with a heritage body before ordering.

We measure and fit right across Simon’s Town, from the harbour-front streets to the hillside above — same consultant, same written-quote process, same free measure we run in Kommetjie.