Blinds for Home Offices, Schemes and Show Houses in Midstream

Midstream is first of all a family estate, so the working windows we see here are mostly home offices, the shared face of a townhouse or apartment scheme, and new houses being finished for sale. Each has its own brief, and each is measured and quoted the same way as a home.

The home office

A south-facing room has the steadiest light in the house, which is why so many people on the estate put a desk there. Its weakness is heat loss through the glass in winter, and a cellular blind deals with that while softening the daylight. An office on the west side has the opposite problem: glare across the screen from three o'clock. There a sunscreen roller, set on a schedule, takes the glare away and leaves the view of the garden.

Cellular honeycomb blinds →

Townhouse, cluster and apartment schemes

Midstream's stands include clusters, townhouses and apartments as well as freestanding houses, and in a shared building the windows are read together from the street. Trustees can agree one fabric, one backing colour and one headrail finish for visible glass, and owners then order to that at their own measure. Anything that shows on the outside goes through the estate's aesthetic approval; we specify colours and profiles accordingly and supply the documentation owners typically submit.

Developers and show houses

A new build arrives as blank walls of glass. For a show house, or a home being finished for handover in Raslouw or Copperleaf, it pays to plan the whole house at once: sunscreen on the living glass, blockout in the bedrooms, cassette headrails matched to the frames, and motors wired in while the ceilings are open. Buyers then see the rooms as they will be lived in.

Raslouw → →

Rooms where clients are seen

If you consult, teach or treat from a room at home, privacy has to hold at every hour without turning the room into a cave. A day/night blind does that on a street-facing window in the townhouse and cluster sections, and a blockout roller suits any room that needs to be darkened for a screen. Linking the blinds to one handset means the room can be reset between appointments in a few seconds.

Day and night blinds →

Reviewed November 2026 for Midstream.