The easier question is probably when not to choose roller blinds in your home! Seriously, it’s not without good reason that roller blinds in South Africa are the preferred choice. It is the ability of roller blinds to create different effects with a single tug of the drawstring that makes them a designer favourite.
We know you have sass and class, so we are going to explore how your choice of roller blinds improves your home décor, inside and out. After this, you will know for sure when to choose roller blinds and why.
When Money Counts – Choose Roller Blinds
Even among the jet-set, where money matters less than for most, roller blinds supply more than just window dressing.
Renowned chef Julia Childs chose roller blinds that become part of the room feature thanks to her not fearing lovely patterns and stripes.
Known for her impeccable taste, Sharon Osborne developed a stunning neutral palette with her drop-down roller blinds and soft furnishings.
So consider yourself in good company. At the same time, choosing roller blinds will undoubtedly be one of the most affordable window-covering options.
Roller blinds can be put into service to give you the light control and privacy you need in any room. And they will save you the reams of material needed for curtaining. You can totally get away with dummy drapes on either side of the window if the minimalist, clean look of roller blinds still leaves you aching for softer lines and volume.
When Thermal Performance Counts – Choose Roller Blinds
This area is likely one of the most significant reasons for roller blinds in a country like South Africa. Our sunny skies are a tourist attraction and a national treasure but our indoor conditions need to be conducive to work.
Our homes often have huge windows with panoramic views but from an energy-efficient perspective, they are a weak link in the picture. Minimising heat gain in the summer months will save you running your air conditioning at full tilt.
You’ll be surprised at the thermal performance roller blind fabrics provide. Sure, it’s a bit of a de-facto double glazing system, but if it works, why argue?
And vice versa, you may wish to retain the indoor heat you crank up in the cold winter months, especially at night, so that everyone sleeps warm and cosy. Once again your thermal roller blinds can save 40% of your home energy from being lost out of the windows.
When Sound Counts – Choose Roller Blinds
Not to be underestimated is the choice of fabrics for roller blinds. You get that nothing keeps sound out completely, but we’re talking noisy neighbourhoods and significant noise reduction here.
Thick and awesomely durable materials both reflect and absorb noise pollution. No joke. Consider using them in the garage or the den if your kids want to start a boy band!
If you need peace and quiet in your study, choose roller blinds and you’ll get that wonderfully muted feel of a plush hotel room.
If you’re not a sound sleeper – pun intended – block out unwanted sound with roller blinds so that your beauty sleep becomes a reality. What if you are a night-shift worker and need to sleep during the day? Roller blinds will not only block out the noisy world outside but will fool you into thinking it’s nighttime.
Even if you’ve already installed curtains in the bedrooms, adding snug-fitting roller blinds will be worth it. And besides, they will enhance the décor. Your roller blind experts will supply the vision you need if your creativity fails you.
When Optical Illusions Count – Choose Roller Blinds
Just when you thought ‘it can’t be’, it’s time to let you in on a decorator’s trade secret. When you need small rooms to appear more spacious and roomy, roller blinds will create that illusion for you.
Available in light colours (even if you need it backed with blackout fabric) and plain fabrics, you can choose roller blinds to match the walls and give the eye that unbroken horizon impression.
Conversely, you may have huge rooms that feel hollow and empty. Enter the roller blind illusionist feature of large patterns and designs. Blinds done in nature-style prints can resemble green forests, country gardens, or row upon row of bamboo.
Vertical stripes create the impression of height while horizontal lines develop the depth of a room. Play around with your inner designer and you’ll see how amazing each room in your home can be just because you understood the versatility of today’s roller blinds.
When Streetside Views Count – Choose Roller Blinds
For aesthetic reasons, many homeowner associations and controlling bodies require street-facing window treatments to be white or neutral shades. That way, from the outside, complexes and buildings don’t resemble a flea market.
That need not dictate what you want the blinds to look like on the inside, it just means, lining them with white. The lining is a plus either way. It protects your main fabric from sun damage and adds just enough weight to keep your blinds looking high-end.
Should you require a more sheer, transparent blind for daytime when the sun is not a direct factor, you can always get clever and install dual blinds! We kid you not! Think of it. You have one blind for light and a view of the world outside and another behind it to drop when you need privacy.
When Unified Design Counts – Choose Roller Blinds
The need for unified harmony throughout a home is not dissimilar to the optical illusions and street-side requirements that roller blinds afford. In cases where a person is after the monotones of a zen-like rice paper effect, roller blinds can achieve that super-calming backdrop to an entire home.
The tranquillity of this décor intention is undisturbed by guiding home dwellers subliminally from light tones to darker shades by tempering each room one shade deeper. Matching the floor tiles or covering similarly generates an amazing adhesiveness and a relief from the business of the sights of the city streets.
A similar intention can be achieved using any shade that finds continuation in every room. In some homes, black is the magic colour wanted throughout. Is black actually a colour? Technically not, apparently. They say black and white are shades. Perfectly suitable for blinds then!
Because the whole idea is to create a singular backdrop, most people are unaware that the colour scheme is on a unified spectrum, as opposed to drawing attention to your blinds as patterns and designs do.
Choose Automated Roller Blinds
Ah, we had to get you here because while one might boast that the ambience in a room can be instantly changed just with the tug of a cord that drops a roller blind, automation makes it even showier. Automation certainly affords greater operational convenience for the user in any case.
Say you’re in a conference call and suddenly the sun breaks through the clouds and floods your room with the kind of spotlight that shows up every flaw in your skin and that annoying balding spot that’s developing. No sweat! You just grab your remote and drop the blinds. Problem solved. And all because you sensibly chose roller blinds. Congratulations.
Should you need to know more about roller blinds, their cost, and how to fit them, you are always welcome to contact us.