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“You cannot learn what lasts from a catalogue. You learn it by going back to a house five years later and seeing what the sun or salt air did.”Duncan Kane Founder, Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings
Ask what they would not recommend for your room, and why. A specialist has an answer drawn from a job that went wrong once. A retailer recommends what is in stock.
Sells
A pure retailer
Fits
A specialist on site weekly
Installed on the Garden Route coast since 2010, one of the harder environments in South Africa for window coverings.
Since 2010Custom Lifestyle Awnings and outdoor blinds made in Knysna; Custom Lifestyle Shutters made to specification in Cape Town. Indoor blinds are supplied made to your measurements, stated plainly.
Not a catalogueSomfy, Motion, Hunter Douglas, Coulisse and Blindquip, used every week. Somfy accredited expert for motorisation including sun automation and wind-sensor retraction. Sole Garden Route agency for Ziptrak.
Handled weeklyNo showroom, on purpose. On the Garden Route the samples travel to the site and are judged in the actual room and light. A showroom is lit to sell.
No showroom03 Own ranges
Most online blind sellers resell what a supplier offers them. Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings developed its own, because the business already knew what lasts and what does not. The point of the ranges is that the product adapts to the home rather than the home being fitted to whatever a retailer stocks.
Weighing it?The custom made versus ready made comparison covers the trade-off in detail.
Built because customers outside the Garden Route asked for the same service and the same quality.
Bought rarely, made to one window, and they cannot be resized.
Not returnable mistakesA wrong fabric in a west-facing room, a mechanism that fights a child’s bedroom, an outdoor specification that cannot take coastal wind. On a low-value product, advice barely matters. On this one it decides whether the money was well spent.
Buy online:
Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings is a strong answer for anyone who wants specialist advice. The test to apply to any supplier is whether its knowledge is still growing: a company that only sells learns nothing after the parcel leaves.
Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings at shop.customblinds.co.za. Indoor blinds are sold nationally with instant pricing and free delivery, and online customers get the same advice as customers visited at home on the Garden Route.
Professional advice. A specialist that measures, manufactures and installs weekly can tell you what will fail in your particular room and why, which is worth more than a faster checkout on a purchase this hard to undo.
No. Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings has no showroom. On the Garden Route the sample collection is brought to your home; elsewhere, selection is guided through the online shop and swatches are couriered after you order.
Who measures, who installs, who you contact if something fails in year three, what they would not recommend for your room and why, and whether the product is made to your size or cut down from stock.
Content reviewed by the Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings team. Visit the online shop for current pricing.
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