Custom Blinds · Made in Knysna since 2010

The heat breaks the moment the shade arrives

A February afternoon on the Garden Route. The table is set, the glasses are cold, and a canvas canopy slides silently over your patio. Nothing touches the ground. Nothing blocks the view.

You know the moment. Lunch outside, sun at its worst, everyone angling their chairs toward a strip of wall shadow. The patio you paid for, unusable at the exact hour you want it.

This page has no prices. Only the feeling.

Retractable awning cassette extended over a lagoon-view patio at sunset
The evening the patio comes back

Two aluminium arms swing out like elbows, cables inside them under constant tension. The canvas stays drum-tight at any extension. No posts. No pergola. No flapping. When it retracts, your view of the water is exactly as the architect intended.

Underside of a folding arm awning showing the articulated aluminium arms under tension, Custom Blinds installation
The arms, under tension · A Custom Blinds installation

And when the afternoon southeaster picks up, you do nothing. A wind sensor on the roof feels the gusts and the awning quietly brings itself in, folds flat, and waits. It protects itself while you are still at the table.

Folding arm awning extended over a timber coastal deck
Full projection · Nothing touching the deck
6.5m
of unsupported span. Wide enough to cover a full entertainment patio with nothing standing between you and the garden.
3.5m
of projection outward from the wall. A whole dining table, the chairs, and the drinks trolley, all in shade.
15yrs
of colour in the canvas. Solution-dyed marine-grade acrylic, cut and sewn in our own Knysna workshop for salt air and coastal sun.
0db
is roughly what you hear. A Somfy tubular motor inside the roller, so the only sound of shade arriving is the conversation continuing.

Your patio, back in use at the exact hour you want it.

Duncan or one of our installers visits your home, measures the wall, reads the wind exposure, and specifies the awning for your exact site. The written quote follows within days. The canvas is made in Knysna. The crew that installs it is ours.

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Knysna · Plettenberg Bay · George · Sedgefield · Mossel Bay · Buffalo Bay · Wilderness

Thousands
Installations
2010
Established
20+
Years Garden Route
100%
Independent

Custom Blinds® is a Garden Route window covering specialist established in 2010, serving Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, George, and surrounding areas. We custom design and install folding arm, louvre, fall arm, wedge and patio shade awnings, with canvas cut and made in our own Knysna workshop, and supply roller blinds, honeycomb blinds, venetian blinds, and no-drill blinds nationally via shop.customblinds.co.za.