Old-money stands, architect-grade glass.
Dunkeld sits just west of Melrose across Jan Smuts Avenue — established, leafy, and home to some of the more significant renovation and rebuild projects in the northern suburbs. We treat it as part of our core patch.
What homes here are like
Dunkeld's large stands and older street grid mean a lot of our work is renovation rather than new build — but the renovations here tend to be serious ones. Architects are frequently involved, frameless glass and double-volume openings are common, and the finish level is high. It's the kind of brief where shading has to be designed in, not bolted on afterwards.
Alongside the grand renovations, Dunkeld also has a good spread of smaller clusters and townhouses closer to the Melrose and Hyde Park boundaries, where the brief is more straightforward — made-to-measure roller blinds and day/night blinds fitted cleanly to standard openings.
Which products suit Dunkeld
For architect-designed and heavily renovated homes with frameless glass or double-volume glazing, concealed & recessed blinds are worth raising at the drawing-board stage — the fabric drops from a slim ceiling slot and the window reads completely clean when raised. The earlier we're involved, the cleaner that result.
For character rooms that lean more classic than modern, timber venetian blinds often suit the period detailing better than a plain roller. And on any wide or high glazing that a chain simply can't reach comfortably, motorised control is close to essential rather than a luxury add-on.
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