Landmark stands, and the apartments rising around them.
Houghton Estate sits east of Melrose and carries some of the highest per-square-metre values anywhere in Johannesburg — a mix of established landmark homes and a growing number of newer apartment developments near the golf course.
What homes here are like
Houghton's older stands are large, established and often architecturally significant — the kind of property where shading decisions get made room by room, with real attention to how each window performs. Alongside them, newer apartment and golf-estate-adjacent developments have brought a second, very different brief: compact, glass-forward units with the same big-window requirements we see throughout Melrose Arch.
Which products suit Houghton Estate
For the established homes, timber venetian blinds tend to suit the more traditional window proportions, while cellular/honeycomb blinds are worth considering on any room carrying real heat load — the insulating air-cell structure helps in both directions, hot Highveld afternoons and cold winter mornings alike. For the newer apartments, it's the same brief as Melrose Arch: roller blinds, day/night blinds and motorised control on the bigger glass.
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