Roller blinds for Newlands' heritage sash windows.

Blockout, sunscreen, or both on one bracket

Roller blinds answer most windows in most Newlands homes precisely because the fabric choice does the work. Blockout gives a bedroom or media room total dark against the low winter light this slope gets. Sunscreen fabric — usually 3% or 5% openness — cuts glare on the rare full-sun afternoon while keeping the oak canopy or forest edge clearly in view.

Where a room needs both — a forest-facing bedroom is the classic case here — a double roller pairs sunscreen and blockout on one bracket. Sunscreen by day keeps the canopy in the window; blockout closes the room down properly once the light's gone, which through a Newlands winter is early.

• Blockout fabric for total dark in bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms
• Sunscreen fabric (3%, 5% or 10% openness) keeps the view while cutting glare
• Double roller (day & night) combines both on one bracket for forest-facing bedrooms
• Chain control with child-safe tensioners, spring-assist, or fully motorised
• Cassette pelmets to hide the tube, fascia colour-matched to your window frames

Built for a climate that rarely dries out

Newlands sits on one of the wettest slopes in the country, so hardware gets specified with that first, not as an afterthought. Chains and brackets are corrosion-resistant as standard, and fabric choices lean moisture-tolerant in rooms that stay cold and under-ventilated through winter. On original sash windows we fix into the reveal rather than the sash itself wherever the opening allows it, so nothing about the existing joinery is altered.