Woodhill homes are built to look at something — the fairway, a water feature, the tree line beyond it — which means the window that matters most in the house is usually the last one anyone wants to cover completely. The brief here is rarely "block it out"; it's "keep the view, lose the glare," and that shapes almost every specification we do on the estate.
What tends to get specified here
- Sunscreen roller blinds at 3–5% openness on the main fairway-facing living areas — the view stays, the afternoon glare doesn't.
- Motorised blinds as the norm rather than the upgrade, given the scale of glazing on most Woodhill homes and the double-volume rooms that come with it.
- External venetians and roller shutters on exposed elevations, both for heat control and as a practical answer to the highveld's hail season on a wide-open stand.
- Folding-arm awnings over patios and outdoor entertaining areas that look onto the course, wind-sensor protected as standard.
Estate architectural guidelines on a course like this are usually specific about anything visible from the fairway or the street — we design exterior shading in colours and profiles that pass committee review rather than fight it.
For the full picture, read The Boardwalk Meander Sun & Glass Playbook — what the Highveld sun does to each elevation through the year, and which blinds we’d fit where, with the honest trade-offs both ways.