Blockout, sunscreen and double roller blinds for fairway-facing glass

Sunscreen — the fairway-view fabric

Most Blue Valley living rooms and main bedrooms face the fairway or a water feature, and the last thing anyone wants is to lose that view behind a solid blind every afternoon. Sunscreen mesh fabrics (openness factors around 3–10%) cut glare and UV load while keeping the outlook intact — the lower the openness percentage, the more heat and glare they stop, at the cost of a slightly softer view. On the biggest west- and north-facing glass on the estate, we generally specify a tighter weave; on side glass with less direct sun, a more open weave keeps things brighter.

One honest trade-off worth knowing: sunscreen gives you daytime privacy but works in reverse once the sun goes down — with the lights on inside, the fabric becomes see-through from outside. It's exactly why bedrooms on the estate usually get paired with a second layer.

Blockout — for bedrooms, media rooms and clubhouse-lit evenings

Full light stop, plus a genuine thermal benefit as an insulating layer against summer heat and winter chill. On Blue Valley stands close to the clubhouse or floodlit fairway sections, blockout is what actually gets a bedroom properly dark after sunset — sunscreen alone won't do it once the outside lighting comes on.

Double roller (day & night)

The practical answer for a view-facing bedroom: sunscreen and blockout fabrics on one bracket, so you run whichever the hour calls for — open to the fairway during the day, fully dark once the estate's lights are on. It's the single most requested combination we fit here.

Control and finish

Chain control comes with a wall tensioner as standard for child safety; spring-assist and motorised options (see our motorisation page) suit wider or harder-to-reach glass. Cassette pelmets hide the tube and can be colour-matched to your frames, and on spans wider than around 3m of fabric we'll discuss a central join or a motorised, linked pair rather than forcing one oversized blind.