Custom Blinds in Colva: Roller, Zebra & Monsoon Blinds

Within a kilometre of Colva beach, any steel in a blind is on borrowed time. Brackets pit, chains seize and bottom bars leave rust lines on the fabric. Specify aluminium head rails and chains of stainless or plastic, and prefer PVC, faux-wood or coated polyester to real timber slats, which warp. For the holiday flats and guest rooms that make up so much of Colva, a chain-operated blackout roller is the workhorse: guests cannot do much harm to it, and a single blind is easily replaced before the next arrival. Sand gets indoors here, and it wipes off a roller far more readily than off slats. Balconies in the gated complexes can take clear PVC monsoon blinds.

• Bedrooms in holiday flats: blackout rollers on aluminium rails with stainless chains, in a neutral shade that suits any visitor.
• Hotel and guest-house rooms near the beach: faux-wood venetians or coated rollers, never real wood, which twists in the salt damp.
• Balconies of flats left empty in the monsoon: clear PVC blinds lowered so that monsoon rain does not soak the furniture.