Custom Blinds in Varca: Roller, Zebra & Wooden

A Varca villa is furnished to a higher standard than a holiday flat, and it is tempting to ask for wooden blinds to match. Near this open, breezy beach, real wood is the wrong material: salt damp warps the slats and the steel in ordinary mechanisms rusts. Faux-wood venetians give the same lines and are unaffected, and coated roller fabrics wipe clean of the salt film that settles on everything. Every head rail should be aluminium, and every chain and bracket plastic or stainless. Garden-facing glazing is usually too wide for one blind and takes several, and motorising that many on one switch is sensible. On verandas, clear PVC monsoon blinds keep the furniture dry through the wet months.

• Garden-side and pool-side villa living rooms: a bank of sunscreen rollers split at the door frames and worked from one switch.
• Let bedrooms: chain-operated blackout rollers on stainless brackets, where a single damaged blind can be changed between guests.
• Verandas of houses near the church: see-through PVC blinds dropped for the wet season on aluminium fittings, raised again once the rains pass.