Illovo is a mix of established freestanding homes, low-rise apartment blocks and secure cluster developments — smaller, more efficient floorplans than the mansion belt next door, but the same demand for a clean, considered finish. Balcony sliders and street-facing living rooms are the two window types we see most.
Sunscreen and blockout roller blinds are the practical, high-volume answer for apartment and cluster glazing — quick to specify, easy to keep clean, and available in a fabric range that suits a rental unit or an owner-occupied apartment equally well. Where a bathroom or kitchen window needs something moisture-proof, aluminium venetian blinds are the standard call.
For owners who want the whole apartment on one remote, motorised control retrofits cleanly with a battery motor — no wiring, no electrician required.
Illovo's street-frontage glazing on the Oxford Road side is far more exposed than the garden-facing windows on the quieter residential streets, and the two want different fabrics. We published everything we know about this suburb's sun in The Hyde Park Light Almanac — the December and June sun angles, which elevations suffer and when, what we'd specify on each with the honest trade-off both ways, and the five things only an on-site measure can settle. It is free, ungated and sourced. If you'd rather have a rough number first, the window ledger at the foot of it turns your own rough sizes into a budget range by the next working day.
Body corporate or estate rules sometimes apply to exterior appearance in cluster developments — worth mentioning at your free measure so the specification is approved-ready from the start.
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