Outdoor blinds & awnings in Edge Hill.

Heritage homes, careful fixing.

Edge Hill, sitting between the Cairns Botanic Gardens and the slopes up toward Whitfield, has one of the largest pockets of original timber Queenslanders in the city. These homes are beautiful but they need a careful hand. Fixing a folding arm awning or a cafe blind headbox to a hundred-year-old hardwood wall is a different job to drilling into modern block, and getting the fixing right matters both for the strength of the install and for the look of the house. We work to the structure rather than against it.

Shade and breeze, not a sealed box.

The classic Edge Hill verandah is built to catch the breeze coming down off the range. The brief here is usually about protecting that verandah from the wet-season rain and the harsh western afternoon sun without choking off the airflow that makes a Queenslander livable. A mix of clear PVC cafe blinds on the weather side and folding arm awnings over the western windows usually does it, keeping the home cooler without sealing it up.

Typical Edge Hill jobs.

• Clear PVC cafe blinds across a wrap-around Queenslander verandah
• Folding arm awnings over west-facing windows to cut the afternoon heat
• Insect-mesh drops for evening use near the gardens and the creek
• Battery-and-solar roller shutters retrofitted without intrusive cabling
• Ziptrak track blinds for renovated rear decks that catch the wind

What it costs.

A typical Edge Hill verandah enclosure with three clear PVC cafe blind drops runs around $2,400 to $3,400 supplied and installed. A pair of motorised folding arm awnings over western windows usually lands between $5,000 and $9,000. See the pricing guide for the full breakdown, or read our guide to choosing outdoor blinds.