Parktown North shares Forest Town's tree-lined character but leans more family and renovation-heavy — smaller stands worked hard, extensions toward the garden, and a steady stream of homes being brought back to life one room at a time.
Free handbook — Under the Canopy: what the highveld sun does to a house on this ridge, elevation by elevation
Parktown North is dense with character — narrow-fronted homes on tree-lined streets, close enough to walk to the local shops and cafés, and a large share of the housing stock mid-renovation at any given time. It's a family suburb in the practical sense: kitchens opened up, living rooms extended toward small but well-used gardens, kids' rooms that need a blind that's genuinely safe as well as good-looking.
Because so many homes here are being renovated rather than left untouched, there's more appetite for a clean, contemporary product mix alongside the odd original sash window worth keeping — a different balance to the fully heritage-preserved streets closer to Forest Town's core.
Privacy-with-light for open-plan living areas close to the street and the shops.
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For the front rooms and original sash windows worth keeping through a renovation.
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Making the most of a smaller but well-used patio, retracting when it's not needed.
ExploreWith young families in the mix, we always flag child-safe operation on this street — wall tensioners as standard on any corded or chained blind, and cordless or motorised options recommended for nurseries and kids' rooms specifically.
Free in-home measure, a written quote per window, fitted by hand.