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Finishing Touches SA: Helping South Africans Feel at Home Since 2005

Pretoria: For over two decades, Finishing Touches SA has been the brand South Africans turn to when they want their home to finally feel like theirs — bringing warmth, style, and genuine care to every window they dress.

About Finishing Touches SA

Every beautiful home has a story. For Finishing Touches SA, that story began in 2005 in Centurion — with a simple but powerful belief: that every South African deserves a space that feels like theirs. What started as a local window décor manufacturer has grown into one of the country’s most trusted home décor brands, serving homes and offices from Cape Town to Limpopo.

For over 20 years, the team at Finishing Touches SA has woken up every morning asking the same question: how do we help our customers fall in love with their space? That question drives everything — from the products they design to the way they answer a WhatsApp message.

Our Brand Mission

Great interior design should not be a luxury reserved for the few. Finishing Touches SA was built on the belief that with the right guidance and the right products, anyone can create a home that is warm, beautiful, and unmistakably their own. The team doesn’t just sell blinds and curtains — they help people feel proud of where they live.

Whether a customer is dressing their first apartment, refreshing a family home, or fitting out a new office, the Finishing Touches SA team walks alongside them — offering real advice, flexible options, and a genuine care for getting it right.

What We Offer

Window Treatments — Where It All Begins

  • Venetian Blinds — aluminium and PVC options in multiple colours and sizes
  • Roller Blinds — block out, sheer, and day-night fabric options for every mood and room
  • Ready-Made Curtains — eyelet, taped, and wave styles, including the luxurious Stuart Graham range
  • Custom-Made Blinds — cut and crafted to your exact window dimensions
  • Window Shutters — sliding, hinged, bi-fold, wood, vinyl, and aluminium security shutters

Curtain Hardware — The Details That Make the Difference

  • Curtain Rods and Poles — 16mm through 34mm ranges in finishes to suit every style
  • Curtain Tracks and Pelmets — steel, aluminium, and pelmet-track combinations
  • Accessories — holdbacks, tiebacks, hooks, and rings to complete the look

Home Décor — Because a Home is More Than Its Windows

  • Wallpaper, wall panels, cornicing, skirtings, and mirrors
  • Rugs, luxury linen, towels, and made-to-measure headboards

Innovation Spotlight: The Trim-to-Fit Service

The Trim-to-Fit Blind service was born out of a real customer frustration: why should getting the perfect fit cost a fortune? Finishing Touches SA answered that question by offering to professionally trim ready-made blinds to a customer’s exact window measurements — delivering the precision of a bespoke product at a ready-made price. It’s the kind of thoughtful, practical solution that comes from listening to people.

Meet DesignSpace — Your Personal Online Stylist

Choosing the right blind for your space can feel overwhelming. That’s exactly why Finishing Touches SA created DesignSpace, an interactive online blinds visualizer that lets you preview styles, colours, and designs in a real-life room setting — before you spend a cent. Think of it as having a patient, knowledgeable friend on call, ready to help you see your home’s potential.

Why Our Customers Keep Coming Back

  • A genuine team who cares — free style consultations available via WhatsApp, always answered by a real person
  • Over 20 years of proudly South African manufacturing expertise
  • Nationwide delivery, with free shipping on orders over R1,000
  • Flexible payment options including Mobicred, PayJustNow, TymeBank, SnapScan, and major cards
  • Regular promotions, clearance deals, and subscriber-exclusive flash sales — because affordability matters

Contact & Connect

  • Website: www.finishingtouchessa.co.za
  • Phone: +27 12 664 4825
  • WhatsApp: 078 095 0055
  • Email: enquiries@finishingtouchessa.co.za
  • Address: 1003 Ergon Factory Park, Ergon Road, Centurion, 0157
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Ponte City: Transformation

As the “white flight” of the 1980s and 90s drained the inner city of capital, Ponte City underwent a dramatic and terrifying transformation. By the late 1990s, the building had become a “vertical slum” and a symbol of urban decay. It was famously “hijacked” by gangs; the retail levels were stripped, and the building became a fortress for drug dealing and human trafficking. The most haunting image from this era was the central core. Originally designed to be a light-filled courtyard, it became a literal trash heap. Residents on the upper floors would throw their refuse into the center of the building rather than taking it down. At its worst point, the trash in the core reached five stories high—a mountain of rotting debris, discarded furniture, and even, legend has it, the remains of those who had fallen or jumped.

During this period, the reputation of Ponte was so toxic that there was a serious proposal in 1998 to turn the entire skyscraper into a vertical prison. The plan was eventually scrapped, but the building remained a “no-go zone” for nearly a decade. The turnaround began in the mid-2000s when developers New Metro Property Group and later Dlala Nje began a massive, painstaking refurbishment. They cleared out the tons of trash from the core, restored the lifts (which had often been out of order, forcing residents to climb 50 flights of stairs), and implemented strict security protocols.