Day/Night (Zebra) Blinds
Alternating sheer and solid bands on one continuous loop — one blind, tuned for however much light and privacy the moment needs.
Alternating sheer and solid bands on one continuous loop — one blind, tuned for however much light and privacy the moment needs.
Align the bands and you get filtered, even light through the sheer sections. Offset them and coverage runs near-solid. It’s one product doing the job of two, and it’s become the default we get asked for in open-plan living and dining areas across the estate belt, where a family wants to dial the light through the day without hauling the whole blind up and down.
The look suits the clean, contemporary lines that come standard in new Fourways builds, and the fabric range runs from light-filtering right through to semi-blockout bands, so the same product can flex from a study to a more privacy-focused street-facing lounge.
“Sheer plus blind, in one — the honest pitch for a family room that’s in use from breakfast to bedtime.”
Living rooms, dining areas, studies, and street- or complex-facing windows in the townhouse and cluster developments around Broadacres and Cedar Lakes, where privacy-with-light is the classic brief. Standard roller hardware underneath means the same chain, motorised or cassette options as any other roller blind, with inside or outside mount available.
Day/night blinds sit a step above a plain roller because there is twice the fabric on the tube. As a per-square-metre guide, installed: R1,300 to R2,000 for a chain-operated blind, and R2,800 to R4,000 once it is motorised. Band width, a cassette to hide the roll and a semi-blockout fabric all push a window towards the upper figure.
A small window — a scullery, a cloakroom, a narrow hallway pane — is charged at a minimum rather than by area, since the hardware and the fitting visit cost the same whatever the size. Your consultant confirms the exact number per window in writing after the free measure.
The classic complex-living answer for privacy-with-light, fitted just as often in the neighbouring townhouse and cluster developments.
