One blind, two moods
Privacy-with-light, hour by hour
Day & night blinds — also called zebra blinds — run alternating sheer and solid horizontal bands on a single loop. Align the bands and light filters through softly; offset them and the window goes near-solid. It's the current favourite for living rooms, dining rooms and studies, and it earns its keep on Waverley's street-facing windows in particular: you get to keep an eye on the garden and the street through the day, then close the bands down for privacy once the lights go on inside, without a heavier blockout blind shutting the room off completely.
The look is clean and contemporary, and the fabric range runs from light-filtering through to semi-blockout bands, so the same product can lean casual or formal depending on what the room needs. It's worth being straight about the limits, too: even fully offset, day & night fabric isn't true blockout — light still seeps at the band edges — so a main bedroom that needs proper dark is better served by a blockout roller or a layered combination of the two.
What day & night blinds cost here
Guides, per square metre installed: a chain-driven day & night blind prices at R1,300 to R2,000, lighter filtering bands cheapest and semi-blockout band fabrics under a cassette head dearest. Motorised, once tube motor and control are counted, the guide is R2,800 to R4,000.
They price a little above a plain roller for a straightforward reason: twice as much fabric on the tube, and a banded weave that costs more per running metre than single-layer blockout. Narrow windows attract a minimum, because hardware and labour barely shrink with the opening. Your figure for each window is worked out at the free measure and put in writing before anything is ordered.