One blind, two moods
Alternating sheer and solid bands run on a single loop, letting you tune a room hour by hour rather than choosing open or shut. Align the bands for filtered light and a soft view of the street; offset them for near-solid coverage once the porch light goes on and the room behind the glass becomes the more visible side of the window.
Where it earns its keep in Rondebosch
Dining rooms and front lounges facing a pavement that sees real foot traffic on the school run are the classic brief here — privacy-with-light rather than curtains that either block the oak-lined view completely or don't block anything at all. It's also a favourite for a bay window that wants to keep its character rather than disappear behind a solid roller.
The honest limitation
Even fully offset, a zebra blind isn't true blockout — light still seeps at the band edges. A nursery or a shift-worker's bedroom wanting real dark is better served by a blockout roller or a cellular blind, and we'll say so at the measure rather than sell the wrong product for the room.
It suits a particular kind of window rather than every window. The full-height glazing on Claremont's Main Road balconies wants exactly this privacy-with-light compromise once the street below gets busy, and on the forest-shaded frontages in Newlands the alternating bands do a similar job — softening what's already a low-light, tree-filtered view rather than shutting it out completely.
It's the one blind in the range built to change its mind twice a day — open for the school run, closed by the time the streetlights come on.
On-site measure, Rondebosch- Alternating sheer and solid fabric bands on one loop
- Aligned for filtered light and a view, offset for near-solid coverage
- Standard roller hardware — chain or motorised, cassette optional
- Not true blockout even fully offset — ask about a blockout roller for bedrooms
- Sweet spot: lounges, dining rooms, street-facing windows
What a day/night blind costs
Two fabrics on one tube put a day/night blind a step above a plain roller. Installed figures per square metre: R1,300 to R2,000 with a chain, R2,800 to R4,000 once motorised. Band width, a cassette to hide the roll and a semi-blockout fabric all push a particular window towards the upper figure in its band.
Small windows are billed at a minimum, since the hardware and the fitting visit cost the same whatever the size, and on a shallow Edwardian reveal a face-fixed cassette is often the right call rather than forcing an inside mount. Your exact per-window figure follows the free measure and comes in writing.
Street-facing window that needs both?
We come to you, measure at no cost, and send a written quote line by line per window.
