Day & Night Blinds

Alternating sheer and solid bands on one continuous loop — tune light and privacy hour by hour, without raising the whole blind.

One blind, two moods

Day and night blinds — often called zebra blinds — run horizontal sheer and solid fabric bands on a single loop. Align the bands and light filters through softly with a view still visible; offset them and the blind reads as near-solid. It's the current favourite for living rooms, studies and dining areas that face Hurlingham's gardens, because it answers the "privacy or view" question without forcing a choice.

It's worth being upfront about the limits, too: even fully offset, a little light seeps at the band edges, so a bedroom that needs true darkness is better served by a blockout roller, or a blockout-and-sheer combination. The sheer bands are also more delicate than solid fabric near curious hands and paws, and moisture-heavy rooms like steamy bathrooms suit aluminium venetians better.

Day and night blind with alternating sheer and solid bands over a kitchen window

Where it earns its place in a Hurlingham home

Open-plan living and dining rooms that face the garden are the classic fit — the kind of room where the light changes character three times before lunch, thanks to mature trees along the street and boundary. A zebra blind lets you soften the 11am glare without losing the garden entirely, then open fully once the sun has moved around.

Fit and control

Standard roller hardware — chain or motorised, cassette options, inside or outside mount.
Fabric range runs from light-filtering sheers to semi-blockout bands, depending on how much privacy the room needs after dark.
A strong pick for complex or townhouse-style windows facing the street, where "privacy with light" is the brief more often than full blockout.

Good to know Not a bedroom blackout product on its own — pair it with a blockout roller, or choose a double roller instead, for rooms that need real darkness.

Also worth a look

Pairs well with

Also serving

Zebra blinds for every garden-facing room nearby

We fit day and night blinds as often in Illovo's clusters and Morningside's living rooms as we do in Hurlingham itself — Atholl and Sandhurst too.

Illovo Morningside Atholl Sandhurst

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One blind, two moods

Where it earns its place in a Hurlingham home

Fit and control

Pairs well with

Roller Blinds

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Venetian Blinds

Zebra blinds for every garden-facing room nearby

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