Day/Night Blinds

Living areas and studies in an open-plan Steyn City home tend to face the same direction all day, which means the same glare problem all day — bright and washed-out mid-morning, low and blinding by mid-afternoon. Day/night blinds are the product built for that: one blind, two very different moods, adjusted by sliding the bands rather than raising or lowering anything.

How the bands work

Align the sheer and solid bands and light filters through evenly — soft, diffused, private enough for a street-facing or fairway-facing room without full privacy. Offset them fully and coverage is near-solid. It's the "sheer plus blind in one" pitch, and it's become the default choice for a lot of Steyn City living and dining rooms.

Where it earns its place

• Open-plan living and dining rooms
• Home studies and offices
• Street- or fairway-facing rooms where full blackout isn't the goal
• Cluster and complex windows where privacy-with-light is the classic brief

Honest limitations

Even fully offset, day/night blinds are not true blockout — light seeps at the band edges, so a bedroom that needs total darkness is better served by a blockout roller. The sheer bands are also more delicate around pets and young children at reach height, and the fabric isn't suited to steamy bathrooms — aluminium venetians handle that environment better.

Fit and finish

Standard roller hardware underneath — chain control with a tensioner, or motorised for a high or wide opening — with cassette options and inside or outside mount, matched to the window and the room's finishes.

What a day-night blind costs here

Guides per square metre, installed. Manual day-night blinds fall between R1,300 and R2,000 per square metre. involves more work than a straightforward roller, which explains why it starts higher; within the band, width, the weight of the solid stripe and whether a cassette conceals the tube move the figure.

Put a motor in the tube and reckon on R2,800 to R4,000 a square metre. On a day-night blind that is often money well spent, because the whole point of the product is small, frequent adjustments to line the bands up, and a blind that is awkward to reach simply stops being adjusted. Small openings carry a minimum charge, and the binding figure is the one written per window after the free measure.