Day and night zebra blind with alternating sheer and solid bands in a Midstream living room

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One product, two moods

Day & night blinds for a room that changes all day.

Alternating sheer and solid bands you align for filtered light, or offset for near-solid coverage — without ever raising the blind.

Day and night blinds — often called zebra blinds — run alternating sheer and solid fabric bands on a single continuous loop. Slide the bands into alignment and light filters through the sheer sections; offset them and the solid bands overlap for near-complete coverage. It's one blind doing the job of two, and it's become the default choice for Midstream's open-plan living and dining spaces.

Why Midstream homeowners choose them

  • Tune the light hour by hour as the sun moves across an open-plan living area, without raising the whole blind.
  • Privacy without darkness — the "sheer and blind in one" pitch that suits a room used from morning to evening.
  • A clean, contemporary look with a fabric range from light-filtering to semi-blockout bands.
Honest limitation Even fully offset, a day/night blind isn't true blockout — light seeps at the band edges. If a room needs genuine darkness (a nursery, a media room, a shift-worker's bedroom) we'll usually suggest a blockout roller or a layered solution instead, and say so plainly at the measure.

Where they fit — and where they don't

Sweet spot: living rooms, dining rooms, studies, and street-facing windows in Midstream's townhouse and cluster sections where privacy-with-light is the real brief. Less suited to steamy bathrooms — the sheer bands are moisture-sensitive, so an aluminium venetian is the better call there — and to homes with young children or pets who can reach and tug at the fabric bands.

Fit & control

Day/night blinds run on standard roller hardware — chain or motorised, with cassette options and either inside or outside mount. If a bedroom needs both the view during the day and full dark at night, a double roller (blockout paired with a plain sunscreen) is usually the better combination — see our roller blinds page.

Fitted across the Midstream group

We fit day & night blinds throughout the wider Midstream group's living rooms and studies — Irene, Southdowns Estate, Raslouw and Copperleaf Golf Estate homes get the same fabric range and the same free measure.

Irene→ Southdowns Estate→ Raslouw→ Copperleaf Golf Estate→

Common questions

Will a day/night blind give us full privacy at night with the lights on?+

Offset fully, it comes close, but there's always some light seepage at the band edges. For a bedroom where total night privacy matters, we'd usually pair it with a plain blockout roller instead — happy to show you both in the same room.

Can we use these in a bathroom?+

We don't recommend it — the sheer bands are moisture-sensitive. An aluminium venetian handles steam and splashes far better and looks just as good.

Are they safe with young kids or pets around?+

The sheer bands sit at reach height and can be tugged or clawed, so we'd steer a nursery or a room with an indoor pet toward a tougher fabric or a different product — worth mentioning at your measure.

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