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What are day night blinds (or \u201cday and night\u201d blinds, for those who Grammar)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re a special type of roller blind with a double layer of fabric that goes up both the front and back of a roller tube, and which is comprised of alternating stripes of a solid, opaque colour with a more sheer or transparent area. They\u2019re actually made using one piece of fabric which loops around from the tube at the top, under the bottom bar and back up to the top, giving the appearance of two layers of fabric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you roll the blind up or down the fabric on both the front and back of the tube moves, causing the stripes to align in different formations; a solid block of the opaque colour, alternating stripes of the opaque and sheer, or somewhere in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a basic explanation of what day and night blinds<\/a> do and how they work; and day and night blinds also go by a few other names too, depending on who is selling them. You might alternatively hear day and night blinds called zebra blinds, vision blinds, mirage blinds, duo roller blinds, or \u201cnight and day\u201d blinds, because some folk just like to eat their dessert before their main course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day and night roller blinds offer all of the simplicity of a regular roller blind with the same flexibility in terms of privacy and light control as a Venetian blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, let\u2019s not lose sight of the fact that the day and night blind\u2019s zebra stripes look incredibly cool as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog post will explain in a little more detail what day and night blinds or zebra blinds are, and how they work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are day and night blinds? Are they roller blinds?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Day and night blinds and roller blinds are sisters, not twins. The key functional difference between them is that roller blind fabric rolls up and down around its tube just one way, like kitchen roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day and night blinds or zebra blinds are double layered and roll right round in a continuous loop, like those old-style fabric towel hand dryers that you don\u2019t see any more for reasons that I frankly don\u2019t want you wrongly associating with our finest new innovation in blinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do day and night blinds look like?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The main visual takeaway of day and night blinds is their horizontal stripes, and these aren\u2019t just contrasting colours but actually different fabrics, one being solid and the other sheer. As the fabric is double layered (going up the front and the back of the blind respectively) you can adjust the blind when it\u2019s lowered (or partially lowered) to finesse the alignment of the stripes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are day and night blinds striped?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The stripes of your day and night blind mean firstly, that you can call them zebra blinds because that\u2019s cool. It also means that you can either align them in a solid block of opaque fabric, which blocks the light (and prying eyes) entirely in blackout options; or half-and-half it (or any other ratio you like) to diffuse or filter light and stop all but the most determined of \u201cnose to the glass\u201d beaky types from seeing in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This probably doesn\u2019t really warrant a direct mention but for the sake of clarity, you can also raise or lower day and night blinds fully or partially like any other roller blind too; but with the flexibility of Venetian blinds (those aluminium, wood, or faux-wood blinds comprised of horizontal slats).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the benefits of day and night blinds?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n