Alternating bands, aligned or offset
A day-night blind runs two fabrics — usually one sheer, one solid or semi-solid — as alternating horizontal bands on a continuous loop. Align the bands and you get filtered light with the canal still visible through the sheer strips; offset them and the solid bands close over the gaps for near-total coverage. It's one product doing the job a sunscreen and a curtain would otherwise split between them, which matters in an apartment where every extra layer takes up floor and sill space you don't have.
Built for Century City's two-source glare
Most day-night installations are sold on privacy-with-view for a street-facing window. In Century City the more common brief is glare management: direct sun through north-facing glazing for most of the day, plus low-angle light reflecting straight off the canal in the early morning and again toward evening. Tuning the bands through the day — more open at midday when the sun is overhead, tighter as it drops toward the water — does a genuinely different job than a fixed sunscreen mesh set once and left alone.
Where it earns its place, and where it doesn't
Living rooms, dining areas and home studies with a canal or courtyard aspect are the sweet spot — exactly the rooms where you want to keep working or entertaining without staring straight into reflected glare. It's not a true blockout even fully offset, since light still finds its way through at the band edges, so a bedroom that needs proper dark is better served by a blockout roller (see roller blinds) or a double-roller combination instead. The sheer bands are also a little more delicate at reach height than a solid roller fabric, worth knowing if there's a toddler or a cat that likes to test things.
The same window faces the sun once and the canal's reflection of it a second time — a day-night blind is the one product built to answer to both without going fully dark.
On-site measure, Century City- Alternating sheer and solid horizontal bands
- Tuned through the day for direct sun and canal-reflected glare
- Best in living rooms, dining areas and studies — not true blockout for bedrooms
- Standard roller hardware — chain or motorised, cassette optional
Day-night blind pricing, per square metre installed
A day-night blind holds twice the fabric of a plain roller and the banded weave is more work to make, so the band starts higher: R1,300 to R2,000 per square metre installed hand-operated, and R2,800 to R4,000 per square metre motorised. Broader bands, a hood over the roll and a semi-blockout backing all push a window towards the upper figure.
These are planning bands rather than a quotation. Small windows carry a minimum charge, because the brackets, tube and fitting time barely change with the opening. Each window in your home is worked out separately at the measure and confirmed on paper.
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