Roller blinds
Blockout and sunscreen on the same simple hardware — the answer for real dark.
Roller blinds →Why buyers in newer open-plan homes choose them
Living areas built around big open-plan glass want light control that changes through the day, not a single on/off setting. Zebra blinds let you fine-tune privacy and glare band by band, and they read as a clean, contemporary layer on wide glass — a fit for the living and dining walls typical of The Wilds' newer builds.
The honest limitations
- Not true blockout even fully offset — light still seeps at the band edges, so a bedroom that needs genuine dark is better served by a blockout roller, or a double roller (day & night combo): a blockout fabric and a sheer or sunscreen fabric stacked on one bracket, giving you both moods from a single blind.
- Sheer bands are delicate against pets and small children at reach height.
- Moisture-sensitive fabrics — steamy bathrooms suit aluminium venetians better.
Fit & control
Standard roller hardware applies: chain (child-safe tensioner fitted as standard) or motorised, cassette options, inside or outside mount. The sweet spot is living rooms, dining areas, studies and any street-facing window on a complex or estate boundary wanting privacy without losing daylight.
What a day-night blind is likely to cost
As a guide per square metre, installed: a manual day-night blind runs from about R1,300 to R2,000. asks more of the workroom than an ordinary roller does, so the range starts higher, and within it the variables are width, the weight of the solid band and whether a cassette is hiding the tube.
Motorised, allow R2,800 through to R4,000 for each square metre of blind. That is worth weighing seriously on any window where you expect to adjust the bands more than once a day, since the whole point of the product is fine adjustment and a blind that is awkward to reach never gets adjusted at all. A minimum charge applies to small openings, and nothing is binding until the free measure has produced a written, per-window quote.
Zebra blind or double roller — what's the actual difference?+
A zebra is one fabric with sheer and solid bands woven into it, running on a single tube. A double roller is two separate fabrics — usually sunscreen and blockout — on one double bracket, each operating on its own. The zebra is neater and cheaper; the double roller is the one that gives a bedroom genuine dark.
Do the bands line up perfectly across a wide window?+
On one blind, yes. Across two blinds side by side they can sit a few millimetres out, because each fabric settles on its own tube. On a long living-room wall we'll usually suggest either one wide blind or motorised linked blinds so the bands stay honest across the run.
Are they safe over a kitchen sink or in a bathroom?+
Not our first choice. The sheer bands mark easily and don't love steam. An aluminium venetian wipes clean and shrugs it off, which is why that's what we usually put in kitchens and bathrooms.
Motorisation
Keeps a long run of banded blinds moving together, on one button.
Motorised blinds →
Cellular blinds
When the bedroom wants insulation and darkness rather than a view.
Cellular blinds →Zebra blinds fitted across The Wilds and nearby estates
These banded blinds suit the same open-plan living and dining walls wherever we measure them — from Woodhill Golf Estate and Boardwalk Meander's family homes to the first-fit new builds going up in Six Fountains and Mooikloof.