Each hostess will confirm that without curtains and curtains the interior will look uncomfortable and not aesthetically pleasing. Today, the market offers an ever-expanding range of shutters, blinds, curtains. Curtains are not only decoration of any part of the apartment, but also serve as a means of protection from sunlight. Among the popular and modern designs include practical and functional day-night roll-up blinds. Otherwise, they are also called "zebra."
What it is?
Stylish sun shades of the new generation managed to gain the trust and love of consumers around the world. Blinds "day-night" is a design in which two textile fabrics are interconnected by a roller. More often it is fabric blinds with alternating stripes of dense and more transparent texture. When folding or lowering the structure, the strips are shifted relative to each other.
Manufacturers of blinds "zebra" took care of the quality of manufactured products. To connect the strips in fabric products, the method of seamless thermal technology is used. A special treatment with Teflon impregnation gives the blinds dust-repellent and antistatic properties. Thanks to the unique design, day-night blinds can control the intensity of light entering the room. In some products designed to protect against excess light, the degree of density of strips of fabric reaches up to 100%.
Varieties
There are blinds "day-night" open and closed design. Open type curtains are suitable for both home interior and work space. The fabric in the design is wound on an uncovered shaft, not fixed on the sides. As a result, the curtain hangs freely. Horizontal stripes visually enlarge the windows and the room seems more spacious.
The classic version of the blinds is easy to care for and affordable. To prevent sagging fabric on the sides of the product is equipped with special boxes where the fabric is hidden. The mechanism of the closed type has a cassette and mini-cassette type design. You can choose a box from the same material and texture of the manufacture of the window frame. This visually creates the impression that the blinds are built into the frame.
Mini-cassette designs are made complete for each sash. This is the best option for hinged windows.
In the market in the abundance of roller blinds, this is one of the most budgetary options for horizontal blinds. Combined products "day-night" ("combo") consist of two layers of paintings. Dense stripes alternate with more transparent ones. The design mechanism of fabric curtains "combo" is designed on the principle of movement "up and down". In this process, the transparent bands decrease or increase in quantity, changing the intensity of lighting in the room. Double curtains can be with automatic or manual control system.
5 advantages of blinds "day-night"
- Light and dark stripes can be of various colors (dark - saturated shade, light - colorless or have the most delicate shade of dark stripes). These blinds are indispensable in the interior of almost any color scheme.
- These blinds look stylish and modern and at the same time make the room more comfortable, thanks to the ability to regulate light.
- Dimming or partial lighting can be replaced by full lighting - it is enough to completely raise the blinds. That is, the room will always be moderately light: the way you are comfortable.
- Darkened blinds protect not only from unnecessary light, but also from heating the room. They also have some soundproofing effect.
- The fabric used to make this type of blinds has a dust-repellent and anti-static effect. Blinds “day-night” are easy to clean (you can wipe them with a dry rag or sponge, and in the case of severe contamination - wet) and to operate.
Installation and Management
- You can adjust the position of the lamellas using a chain or cord: the lamellas are wound on a shaft, moving relative to each other or wound into a roll - easily and functionally. There are also electric blinds of this type.
2 ways to mount
L-hook mount
Double-sided tape mount
Self-tapping
Types of blinds "day-night"
Depending on the type of fastening, 2 types of blinds are distinguished “day-night”:
- standard: mounted on the wall, on the opening or on the ceiling.
mini: this option is attached to the sash, leaving the window sill free.
Cassette and free-hanging:
- cassette blinds: the lamella canvas is collected in a box,
free-hanging: the web is wound on a shaft in the form of a small roll.
A separate subspecies of this type of blinds is the pleated blinds. These are the blinds, consisting of the canvas “duet” assembled by the “accordion”. Fabric "duet" consists of transparent and dark stripes, which provides the ability to control the lighting of the room. Ordinary day-night blinds are an even lamellas canvas, and the pleated version is prefabricated.
Issue price
- rolled blinds "day-night" cost from 780 rubles per 1 piece,
- cassette models are more expensive - from 950 rubles,
- blinds-pleats - the most expensive and original option: product 140 by 60 cm from 7000 rubles.
Photo gallery will help you understand the full variety of this type of blinds.