Duplex blinds, also called zebra blinds
A duplex blind is two layers of fabric on a single roller, each printed in alternating solid and sheer bands. Move the blind a few centimetres and the bands line up solid over sheer, and the window closes. Move it back and they offset, sheer over sheer, and light comes through in stripes.
So it's one blind with a range of settings rather than an up-or-down decision. The same window can be open, half-veiled or shut without changing anything on it.
Made to the measurements taken at your window, and fitted by us.
The samples come to you
There's no walk-in counter. Someone brings the range to your home or office on a free measuring visit, so you see the bands against your own light.
Made to the opening
Cut and made to the measurements taken at your window, not trimmed down from a stock width.
Fitted, then looked after
We fit what we make, and handle alterations, repairs and cleaning afterwards.
Chain or motor
The usual control is a side chain: pull one way to lower, the other to raise, and a short pull past the end of the travel is what shifts the bands from offset to aligned. The chain can go on either side, which is worth deciding at the measuring visit rather than living with afterwards.
A looped chain is worth thinking about twice in a room used by small children or pets. If that's a concern, a motorised blind removes the loop entirely and runs from a remote or a wall switch.
A motor also makes sense on a window that's too high to reach and on a wide run where the chain is heavy work. The power for it has to be planned before installation, so raise it early.
Book a free measuring visit
Tell us your area and roughly how many windows, and we'll bring the samples to you.
Privacy, and the part nobody mentions
In daylight the offset setting does what people want from it — you get light and a softened view out, and from the street the room reads as bands rather than as a room.
After dark that reverses. Once your own lights are on, a sheer band gives away almost as much as clear glass, exactly the way a sheer curtain does. The answer is simply to align the bands at night, which is the setting the blind was built for; if the room also has to go properly dark, this isn't the product for it and a blackout blind or a lined curtain is.
Worth knowing before rather than after. It's the single thing people are surprised by with zebra blinds.
Duplex blinds in use
Duplex blinds, in short
- Two banded layers on one roller: aligned closes the window, offset lets light through the sheer bands.
- Daytime privacy with daylight still in the room — the reason most people choose them.
- Not a blackout, and not private after dark with the lights on unless the bands are aligned.
- Rolls to a small bundle at the head, so it leaves the reveal and the wall beside it clear.
- Chain either side, or a motor where the window is high or the run is wide.
- Comes off its brackets in one piece, which makes cleaning simpler than taking down a lined pair of curtains.
They suit rooms that are used all day and want light without being on display — a living room facing a walkway, a kitchen, an office. Tell us which way the window faces and what's outside it, and we'll say at the visit whether this is the right thing for it.
Talk to us about the window
Call or WhatsApp +971 50 280 8765, or ask for a measuring visit and we'll bring the samples to you.