How much are day and night blinds?

How much day and night blinds or zebra blinds cost will depend on obvious factors like the size of the window, the quality of the blind, your choice of fabrics, and any particular bells and whistles you might fancy too.

Our own day and night blind prices start at £21.99 (think “small bathroom window” territory), up to a £300-£400 for a biggun’ from our most prestigious range of day and night blinds for sale, to give you a ballpark figure.

This blog post is designed to provide a general guide to the cost of day and night blinds compared to other types of blinds, and explain a bit more about what goes into determining day and night blind prices in general.

What dictates day and night blind prices?

In terms of what goes into dictating the price of any given day and night blind, all of the same factors come into play as for other types of blinds.

The quality of the fabric itself and the housing, mechanism and controls used can all cause significant variance in the cost of one day and night blind compared to another as well.

Are readymade day and night blinds cheaper than made-to-measure day and night blinds?

Trick question! In terms of where to buy day and night roller blinds, many UK-based readymade blinds retailers haven’t really cottoned onto them yet; or perhaps more likely, can’t work out how to produce readymade day and night blinds that can be cut to size at home.

Given the nature of their looped fabric and contrasting textures, trimming a day and night blind stands a high to definite rate of certainty of going horribly/expensively wrong.

Even if you do then find someone offering readymade day and night blinds for sale, we strongly advise you to steer clear unless they’re available in the exact size you need already and don’t need trimming to fit.

Even comparatively cheap day and night blinds for sale will still in many instances be made to measure, which is invariably a little more expensive in terms of initial outlay than off-the-peg blinds.

Are day and night blinds expensive compared to roller blinds?

Functionally, the closest relative of a day and night blind or zebra blind is the roller blind, albeit day and night blinds know a few more dance moves.

One of the main factors that dictates day and night blind cost in terms of how they compare to other blinds is the amount of fabric involved in making them. Day and night blinds use twice as much fabric as an equivalent roller blind, as the fabric goes up both the front and back of a day and night blind’s tube.

This means that a day and night blind will almost certainly be more expensive than a roller blind of the same calibre. But for your additional beer tokens you do get the added flexibility and functionality that day and night blinds offer, and vitally, the supercool stripiness that resulted in the “zebra blinds” moniker coming into being in the first place.

As an example based on comparisons as close as we can get them in terms of fabric quality, the zebra blind price for a window 120cm by 120cm from our range would be £84.86, while a roller blind would be £42.83.

Yep; almost double the cost for a day and night blind in that specific instance; but bear in mind once more the added functionality, and also the fact that in general comparison terms, roller blinds are like-for-like the cheapest type of blinds of all.

If you’re talking blinds for big windows though, roller blinds and day and night blind’s prices come a lot closer to reaching a consensus on how long you’ll be paying them off for. Our largest roller blind is £290, while it’s correlating day and night blind costs £320.

How much are day night blinds compared to other types of blinds?

So, day and night blind prices can be around double that for an equivalent roller blind at the smaller end of the size scale, but they come closer together higher up the ladder; so, how much are day and night blinds compared to other types of blinds? Here’s the basics.

• Day and night blinds can cost almost twice as much as a roller blind for average sized windows.
• Day and night blinds are more expensive than an equivalent-sized vertical blind or aluminium Venetian blind for an average sized window, though not by quite as much as the gap between day and nights blinds and roller blinds.
• Day and night blinds or zebra blinds are probably going to be more expensive for average-sized windows than faux-wood Venetian blinds too, by around 30%.
• When it comes to day and night blind costs compared to real wood Venetian blinds, the prices begin to align somewhat, and can be said to be broadly comparable across the board.
• Roman blinds are more expensive than day and night blinds as a rule, because Roman blinds are The Blinds King.
• Day and night blind prices close the gap with other blind types that start off cheaper than them at the smaller end, the larger they get.

The larger the window and so, blind you’re theoretically working with, the less costly by comparison the day and night blind becomes. It’s not really possible to make a scientific or rather, useful comparison in price for blinds made of hugely different materials like wood versus cloth; each having their own sliding scale in terms of value/quality.

But if you are running the numbers to get a price for day and night blinds in the UK on our various product pages and you’re searching for blinds for large windows, you’ll find the difference gets smaller and smaller the bigger you go.

How much are day and night blinds going to cost for my own windows?

You can find out immediately how much day and night blinds cost from us personally for different styles and options, by inputting the details of your window to generate an instant quote via our day and night blind pages.

Our day and night blinds are all bespoke made to measure just for you, and even our cheapest day and night blinds will beat any other offerings in a fight on quality, so there’s that to be said for them as well!