What rooms are day and night blinds suitable for?

Day and night blinds or day/night blinds are versatile enough to serve several different functions, which means they can potentially be the right choice for more or less any room of the house. However, there are some rooms day and night blinds suit particularly well, and others for which they might work well in some homes but not others.

This blog post will provide a “day and night blinds for dummies” kind of roundup on what rooms day and night blinds suit and why.

Are day and night blinds a good choice for living rooms?

Yes, day and night blinds are good for living rooms, and tick all the boxes most people might need living room blinds to do.

If you want to enjoy the view through your windows while making it a little harder for others to see in, day night night living room blinds are a sound pick.

The ability to precisely control how much sun you get and where it is directed means that day night blinds can be used to avoid reflection and glare on the TV screen, but also help to give any living room plants enough sun to keep them this side of the compost heap too.

Also, the fact that day night blinds are thermally efficient can be of most value in a living room, which will tend to be both one of your lager rooms (and so, more costly to heat) and also, one that you probably spend a lot of time in and want to be comfortable in.

Are day and night blinds good for home offices?

The same plus-points that make day and night blinds good for living rooms apply to your home office too, with a couple of added benefits when it comes to your workspace. Home office day night blinds can help you to get good lighting when you’re working (which is really important as I’ve spoken about at some length before), while also allowing you to negate screen glare.

Because day night blinds can also block light entirely, this makes them a viable choice of blind for keen Zoomers (or those whose bosses are over-reliant on Zoom) if you want to cut external light entirely and use your own directional, controllable lighting when on camera.

Day night blinds for a study or home office are even something you might be able to get your company to pay for if you can justify it as a WFH essential…

Are day and night blinds suitable for bedrooms? Oh, and are day and night blinds blackout?

If you’re looking to buy day and night blinds for a bedroom, it’s probably fairly important to you that they’re not transparent when you’ve got the lights on at night!

So, are day night blinds good for bedrooms, and can they serve as a blackout blind? Yes and yes.

It can come as a surprise to some to learn that blackout day night blinds exist. But when you align the solid stripes in a continuous block, the effect is just the same as a fully rolled-down roller blind. Those solid stripes can be made in blackout fabric, meaning day and night blackout blinds are indeed a thing.

Even non-blackout day night blinds are dim-out blinds, once more like roller blinds of the same ilk.

However, if you adjust the blind to align the sheer stripes, they function more like voile or net curtains; which will generally be opaque from outside in the daytime, but which can be seen through when it’s dark outside and the lights are on inside.

This means that is wise to pay some mind to what’s going on with the stripes each time before you get undressed, in terms of the comparative alignment of your blinds day and night. UK folk tend to frown upon seeing more of you than they bargained for just because they glanced over towards your gaff while waiting for their bus!

Are zebra blinds suitable for a child’s room?

Day and night blinds or zebra blinds for a children’s room are totally fine for all of the same reasons they’re good for an adult’s bedroom. Caveat: as long as your children are either old enough/well behaved enough not to mistreat the blind, or alternatively if you can keep the blind out of your child’s reach.

The same holds true for all blinds types, really; that said, the sheer or transparent parts of day night blinds are rather finer than other fabrics. While they are designed to last for years and years of normal (ie., respectful adult) use, they will not stand up well to a lot of deliberate destruction testing on the part of a child.

Are day night blinds child safe? Yes, our day and night blinds or zebra blinds are child safe, just like all of the other blinds we sell.

Are day and night blinds suitable for dining rooms?

Day and night blinds are a good pick for dining rooms, whether you’re the type of family that dines formally every evening and leaves the butler to work the blinds, or if you only sit at the table on special occasions and tend to neglect heating the room too much as a result. The thermally insulating qualities of day night blinds for dining rooms will help out a little bit in this latter respect too.

Can you use day and night blinds in kitchens?

Yes… Maybe. You can use day night blinds in a kitchen that doesn’t get hugely condensated or humid, and if the blind is not likely to get splashed with water regularly. However, in kitchens that are smaller, poorly ventilated, or otherwise cause you to spend any given evening when pasta is on the boil trying to keep your hair from sticking to your forehead, day night blinds might be a no.

This is because day and night blinds are Gremlins. Or, it may be because they’re made of polyester treated with a stiffening agent, and they will become limp and sad if they spend too much time getting soggy.

Can you use day and night blinds in bathrooms?

Yes… Maybe. As with kitchens, if your bathroom is well ventilated, doesn’t get hugely humid, and has windows a moderate distance from anything splashy, day and night blinds are good for bathrooms.

If any of this is not the case, then the same problems mentioned above regarding day and night blinds in kitchens may arise in short order, compromising the appearance and lifespan of your blind.

Can you get day and night blinds for conservatories or larger windows?

Yes, day and night blinds for conservatories and patio doors are a popular choice; they can be made in wider/longer lengths than many other types of blinds in order to accommodate for tall, wide, or generally large windows.

Day/night blinds also help to insulate large windows to keep the heat down in summer and the cold out in winter.

Got another room to consider?

Interested. If you’ve got a big (or weird) house and want to ask about day and night blinds for a type of room I haven’t mentioned, hit me up.