Zebra Shades in Pittsburgh, PA — Light, Privacy & Style in One Shade
Custom zebra shades — alternating sheer and solid fabric bands give you filtered daylight or full privacy on demand. Motorized or manual, hundreds of fabrics. Free in-home consultation. Call (412) 634-5526.
- ★ Free in-home consultation
- ★ Licensed & insured installers
- ★ Lifetime workmanship warranty
- ★ Pittsburgh-based & family-owned
Zebra shades — also called dual shades or day-night shades — solve the problem of choosing between view and privacy. Two layers of fabric, one sheer and one solid, slide past each other inside a single roller. Align the sheers and you get soft, striped daylight through the window. Align the solids and the room is private. Penn Shades sells and installs custom zebra shades for homes and businesses across the greater Pittsburgh area — they're one of our most-requested treatments for front-facing rooms, home offices, and modern open-concept spaces.
Signs You Need Zebra Shades
A few signals zebra shades are right for you. You currently use a roller shade to cut afternoon glare, but then have to lift it all the way up to feel like you have a view — there's no middle setting. You're working from home in front of a south-facing window and need to switch between bright daylight and full privacy for video calls in seconds. Your front-facing window sits close to the sidewalk, and you've been bouncing between drapery (too dark in the day) and bare glass (too exposed at night). Your decor leans modern or transitional, and traditional shades feel out of place.
If your current setup forces you to pick between view, light, and privacy — getting only one or two of the three — zebra shades give you a way to have all three with a flick of the wrist or a tap on a remote. Waiting doesn't make this worse the way sun damage does, but it does mean another season of fighting your windows for no good reason.
Our Zebra Shades Options
We install three zebra shade configurations and we'll help you decide during your in-home consultation. Day & Night Zebra Shades are the classic dual-band design — alternating horizontal stripes of sheer and solid fabric in one shade, so you toggle between daylight and privacy by raising or lowering the shade a few inches. They're the most flexible everyday choice, and the right pick for living rooms, kitchens, and any room where you want both view and privacy on demand.
Motorized Zebra Shades add remote, smartphone app, voice, or scheduled control on top of the dual-band design — so you can preset your morning daylight position and your evening privacy position and switch between them with a tap or an automated routine. They're the right move for hard-to-reach windows, large window walls, and anyone who wants their home to handle light automatically. Light Filtering Zebra Shades use a softer, more diffused sheer band for a gentler daylight effect — preferred when you want the room to feel bathed in light rather than striped, and ideal for bedrooms, formal living rooms, and any space where the dual-band stripe pattern feels too bold at full daylight.
Zebra Shades for Pittsburgh Homes & Businesses
Zebra shades fit Pittsburgh homes especially well in two situations. First, they're the right call for the city's many row houses, townhouses, and front-facing homes in neighborhoods like Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Friendship, the South Side, and Lawrenceville — where your big front window is close to the sidewalk and you've been trying to balance "let in the light" with "don't put on a show for the neighbors." Zebra shades give you instant privacy without darkening the room.
Second, in newer construction across Cranberry Township, Wexford, Sewickley Heights, and Mt. Lebanon's recent infill builds, the open-concept floor plans usually have large multi-window walls in the great room and kitchen. Zebra shades let those big windows do their job — bring in light, frame the view — while still giving you control when you want it. We install across Pittsburgh, Moon Township, Coraopolis, Sewickley, Robinson, Carnegie, Bridgeville, Mt. Lebanon, Upper St. Clair, Bethel Park, Cranberry, Wexford, McCandless, Fox Chapel, and surrounding communities.
What to Expect
Call (412) 634-5526 or book online. Free in-home consultation usually within a few business days. Our installer brings physical fabric samples — zebra shade fabric especially needs to be seen against your wall color and window light before you commit. We measure every window, walk you through fabric and operation options (manual or motorized, single window or coordinated multi-window setup), and quote with a fixed price. Zebra shade orders typically ship in 10–14 days. Install is one visit, 1–3 hours depending on window count.
Why Choose Penn Shades for Zebra Shades
Family-owned, Moon Township-based, licensed and insured Pennsylvania installers. Free in-home consultation with real fabric samples and professional measuring, upfront fixed pricing with no surprise add-ons, lifetime workmanship warranty on our installation. We install what we sell — no subcontracting — so the team that measured your windows is the team responsible for the finished result.
Want to see the rest of what we install? Visit the Penn Shades main site for our full range of window treatments and smart film.
Pick the right zebra shades for your space
Day & Night Zebra Shades
Classic dual-band design — toggle daylight or privacy with a small adjustment.
Learn More →Motorized Zebra Shades
Remote, app, voice, or scheduled control with the dual-band layout.
Learn More →Light Filtering Zebra Shades
Softer diffused band design for a gentler daylight effect.
Learn More →Book your free in-home consultation
Stop choosing between view, light, and privacy. Call (412) 634-5526 for a free in-home consultation, or book online — most zebra shade projects install within 2–3 weeks of your first call.