Striped Window Film

Striped window film is a clear film with matte stripes printed across it. The matte bands break up the view while the clear gaps let the daylight through from both sides, so a window keeps its brightness and still stops being a display case. Unlike a mirror film, striped film does not depend on which side is brighter — it works the same way after dark.

Horizontal or Vertical Stripes

The film is cut so that the stripes run either across the glass or up it — you tell us which before we cut, and we confirm the orientation against the edges of your pieces. Horizontal is the usual choice for a window you want screened at eye level; vertical suits a tall door panel or a partition.

Where Striped Window Film Is Used

• Office glass partitions
• Domestic room dividers
• Residential external windows
• Healthcare institutions

What these places have in common is that nobody wants the glass closed off completely. Striped film gives a screen without cutting the room off from the outside — the room still reads as a room with a window, not a room with a wall.

Striped Film Compared with One-Way Tinted Film

One-way tinted films give privacy while it is brighter outside than in — at night, with the light on, the effect reverses and the window shows the room. Striped frosted film does not work by reflection, so the screening it gives holds after dark as well.

Various Widths of Striped Privacy Window Film

The designs are fixed — matte stripes in wide, medium and narrow. The gap between stripes differs from film to film, so the density of screening differs too: the wider the band and the tighter the gap, the less shows through. The exact widths are on the product pages.

Striped Frosted Window Film

To make out anything through a striped frosted film you have to come right up to the glass; from a couple of steps away there are shapes and light and nothing more. In that respect these films behave like the plain frost film models, only with the pattern left open.

Two striped films are cut to size in our store, and a third design is on the way:

• Privacy film with wide stripes 1 and 3/4 inches wide — the densest screening of the three.
• Window film with narrow stripes 3/8 inch wide — a fine line pattern that reads as decoration first.
• Deco Stripes 00/33 — privacy window film with medium-width stripes.

Ordering Striped Film Cut to Your Glass

Both striped films are cut to your own measurements in inches, in steps of 1/32", with one piece up to 110" on the long side — so a partition panel or a window comes out of the box ready to go on, stripes already running the way you asked. The tools and the mounting concentrate go into the order, and so does a free piece of film to practise the technique on before you touch the glass itself.

These films sit in the privacy film for window category; for other patterns, see the decorative film section.