SHADES

Custom Roller Shades

The traditional window shade, with its simplicity of form and operation, is a popular classic. The shades move easily, with just the touch of a cord, and the fabric options available today offer extensive choices to accommodate both your visual taste and your desire for light control and privacy.

More Fabric Choices
Unlike the window shades of yesteryear, today's roller shades are available in a variety of contemporary decorator colors with designs such as stylish jacquards, beautiful linens and embossed moiré.

Custom Fabric Lamination
We can laminate virtually any drapery material to a roller shade and also add any decorative touches you choose.

 
Light Control and Privacy
Materials ranging from cotton and polyester to vinyl laminated to fiberglass. Each offer a different degree of privacy and light transmission. Choose from:

Semi-sheer woven fabrics that let n a soft, diffused light and offer moderate privacy.  Shown here is Hunter Douglas's CORTINA shade with a soft fabric drape.

Semi-Opaque woven fabric, which allows only filtered light and provides substantial privacy.

Opaque woven fabric with a vinyl coating that blocks 99% of light and provides complete privacy.

Decorative Valances
To add that special decorator touch to your look, consider a decorative valance to hide the roller tube at the top of the shade and the slight gap left between it and the window. Typically made from the shade material, the style, whether straight and simple or highly ornate - is often repeated on the hem of the shade.


Decorative Hems
Another decorative touch you may wish to add is a straight tailored or scalloped hem that hangs below the bottom rod in a shade. A complimentary trim or fringe can add a lovely finishing touch.

Pleated Shades

From soft pastels to vibrant jewel tones, from elegant damask to playful prints, from sheer to opaque, or rectangular to octagon, pleated shades are by far the most versatile shade you’ll find. Here are some of the more popular functional variations:

Top Down and Top-Down Bottom-Up
When the view at the top of your window is better than the view through the bottom part, or, when covering the bottom portion of your window will give you all the privacy you need, these shades are the perfect answer. The top-down bottom-up version allows you to open them from the top, bottom or both simultaneously!



Day-Night Shades
Suppose you want to block all light from your room during the early morning hours, but then would prefer a sheer or semi-opaque shade on the windows during the day. The day-night shade lets you do this by attaching two shades together.




Skylights
Pleated shades and cellular shades are the two most popular skylight treatments. Beautiful as skylights are, they can be extremely hot in the summer months. Pleat shades are an economical and efficient way to deal with this problem. Whether in the ceiling or on a slope, the side rails hold the shade securely in place, so you can open and stop it in any position. No matter how high up, they can be easily adjusted with an extension pole, a wall switch, or by remote control.

Specialty Shapes
One of the beauties of pleated shades is that they can be made to fit just about any shape including angle tops, arch tops, trapeziod, hexagon, and octagon shaped windows.

Cellular /Honeycomb Shades

These handsome shades, available in 3/8”, 3/4”  single, double or triple cell construction, are designed in two lighting styles.

The translucent shade gently filters in natural light while at the same time guarding your privacy.

The "blackout" shade rejects all light, allowing you complete privacy and room darkening. 

No matter which of the multitude of colours you choose, the neutral white backing will ensure a uniform look from outside.

Considering how attractive these shadings are, it's a real bonus that they are also excellent at saving you energy costs. The distinctive pleat design traps air and acts as an insulator, keeping out summer heat and winter cold.  

 Roman Shades

Roman shades are corded fabric shades which are usually raised using a horizontal rod sewn to the back. When raised, they form a series of lateral pleats. They can be fabricated from virtually any drapery fabric. 

The balloon shade is the most notable variation on the Roman Shade. The basic operation is the same but extra fabric is added below the last bar and gathered through an arrangement of rings on the back to create balloon-like festoons.