Roller Shades offer a sleek and versatile look while providing a host of benefits that align with modern lifestyles and smart home technologies. This includes enhancing light and privacy, ensuring thermal comfort and minimizing glare.

Both the 3” and 4” fascias can be wrapped in fabric to match the shade for a coordinated look. The front of the fascia covers the brackets for a clean appearance.

Energy Efficiency

Roller shades are a stylish way to foster an aesthetically pleasing, environmentally-friendly space that’s all your own. They’re designed to limit energy loss by creating an air space between the shade and the window glass that acts as an insulator, keeping hot summer sun from damaging your interiors and cold winter winds from coming in.

With energy costs continuing to increase across the country, minimizing energy consumption is one of the most pressing concerns for homeowners and businesses alike. Roller shades are an effective and cost-efficient solution, helping to cut electricity bills by limiting heat gain during the warmer months and cutting your gas bill during the cooler ones.

Whether you’re looking for simple light filtering fabrics or more opaque options, there’s an array of opacity levels available to meet your needs. The Design Studio roller shade collection features a variety of exclusive fabrics, including Designer Banded, which blends alternating sheer and solid fabric bands into a single modern window treatment for view-through, light control and privacy.

The energy efficiency of these shades is further enhanced by their positioning within the window frame. Many styles feature an internal layer of batting that not only serves as insulation, but also works to reduce the transfer of air temperatures between indoors and outdoors, preventing unwanted drafts. This further protects your interiors, maintaining comfortable temperatures year-round.

Another key benefit of roller shades is the ability to rely on natural sunlight for illumination throughout your home or business, reducing your need to turn on artificial lights at any time of day. Some of our most popular energy efficient styles include a room darkening option to keep your spaces cool and dark.

Adding motorization to your roller shades takes convenience and functionality up a notch, making them an ideal addition to any living or work space. Motorization allows you to control your shades via a remote or with smart home technology like IFTTT, Alexa and Google Home, eliminating the need for manual operation. You can also set schedules for your shades to automatically adjust according to the time of day and weather conditions, allowing you to fully maximize your energy efficiency while still enjoying the flexibility and aesthetics that come with these elevated window treatments.

Privacy

There are a wide variety of fabrics and styles in our Roller Shade Collection to provide you with privacy options. From sheer fabrics that softly filter the sun’s rays to room darkening options to block out light and heat, we have something for every room in your home. There are also different hem style, bottom bar options and decorative gimps and trims that you can add to enhance the overall look of your custom window shades.

Our Sheer Roller Shades are the ideal way to let in some natural sunlight while still providing daytime privacy. These fabrics are designed with a light, airy feel that complements minimalist and modern decor but can be used under drapery panels in more traditional rooms. Sheer fabrics are backed with a white backing that blocks all outside visibility for total privacy.

Translucent, Room Dimming & Light Filtering Roller Shade Materials

We group these together because they are generally of the same construction. The main difference is that light colors will illuminate like a shade on a lamp, passing through the fabric and diffusing into your room for filtered sunlight. Darker colors tend to pass very little light because they absorb the light instead of reflecting it back into the room.

If you are looking for a more solid, block out type of fabric we have a wide range of blackout roller shades available that can be paired with side tracks to come close to blocking out 100% of light in your bedroom for a great night’s sleep or a media room. All of our blackout shades come with a white backing on the street facing side for maximum light control and a clean appearance.

You can even upgrade your Roller Shades to a motorized option in our Smart Home Collection so that you can schedule, adjust and set the positioning of your window treatments with the touch of a button. This provides on-demand privacy for your family and offers a safer environment for children and pets.

For a complete home décor solution you can pair your roller shades with our sliding patio doors or panel track blinds for a seamless and coordinated look in your space. We also offer a wide variety of hardware, cordless lift and valance options to help you customize your Expression Roller Shades to perfectly suit your home’s design.

Light Control

The beauty of Roller Shades is that they provide a simple yet elegant solution for any window. They offer a wide range of fabrics, translucency factors, operating systems and upgrades that allow you to create your perfect living space.

Choose a fabric that will complement your decor and suit the light penetration you desire in your space. Sheer and lightweight fabrics will diffuse sunlight for a soft glow, while opaque fabrics block light to keep your space dark. For more light control, select a woven fabric or polyester fabric that has a crease-resistant construction to hold its shape and prevent sagging over time.

You can also enhance the aesthetics of your shades by customizing the bottom rail. For example, you can add a cassette valance to hide the roller mechanism and add an additional layer of privacy. Motorization adds a modern touch, making it easy to adjust your shades from the convenience of a hand-held remote or your smart home system. You can also pair a blackout shade with a sheer shade to optimize light control and privacy.

For an added level of safety, opt for a Cordless system which eliminates the need for lift cords and provides a child-safe design that reduces strangulation hazards. Alternatively, you can upgrade to a wand control which operates by a retractable wand that pulls from a storage pouch located in the back of your cassette or shade. A cord tensioner is included with all shades ordered with clutch control, which should be installed at the wall to help reduce the strangulation hazard of exposed looped cords.

All inside mount roller shades have a small light gap on either side of the shade, which is necessary to accommodate the brackets and hardware. This is a common feature of all shades, whether they use a spring system or a clutch system.

Another option for motorized blinds is our Palladiom line by Lutron, which delivers modern motorized functionality and a lustrous minimalist design that fits perfectly with your bedroom décor. Designed for pre or post construction, they are available with both wired and battery motors and offer a wide range of control options.

Style

When pulled down, roller shades offer a clean, contemporary look that’s ideal for small or large windows. They are also available in a wide array of fabrics, colors and designs, making them an essential window treatment for a variety of decor styles. When paired with sliding patio doors, they create a unified and elegant appearance for the entire room.

Roller shades come in several styles including a standard roll up, cassette headrail or fascia valance upgrade. Cassette and fascia valances hide the roll at the top of the shade and provide a more finished and clean looking appearance to your window covering. They are available in either a painted, color coordinated aluminum or fabric wrapped option to match your roller shade fabric.

In addition to a multitude of fabric choices, roller shades can be made with varying degrees of opacity to suit your specific needs and taste. Lighter fabrics will help to open up a room and allow natural light in, while darker fabrics can provide privacy and blockout while still allowing some light in.

Another great feature of roller shades is that they can be upgraded with side tracks and blackout fabrics to achieve a near complete blackout solution. This is perfect for bedrooms and media rooms where a dark environment can improve sleep patterns and provide a more relaxing atmosphere.

Roller shade fabric options include both solid and woven textures as well as sheer, semi-sheer and textured linen styles to compliment any room in your home. Roller shade fabrics also assist in the blocking of harmful UV rays which protect your flooring, furniture and artwork from damaging sun exposure.

For those who want a little extra flair, there are many accessories that can be used to upgrade your roller shades, such as pom poms, fringe and decorative rods. These can be easily fastened with hot glue to the bottom of your shade to add a touch of personalization and a unique, designer look.

Roller window shades have truly become a staple of modern home design, with their sleek aesthetics and transformative ability to elevate any living space. With a myriad of customizations and upgrades, it’s easy to see why they are considered an art of elegance in interior design.