Solar Shades Add a Bold Look to Your Home
Solar Shades add a modern, bold aesthetic to any room in the home while working well with most decor styles. Their sleek design helps minimize glare on television or computer screens.
Solar shades are designed to block UV rays from entering your home, protecting furniture and other belongings from being sun damaged. Available in various colors and opacities.
Light Control
Solar shades create a clean aesthetic from top to bottom on windows while offering multiple light control solutions for any given space. Solar shades are popularly seen in cafes and restaurants where they help filter sunlight while mitigating harmful UV rays from entering a room – ideal for family rooms, offices and kitchens that receive light throughout the day.
Choose from a selection of fabric styles, openness levels and textures to create the ideal atmosphere in your home. Sheer fabrics provide translucence while light filtering fabrics provide soft silhouettes of outdoor elements. Room darkening or blackout fabrics may also help reduce glare while adding privacy for your space.
Graber offers an expansive collection of solar shade fabrics that offer various colors, patterns, textures and opacities to meet your specific aesthetic and energy-efficiency requirements. Choose a fabric according to both aesthetic and UV protection needs for optimal results in any room or outdoor environment.
Consider solar transmittance (Ts) when selecting fabric shades; this metric measures how much sunlight passes through them into your space. Shades with lower Ts ratings will block more of the sun’s heat from entering, while those with higher Ts ratings allow more light in.
An openness level for your solar shade should also be taken into consideration. A 10% openness solar shade offers excellent views while simultaneously reducing screen glare; for maximum glare reduction and protecting interior decor from harmful UV rays. A Graber Design Expert can assist in choosing the most appropriate openness level based on your individual needs.
Make larger windows easier to operate with continuous cord loops or reverse rolls that change how your shade hangs; turning it toward the inside of your home and eliminating gaps at the top of windows.
Solar shades come in an assortment of styles, textures and colors; however, they don’t provide as much privacy during the evening hours than other window treatments do. Since solar shades allow views into your space at night time, it would be wise to combine them with drapery in order to ensure maximum privacy during this period.
UV Protection
Solar shades protect your home from harmful UV rays that cause fading to furnishings, carpets and artwork by filtering UV rays while simultaneously reducing glare and heat penetration through windows. The fabric you select for your solar shades will determine its UV protection level – Graber offers various openness options that offer exceptional UV protection – your Design Consultant can assist in selecting one to meet both your needs and home environment.
Solar shades from us feature materials with green certifications or are even recyclable, offering you the perfect opportunity to lower energy costs while helping protect the planet! Eco friendly options such as these make great additions if your goal is reducing bills while simultaneously safeguarding the environment.
Solar shade fabrics come in an assortment of colors, designs, and textures – you are sure to find one perfect for your home! With over 1300 fabrics to choose from and free swatches available online or by visiting one of our showrooms – you are sure to find exactly what you need for your shade needs. Our helpful Design Consultants would also be more than happy to assist.
Solar shades can add warmth and style to many rooms, especially shared ones like kitchens, living rooms, rec rooms and sunrooms. Home offices often utilize these solar shades to reduce glare on computer screens and boost productivity.
Solar shades don’t provide as much privacy than other window treatments, making them unsuitable for bedrooms. To increase privacy they may be combined with drapery in order to achieve more effective coverage.
Solar shades’ opacity level has an impactful influence on how much light comes into your home, with less light coming through when more opaque materials are chosen – we recommend keeping it between one to three percent in terms of opacity.
Solar shades are an ideal solution for reducing glare in areas that are frequently used, like living/recreation rooms, entertainment rooms and home offices. Not only can they reduce unwanted glare but they’re also an effective way of keeping your home cool throughout the day!
Heat Control
Sunlight can be blindingly bright when it streams through windows, warming interior spaces while heating them up and damaging upholstery, carpet, wood floors and artwork. Plus, its harsh UV rays can cause discomfort and fade quickly if left to penetrate deep within rooms unprotected by solar shades – keeping interior rooms cooler while safeguarding furnishings against UV damage.
Solar Shades are made of tightly woven fabric designed to block out harmful UV rays and keep interior temperatures cooler, helping you reduce energy costs by decreasing air conditioning usage. They can help make life simpler!
With our wide range of fabrics and openness levels, you’re sure to find the ideal solar shade to meet your needs. A 10% openness level allows you to see outside while still blocking glare and UV rays; at 3% it further blocks glare while also significantly reducing screen glare; finally at 1% you gain minimal view while experiencing maximum light-filtering and protection against UV rays – we can help you select your ideal openness level! A Graber Design Expert can be of assistance in selecting your perfect openness level for any space!
Solar shades not only reduce utility bills but they can also add comfort to your home by blocking direct sunlight entering. By doing so, interior temperatures remain more manageable throughout the year and your space becomes more pleasant to live in year round.
Solar shades come in various styles and colors, but also with differing opacities to allow you to control how much light comes into the space. Sheer fabrics provide airy transparency; light-filtering fabrics create a soft outline of outdoor scenes; room darkening fabrics reduce light significantly; while blackout fabrics completely block out light – perfect for bedrooms and other privacy-sensitive rooms.
Solar shades are extremely durable and easy to keep clean, making them the ideal solution for high traffic areas such as kitchens or children’s rooms. Their synthetic construction makes them better equipped to withstand constant use as they better resist stains, odors and stains than natural fibers do – plus many of our solar shade fabrics even feature Microban(r) antimicrobial finishes to provide mold and mildew resistance!
Privacy
Solar shades may not provide as much privacy as roller shades do, but they’re still an ideal choice for windows in public view or rooms where privacy isn’t an issue. Available in an array of colors, patterns, textures, and designs suited to match any room decor, they can even be enhanced with features like continuous cord loop lift or cassette valance controls that make larger window treatments simpler to operate.
Solar shades also provide essential UV protection, which can save furniture, carpeting, artwork and other home furnishings from sun-damage. Thanks to their tight weave material, solar shades effectively block harmful UV rays while still allowing natural light into your home.
Choose the appropriate fabric for your solar shade carefully to maintain as much light and view as possible. In general, lower opacity levels mean more UV rays will be blocked by your shade – for instance a shade with just 1% opacity will block 93% of sunlight but allow only 1% through.
A fabric with an opacity rating of 3% allows 5% of sun rays and 40% of light into your home, providing enough light for viewing purposes without blocking too much of it. By contrast, an opaque shade with 10% opacity would block 50% of these rays and 90% of light coming through it – an ideal combination for homeowners wanting to take full advantage of their views!
Solar shades are an increasingly popular choice in living rooms, rec rooms, and other shared areas where residents wish to maintain views and light without full privacy. For those requiring complete confidentiality, layering solar shades with traditional roller or drapery shades may provide a viable solution.
Are you ready to transform your home with energy efficient window treatments that increase privacy? Reach out to us now for a complimentary in-home consultation, where we will assist in choosing fabric, color and opacity that will create beautiful solar shades suited for creating functional yet comfortable living space that you love living in.