Banded Shades In Olathe
Banded (Zebra) Shades in Olathe, KS
Banded Shades, also known as zebra shades or dual shades, alternate solid and sheer bands in one shade. In an Olathe kitchen or family room, that lets you move from filtered light to privacy to an open view without ever raising the shade.
Where It Fits In Olathe
Where Banded Shades fit in Olathe
Banded Shades suit modern and transitional rooms, and any room where the light changes from morning to evening.
- Kitchens and breakfast nooksMorning light wants the sheers lined up, the afternoon sun wants the solid bands closed, and evening wants the view back. One Banded Shade handles all three.
- Home officesSet the bands to the privacy position during the workday and you keep soft light and a sheer view out, while people outside can't see in.
- Newer homes in west OlatheIf your home in Prairie Farms or Stonebridge has a clean, modern look inside, a Banded Shade rolls up into a 3 inch cassette and looks like it came with the house.
- Patio doors and wide windowsTwo independently operating shades on one headrail cover a patio door or a wide opening, and the look stays unified from across the room.
Worth Knowing
How Banded Shades work, and when to pair them with a blackout shade
A Banded Shade is two layers of fabric on one roll, alternating sheer and solid. Line the solid bands up and you have privacy. Offset them and the light comes through in soft horizontal bands with a view out through the sheers. The privacy band comes in sizes from 3 inches to 5 inches, with a slightly smaller sheer band above and below it. A smaller band suits most standard windows, and a larger band fills a big window in proportion.
Our Banded Shades come in over 100 fabrics in two families, light filtering and light dimming. Light filtering keeps the room bright and soft, and light dimming blocks more of the sun, which suits a west facing family room in Olathe. Choose from Standard Chain Loop, Cordless Lift, PowerWand or Motorized. With a motor, a scene saves the exact band position you like, which is hard to hit the same way twice by hand. Side by side windows are ordered together so the bands line up from one shade to the next.
Closed, the solid bands meet at a seam rather than a seal, so a little light still comes through, and a Banded Shade on its own won't make a bedroom properly dark. For a primary bedroom or a nursery, we pair it with a blackout shade. Your Design Specialist brings both fabric families to your Olathe home, measures every opening, and writes an exact itemized quote on the spot. Banded Shades take 4 to 6 weeks from order to installation.
What Comes As Standard
- Sheer and solidBands that pass each other in one shade
- InfinitePositions between sheer and closed
- CassetteOr fascia to hide the double stack
- MotorizedSaves band positions as scenes
- Carefree GuaranteeA lifetime product warranty that transfers if you sell, plus our five year service guarantee
- Free Temporary ShadesOn every window you order for, installed while your custom order is made
Our Process
Planned, measured, and installed by our team in Olathe
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Olathe home or office. We'll listen to what you're wanting to accomplish with your windows, take a good look at every opening, and explain the options that will actually work for them.
- On the spot quoteWe take the time to make sure you know exactly what you're getting, and you'll have a complete and exact quote before we leave, so there are no surprises on install day.
- Installed by our teamEverything we install is custom built to the exact measurements of your windows, and when ready, professionally installed by our full time installers. Most projects are installed in less than a day.
Operating Systems
Four ways to operate Banded Shades in Olathe
Your Design Specialist brings every one of these to the consultation so you can try them at your own window.
Cordless lift
Move the bottom rail by hand. No cord on the shade.
Chain loop
Tensioned to the wall. The most precise way to set the band offset.
Powerwand
Motorized from a wand for higher windows.
Remote and automation
Set band positions as scenes and recall them.
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Straight Answers
Banded Shades questions from Olathe homeowners
Yes. Manufacturers use banded, zebra, dual and layered for the same construction, and we call them Banded Shades. It's one shade with solid and sheer horizontal bands that shift past each other as you move it, custom made to your Olathe windows and installed by our own Install Techs.
Line the solid bands up and you have privacy for practical purposes. With a lamp on inside at night, a silhouette can still show through the seams, so for a bedroom or bathroom facing the house next door we pair them with a blackout shade or a lined drapery panel.
Yes. Our motorized version runs from a remote, the app on your phone or tablet, a wall switch, or your voice, with schedules and scenes. Rechargeable motors need no wiring, so the tall windows in an existing Olathe home can be motorized with no electrical work at all.
Yes. Three of the four operating systems, Cordless Lift, PowerWand and Motorized, have no accessible cord at all, so there is nothing hanging beside the window for a child or a pet to reach. Your Design Specialist will help you pick the right one for each room in your Olathe home.
They have a clean, modern look, so they suit a remodeled kitchen or a room with painted trim best. In a room with a lot of stained wood trim, a Natural Woven Shade or a wood blind can be the better fit. Your Design Specialist brings samples of each so you can compare them against your own trim.
Our typical lead time is 4 to 6 weeks from order to final installation, and most projects are finished in one installation day. When the Banded Shades are up, our Install Techs clean up, haul the packaging away, and run each shade with you.
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Banded Shades around Olathe
We serve all of Olathe, KS, including Original Town, Cedar Creek, Arbor Creek, Havencroft, Persimmon Hill, Forest View, Prairie Farms and Stonebridge. ZIP codes 66061, 66062.
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