Banded Shades In Overland Park
Banded (Zebra) Shades in Overland Park, KS
Our Solar Shield Blinds Banded Shades, also known as zebra shades or dual shades, take you from filtered light to privacy to an open view without raising the shade. They're a great fit for the kitchens and family rooms in the newer Overland Park homes off 159th Street, where the light changes every hour of the day.
Where It Fits In Overland Park
Where Banded Shades fit in Overland Park
The newer builds in Blue Valley and the remodeled two stories near 119th lean modern, with clean trim and big glass, and Banded Shades match that look better than anything with slats.
- Kitchens and eat in nooksLight in a south facing breakfast nook changes every hour. Slide the bands to sheer for morning coffee, to solid at midday, and back to a view when the kids are out on the deck.
- Modern builds toward 179thThe newest subdivisions south of 159th have square trim, black window frames and a lot of glass. A banded shade reads as one clean panel and disappears into a small headrail when raised.
- Home officesA home office anywhere in Overland Park can fight glare on the monitor all afternoon. A light dimming banded shade cuts it at two and opens back up for the late afternoon.
- Remodeled ranches near downtownA 1960s ranch near downtown Overland Park that's been opened up inside deserves a window treatment that looks new. Banded Shades on the front picture window handle privacy without curtains.
Worth Knowing
One shade, three positions, and where it should not go alone
A Banded Shade, which you'll also hear called a zebra or dual shade, is a continuous loop of fabric with alternating solid and sheer horizontal bands. Move it a few inches and the solid bands line up with each other for privacy, or with the sheer bands for a filtered view. Raise it all the way and it rolls into a small headrail like a roller. In an Overland Park family room that faces the deck and the neighbor's second story windows, that means you can change the room three times a day without raising or lowering the shade.
The newer homes toward 159th and 179th were built with big square windows, transom stacks, and sliders onto covered decks, and Banded Shades were made for that kind of glass. Fabrics come in light filtering and light dimming, with a range of neutrals that match the white and warm gray trim in those houses. Our Design Specialist brings the samples to your kitchen so you can hold each one up at the hour that bothers you. In the older two stories around 119th, where the trim is oak and the windows are taller than they are wide, the same shade adds a modern line the room is missing.
Banded Shades are not a bedroom shade on their own. Even with the solid bands aligned, they filter light rather than block it, so in a primary bedroom we pair them with a blackout behind or suggest a different product outright. Your free consultation includes measuring every window on site, and you get an itemized quote on the spot that holds for 180 days. Banded Shades average 4 to 6 weeks from order to install. Our full time Install Techs handle most Overland Park homes in less than a day and take the old blinds away with them.
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 Overland Park
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Overland Park 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 Overland Park
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 Overland Park homeowners
With the solid bands aligned, a light dimming fabric gives you privacy from the sidewalk at night on the front windows of a two story near 135th. A light filtering fabric shows shapes when the lamps are on. Our Design Specialist will show you both in your own front room after dark if that's when it matters.
They're a great match for that look. The headrail is small, the fabric reads as one clean panel, and the neutrals and charcoals match the black frames and white trim in the houses south of 159th. When the shade is fully raised, the window is just glass again, which is what those homes were designed around.
Only with a blackout behind it. Banded Shades filter light even in the closed position, so a primary bedroom on the east side of the house will be bright by six in the morning. We'll pair it with a blackout roller or steer you to a honeycomb, and tell you which one before you order.
Yes. Three of the four operating systems, Cordless Lift, PowerWand and Motorized, have no accessible cord at all, and for a family in one of the newer Blue Valley subdivisions that's where we start. A rechargeable motor needs no wiring, so the tall kitchen window over the sink and the slider to the deck can all run from one remote or the app.
Yes. A wide slider works well with two independently operating shades on one headrail, so each side runs on its own and the look stays unified from across the room. Cordless Lift, PowerWand and motorized versions leave no chain hanging near the door. We measure the door and check the clearance on site, and we'll tell you if a vertical honeycomb or a roller is the better product for that opening.
Our typical lead time for Banded Shades is 4 to 6 weeks from order to final installation, and most Overland Park homes are finished in one installation day. While you wait, we install free temporary shades on every window you ordered for, and we take them down on install day. Our Install Techs clean up, take the packaging away, and walk every room with you before they leave.
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Banded Shades around Overland Park
We serve all of Overland Park, KS, including Downtown Overland Park, Nottingham by the Green, Deer Creek, Stanley and Blue Valley. ZIP codes 66204, 66207, 66210, 66212, 66213, 66214, 66221, 66223, 66224.
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