Banded Shades In Prairie Village
Banded (Zebra) Shades in Prairie Village, KS
Our Solar Shield Blinds Banded Shades, also known as zebra shades and dual shades, shift from filtered light to privacy to a clear view without raising the shade. In a Prairie Village remodel where the kitchen opens to the living room, one window gets the breakfast sun, the afternoon glare and the neighbor's porch light, and a banded shade handles all three.
Where It Fits In Prairie Village
Where Banded Shades fit in Prairie Village
The remodels in Prairie Village come with clean trim and open floor plans, and Banded Shades match that look and handle a window whose job changes through the day.
- Remodeled kitchensThe island under the old dining room window catches the sun at breakfast and again at dinner. Slide the bands to sheer for the view and to solid when the glare lands on the counter.
- Front rooms on Mission RoadA living room facing the street wants the view of the sidewalk during the day and privacy after dark. Banded Shades do both from one position, without the up and down of a blind.
- Home offices in former bedroomsThe small front bedroom turned office has a monitor facing a south window. Shift the bands to solid for the call, back to sheer when it ends, and never touch the lift.
- Modern additionsA boxy new second story or a glass walled family room on a 1950s ranch wants a shade that disappears when raised. Banded Shades roll clean into the headrail and leave the trim alone.
Worth Knowing
Two fabrics, one shade, and the light in between
A Banded Shade, sometimes called a zebra or dual shade, is a single roll of alternating sheer and solid horizontal bands that pass over each other. Line the sheers up and you have an open, filtered view. Move it a few inches and the solids overlap for privacy. Raise it all the way and it rolls into the headrail like a Roller Shade. Fabrics come in light filtering and light dimming, and the whole thing works by chain, cordless lift, or a motor. The decision is mostly color and how much the solid band should block, and that's easier with the samples in your hand.
Prairie Village remodels tend to keep the footprint and open up the inside, so one big window now serves the kitchen, the dining table, and the sofa. That window needs to be three different things between morning and night, and a plain blind can't keep up. Banded Shades are the answer we bring to those houses on Roe and Somerset where the interior has gone clean and modern while the front of the house still looks like the fifties from the curb. The headrail sits neat against the new trim, and from the street the bands read as a simple, even fabric.
The solid bands give privacy, and the light dimming fabric goes darker than light filtering, but neither one makes a bedroom black. In a primary bedroom we pair a Banded Shade with a blackout Roller Shade behind it, or run the blackout alone and put the Banded Shade in the rooms where the light changes. Our Design Specialist brings both to the consultation so you can see them in your own light, measures every opening, and hands you an itemized quote on the spot. Banded Shades take 4 to 6 weeks from order to install, and our own Install Techs finish most Prairie Village homes in one day.
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 Prairie Village
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Prairie Village 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 Prairie Village
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 Prairie Village homeowners
With the solid bands overlapped, yes, in the same way a light filtering fabric is private: shapes don't show and the room glows softly. With the sheers lined up they're not, and a front room on Mission Road with the lamps on is on display. The habit is to close the bands at dusk, and a motor with a schedule does that for you.
Yes. We build them to the opening, so the little double hung in the front bedroom and the wide window over the new kitchen sink get the same fabric and the same look. On the shallow casings common in Prairie Village we'll check the depth for an inside mount and use an outside mount on the trim where there isn't enough room.
It dims the room, but it won't make it dark. Light dimming bands cut a lot more than light filtering, but light still comes through the sheer bands and around the edges, so a bedroom won't be black. For sleeping, we put a blackout Roller Shade behind the Banded Shade or in place of it, and keep the Banded Shade for rooms where you live during the day.
From the street they read as a soft, even fabric, so a Cape Cod on Nall doesn't look like it has something high tech in the window. Inside is where the modern look shows, and in a house that has been opened up and retrimmed, that modern look fits right in. If the interior kept its original character, we'll suggest Natural Woven Shades or Wood Blinds instead.
Every product we sell can be motorized, Banded Shades included. A rechargeable motor needs no wiring, which matters in a plaster walled house where nobody wants to open the wall, and it runs from a remote, the app, a wall switch, or your voice. Set a schedule to shift the bands to solid at sunset and back to sheer in the morning.
Yes, when they're ordered together. Multiple shades have to be ordered side by side for proper band alignment, so the solid and sheer bands line up from one window to the next. The pair of windows in a Prairie Village living room gets measured and ordered as one job, and a wide opening can take two independently operating shades on one headrail.
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Banded Shades around Prairie Village
We serve all of Prairie Village, KS, including Corinth Hills, Somerset Hills, Prairie Hills, Town & Country Estates, Ridgeview Heights and Meadowbrook. ZIP codes 66206, 66207, 66208.
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