Drapery & Soft Treatments In Kansas City
Drapery & Soft Treatments in Kansas City, KS
Solar Shield Blinds makes custom drapery, drapes and curtains, plus Roman shades, cornices and cushions, for homes across Kansas City, KS. A two story great room in Piper with a wall of windows and a shade on each one can still feel unfinished, and custom panels, a cornice and matching cushions make it feel like home.
Where It Fits In Kansas City
Where Drapery & Soft Treatments Fit In Kansas City, KS
Fabric is how a KCK living room gets warmth, a dining room gets softness and a bedroom gets truly dark, and these are the rooms where it does the most.
- Tall great roomsFloor to ceiling panels on the tall windows of a newer two story give the room scale and a place for the eye to land instead of a wall of bare glass.
- Front rooms on Strawberry HillTall windows and high ceilings in an older home suit drapery well. Panels on a rod set well above the trim make the most of the height.
- Dining roomsA Roman Shade in a print or a linen softens the dining room in a Turner ranch and takes the west sun off the table without using any wall space.
- Bedrooms for day sleepersInterlined drapery over a blackout shade is how a bedroom near KU Med gets dark and quiet during the day, with the shade doing most of the work.
Worth Knowing
Lining, Layering And Rooms That Need Softening
Two kinds of KCK rooms call for drapery. The first is the tall front room in an older home on Strawberry Hill or in Rosedale, with high ceilings and tall windows, where panels on a rod set close to the ceiling make the most of the height. The second is the big open great room in a newer subdivision out toward the Legends, where a wall of windows can still leave the room feeling bare. Panels down the sides of that wall, a cornice across the top and cushions on the window seat finish it.
Lining decides what the drapery does. Unlined panels are translucent and will fade over time, which can be fine in a living room. Lined panels hang better, block more light and last longer, and interlined panels are heavier again for real light blocking in a bedroom. Most of the time we layer, with a Roller Shade or a Honeycomb Shade handling daily privacy and the drapery framing the window. Roman Shades fit where there's no room for panels, and pillows and bench seat cushions come from the same fabric library.
Drapery on its own lets some light in at the top and the sides, so for a bedroom that has to be dark during the day, the shade under the drapery does the blackout work. Your Design Specialist brings the fabric books to your home, with thousands of choices, and measures every opening. Everything is sewn in our own workroom, the itemized quote is written on the spot and holds for 180 days, and our lead time is 4 to 6 weeks, with our own Install Techs hanging and dressing every panel.
What Comes As Standard
- PanelsCornices, valances and romans
- ThousandsCustom fabrics to choose from
- LinedOr interlined for real light blocking
- CushionsWindow seats and banquettes too
- 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 Kansas City
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Kansas City 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.
Tops And Pleats
How the top of the treatment finishes in Kansas City homes
Cornices, valances and pleat styles decide how the whole window reads. Your Design Specialist brings the fabric books and the style samples to the consultation.
Cornice styles
Hard-topped treatments that hide a headrail and add height.
Shaped cornices
Scalloped, arched and tailored profiles.
Valance profiles
Softer gathered and pleated tops.
Pleat styles
Pinch, goblet, ripple fold and flat panel headers.
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Straight Answers
Drapery & Soft Treatments questions from Kansas City homeowners
Yes, it's one of the best things they do. In a Piper two story with a wall of windows, panels that run floor to ceiling down each side give the room edges, and a cornice across the top ties the windows together. Add cushions on the window seat and pillows from the same fabric, and the room looks like one plan.
In a living room it's a style choice, since the shade handles the light, though lining helps the fabric last longer. In a bedroom we recommend lined or interlined every time, because the extra layers cut light and help against a cold window in an older KCK home. Your Design Specialist will show you lined and unlined side by side.
Yes, and they suit the era. A Classic Roman Shade hangs flat and folds up neatly, so on a tall, narrow window in a Strawberry Hill front room it keeps the opening clean and lets the trim show. Lined, it blocks the afternoon sun, and our Roman Shades are cordless.
Yes, with layers. A blackout Roller Shade with side channels does the real darkening, and interlined drapery over it catches the light that gets around the shade. For someone in Rosedale sleeping after a night shift at KU Med, that pairing is the answer we give, and we bring both to the consultation.
Yes. Bench seat cushions and pillows are part of the soft treatments we make, measured to your bench and sewn from the same fabric library as the drapery. A window seat in a great room or a built in bench in a breakfast nook gets a cushion that matches the panels.
Yes. We recommend panels two to two and a half times the width of the opening. A panel that is exactly as wide as the space it covers hangs flat and looks thin, and the extra width gives you the folds that make fabric look right. It's the detail most worth spending a little extra on.
Nearby
Drapery & Soft Treatments around Kansas City
We serve all of Kansas City, KS, including Strawberry Hill, Rosedale, Argentine, Armourdale, Turner, Piper and Village West. ZIP codes 66101, 66102, 66103, 66104, 66105, 66106, 66109, 66111, 66112.
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The people who measure it are the people who hang it
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