Exterior Patio Shades In Prairie Village
Exterior Patio Shades and Screens in Prairie Village, KS
Our Solar Shield Blinds Exterior Patio Shades are motorized patio screens and outdoor solar shades for the covered patios and porches behind Prairie Village homes. The lots here run tight, and one shade on the side facing the neighbor's deck gives you privacy and holds off the west sun at the push of a button.
Where It Fits In Prairie Village
Where Exterior Patio Shades fit in Prairie Village
Small yards, brick ranches with a slab out back, and a lot of family room additions with glass on the west side are where an exterior shade makes the biggest difference.
- The side facing the neighborA single shade on the side of the patio that faces the neighbor goes down at dinner, the neighbor sees fabric, and the rest of the patio stays open to the yard.
- Additions with west glassThe family room addition on the back of a 1950s ranch near Mission Road is mostly glass, and it faces west. A shade outside that glass stops the heat before it gets in.
- Covered patios off the Cape CodsThe Cape Cods around Corinth have a roofed patio off the back door with open sides. Shades in tracks close those sides for a cold March evening and open them for July.
- Restaurant patios along 75thRestaurant patios at the Prairie Village Shops and along 75th Street can seat more guests in the shade, and sun and wind sensors raise and lower the shades on their own.
Worth Knowing
Fabric, tracks, and what the patio has to have
The structure comes first. It hangs from a solid header and runs in tracks on posts or columns, so a covered patio, a screened porch, or a pergola with a real beam works, and a bare slab with nothing over it takes a Retractable Awning instead. Your Design Specialist comes to the house, checks the structure, measures each opening, and writes an itemized quote that holds 180 days. The wait is eight to ten weeks, since each track is cut to the opening. Our own full time Install Techs do the install, most patios in a day, and defects are fixed free under the Five Year Service Guarantee.
Prairie Village was built one ranch at a time in the 1940s and 1950s on lots that share a fence line with three neighbors, and the patio went on the back where the sun sets. Since then a lot of those houses have grown a second story or a family room addition, with more glass than the rest of the house, facing west. A shade on the west column drops for the last hours of daylight, and a second one on the fence side gives you an evening that isn't shared with the deck next door. Roll them up and the yard is the yard again.
The fabric is a screen: the tighter the weave, the more privacy from the fence side and the less you see of the yard, while an open weave keeps the view and still cuts the glare. It runs in wind rated side tracks that hold it flat, which is what puts the 75 mph wind rating on it and seals the edges against rain and bugs. Down, it shuts out wind, snow and ice as well. A push button moves it, and the sun and wind sensors move it without you, down when the light hits the patio, up when a gust comes across the yard.
What Comes As Standard
- 75 mphWind rating, with wind rated side tracks
- Wind ratedSelf-adjusting side tracks
- Sun sensorsAnd wind sensors that retract for you
- 8 to 10 wksOrder to install on exterior work
- 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.
Screen Colors
Exterior screen colors we bring to Prairie Village
Your Design Specialist holds each one up against your siding, stone and trim so you see it in your own light before you decide.
Flat Black
The clearest view out of anything here. A dark screen absorbs light rather than scattering it, so the yard stays sharp.
Charcoal
A middle tone that reads as shadow from outside, with a clear view from inside.
Granite
A gray with visible texture in the weave. Holds up against stone and painted siding without going flat.
Tobacco
Warm mid brown. The usual pick where the house has cedar or a stained deck.
Espresso Texture
A woven texture rather than a flat color, which breaks up a very large span so it does not read as one sheet.
Shadow Texture
Blue gray with a textured weave. The one that suits a modern exterior with gray or black window frames.
Stone Texture
A pale textured neutral. Brighter underneath than the darks, and it hides dust between cleans.
Bone
Soft off white. Light stays bright under the shade, at the cost of some outward visibility.
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Straight Answers
Exterior Patio Shades questions from Prairie Village homeowners
Yes. Every open side of a covered patio gets a separate shade on its own track, so one on the fence side handles the neighbor's deck and the rest stays open. By day a tight weave shows the neighbor fabric and nothing else. After dark, with your patio lights on, a screen fabric loses some of that privacy, and we'll show you the difference at the visit.
The tracks fasten to the posts of the patio cover and the housing hangs from its header, so on a 1950s ranch near Corinth everything tucks up under the patio roof, and with the shade rolled up you see a slim housing and two tracks, nothing more. Your Design Specialist shows you where each piece lands before the order goes in, and you see the fabric against the brick first.
Either. A push button on the remote drops it when you walk out, and the sun sensor drops it for you when the afternoon light lands on the patio, then the wind sensor rolls it up the moment a gust comes through. That last part matters on a Prairie Village patio with a storm rolling in from the west while you're at work, because the shade is protected in its housing before the wind picks up.
It depends on what the pergola is made of. The tracks need posts that don't move and the housing needs a solid beam to hang from, so a pergola with a real header works and a light kit frame doesn't. If the cover behind your ranch was built as a real roof on real posts, it's ready, and your Design Specialist looks at it on the free visit and says plainly if it needs a beam first.
With the shades down on the open sides, the patio keeps out wind, rain, snow and ice, and with a heater going it's a room you use in November. The patio at Meddy's in Liberty shut down every winter before the shades went in, and now it seats guests all year. On a covered patio behind a Prairie Village ranch, that's an extra season without adding on.
Yes, and the screen color decides how clear that view is. Darker screens like Flat Black, Black or Charcoal give the clearest view out, because a dark weave absorbs light instead of scattering it. Lighter screens like Bone or White brighten the patio underneath but soften the view. Your Design Specialist shows you both in daylight on your Prairie Village patio before you choose.
Nearby
Exterior Patio 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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