Honeycomb Shades In Blue Springs
Honeycomb (Cellular) Shades in Blue Springs, MO
Honeycomb Shades, also called cellular shades, are the shade we reach for when a Blue Springs room runs cold. The lower level of a Kingsridge raised ranch and the bedroom over the garage in a 1990s two story are the rooms people bring up in January, and the air pocket in each cell holds a layer of still air against the glass.
Where It Fits In Blue Springs
Where Honeycomb Shades and cellular shades fit in Blue Springs
Cellular shades take on cold rooms and close neighbors, which in Blue Springs means lower levels, bedrooms over the garage and upstairs windows that face the house next door.
- Raised ranch lower levelsThe lower level family room in a Kingsridge raised ranch sits partly below grade, with short windows and cold glass in winter. A double cell honeycomb sized to those windows holds in more heat.
- Bedrooms over the garageA bedroom over the garage in a Plaza Estates or Waterfield two story has cold air under the floor and a window facing the weather. A honeycomb puts insulation right at the glass.
- Side yards on newer streetsUpstairs bedrooms at Eagles Ridge and Chapman Farms look across a side yard at the neighbor's windows. Top Down Bottom Up covers the lower half and leaves the sky open.
- Sliding patio doorsThe vertical version hangs across a slider and opens side to side, stacking to about six inches so you can walk through, then covers the glass with an insulating layer once the door is shut.
Worth Knowing
Warmer lower levels and private bedrooms in Blue Springs homes
A large part of Blue Springs went up in the 1970s, when the population nearly quadrupled, and the raised ranches and split levels from that decade have a lower level that runs cooler than the rest of the house. The windows down there are short and set high in the wall, close to the ground outside. A Honeycomb Shade built to that exact opening puts its insulating cells right against the glass, and its headrail is the smallest of anything we carry, so a shallow casing doesn't get crowded.
There are over 100 fabrics in sheer, light filtering and room darkening, and one shade can pair light filtering with room darkening so a bedroom gets soft light in the morning and dark at night. Cordless Lift and Lock Top Down Bottom Up reaches 84 inches wide, and the motorized version reaches 120 inches for a wide great room window at Chapman Farms. We fit honeycomb to arches and angles, put a motor and a solar panel on skylights, and hang the vertical version on patio doors. From the street, every shade shows white no matter which color faces the room.
Room darkening honeycomb leaves thin lines of light at the edges, and a privacy light block closes most of that. White room darkening fabric also shows a slight gray cast from its liner, and your Design Specialist points that out on the sample before you choose. The consultation is free, every window is measured, and your exact quote comes before we leave and holds for 180 days. Order to install runs 4 to 6 weeks, and our Install Techs finish most homes in less than a day.
What Comes As Standard
- Single or doubleCell, for how bad your glass is
- Top DownBottom Up, motorized up to 120 inches wide
- BlackoutCell fabric for a genuinely dark room
- CordlessStandard, nothing hanging anywhere
- 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 Blue Springs
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Blue Springs 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 Honeycomb Shades in Blue Springs
Your Design Specialist brings every one of these to the consultation so you can try them at your own window.
Cordless lift
The standard on homes with children or pets. Grab the rail and move it, with no cord anywhere on the shade.
Cord loop
Tensioned and wall-anchored, for very tall or very wide cells.
Powerwand
Motorized operation from a wand, useful on high windows.
Full automation
Schedules and scenes. Drop the whole west side at three o’clock.
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Straight Answers
Honeycomb Shades questions from Blue Springs homeowners
Yes, they help. The cells trap a pocket of air against the glass and slow the heat leaving the room, which you feel most on the short lower level windows in a Kingsridge raised ranch. For the coldest rooms we recommend double cell, because the second air pocket insulates better.
Yes, with Top Down Bottom Up. You lower the top rail to let in daylight over a privacy line you set, while the bottom stays covered. On the upstairs bedrooms of the newer homes off MO 7, where the next house sits across a side yard, that's the setting most people use.
Yes. Every shade is built to the opening we measure, and the slim headrail fits a shallow casing without crowding it. On a wide lower level window, your Design Specialist will tell you whether one shade or two side by side works better.
Yes. Cordless Lift and Lock has no reachable cord at all, and you move the shade by its rail. PowerWand and motorized honeycomb are child safe too, and those three are what we recommend for any room a child sleeps or plays in.
Yes. A skylight over a kitchen or bonus room gets a motorized honeycomb with a solar panel that charges the battery from the sun through the glass, so no wire runs through the ceiling. The cells add insulation up there too.
Yes. The Carefree Guarantee gives them a lifetime product warranty that transfers with the house, five years of free service on defects, and one Life Happens repair for an accident in that time.
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Honeycomb Shades around Blue Springs
We serve all of Blue Springs, MO, including Downtown Blue Springs, Kingsridge, Plaza Estates, Waterfield, Stonecreek, Chapman Farms and Eagles Ridge. ZIP codes 64013, 64014, 64015.
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