Honeycomb Shades In Kansas City
Honeycomb (Cellular) Shades in Kansas City, MO
Our Solar Shield Blinds Honeycomb Shades, also known as cellular shades, add an insulating pocket of air at the glass on the older windows all over Kansas City, MO. They're designed to hold the cold out in January and the heat out in July, and you feel it first in a north facing bedroom in a Hyde Park shirtwaist.
Where It Fits In Kansas City
Where Honeycomb Shades Fit In Kansas City, MO
Old sashes, close neighbors and shallow casings are the three window problems we see most in the city's older neighborhoods, and a Honeycomb Shade answers all three.
- Drafty sashes in Hyde ParkOriginal wood double hungs let air in no matter how well they're weatherstripped. The pocket of air between the two layers of fabric creates the insulation, and a double cell fabric adds more on a north facing window.
- Close set homes in BrooksideThe living room window in a Brookside Tudor can sit a driveway's width from the neighbor's. Top Down Bottom Up lowers from the top for daylight while the bottom half covers the view from their porch.
- Loft windows with no casingDowntown and Crossroads conversions set the glass nearly flush with the wall. Honeycomb Shades have the smallest headrail of any window covering we carry, so they fit where a shutter has nothing to mount to.
- Sunrooms and sleeping porchesThe glassed in porches on Armour Hills and Waldo homes are cold in winter and hot in July. Honeycomb Shades on every wall make it a room you can use all year.
Worth Knowing
Fabric, Top Down Bottom Up And Planning Your Order
Two decisions matter most. The first is the fabric: light filtering glows and keeps the room bright with the shade down, room darkening blocks the light for bedrooms and media rooms, and sheer softens the view, with over 100 fabrics across the three. Light filtering and room darkening can even be combined in one shade. The second is the lift. Cordless Lift and Lock Top Down Bottom Up covers openings up to 84 inches wide, and a motorized Top Down Bottom Up goes to 120 inches, which handles the big front windows on Ward Parkway.
Much of the city's older housing was built before insulated glass, and the tall double hungs that make a shirtwaist so handsome are the coldest part of the house. Storm windows help, and a Honeycomb Shade helps more, because it traps a layer of air right at the glass. In the newer lofts the problem is heat, with a west wall of glass that warms the whole unit every summer afternoon, and the same air pocket slows that heat coming in. Arches over Plaza area doorways, angled windows in an attic conversion and a skylight in a Westport kitchen can all take a Honeycomb Shade built to the shape.
Whatever color you choose inside, the side facing the street is white, so the house looks consistent from outside. Room darkening fabrics leave small light gaps at the sides on an inside mount, and white room darkening fabrics read a little gray in daylight because of the liner, so we bring the actual samples and hold them against your trim. The consultation is free, your Design Specialist measures every opening, and you get an itemized quote on the spot with the price held for 180 days. Our lead time is 4 to 6 weeks, and our own Install Techs install 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 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.
Operating Systems
Four ways to operate Honeycomb Shades in Kansas City
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 Kansas City homeowners
Yes. A honeycomb, or cellular shade, is two layers of fabric with a pocket of air between them, and that pocket sits right at the glass where the cold comes through. On the original sashes in Hyde Park or Midtown, clients tell us they notice it on the first cold night. It doesn't replace weatherstripping, and it does make the room more comfortable.
Yes, and it's the reason many Brookside and Waldo clients choose a Honeycomb Shade. You lower the top of the shade to let the light in over your head and leave the bottom covering the part of the window people see from the sidewalk. You can move that privacy line whenever you like, so a dining room can be open at noon and closed at dinner.
We do. Arches, angles and eyebrow shapes are built to a template of your actual opening, and skylights get a motor with a solar panel so nobody climbs a ladder. The Colonial Revivals and Tudors around Ward Parkway and Armour Hills have plenty of these shapes, and a shade built to the shape looks like it belongs there.
They reduce heat transfer at the window, which is where a large share of a room's heat loss happens. How much you notice depends on the glass you have now. On single pane or older double pane windows, like many of the originals in Hyde Park and Armour Hills, the difference is obvious. On newer glass in a loft it is real but smaller, and a double cell fabric gives you the most insulation either way.
No. A vacuum with a brush attachment once or twice a year keeps them clean, and they should never be soaked. That makes them an easy choice for a Midtown kitchen or a busy family room. Our use and maintenance guide covers the details, and if anything ever goes wrong with a shade, our Carefree Guarantee has you covered.
Yes, in one shade. The light filtering section handles the daytime and the room darkening section handles sleep, and you move between them whenever you want. A primary bedroom with a streetlight outside is the most common reason, and a nursery is the next. Your Design Specialist brings both fabrics so you can see them together against your trim.
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Honeycomb Shades around Kansas City
We serve all of Kansas City, MO, including Hyde Park, Westport, Crossroads, River Market, Country Club Plaza, Brookside, Armour Hills and Waldo. ZIP codes 64105, 64106, 64108, 64109, 64110, 64111, 64112, 64113, 64114, 64123, 64124, 64125, 64126, 64127, 64128, 64129, 64130.
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