Honeycomb Shades In Olathe
Honeycomb (Cellular) Shades in Olathe, KS
Honeycomb Shades, also called cellular shades, are our go to solution when an Olathe room is cold in January and hot in July. The air pocket between two layers of fabric insulates the window, and Top Down Bottom Up lets you set your privacy line anywhere on the glass.
Where It Fits In Olathe
Where Honeycomb Shades help most in Olathe
New windows or old, a Honeycomb Shade makes the window more efficient. These are the rooms where Olathe homeowners feel the difference first.
- Split levels in HavencroftIf your 1970s or 1980s split level still has its original windows, the cold comes right off the glass in winter. The cell traps still air against the window, and the room gets more comfortable.
- Bedrooms facing the neighborsTop Down Bottom Up drops the top rail for daylight while the bottom stays up for privacy, which suits a bedroom a few steps from the house next door.
- Shallow casings in new buildsHoneycomb Shades have the smallest headrail of any window covering we carry, so they fit a shallow casing and still mount inside the frame.
- Arches and skylightsArched windows over the entry, angle tops and skylights all come in a honeycomb. A motorized skylight shade recharges its battery with a solar panel.
Worth Knowing
Insulation, light control, and the options that fit your windows
The cell structure of a Honeycomb Shade traps a pocket of still air between two layers of fabric, and that pocket is what does the work. It holds the cold out in January and the heat out in July, and on single pane or older double pane windows the difference is easy to feel. On the newer glass in west Olathe the benefit is still real, just smaller. The exterior side of every Honeycomb Shade is white, so the front of your home looks uniform from the street no matter what color you pick for each room.
Fabrics come in light filtering, room darkening and sheer, and light filtering and room darkening can be combined in one shade. Double cell insulates better and suits north facing windows and older glass, while single cell stacks tighter on a short window. For lift, choose Cord Loop, Cordless, PowerWand or Motorized. Cordless Lift and Lock Top Down Bottom Up goes up to 84 inches wide, and motorized Top Down Bottom Up goes up to 120 inches, which covers the wide picture windows in Arbor Creek and Cedar Creek.
Room darkening fabric blocks the light coming through the shade, but an inside mount leaves small gaps at the sides, and white room darkening fabric reads a little gray from inside. A privacy light block along the edges closes most of that gap. Your Design Specialist shows you all of this in your own light at a free consultation, measures every opening in your Olathe home, and writes an exact quote on the spot that holds for 180 days.
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 Olathe
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Olathe 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 Olathe
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 Olathe homeowners
Yes. Honeycomb Shades are also called cellular shades, because each pleat forms a cell of trapped air that looks like a honeycomb from the side. We call them Honeycomb Shades, and they come in single cell and double cell, with over 100 fabrics in light filtering, room darkening and sheer.
Yes. The air pocket slows heat moving through the glass, and the window is where a large share of an Olathe room's heat loss happens. How much you notice depends on your glass. In an Original Town or Havencroft home with single pane or older double pane windows the difference is obvious, and a double cell fabric gives you the most insulation.
Yes. Cordless Top Down Bottom Up has no accessible cord, so nothing hangs down for a child or a pet to reach, and it covers windows up to 84 inches wide. Pair it with room darkening fabric and summer bedtime works while it is still light outside.
Yes. We offer stationary fan fold arches and fully functional motorized arches, angle tops, hexagons and octagons, and skylight shades with manual or motorized operation. A motorized skylight shade uses a solar panel to recharge the battery, so there is nothing to wire and no ladder to climb.
No. A vacuum with a brush attachment once or twice a year keeps them clean, and you should never soak them in water. Our use and maintenance guide covers the care for every product we install in your Olathe home.
Honeycomb Shades take 4 to 6 weeks from order to final installation, and most projects are finished in one installation day. If a window is bare while you wait, we install a free paper temporary shade on it, and our Install Techs take it down the day your new shades go up.
Nearby
Honeycomb Shades around Olathe
We serve all of Olathe, KS, including Original Town, Cedar Creek, Arbor Creek, Havencroft, Persimmon Hill, Forest View, Prairie Farms and Stonebridge. ZIP codes 66061, 66062.
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