Honeycomb Shades In Platte City
Honeycomb (Cellular) Shades in Platte City, MO
Honeycomb Shades, also known as cellular shades, hold heat in the rooms of a Platte City home that never feel warm in January. The lower level of a split entry and the north bedroom of an older ranch are the usual suspects, and the air pocket in our Solar Shield Blinds Honeycomb Shades puts a layer of still air between the room and the cold glass.
Where It Fits In Platte City
Where cellular shades fit in a Platte City home
A honeycomb shade has two jobs in Platte City: holding the heat in through the winter and holding the sun back through the summer, and some rooms here need both.
- Lower levels in split entriesThe family room set partly into the ground stays cool most of the year. Double cell honeycomb insulates best, and a light filtering fabric keeps that room from feeling closed in.
- Shallow casings in older ranchesReplacement windows set into a mid-century opening leave a shallow casing near downtown. The honeycomb headrail is the smallest we carry, so it fits inside where other products won't.
- Front rooms that face the streetTop Down Bottom Up drops the top of the shade for daylight and keeps the bottom covered, so the room stays private from the street side.
- Kids' bedroomsCordless Lift and Lock leaves no cord on the shade at all, and it runs Top Down Bottom Up up to 84 inches wide.
Worth Knowing
How a honeycomb shade holds heat, and which rooms to do first
A honeycomb shade is two layers of fabric with an air pocket between them, and that pocket does the work. It keeps cold air off you in winter and slows the heat coming through the glass in summer. In a Platte City split entry, the lower level and the bedrooms over the garage are where we start, and in a ranch near the courthouse it's the north bedroom and the back room that was added on later. An older window can still leak around the frame, and the shade puts still air in front of the glass, which is the part you feel from the couch.
Choose light filtering, room darkening or sheer from over 100 fabrics, and light filtering and room darkening can share one shade so a bedroom is soft by day and dark at night. The Top Down Bottom Up version reaches 84 inches wide with cordless operation and 120 inches with a motor. For a walkout slider there is a vertical honeycomb that stacks to about six inches on one side, and we build shapes for arches, angles and skylights. The street side of every honeycomb is white, so the front of the house looks even from the road.
A room darkening honeycomb lets a thin line of light in along each side, and adding a privacy light block shuts out most of it. White room darkening fabrics look a little gray because of the liner, so we bring samples of both and you decide at the window. The visit is free, the quote is exact and held for 180 days, and interior shades take 4 to 6 weeks. Our own Install Techs finish most Platte City 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 Platte City
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Platte 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 Platte 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 Platte City homeowners
Yes. The air pocket makes a honeycomb the best insulating single layer shade we sell, and a lower level set partly into the ground is where people notice it most. It won't seal a leaky window frame, but it does keep the cold glass from pulling heat out of the room.
Yes, with Top Down Bottom Up. The top of the shade comes down to let daylight in over the privacy line, and the bottom stays closed so anyone passing sees fabric. On the older streets near downtown Platte City, it is the version we suggest first.
In most cases yes, because the headrail on a honeycomb is the smallest of any window covering we carry. Your Design Specialist measures the depth of each casing, and where one is too shallow even for that, the shade mounts on the trim instead.
Yes. Cordless Lift and Lock, PowerWand and Motorized all leave no accessible cord on the shade. Cordless costs a little more than a cord loop, and the quote shows the difference at each window.
No. Honeycomb Shades take 4 to 6 weeks from order to install, and one install day covers most homes. While the order is made, free temporary shades hang in those windows.
Yes. Our Carefree Guarantee gives the fabric a lifetime warranty that transfers to the next owner, five years of free service on defects, and one Life Happens repair for an accident in those five years.
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Honeycomb Shades around Platte City
We serve all of Platte City, MO, including Downtown Platte City, Hills of Oakmont, Lakes at Oakmont, Copper Ridge, Running Horse and Seven Bridges. ZIP code 64079.
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