Honeycomb Shades In Champaign
Honeycomb (Cellular) Shades in Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL averages six nights a year below zero, and a cold window makes the whole room feel chilly. Our Solar Shield Blinds Honeycomb Shades, also called cellular shades, trap still air against the glass to hold the cold out in January and the heat out in July.
Where It Fits In Champaign
Where Honeycomb Shades Fit In Champaign
Honeycomb Shades are our go to solution for any room that feels uncomfortable rather than just bright, from the older homes near downtown to the newer ones on the south side of town.
- Older Homes Near DowntownChampaign has homes going back to the 1860s, like the 1867 Harwood-Solon Residence on South State Street. If your windows are single pane or early double pane glass, a double cell Honeycomb Shade is a difference you can feel.
- Front Rooms In Clark ParkThe Clark Park neighborhood was founded in 1909, a short distance from downtown. For a front room that faces the street, Top Down Bottom Up lets daylight in over the top while the bottom of the shade stays up for privacy.
- Skylights And ArchesOur Honeycomb Shades cover skylights, with motorized shades that charge from a solar panel, and arches, in both fixed fan-fold and fully working motorized styles.
- Bedrooms And NurseriesRoom darkening honeycomb fabrics fit tighter to the edges of the window for more light control, and the cordless and motorized options leave no cord for a child to reach.
How They Work
Single cell, double cell, and the air pocket that does the work
The cell structure of the fabric is what does the insulating. Each cell traps still air between two layers of fabric, and that pocket slows down the cold radiating off the glass in a Champaign January and the heat coming through it in July. It's the reason Honeycomb Shades are the first thing we recommend for a room that's drafty, chilly by the window, or hot all afternoon.
Choose double cell for the most insulation, especially on north facing windows, older glass, or a room that's already hard to keep comfortable. On a short window, single cell is the better pick, since it stacks smaller and looks lighter. We carry over 100 fabrics in light filtering, room darkening, and sheer, and your Design Specialist brings the samples to your home so you can see them in your own light.
No window covering we carry has a smaller headrail, so a Honeycomb Shade fits nicely in a window with a shallow casing. A motorized Top Down Bottom Up Honeycomb Shade can be built as wide as 120 inches, and the cordless version tops out at 84. Plan on 4 to 6 weeks from your order, and most homes are finished in a single 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 Champaign
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Champaign 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 Champaign
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 Champaign homeowners
Yes. They cut down the heat you lose through the glass, and the window is where a large share of a room's heat escapes. If the room already feels cold next to the glass, you'll notice the change right away. On newer windows with good glass the change is smaller, but it's still there.
Yes, that's exactly what Top Down Bottom Up does. Lower the top rail to let daylight in over the top while the bottom stays up for privacy, which works great in a bathroom, a bedroom, or a front room that faces the street.
Yes. We offer classic skylight shades with manual operation, or motorized shades with a remote and a solar panel that charges from the sun coming through the glass. Motorized Honeycomb Shades are our go to for skylights, since nobody wants a ladder on the stairs to close one.
No. The fabric itself stops the light, but an inside mount leaves a small gap at each side. We can add a privacy light block along the edges to close most of it, or side channels for a bedroom that needs to be as dark as possible.
Yes. Our vertical honeycomb draws side to side like a drape and folds into a stack just 6 inches wide at one end, whatever the width of the door. It brings the same insulation to your patio door that a standard honeycomb brings to your windows.
Our lead time is 4 to 6 weeks from the day you order, and most homes are finished in a single installation day. While you wait, we install free temporary shades on every window you ordered for, then take them down when your new shades go up.
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Honeycomb Shades around Champaign
We serve all of Champaign, IL, including Downtown Champaign, Clark Park, Robeson Meadows, Robeson Meadows West, Cherry Hills, Sawgrass and Ironwood. ZIP codes 61820, 61821, 61822.
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