Roller Shades In Champaign
Roller & Solar Shades in Champaign, IL
Our Solar Shield Blinds Roller Shades in Champaign, IL run from solar shades, the screen fabrics that soften the afternoon sun and keep your view, all the way to blackout fabrics that block the light completely. Every shade is custom made to the measurements we take at your window, and it rolls up out of the way when you want the whole view back.
Where It Fits In Champaign
Where Roller Shades Fit In Champaign
From the ponds in Robeson Meadows West to the newer streets of Sawgrass, plenty of Champaign homes look out over open ground, and that view is worth keeping.
- Pond Views In Robeson Meadows WestThe subdivision was laid out with four ponds, two city parks and open green space. A 10% solar screen cuts the glare coming off the water and keeps your view out very crisp during the day.
- Newer Homes In SawgrassSawgrass has been building since the early 2000s, with single family homes and townhouses side by side. A 3% screen gives the rooms that face the neighbors good daytime privacy and a softer view out.
- Early Morning BedroomsBlackout fabric with side and bottom channels closes off the light down the edges, which is what a bedroom needs when the sun comes up early in June.
- Home Offices And TV RoomsA screen fabric takes the glare off a computer monitor or a TV and still lets in natural filtered light, so the room stays bright and usable all afternoon.
Choosing Your Fabric
Pick the fabric first, then the way you want to run it
Every roller fabric is rated by its openness, the share of the weave that is open to light. In a Champaign home with a view of a park, a pond, or a big backyard, a 10% screen keeps that view clear while it cuts glare and heat, and a 3% screen blocks more of the sun and gives you better daytime privacy. Light filtering and decorative fabrics give full privacy day and night, and blackout fabrics let no light through the weave at all.
Next comes how you want to operate your shades. Choose from Standard Chain Loop, Cordless Lift, PowerWand, or Motorized, and three of those four have no cord hanging at all, which makes them safe for kids and pets. A wide sliding door or a tall window in a two story great room is a great fit for a motor, and your Design Specialist will help you pick the right system for every window in the house.
The top of the shade is the last choice. You can leave the fabric as an open roll, or cover it with a curved or square cassette, a fascia, a fabric cornice, or a wood cornice, and the cassettes and fascia can be wrapped in the same fabric as the shade. Every Roller Shade is built to the measurements we take at your window, and it goes up 4 to 6 weeks after you place your order.
What Comes As Standard
- ThousandsFabrics, solar screen to true blackout
- 1 to 10%Openness factors, matched to your glass
- CordlessStandard, with motorized on every line
- 4 to 6 wksOrder to final installation
- 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 Roller 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
Push up, pull down, nothing hanging. Standard on homes with children or pets.
Chain loop
Tensioned and anchored to the wall. Best on wide or tall shades where weight is a factor.
Powerwand
A motor inside a wand. The right answer when a window is just past comfortable reach.
Full automation
Schedules, scenes, sun sensors, app and voice. Set the west side once and forget it.
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Roller Shades questions from Champaign homeowners
Yes. A 10% screen keeps the view out very crisp during the day, which makes it a great choice for a home that backs up to one of the ponds in Robeson Meadows West or to a park anywhere in Champaign. At night, with the lights on inside, a screen fabric is see through from the outside, so a bedroom or a street facing room needs a light filtering or blackout fabric as well.
They do. A solar screen turns away a good share of the sun's heat before it reaches your floors and furniture, and the tighter the weave, the more it stops. For a west facing wall of glass, an Exterior Patio Shade mounted outside the window will do even more, and we install those too.
Yes. Roller Shades are our go to alternative to vertical blinds on a sliding glass door, and magnetic hold downs keep the bottom rail in place. Your Design Specialist checks the handle and the depth of the casing when they measure, so the shade clears the door on install day.
Not on its own. The fabric stops the light, but a thin line of it still comes in along each edge of the shade. Adding side and bottom channels to a blackout fabric closes those edges, and that's what we recommend for any bedroom that needs to be truly dark.
Yes. Our Design Specialist comes to your home in Champaign, or nearby in Urbana, Savoy or Mahomet, with the fabric samples, measures every window, and gives you a complete and exact quote on the spot. Your quote holds for 180 days, so you have plenty of time to make your decision.
Size is one part of it. The price comes from the size of the window, the fabric you choose, the operating system, and the top of the shade, since a cassette, fascia or cornice adds to the cost of an open roll and a motor adds to the cost of a cordless lift. Your Design Specialist prices every window in your home before leaving, so you know exactly what you are getting.
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Roller 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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