Roller Shades In Decatur
Roller & Solar Shades in Decatur, IL
If your home in Decatur, IL looks out over Lake Decatur, you get a great view and a lot of bright light and glare off the water along with it. Our Solar Shield Blinds Roller Shades, including the solar shades made from screen fabric, soften that light and protect your floors and furniture, and you still keep your view of the lake.
Where It Fits In Decatur
Where Roller Shades Fit In Decatur
Lake Decatur has about 30 miles of shoreline, with Nelson Park, Faries Park and Scovill Zoo along its edge, and a home that faces the water has a lot of sunlight to manage.
- Lake View Living RoomsA solar screen fabric takes the glare off the TV and the heat off the room, and you can still see out to the water during the day.
- Rooms Facing The ParkIf your windows look out on Nelson Park or Faries Park, a screen fabric keeps the trees and the water in view. A clean cassette at the top hides the roll when the shade is up.
- Home OfficesWhen the sun hits a computer monitor, a 3 to 5 percent screen takes the glare off the screen and keeps the room bright enough to work in.
- BedroomsBlackout fabric with side and bottom channels blocks the light leak down the edges, so a bedroom stays dark even on a bright summer morning.
Choosing Your Fabric
Screens, blackout, and everything in between
Roller Shades are about as simple as a window covering gets, and that is a big part of why so many of our clients choose them. There is nothing to dust and no strings to get tangled, and one clean panel of fabric gives you privacy, light control, and a pop of color or texture. We carry thousands of fabrics in three groups: Screens, Decorative Fabrics, and Blackout Fabrics.
Screen fabrics are the ones to look at for a room that faces the lake. The looser the weave, the more of the view you keep, and the tighter the weave, the more sun and heat it holds back. Decorative and light filtering fabrics keep a room private around the clock, and blackout fabrics block the light completely. For the top of the shade, you can leave the fabric roll open or cover it with a 3 or 4 inch cassette, a fascia, or a fabric or wood cornice.
Then comes the operating system: Standard Chain Loop, Cordless Lift, PowerWand, or Motorized. Cordless Lift, PowerWand and Motorized are all child safe, and on a tall window a chain loop or a motor is the easier reach. Your Design Specialist brings the fabric samples to your Decatur home and holds them up against your own windows before you decide. Plan on 4 to 6 weeks between your order and your install day.
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 Decatur
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Decatur 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 Decatur
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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Straight Answers
Roller Shades questions from Decatur homeowners
Yes. A solar screen fabric is made for exactly that. A 10% screen keeps the view out very crisp during the day, and a 3% screen gives you a softer view with more privacy and more heat blocked. Screen fabrics are not private at night once the lights are on inside, so bedrooms and street facing rooms need a light filtering or blackout fabric.
Not by itself. Light still slips past the sides of a single flat shade, even with blackout fabric. Side and bottom channels close off those edges, and that's the setup we recommend for bedrooms.
Yes, and they are our usual choice over vertical blinds on a sliding glass door. Magnetic hold downs keep the bottom rail in place, and a motor makes a wide door easy to run with one button.
Yes. Roller Shades are one of the best choices for wide and tall openings. On a very wide window we put two or three shades on one shared headrail, which keeps the look clean and each shade easy to raise.
Yes. We come to your home in Decatur, or nearby in Mt. Zion or Forsyth, with the fabric samples, measure every opening, and give you a complete and exact quote before we leave. There is no pressure to decide that day.
Yes. The fabric carries a lifetime warranty, and our Carefree Guarantee adds our Five Year Service guarantee and one Life Happens repair for an accidental damage event within five years. It all transfers with the house, so if you sell your Decatur home, the next owner is covered too.
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Roller Shades around Decatur
We serve all of Decatur, IL, including the West End, the Decatur Historic District, Johns Hill, Southmoreland and Nelson Park. ZIP codes 62521, 62522, 62523, 62526.
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