Roller Shades In Overland Park
Roller Shades in Overland Park, KS
Our Solar Shield Blinds Roller Shades, including solar shades in a screen fabric, take the glare off the big west facing windows in Overland Park homes while you keep your view of the yard. From the great rooms off 135th Street to the ranches near Downtown Overland Park, we bring thousands of fabrics to your home and measure every window ourselves.
Where It Fits In Overland Park
Where Roller Shades fit in Overland Park
The two story homes south of I-435 were built around big glass, and the older ranches by downtown have picture windows on the street. Both want a shade that gets out of the way.
- Great rooms off 135thA two story wall of west glass in a Blue Valley home takes the full afternoon. A 3% or 5% screen keeps the trees and the yard while the glare on the sofa goes away.
- Walkout basements and media roomsThe finished walkout below the deck is where the TV lives. A blackout roller with side channels turns it into a real theater, and it rolls up to nothing when you want the yard.
- Ranches north of I-435Picture windows on the 1950s and 1960s ranches near downtown Overland Park sit close to the sidewalk. A light filtering fabric gives you the front room back without a heavy treatment on the wall.
- Offices on College BoulevardScreens glare in the Corporate Woods towers and the smaller offices along Metcalf just like they do at home. Motorized roller shades on a schedule keep the conference room usable all afternoon.
Worth Knowing
Choosing the openness, the operating system, and a fabric for dark rooms
Openness factor is the first decision, and it decides view versus privacy. A 10% screen keeps the sharpest view out to the yard and the trees along Indian Creek, but at night with the lamps on the room is visible from outside. A 3% screen keeps daytime privacy and a softer view. Light filtering and decorative fabrics give full privacy day and night, and blackout has no openness at all. Our Design Specialist brings the fabric samples to your house so you can hold each one up to your own west window at the hour it bothers you most.
The 1990s two stories around 119th and 135th have tall windows and stacked transoms, and the newer builds toward 159th and 179th have wide sliders onto covered decks. Roller Shades suit both because the fabric rolls into a three inch roll at the top and the window looks bare when the shade is up. For sliding doors and doors with handles we use magnetic hold downs so the shade stays put when the door swings. Four operating systems cover every room: Standard Chain Loop, Cordless Lift, PowerWand, and Motorized. Very wide great room openings want a motor, and rechargeable motors need no wiring in an existing house.
Light gaps down the sides are inherent to any roller shade, so if you want a truly dark primary bedroom or basement theater, plan on blackout fabric with side and bottom channels. We'll tell you that at the consultation instead of after. The visit is free, every opening is measured on site, and you get an itemized exact quote on the spot with the price held for 180 days. Interior treatments average 4 to 6 weeks from order to install, and our own full time Install Techs put in most Overland Park projects in less than a day. The fabric carries a lifetime warranty.
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 Overland Park
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Overland Park 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 Overland Park
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 Overland Park homeowners
Yes, and that is where they shine in the two story homes along 135th and 151st. Very wide or very tall openings want a motor rather than a chain, and a rechargeable motor needs no wiring. Our Install Techs bring the lift equipment, and the shade rolls up to a three inch roll so the top window still reads as glass from the street.
Start with a 3% screen if you want daytime privacy and a softer view, or a 5% screen if the yard matters more than the neighbor across the fence. A 10% screen keeps a crisp view but very little privacy at night. Our Design Specialist brings the samples to your house so you can judge the glare at four in the afternoon, not in a showroom.
A blackout fabric alone still leaves light gaps down the sides, so a true theater in a finished walkout near 159th needs side and bottom channels. With channels the room goes dark in daylight. We'll measure the opening, quote the channels as a line item, and tell you plainly if a different room is the better place for them.
They fit well. The picture windows on the older ranches north of I-435 sit close to the sidewalk, and a light filtering fabric gives the front room privacy day and night without a heavy treatment. Shallow casings are common in those houses, and a 3 inch cassette or fascia tucks into most of them. We measure each one before we quote.
Interior Roller Shades average 4 to 6 weeks from order to install. The day you order we install free paper temporary shades on every window in the order so you're not living with naked glass, then our Install Techs come back, install, clean up, take the packaging away, and walk every room with you. Most homes are finished in less than a day.
Yes. Three of our four operating systems, Cordless Lift, PowerWand and Motorized, have no hanging chain at all, and where a chain loop is the right choice for a high window, we anchor it with a child safe hold down. For the bedrooms and playrooms in the family homes around Blue Valley, cordless or motorized is where we start. Every shade is covered by our Carefree Guarantee, with a lifetime product warranty that transfers to the next owner.
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Roller Shades around Overland Park
We serve all of Overland Park, KS, including Downtown Overland Park, Nottingham by the Green, Deer Creek, Stanley and Blue Valley. ZIP codes 66204, 66207, 66210, 66212, 66213, 66214, 66221, 66223, 66224.
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