Roller Shades In Prairie Village
Roller Shades in Prairie Village, KS
Our Solar Shield Blinds Roller Shades, including solar shades in a screen fabric, take the afternoon glare off the big glass in a Prairie Village family room addition and keep the yard in view. By three the sun is on the TV in a lot of these rooms, and a roller shade rolls up into a three inch roll when you want the whole window back.
Where It Fits In Prairie Village
Where Roller Shades fit in Prairie Village
Prairie Village has two kinds of windows: the small original ones on the front of the house and the big new ones on the back. Roller Shades were made for the second kind.
- Family room additionsThe remodel that pushed the back wall out toward the yard brought in a run of tall windows and a slider. A 3% screen keeps the view and stops the glare on the TV.
- Kitchens opened to the backWhen the wall between the kitchen and dining room came down, the west sun started landing on the island every afternoon. A light filtering fabric softens it without going dark.
- Second story additionsDormers turned into full second floors have windows that face the neighbor's second floor. A decorative fabric gives full privacy day and night and rolls out of sight in the morning.
- Sliding doors to the patioA shade on a slider gets bumped every time someone goes out. Magnetic hold downs keep it flat against the door, and a motor keeps hands off it entirely.
Worth Knowing
Openness, channels, and the three inch roll
Most of the houses between Mission Road and State Line were built with windows that are tall and narrow, set in shallow casings. The additions that came later went the other way: one wide opening, or three ganged together, looking at the yard. That is where a Roller Shade works best. It rolls into a three inch roll at the top, so when it's up there is nothing on the glass but the trim, and the front room keeps the look the street expects. On the original wood double hungs we mount inside the casing wherever there's depth and on the trim where there isn't.
The main decision is openness. A 10% screen keeps the crispest view of the yard and cuts glare, but at night with the lamps on, a neighbor can see shapes. A 3% screen keeps daytime privacy and still shows the trees. For full privacy after dark, pick a light filtering or decorative fabric, and for a bedroom, a blackout fabric with no openness. Then pick how it runs: Standard Chain Loop, Cordless Lift, PowerWand, or Motorized. Top it with a 3 or 4 inch cassette or a 3, 4 or 5 inch fascia so the roll looks finished from inside and from the sidewalk.
Two limits come with the product. Light gaps down the sides are part of any roller shade, and in a bedroom that wants to be truly dark, blackout fabric needs side and bottom channels to do the job. Very wide shades across a run of addition glass want a motor rather than a chain. Our Design Specialist brings the fabric books to your house, measures every opening, and writes an itemized quote on the spot that holds for 180 days. Interior shades average 4 to 6 weeks from order to install, and our own full time Install Techs put most projects up in less than a 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 Prairie Village
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Prairie Village 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 Prairie Village
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 Prairie Village homeowners
It depends on the depth, and our Design Specialist will tell you on the spot. Many of the original wood windows in Prairie Village have casings too shallow for an inside mount, so we mount on the trim instead and use a cassette or fascia to finish the top. Where there's depth, an inside mount sits tucked into the casing and looks like it was always there.
Not on its own. A 3% or 10% screen keeps daytime privacy, and after dark with the lights on it reverses, so anyone in the next yard can see shapes moving. In a family room that sits close to the fence, we pair a screen for the day with a light filtering or decorative fabric that gives full privacy at night, or pick one fabric that does both.
Yes, and they're one of our favorite places to use them. A Roller Shade on a slider disappears into a three inch roll when it's up, so the door works like a door. We add magnetic hold downs so the shade stays flat when the door is opened and closed, and on a wide slider we recommend a motor so nobody is reaching over the handle.
It doesn't have to, but in Prairie Village most people want it to, and a roller shade helps. From the sidewalk on Mission Road or Nall the roll is out of sight when it's raised, and when it's down a light colored fabric reads clean and even across the front. If you want blackout in a front bedroom and a screen in the living room, we'll help you choose fabrics that look alike from outside.
The fabric carries a lifetime warranty, so if it fails it's replaced. West facing glass in a Prairie Village back yard gets the hardest sun of the day in July, and that's the job these fabrics are built for. Our Lifetime Product guarantee covers defects in materials and workmanship for as long as you own the house, and the Life Happens guarantee covers one accidental damage event within five years at no charge.
Yes. We carry thousands of roller shade fabrics in three groups: screens, decorative fabrics, and blackout fabrics. Your Design Specialist brings the samples to your Prairie Village home, holds them against your trim and walls in your own light, and helps you pick the right fabric type first, then the color and texture, as part of your free in-home consultation.
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Roller Shades around Prairie Village
We serve all of Prairie Village, KS, including Corinth Hills, Somerset Hills, Prairie Hills, Town & Country Estates, Ridgeview Heights and Meadowbrook. ZIP codes 66206, 66207, 66208.
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