Wood & Faux Wood Blinds In Lee's Summit
Wood & Faux Wood Blinds in Lee's Summit, MO
Wood blinds and faux wood blinds are a practical way to cover every window in a Lee's Summit home. The slats tilt to give you privacy from the street while you keep an eye on the kids in the yard, and our Solar Shield Blinds team measures and installs them ourselves.
Where It Fits In Lee's Summit
Where wood blinds and faux wood blinds fit in Lee's Summit
For the two stories built in the 1990s and 2000s along Ward Road and Blue Parkway, blinds are the practical choice: privacy with a view, a clean look from the street, and the lowest initial investment of anything we install.
- Street side living roomsTilt the slats and you see the sidewalk while the sidewalk sees a blind. On the front of a two story, matched white blinds in every window give the house a clean look from the curb.
- Kitchens and bathroomsSteam from the shower and splashes at the sink are hard on real wood. Faux wood is a durable engineered polymer that won't crack, chip or fade, and it wipes clean.
- Kids' rooms and playroomsOur cordless options leave nothing hanging in a child's bedroom or over the play area in a finished walkout basement. Cordless is what we recommend for any room a child sleeps in.
- Stained trim near downtownIn the older homes near downtown with stained oak casings, a real wood blind takes a matching stain and looks like part of the woodwork.
Worth Knowing
Real wood or faux wood, and which rooms get which
Plenty of Lee's Summit two stories from the 1990s and 2000s still have the vinyl blinds the builder put in, and by now they're yellowed, bent or missing a slat. Replacing them with Wood or Faux Wood Blinds is the lowest initial investment of anything we install, and it gives you the two things people ask for most: privacy from the street and a view out when the slats are tilted. From the curb, matched blinds in every front window give the house one clean look.
Water decides the material first. Faux wood is the pick for kitchens, bathrooms, laundry rooms and anything over a sink, because steam and humidity don't bother it. Real wood is lighter, which matters on a wide window, and it takes a stain, so it can match the oak trim in an older home near downtown or the front door on a newer build. Past roughly six feet wide we recommend real wood or two blinds on one window, because faux wood is denser and a wide one gets heavy.
Blinds block a good amount of light when they're tilted closed, and routeless slats close out more of it, but they won't make a bedroom fully dark. For that room your Design Specialist will show you a room darkening shade or a drapery over the blind. The consultation is free, every window is measured on site, and your quote comes on the spot with the price held for 180 days. Our full time Install Techs finish most houses in a day and take the old blinds away with them.
What Comes As Standard
- Tilting slatsDaytime privacy with the view kept
- Faux woodFor bathrooms, kitchens and steam
- Real woodLighter, and takes stain properly
- CordlessLift and wand tilt as standard
- 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 Lee's Summit
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Lee's Summit 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 Wood & Faux Wood Blinds in Lee's Summit
Your Design Specialist brings every one of these to the consultation so you can try them at your own window.
Cordless lift
Raise and lower by hand with no cord on the blind.
Wand tilt
A wand controls slat angle. The standard tilt control.
Cordless lift and lock
Holds position anywhere without a cord lock.
Bliss automation
Motorized tilt and lift, scheduled or on demand.
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Straight Answers
Wood & Faux Wood Blinds questions from Lee's Summit homeowners
Yes, for those rooms. Faux wood is an engineered polymer that won't crack, chip or fade in steam or humidity, and it wipes clean. Save the real wood for the living room, the dining room and the office, where it's lighter to lift on a wide window and takes a stain to match the trim.
Yes, to painted trim and to stained wood. Faux wood comes in a range of whites and off whites, and real wood takes a stain, so the oak casings in the older homes near downtown get a blind that looks built in. Your Design Specialist holds the samples against your own trim.
Yes. Our Wood & Faux Wood Blinds come in Cordless, Cordless Lift & Lock and Motorized, and all three are child safe. There's no lift cord to wrap or pull, and the blind raises with a light push on the bottom rail.
During the day, yes. Tilt the slats and you see out toward the sidewalk while anyone passing sees the blind. After dark with the lamps on, close the slats fully for privacy.
They're the lowest initial investment of everything we offer. The price depends on the size of each window, real wood or faux wood, the operating system and whether you add a valance or cornice. Your itemized quote shows every window so you can decide room by room, and it holds for 180 days.
Yes. They're covered by our Carefree Guarantee, with a lifetime product warranty that transfers to the next owner and free service on defects for five years. You also have 30 days after install to swap a product for one of equal or lesser value if it isn't what you wanted.
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Wood & Faux Wood Blinds around Lee's Summit
We serve all of Lee's Summit, MO, including Downtown Lee's Summit, Lakewood, Raintree, New Longview, Winterset and Stoney Creek. ZIP codes 64063, 64064, 64081, 64082, 64086.
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