The Alustra® Collection
Alustra® Architectural Roller Shades
The beauty of a Roman shade, with a distinctive difference. An elevated, modern take on a roller shade in more than forty exclusive textural fabrics.
Architectural Roller Shades are the second roller shade in The Alustra® Collection. They carry the soft, folded presence people associate with a Roman shade while operating as a roller, which keeps the stack small and the headrail clean. The fabrics are exclusive to Alustra and textural rather than flat, with more than forty fabric and color choices. Discount Best Blinds and Shutters measures and installs the Alustra Collection across Santa Rosa and Sonoma County.
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Alustra® Architectural Roller Shades for Sonoma County Homes
The reason to consider this over a Roman shade is what happens when it is raised. A Roman shade stacks its folds at the top of the window and that stack takes up glass; a roller shade rolls away into the headrail and takes up very little. Architectural Roller Shades aim at the look of the first with the behavior of the second, which is why they suit tall modern windows where losing the top of the glass to a fabric stack would be a real cost.
The fabrics are the other half of the argument. They are exclusive to the Alustra Collection and chosen for texture, so the shade holds a modern, slightly sculptural quality rather than reading as a plain screen. Forty-plus fabric and color choices is a large range to judge from a card, so we bring samples to the room and look at them in the light the shade will actually live in.
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In how it stacks. A Roman shade such as Vignette gathers its fabric into folds at the top of the window when raised, and that stack covers part of the glass. An Architectural Roller Shade rolls the fabric away into the headrail instead, so more of the window is clear when the shade is up, while the fabric still carries the softer look of a Roman shade when it is down.
Both are roller shades in The Alustra® Collection and both use exclusive fabrics. Woven Textures leads with a visible weave and has the wider range, more than seventy fabrics. Architectural Roller Shades lead with a more sculptural, modern character across forty-plus fabrics. The choice is aesthetic rather than functional, and it is worth seeing both against the actual window.