Banded Shades
Designer Banded Shades
A roller and a sheer in one shade. Alternating bands of sheer and solid fabric slide over each other, so you get a view when you want it and privacy when you need it.
Designer Banded Shades are built from horizontal bands of sheer and solid fabric layered front and back. Moving the shade slides one layer against the other: line the solid bands up with the sheer ones and the shade opens into a striped view; offset them and the solid bands close the gaps for privacy. It behaves like a roller shade to operate and like a sheer to look through, which is why it suits rooms that need both at different times of day. Discount Best Blinds and Shutters measures and installs it across Santa Rosa and Sonoma County.
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Designer Banded Shades for Sonoma County Homes
The appeal of a banded shade is that the change happens without raising anything. A roller shade is either down or up; a banded shade stays down and changes what it does. Nudging the fabric a short distance takes a room from an open, striped view to a closed and private one, which is useful on a street-facing window where you want daylight through the middle of the day and cover in the evening.
Band height is a real choice rather than a detail. A medium band gives a finer horizontal rhythm that suits smaller windows and busier rooms; a large band reads calmer and more architectural across a wide opening. Fabrics run to light-filtering and light-dimming options, in a selection that includes textures and geometric patterns, and a fabric-covered headrail finishes the top of the shade rather than leaving a bare cassette on show. ClearView® sheers are available where keeping the outward view as sharp as possible is the priority.
A banded shade is not a blackout treatment. Even with the bands closed, light passes through the sheer sections, so a bedroom that needs genuine darkness is better served by a room-darkening roller or a cellular shade. We say so at the consultation rather than after the order.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The shade is two layers of fabric, each made of alternating sheer and solid bands. Moving the shade slides the layers relative to one another. When the solid bands sit opposite the sheer ones, the gaps are covered and the room is private. When they line up, the sheer sections meet and you see through the shade in horizontal stripes. Nothing has to be raised or lowered to change between the two.
No. Even closed, light comes through the sheer bands, so a banded shade dims a room rather than darkening it. Fabrics are offered in light-filtering and light-dimming options, and the light-dimming ones cut noticeably more, but if you need a genuinely dark bedroom or media room we would point you at a room-darkening roller shade or a cellular shade instead.
Medium or large, and it is mostly about the scale of the window. A medium band gives a finer horizontal rhythm that suits smaller openings; a large band draws fewer lines and reads calmer across a wide window. We bring both to hold against the opening, because the difference is much easier to judge at the window than from a sample card.