Room Darkening Shades
With room darkening shades, it’s not just a peaceful sleep environment. Take a nap in the middle of the day, block intense sunshine, or set up the perfect movie night in your media room. Discover LightLock™, the latest innovation in blackout blinds for your Northern California home.
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Duette® Honeycomb Shades
Features
- Block intense sunshine during the day
- Reduce distracting nighttime lights
- Experience the smallest light gaps in the industry
- Choose various fabrics for levels of darkness
- Add dual shades for a wide range of control
- Seal out light with LightLock™
Available with
- Designer Roller Shades
- Designer Solar Shades
- Duette® Honeycomb Shades
- Applause® Honeycomb Shades
- Pirouette® Window Shades
- Provenance® Woven Woods Shades
- Sonnette® Shades
- Designer Banded Shades
- Vignette® Modern Roman Shades
- Silhouette® Shades
- Nantucket™ Shades
- Alustra® Woven Textures®
- Skyline® Gliding Window Panels
- Duette® with Vertiglide™
- Cadence® Soft & Somner® Custom Vertical Blinds
- Drapery
- Luminette® Privacy Sheers
- NewStyle® Hybrid Shutters
- Heritance® Hardwood Shutters
- Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Shutters
Room Darkening VS Blackout
It’s a common question…”Which is better, room darkening or blackout?” The answer comes when you better understand what you need. Room darkening refers to spaces that have “most” of the light removed, where blackout is an environment where it’s hard to see in front of you. Fabrics can influence this, of course. But, it can also depend on the makeup of your windows, the type of window shades you choose and the way the coverings are installed.
Dual Shades
Quickly becoming a favorite for room darkening blinds and blackout shades, the dual shades feature allows you to have the light-filtering shades you love–in roman shades, roller shades, or Silhouette shades. When you want it dark, a blackout roller shades drop down, blocking all light, creating the darkened sanctuary you’ve been dreaming of. It added invaluable versatility to the windows of your California home.
Light Gaps
Light gaps can interfere with your light control, depending on how dark you need it. During the day, when blackout shades are lowered, you can sometimes see slivers of light appear along the edges, inside the window frame. This “halo” effect can be the result of the type of window shades, the make of your window, the depth of the window, or whether the window shades were installed with an inside or outside mount. For the highest level of light control, the LightLock feature seals out any incoming light. Another option is to add side draperies to the window to block the edges of light.
