Blackout roller shades

Near-total darkness for bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms. Blackout fabric blocks light and helps keep the room cooler and quieter.

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Blocks light

An opaque fabric stops light from passing through, for a dark room at any hour.

Better sleep

Early sun, streetlights and headlights stay outside the bedroom.

Full privacy

Nothing shows through, day or night, with the lights on or off.

Helps keep rooms cool

Blocking direct sun through the glass takes a load off the air conditioning.

Where blackout shades make sense

Bedrooms are the obvious place, especially for shift workers, young children and anyone who wakes with the sun. Media rooms and home theaters use them to control reflections on the screen. Nurseries use them for naps. In Florida, they also do real work on east- and west-facing bedroom windows that heat up in the morning and afternoon.

How dark is dark?

The fabric itself is fully opaque. The light you may still see comes from the gaps at the sides of the shade, where it has to clear the window frame. For a truly dark room we can build the shade with a cassette headrail that closes the gap at the top and side channels that close the gaps down the edges. Tell us how dark the room needs to be and we will recommend the right setup.

Dual shades

Many customers combine a blackout and a light filtering shade on the same window in one headrail. Lower the light filtering shade during the day for soft light and privacy, and the blackout at night.

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