The Window Design Studio carries cellular shades from industry leaders in contemporary design and high-end fabric choices including Graber®, Norman®, Lafayette Interior Fashions® and Hunter Douglas.
Modern style with coordinated headrails, cellular shades from Graber® are known for their durability, unique cell designs, and enhanced fabrics which all go into creating a stylish, highly efficient cellular shade.
Hundreds of fabric options and 6 cell sizes create the wonderfully customizable styles and reliable performance of honeycomb shades from Norman® that also have several child-safe options for households with younger family members.
Smart and stylish with the latest in innovative and child-safe options and modern design choices including cell size, color, and texture to amplify the cell shade’s usefulness and soft yet sculpted flow.
Advanced designs and exclusive fabrics in Hunter Douglas cellular shades create sophisticated window treatments that are also functionally optimal for energy efficiency and light control.
Cellular shades are known by multiple names: cell shades, cellular shades, cellular blinds, honeycomb blinds, honeycomb shades and even cellular honeycomb shades and blinds. It can seem like a lot, but really all the nomenclature orbits around a singular feature in this advanced window treatment, the unique circular construction of its vanes. Cellular shades have horizontal vanes wrapped in fabric, which creates hollow pockets that run the entire length of the vanes. These pockets trap air, which has insulating properties. The cellular shape of the hollow vanes is reminiscent of the shape of a bee’s honeycomb, and hence the variety of classifications for this style of window covering using vernacular like honeycomb, cellular, or cellular shades and blinds. The distinctive construction of cellular shades is also what gives the window treatment its reputation as having the softness of Roman shades but the exactness of blinds in window treatments in San Francisco.
Cellular shades lead the way in energy efficiency for window treatments. Their cellular construction traps a layer of air over windows when the cellular shades are closed, which insulates the window. Up to 30% of energy transfer between a home’s interior and the outside world can happen through windows. By selecting insulating widow treatments like cellular shades homeowners can take control of energy loss in their home to improve the overall energy efficiency of the entire structure. Cellular shades can also deflect or permit natural sunlight, which means in turn deflecting or allowing free natural illumination and solar heat. These are two more tools that homeowners can use to increase the energy efficiency of their homes with honeycomb shades in San Francisco.
Have questions about cellular shades or are you ready to update your home’s window treatments with stylish, energy-efficient cellular shades? Then contact the design team at The Window Design Studio to discuss honeycomb shades from Graber®, Norman®, Lafayette Interior Fashions®, and Hunter Douglas. Elements Interiors and Window Fashions serve the greater San Francisco area including Fairfax, Corte Madera, Belvedere, Tiburon, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Sausalito, Larkspur, Marin, and Sanoma Counties in central California. Request your free, in-home consultation today.
