Sheer Horizontal Shades
Shangri-La. Fabric vanes floating between two sheers.
Soft horizontal vanes suspended between two layers of sheer fabric. Tilt the vanes open and the light comes through diffused and even, with no glare and no hard shadow line; close them and the room goes private. It is the most expensive-looking thing on this page, and it earns it.
Where it fits
When it's right
- The room faces south or west and the problem is glare rather than privacy
- You want daylight without a hard shadow line cutting across the floor
- There should be no cords or ladders visible across the fabric
- It is a front-facing window that people see from outside
Usually goes in
- Living rooms
- Primary bedrooms
- Dining rooms
- Front-facing windows
Where it doesn't
When it isn't
- It has to make a room dark. Sheers diffuse light, they do not stop it, and a west-facing bedroom will still want something blackout behind them
- Anywhere it gets handled often, or a bathroom. The vanes crush and do not spring back
- You care what the window looks like from the street at night. Closed vanes still glow as a lit shape
Before you order
The choices that change the result
Two or three decisions do most of the work on this product, and they are all easier to make at the window than afterwards. This is what we talk about at the measure.
It solves glare, not darkness
This is the one thing people get wrong about sheers. Tilted closed they give you privacy and a beautiful even light, and the room is still light. If the same window also has to go dark for sleep or a screen, that is two treatments on one window, and it is cheaper to know that at the estimate than after.
Where the vanes sit at night
By day, closed vanes read as a soft solid from outside. After dark, with the room lit, they read as a glowing panel and shapes move behind them. It is fine for a living room and it is worth thinking about on a ground-floor front window facing a pavement.
It is the one people touch
Sheer vanes are the softest thing on this page and they are at hand height. In a house with a dog that noses the window or a toddler at the sill, we would put something harder on that specific window and keep the sheers where they are admired rather than handled.
Made to order
What we can make
Every one of these is cut to your window, so this is the range rather than a list of sizes on a shelf. If what you need is not here, ask, because the answer is often yes.
| Width | About 118in on one shade. Wider than that is two shades on a shared headrail, set so the join reads as a seam rather than a gap. |
|---|---|
| Vanes | Tilt open for diffused daylight with the view, or closed for privacy. The shade also raises fully |
| Fabric | Sheer through to room-darkening at the heavier weights |
| Controls | Cordless, chain, or motorised |
| Mounting | Inside the recess, outside over the trim, or on the ceiling |
Pricing depends on size, fabric and control type, so it is quoted per job rather than listed. The estimate is free and there is no obligation attached to it.
Installed
Sheer jobs
Sheer verticals across a patio slider
A slider needs something that draws to one side and keeps working as a door. Sheer vanes do that and still soften the light instead of blacking the wall out.
Sheer vertical vanes, ceiling track
Estimate for sheer
Send a photo of the window and we'll tell you whether this is the right product for it, including when it isn't.
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