Among the most popular window treatments these days, roller shades are growing the fastest. This great popularity is driven by a new assortment of fabrics that can allow roller shades to achieve new results, easily. As a window treatment, roller shades once held the position of most basic choice. Only available in a handful of colors, roller shades could be decorated with a small assortment of decorative trims or tassels. However, recent innovations in decorative roller shade fabrics as well as light filtering shade fabrics, have led to significant advances and increasingly more situations where roller shades can be used.
Room darkening blackout roller shades work simply by covering the opening with a vinyl coated fiberglass roller shade fabric which blocks nearly all the light that attacks a window. The light which does enter is the exception of any light that passes around the shade on the sides, top or bottom. Among the most difficult, but not impossible problems to eliminate is the problem where sunlight circumvents roller shades, even when the shade is installed outside the window frame. Nevertheless, blocking the main light from the bulk of the window is usually a sufficient result with roller shades. Innovative manufacturers of roller shade control systems can now make guiding channels for the roller shades, forcing them to fully repel light so it cannot pass by the sides of the shades. These side channel roller shades are extremely expensive, but if they solve the sleep or entertainment needs of clients, and make a roller shade truly blackout, then price is not an issue.
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