Tailored Fabric, Soft Folds and Personalized Light Control
Roman shades combine the softness of fabric with the function of a custom window shade. Their distinctive folds add texture and dimension to the window, creating a finished look that can feel clean and understated or more decorative depending on the fabric and style you choose.
At Keck Furniture, we offer custom Roman shades in an extensive selection of fabrics, colors, textures, patterns and fold styles. From streamlined contemporary designs to traditional fabric treatments with decorative details, Roman shades can be tailored around both your windows and the rest of your room.
Hunter Douglas offers Roman shade collections ranging from the clean lines of Vignette® Modern Roman Shades to the extensive fabric and styling possibilities available through Carole Fabrics and the distinctive woven textiles of Alustra® Woven Textures®.
Designed Around Your Room
One of the advantages of a Roman shade is how much the fabric influences the finished design. A subtle solid can create a quiet, tailored backdrop, while a pattern, woven texture or decorative trim can make the window a stronger part of the room.
Depending on the collection, customization options may include:
- Solid, patterned and textured fabrics
- Sheer, light-filtering and room-darkening materials
- Flat, full and softly draped fold styles
- Decorative trims and embellishments
- Coordinating fabric by the yard and decorative accents
- Liners for additional privacy and light control
- Inside or outside mounting
- Top-down/bottom-up operation
- Motorized and automated operation
- Coordinating treatments for multiple windows or adjoining rooms
Carole Fabrics Roman Shades are particularly customizable, with Flat, Front Fold, Reverse Fold, Hobbled, Slouch and Soft Roman configurations as well as decorative cords, tapes and fringes. Hunter Douglas also offers coordinating fabrics and décor through the Carole collection.
Choose Your Roman Shade Style
Roman shades can look significantly different depending on how the fabric folds.
Flat Roman Shades have a cleaner, more structured appearance when lowered. They are well suited to showing patterns and fabric details and work comfortably in both traditional and contemporary spaces.
Full or Hobbled Roman Shades retain more visible folds and dimension, giving the window a softer and more traditional appearance.
Soft and Relaxed Styles create a less structured drape and can work especially well in rooms where you want the window treatment to feel more decorative.
Modern Roman Shades offer the fabric and texture associated with Roman shades while maintaining cleaner lines and simplified operation.
Hunter Douglas Vignette Roman Shades, for example, are offered in rolling or stacking configurations and use either 4-inch full folds or 6-inch flat folds.
Light Filtering, Privacy and Room Darkening
The right Roman shade fabric can do more than complete the look of the room. Fabric opacity and liner selection can also help control daylight and privacy.
Light-filtering materials soften incoming daylight while maintaining a brighter room. Room-darkening fabrics and liners provide greater privacy and reduce the amount of light entering spaces such as bedrooms and media rooms.
Some Roman shade collections also allow greater flexibility through an independent liner or a top-down/bottom-up configuration. Top-down/bottom-up shades can cover the lower portion of the window for privacy while leaving the upper portion open for natural light.
For customers who want even more flexibility, select Vignette configurations are available with Hunter Douglas Duolite®, which combines a sheer or light-filtering front Roman shade with a room-darkening back panel.
Motorized Roman Shades
Roman shades can also be paired with automated operating systems for convenient control of light and privacy.
With compatible Hunter Douglas PowerView® Automation configurations, shades can be adjusted through controls such as remotes, the PowerView app and compatible smart-home integrations. Select top-down/bottom-up Roman shades can also be motorized.
Motorization can be especially useful for larger windows, hard-to-reach windows, groups of shades or rooms where you regularly adjust the window treatments throughout the day.
Our window treatment specialists can help determine which Roman shade styles, fabrics and operating systems are compatible with your windows and how you plan to use them.
Fabrics That Become Part of the Room
Because Roman shades use fabric across the face of the window, they can become an important part of the overall interior design.
Hunter Douglas Carole Fabrics Roman Shades currently offer thousands of fabric and color possibilities, while Alustra Woven Textures Roman Shades focus on distinctive, globally sourced woven materials. Vignette Modern Roman Shades provide a more edited selection of high-quality fabrics for a cleaner, tailored appearance.
Roman shades can also be coordinated with upholstery, area rugs, wall colors, drapery and other furnishings to help create a more complete room.
A Finished Look Inside and Out
Details such as fold style, liner, mounting position, bottom treatment and decorative trim all affect the finished appearance of a Roman shade.
Carole Fabrics Roman Shades include a standard liner to provide a more consistent appearance from the exterior of the home, with additional decorative options available depending on the chosen configuration. Alustra Woven Textures offers several top and bottom treatments as well as optional independent liners.
During your consultation, we can help compare these details and determine which combination works best with your windows, furnishings and overall design.
Hunter Douglas Roman Shades
Keck Furniture offers custom Roman shade options from Hunter Douglas, including collections designed for modern, traditional and transitional interiors.
Current Hunter Douglas Roman shade collections include:
Vignette® Modern Roman Shades
Clean, tailored Roman shades with flat or full folds, rolling or stacking configurations and several light-control options.
Carole Fabrics Roman Shades
Highly customizable fabric Roman shades with an extensive assortment of fabrics, fold styles, trims and coordinating décor options.
Alustra® Woven Textures® Roman Shades
Design-focused Roman shades featuring distinctive woven fabrics, dimensional texture and optional liner and top-down/bottom-up configurations.
Find the Right Roman Shades for Your Home
Roman shades have more variables than color alone. Fabric weight, pattern, opacity, fold style, liner and operating system can all influence how the finished shade looks and performs.
Visit Keck Furniture in Watertown, Wisconsin, or contact us to schedule a window treatment consultation. We can help you compare samples, select the right style and fabric, professionally measure your windows and coordinate installation.
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