Roller Shades

Roller shades are sleek, streamlined, stylish, powerful, and protective. This is thanks to their unique union of fashion and function. The style has become popular for its smart and reliable design, chic, unobtrusive profile, and customization options. Solar shades are a kind of roller shade that utilizes man-made screens or mesh-like textiles engineered to be long-lasting, durable, and resistant to sunlight, UV rays, humidity, moisture, and dirt. Depending on the openness of the material’s weave, solar shades can control light and maintain a level of view-through visibility for window treatments that are visually stunning and functionally optimized. 


Solar shades have the additional option of being either interior shades or exterior shades with options for installation indoors or outside depending on the preference of the owner and the requirements of the space. However, whether you choose interior or exterior installation, classic fabric treatments, or state-of-the-art solar screens, roller shades and solar shades can help protect your home with style and features tailored to the design tastes and lifestyle needs of each client. 

Privacy and Protection

Roller shades can provide both privacy and protection from the elements thanks to their streamlined design and scientifically enhanced materials. When closed, roller shades fit snuggly providing cover and privacy with minimal gaps. While the roller shade blocks unwanted views into your home, it also blocks sunlight for protection. UV rays in sunlight can be extremely harmful to your home and the precious items within. Sun damage can affect flooring, furniture, and wall art causing color fade or discoloration, peeling, cracking, warping, and premature aging that can be costly or impossible to fix. 

 

And it’s not just the UV rays in sunlight that roller shades and solar shades protect against, they also help control the solar heat that comes with natural light. This is beneficial year-round by either blocking the extra heat in summer to keep indoor spaces cooler or opening up completely into the header box to allow the sun’s free warming effects to fill the house in the winter.

 

Protecting your wallet from the pricey overuse of air-conditioning and costly heating bills. Roller and solar shades can protect your possessions and enhance your privacy with style for a home environment that’s safe, comfortable, and beautiful. 

Style and Ambiance

All roller shades help to control light, but Graber roller shades can help to create stunning lighting effects with a decorative allure. The adaptable beauty of roller shades lies in their streamlined design that creates a large, flat, fabric front. In a neutral color or base pattern, a roller shade can be the backdrop in a room to anchor design and color within a space; or with a bold pattern or bright colors, roller shades can be the showstopper in a room creating an exciting and fashionable focal point to enrich décor.

 

And with Graber roller shades there is a nearly endless selection of fashion-focused, high-performance fabrics to choose from. Select from timeless and trendy fabrics in a variety of colors, textures, weaves, patterns, and opacities including sheer, light-filtering, room darkening, and blackout for roller shades that offer both style and light control. The flat front of roller shades not only provides a spectacular canvas for interior design, but its minimalistic profile also makes it ideal in layered window treatments. Layered window treatments are better at masking light leaks to produce a blackout interior and better at deflecting sound. Furthermore, the layered design enhances the insulating power of window shades to make the overall window treatment more energy efficient. Without sacrificing form for function, roller shades bring together the best of modern design in aesthetics and performance.

Indoor and Outdoor Shades

Both indoor and outdoor solar shades are adept at diffusing sunlight for soft, indoor illumination, blocking harsh direct light and glare, deflecting solar heat, and averting sun damage caused by UV rays. Outdoor solar shades are especially proficient at increasing energy efficiency.

 

Design-wise, both interior and exterior solar shades offer unique style advantages. Interior solar shades and roller shades come in a wide variety of natural fabrics, materials, and colorful textiles to suit a range of décor and design styles. Exterior solar shades, on the other hand, take up no indoor space and can be blended into a house’s façade so seamlessly they become nearly invisible. Outdoor solar shades make ideal treatments for windows in high traffic areas, hard-to-reach spaces, or places where indoor space is limited. They’re also ideal for households with young children since they eliminate any hanging lines and cords inside the home that can pose a risk for small children or pets. 

 

Indoor and outdoor solar shades can also be used in a variety of locations throughout the home. Indoor solar shades are great for living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, laundry rooms, and mudrooms. Likewise, outdoor solar shades can be used on the exterior of any of those windows thanks to their customizable shape. They can also be mounted around patios, decks, and outdoor spaces to create alfresco living spaces that are private, protected, and comfortable.

Graber Roller Shades and Graber Solar Shades

Graber Lightweaves® Roller Shades

The rich fabric collection for Graber roller shades adds dimensional style and limitless design options with timeless fabrics, modern prints, and on-trend color choices. As many fabrics in the Graber collection come in multiple opacities, it’s easy to coordinate design throughout an entire home while still accounting for the individual needs of each room. Graber roller shades can also be combined with Graber solar shades for a dual shade that combines the streamlined efficiency of roller shades with the protection and view-through style of solar shades.

Graber Lightweaves® Solar Shades

With a smart design and the latest in material innovations, Graber solar shades have a designer's touch and high-end performance. They can diffuse light for soft illumination, eliminate glare, protect against UV rays, and enhance the privacy and energy efficiency of your home. And with a range of openness in the weaves of solar shades from sheer to opaque, there is also the ability to maintain a view without sacrificing protection. And for environmentally-conscious clients, there is the Graber Eco-Performance Solar Fabric collection that features an array of eco-friendly materials from fabrics made from upcycled plastic bottles to textiles specifically designed to improve indoor air quality. 

Graber Exterior Solar Shades

Designed to be durable, Graber outdoor solar shades are made from long-lasting, weather-resistant materials that are just as stylish and customizable as indoor solar shades. Exterior solar shades are especially efficient at controlling light and deflecting both the heat and harmful UV rays that come with it to improve a home’s overall energy efficiency resulting in lower energy bills year-round. Graber Exterior Solar Shades also work around a variety of outdoor living spaces including patios, decks, balconies, and pool enclosures where they block light, wind, bugs, and heat but allow natural airflow and beautiful, filtered illumination. 

Graber Roller Shade Finishes

  • Blackout Channels: To increase the light-blocking ability of roller shades add blackout channels to the sides and bottom of the window frame to block light leaks that sneak in around the sides of a shade.


  • Hem Bar Options: The hem bar is the bottom bar along a roller or solar shade’s fabric front; it helps keep the fabric in line and ensures smooth maneuverability. Graber has two styles of hem bars for its roller and solar shades: 
  • Heat-Sealed Hem Bar: For a low-profile hem bar that seamlessly camouflages with the rest of the shade, the heat-sealed option offers a smooth, clean appearance with no exposed parts.
  • Fabric-Wrapped Hem Bar: Wrapped in the fabric of the shade itself, this style of hem bar offers a weightier pull for roller shades and is finished with color-coordinated end caps. 
  • Valance Options: At the top of a roller shade is the valance, a decorative window topper that conceals the shade’s hardware and fabric roll. Graber offers several different stylish varieties of valances:
  • Cassette Valance: A classic style of roller shade valance with a discrete fabric-covered topper.
  • Contour Valance: A fabric-wrapped valance with rounded edges ideal for modern or contemporary styles of décor.
  • Fascia Valance: An aluminum-faced valance with a smooth and sleek appearance.

Contact Us

Awnings, Blinds, and Shutters by Albert’s South Jersey Wallpaper carries a full inventory of roller shades, indoor solar shades, and exterior solar shades. Their team of window treatment experts can help you find a roller shade or solar shade that can protect your home, enhance your privacy, save your wallet, and meet all your design and style expectations. Contact us today to request a consultation. Awnings, Blinds, and Shutters by Albert’s South Jersey Wallpaper is located at 5471 Black Horse Pike Turnersville, New Jersey, and serves Burlington County, Cherry Hill, Gloucester County, Washington Township, Camden County, Mount Laurel Township, Sewell, Mullica Hill, and Haddon Heights as well as their surrounding areas.

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