Open
Vanes horizontal: the view comes through the sheers, softened. Daylight fills the room.
Sheer Shades
Sheer shades: a shade that tilts like a blind.
Soft fabric vanes float between two layers of sheer. Rotate them open for the view, angle them for filtered daylight, close them for privacy. PerfectSheer™ shades in light-filtering and room-darkening fabrics, installed by PAPABLINDS across the Greater Seattle Area.
How the vanes work.
The vanes are fabric, suspended between two sheer layers. A wand or a motor rotates them, and the whole shade also lifts like a roller.
Tilted
Vanes angled: glare cut, light diffused, the outside blurred. The setting most rooms live in.
Closed
Vanes overlapping: privacy, and with room-darkening vanes a dim room for sleep.
Between a blind and a shade.
A blind gives you tilt; a shade gives you softness. PerfectSheer™ gives you both: the vanes tilt like slats, but they are fabric, and the sheer layers in front and behind turn hard daylight into a glow. Raised, the whole thing rolls up out of the way like a roller shade.
It is the shade for the living room window you look through all day and the bedroom window you want soft in the morning. The seams are double-layered fabric, not adhesive, which is what keeps the vanes straight over years of tilting.
- 19 light-filtering colors and 9 room-darkening colors.
- Manual wand, Norman Smart Motorization, or AutoWand™ one-touch.
- Curved fascia, fabric valance, or wood valance at the top.
- Standard windows and larger openings alike.
© 2021 Norman®. All Rights Reserved.Light filtering or room darkening?
The vane fabric decides how the closed shade behaves; the sheers are the same.
| Vane fabric | Vanes open | Vanes closed | Rooms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light filtering (19 colors) | Softened view | Glow, privacy | Living rooms, dining rooms, offices |
| Room darkening (9 colors) | Softened view | Dim, privacy | Bedrooms, media rooms |
Neither is blackout: the sheer layers let a little light through at the edges. For full dark, see blackout shades.
Rooms for a sheer shade.
The view window
Open in the morning, tilted at 3 p.m. when the sun swings around, closed at dusk.
Soft light on the table
Tilted vanes take the glare off glass and dishes without closing the room.
Room-darkening vanes
Dim for sleep, soft in the morning, open by day. Add a shade behind for full blackout.
Screen glare
A quarter turn of the wand at the hour the sun hits the monitor.
Sheer shade questions.
Is a sheer shade the same as a sheer curtain?
No. A sheer curtain is one layer of thin fabric. A PerfectSheer™ shade is two sheer layers with fabric vanes between them that tilt, so it controls light the way a blind does and rolls up like a roller shade.
Can people see in at night?
With the vanes closed, no; the vanes overlap and block the view. With the vanes open, the sheers show silhouettes with the lights on, so close them at dusk.
How do I clean the sheers?
Dust with a soft brush or a vacuum on low with the brush attachment. Spot-clean with a damp cloth. Sheer layers are not meant for soaking or machine washing.
Manual or motorized?
A wand is fine for one or two reachable windows. For a bank of windows or a tall one, motorization tilts and lifts every shade together from a remote or the app.
Sheer shades for Seattle-area living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms
Sheer shades solve the problem a plain roller shade cannot: a window you want to look through most of the day but soften at certain hours. Norman’s PerfectSheer™ suspends fabric vanes between two sheer layers; the vanes rotate for light and privacy, and the shade lifts out of the way like a roller. PAPABLINDS measures and installs them in Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, and nearby communities.
The living room window
A west-facing living room in Bellevue or Kirkland gets a low sun at the end of the day, and a sheer shade is the covering that handles it without closing the room: vanes open until the glare arrives, tilted for an hour, open again. The sheers keep the outside softly visible the whole time.
Sheer shades in bedrooms
Room-darkening vanes in one of nine colors dim the room for sleep and open to a soft morning. For a bedroom that must be fully dark, a room-darkening roller or cellular shade behind the sheer does that job; the sheer alone lets a little light in at the edges.
Light filtering or room darkening
Nineteen light-filtering colors for rooms that want a glow when closed; nine room-darkening colors for rooms that want dim. The sheer layers are the same in both, so the open view is identical.
Request a free in-home visit and we tilt a sample in your window at the hour the sun is on it.