Custom Cellular Shades in Northwest Washington
Cellular shades feature a honeycomb-shaped construction that traps air within the fabric cells. This design can help reduce heat transfer through the window while providing options for privacy, filtered light, and room darkening.
Lorraine’s Window Coverings provides custom cellular shades for homes and businesses throughout Whatcom, Skagit, Island, and San Juan counties. Our team will help you compare fabrics, cell sizes, opacity levels, colors, and operating systems before professionally measuring and installing your shades.
Fabrics, Cell Sizes, and Opacity Levels
Custom cellular shades are available in a range of colors, textures, cell sizes, and opacity levels.
Light-filtering fabrics soften incoming daylight while providing varying levels of privacy.
Room-darkening fabrics block more incoming light but may still allow light around the treatment’s edges.
Cell construction affects the shade’s appearance, depth, and insulating properties. Our team will help you compare the available options with your windows, room, and functional priorities.
Where Do Cellular Shades Work Best?
Cellular shades may be a good choice for:
- Living rooms
- Bedrooms
- Dining rooms
- Home offices
- Nurseries
- Media rooms
- Skylights
- Specialty-shaped windows
They are particularly useful when customers want a combination of privacy, light control, compact stacking, and improved comfort near the window.
Cellular Shade Configurations
Depending on the manufacturer and collection, cellular shades may be available in several configurations.
Top-down/bottom-up shades can be lowered from the top or raised from the bottom, helping balance privacy with natural light.
Day-and-night shades combine two materials in one treatment, such as a light-filtering fabric and a room-darkening fabric.
Vertical cellular shades move from side to side and may be used on sliding glass doors and other wide openings.
Specialty cellular shades may be available for select skylights, arches, angled windows, and other unusual openings.
Availability depends on the window shape, dimensions, fabric, controls, and manufacturer.
Why Choose Cellular Shades?
Cellular shades combine a soft, streamlined appearance with flexible light control and insulating properties.
Benefits may include:
- Light-filtering and room-darkening materials
- Single-cell and multiple-cell constructions
- Top-down/bottom-up operation on compatible products
- Cordless operating options
- Motorization on select collections
- A compact stack when raised
- Custom sizing
- Options for specialty windows and doors
Actual insulating performance depends on the shade construction, window, fit, installation, and use.
Quality Brands Selected with Care
We partner with respected manufacturers known for design, innovation, reliability, and product support. Working with multiple brands allows us to recommend solutions across a range of styles, performance needs, and budgets. Instead of applying the same product to every project, we help you compare the features and materials that make sense for your particular space. Available brands, collections, fabrics, finishes, and operating systems may vary.
Custom Measured and Professionally Installed
Personal Service From Consultation Through Installation
Once you select your window treatments, our team takes precise measurements and coordinates the ordering process. When the products are ready, our professional installers mount, align, and test each treatment before explaining its operation and care.
This full-service approach provides:
Personalized design guidance, accurate window measurements, products custom ordered for your space, professional installation, motorization setup when applicable, product operation and care guidance, and continued assistance after
installation.
Step 1:
Explore your options
Visit our showroom or contact us to discuss your project.
Step 2:
Schedule A free consultation
We evaluate your windows, design preferences, and functional needs.
Step 3:
Professional measuring & ordering
We confirm the details and order treatments made for your windows.
step 4: Professional installation
We install, test, and demonstrate your finished window treatments.
Visit Our Bellingham Showroom
Compare Window Treatments in Person
Pictures and samples are helpful, but operating a shade or seeing a fabric in natural light can make choosing much easier. Our Bellingham showroom features more than 40 displays, allowing you to compare blinds, shades, shutters, drapery, motorized products, and other custom solutions in person.
Our designers can walk you through differences in materials, light filtration, privacy, durability, and operating options. You can also experience motorized window treatments firsthand and explore options from Hunter Douglas, Springs Window Fashions, Alta, Lafayette Interior Fashions, Norman, and more.
Showroom Address:
410 W. Bakerview Road, Suite 101
Bellingham, WA 98226
Frequently asked questions
Cellular shades are fabric window treatments constructed with honeycomb-shaped cells. The cells trap air and create an insulating layer between the room and the window.
Cellular shades can help reduce heat transfer through the window when properly fitted and used. Actual performance depends on the shade construction, window, mounting method, fit, climate, and operation.
Privacy depends on the selected fabric. Light-filtering and room-darkening materials provide different levels of privacy, and some lighter fabrics may reveal shadows under certain lighting conditions.
Yes. Room-darkening cellular fabrics are available. Light may still enter around the edges of the treatment, particularly with an inside mount.
Top-down/bottom-up shades can be lowered from the top as well as raised from the bottom. This allows natural light to enter above the shade while maintaining privacy lower on the window.
Cordless operation is available for many cellular shade collections. Compatibility depends on the product, dimensions, fabric, and configuration.
Yes. Motorization is available for many cellular shade collections. Controls may include a remote, wall control, mobile application, schedule, or compatible smart-home platform.
Cellular shades are available for select skylights, arches, angled windows, and other specialty-shaped openings. Compatibility depends on the shape, dimensions, controls, and manufacturer.
Vertical cellular shades are available for many sliding glass doors and wide openings. The available stacking space, door operation, and product dimensions should be evaluated before selection.
