Levolor day/night woven wood shades

16 years ago

Does anyone have these? I just saw them this weekend at Penny's and thought they would solve all of my privacy, ability to see out and light control problems. Our great room which faces east has a great view that I want to be able to see all day long but I will need to have something covering the windows and french doors for night time privacy. The room has a centered 6' wide french door that is flanked by two 8' wide windows. Each of the windows consists of a fixed glass panel window and a casement on each side of the fixed panel. Because I like the window and door trim I wanted to mount something inside each of the window sections rather than having something cover the entire window.

The way the day/night levolor works is that the lining can be raised separately from the shade. With the lining raised in the morning I think the woven wood portion of the shade would give me the light filtering I need for the morning sun. Then during the day I could raise the wood shade also. At night I would have both down for privacy.

The first problem is that these shades are very pricey and I've just spent all my money building the house. The second problem is that I don't know if this system will work as well in my house as I'm hoping. In general I've heard that woven wood shades can bow or generally fall out of shape over time. I don't know if this is just the cheap ones or if this also includes the pricier brands.

I'd love to hear your opinions on woven woods in general and if you know of a cheap source for the levolor brand that would be great. TIA.

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graywings123
16 years ago
Can you give us a link to the Penney's website for the ones you are considering?
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Burden
16 years ago
I haven't heard of the shades warping unless they are really wide, and then it depends on the wood. I've had a bamboo mix of woven woods for 6 or 7 years and they are great. I don't have a liner because I don't need that much sun control, but that sounds like a great option. I love the light that comes through the wovens.
Do you have a home dec shop in your town? It might be worth it to have them evaluate your window situation before you spend the money. I'm sure they could tell you if it would work or if there is something better within an hour and that would be affordable. JC Penney's may have someone that could do the same.
This is just advice from someone with a shop who gets called "after the fact", and then the money is spent and they need help on a mistake.
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flseadog
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks for the responses. After I saw the shades at Penny's I went to the levolor website (sorry I don't know how to paste a link) and found that I could order on line at about the same price as Penny's sale price. I agree with you, sallymo, about a local shop. For things like this I don't like to order on line b/c I like to work with someone I know will be responsible for installation and any problems that might crop up. I also like to run ideas on all things past the folks her on all the Garden Web forums (fora?) because I feel like I can get unbiased and/or personal experience info that makes me a better consumer when I do get out to shop. Thanks again.
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User
16 years ago
I have casement windows and if I want to use the screen so that I can open the window, then I can't mount a shade inside.
Yours may be different, but it is something you need to look at before you make your decision.
When we first moved in I ordered some to mount inside the windows in our guest room and didn't realize until it was too late that I couldn't put the screen in.
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parma42
16 years ago
We have Levolor cordless, lined woven woods.

I can attest to the company's willingness to stand behind their product. Whe they were delivered, DH mistakenly thought that the cordless feature was, in fact, part of the packaging and cut through most of them (now, maybe everyone will understand why we don't do too much DIY).

He called customer service and fessed up to what he had done. They told him to send them back and they would repair them. Levolor even paid for the shipping.

When I was in Lowe's, doing some comparison shopping, I heard a woman rave about what a great company they were and how she had gotten something fixed even though it was eight years old.
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flseadog
Original Author
16 years ago
Thank you for the head's up on the screen issue, chloe. Our screens haven't been put in yet b/c we're still waiting on finishing up cleaning and detail work inside the house so I completely overlooked considering the space they will take away from being able to mount the shades. It's good to know, too, that Levolor is easy to work with, parma. The windows shown in the "less than ideal outcome" thread are similar to mine except that I have no wall between each of the windows, just window trim so the 3 windows look like one. If I can't fit the shades inside the 3 sections of trim I'm afraid that one big shade covering the entire window will look too heavy and probably they don't even make one that big. In that case I'll have to find another solution which is really disappointing since the day/night shades seemed like such a great solution. Thanks again for all your help.
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