Roller Shades for Swansea, MA Homes

Why Swansea Homeowners Choose Us

Roller shades in Swansea, MA are one of the simplest ways to take control of a bright room, and Window Works has been measuring and fitting them since 1988. A roller shade is a single flat panel of fabric that rolls up out of sight and down over the glass. Made to the exact opening, it sits neatly in the frame and looks tidy whether it is up, down or halfway.

That simplicity suits the houses here. Cottages in Ocean Grove and Gardners Neck face Mount Hope Bay and take hard afternoon light. Hortonville farmhouses have tall, traditional sash. Ranches along the Route 6 corridor have wide picture windows and long runs of glass. A roller shade can be made for every one of them.

• Roller shades and solar screen shades
• Light filtering and blackout fabrics
• Measured in your home and installed by our team

Our Roller Shades

Light filtering roller shades

Fabric that softens daylight and blocks the view in. A good choice for living rooms, kitchens and offices.

Blackout roller shades

A solid fabric that shuts out the light for bedrooms, nurseries and rooms with a screen.

Solar screen shades

An open-weave screen that cuts glare and heat while keeping the view outside.

Colour and texture

Plain, woven and coloured fabrics, so a roller shade can be quiet or bold.

Motorised roller shades

Roller shades that raise and lower from a remote or a wall switch, for tall or hard-to-reach glass.

Motorised blinds and shades

Cellular shades

For a room that needs to hold its heat, a honeycomb shade is the warmer choice.

Cellular shades

Roller and Solar Shades for Swansea, MA Houses

Picking roller shades in Swansea, MA starts with one question: what is the light doing in this room, and what do you want it to do instead? A west-facing room by the water needs something very different from a north-facing bedroom inland. Here is how we work through it.

Openness, view and glare

A solar screen is a woven fabric with tiny gaps in the weave. The more open the weave, the more of the view you keep and the more daylight comes through. The tighter the weave, the more glare and heat it holds back, and the more privacy it gives. Choosing the openness is really a choice between view and glare control, and the right answer depends on the room.

A darker screen colour usually gives a clearer view out, because it reduces the glare on the fabric itself. A lighter colour reflects more light and blends with white trim. We bring samples so you can hold them up at your own window at the time of day the sun is worst.

Bay-facing rooms in Ocean Grove and Gardners Neck

These rooms get the full force of the afternoon sun off Mount Hope Bay, and of all the roller shades in Swansea, MA, the solar screen is the one we suggest for them most often. Lowered in the afternoon, it takes the edge off the glare so you can sit in the room, watch television or work at a screen, while the bay stays visible through the weave. It also shields floors and furniture from the strongest sun.

Salt air leaves a haze on everything near the shore. Most roller fabrics can be wiped with a damp cloth or brushed down, so a shade in a waterfront room stays clean without much fuss.

Short cottage windows

Many older cottages have short, wide windows high on the wall. A roller shade suits them because the fabric rolls up tight around a compact tube, so it takes very little room above the glass and lifts almost completely out of the view. Where several windows sit side by side, we match the roll and the hem height so the row lines up.

Hortonville farmhouses

The taller farmhouse windows suit a roller shade fitted inside the frame, which keeps the old trim visible. Bedrooms usually take blackout fabric. Living rooms and kitchens often take a light filtering fabric in a soft neutral that suits the age of the house. Some farmhouse owners pair a roller shade with side drapes for warmth and softness; we make custom drapes too, so both can be planned together.

What a sunroom asks of a shade

A sunroom has a problem all of its own: glass on every wall, and light coming from a different side at each hour of the day. Morning sun on one wall turns into hard afternoon glare on the next, and the room can be too warm to sit in by mid-afternoon even when it is cool outside. A matching shade on every window keeps the room looking calm, and each one can be lowered on its own as the sun moves round. Picking one fabric and one colour for the whole room, then varying only the openness where the sun is strongest, is usually the neatest answer. If the sunroom has a fireplace or a wall of built-ins, we plan the shades so they stack evenly above the windows and leave the room’s features as the focus.

Route 6 ranches and sunrooms

The broad picture windows of the post-war ranches along Route 6 can take one wide roller shade or two narrower ones that raise independently. Sunrooms and enclosed porches, with glass on several sides, are where solar screens earn their keep: a set of matching shades turns a room that is too bright to use in the afternoon into one you can sit in all day. For sliding doors, a vertical blind or a panel track usually works better than a roller.

Light Filtering, Blackout or Solar Screen

Most houses use more than one roller fabric, chosen room by room.

• Light filtering: soft, even daylight with privacy. Living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms and home offices.
• Blackout: blocks the light for sleep or for a screen. Bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms. An outside mount, set wider than the glass, cuts the light gaps at the edges.
• Solar screen: glare and heat control with the view kept. Sunrooms, bay-facing rooms and any room with strong afternoon sun.

A bedroom that faces the bay can need two things at once: glare control on summer afternoons and darkness at night. In that room we talk through pairing a shade with lined drapes, or choosing a blackout fabric in a colour that still feels light in the day. We would rather spend the time on that conversation than have you live with a shade that only does half the job.

Mounting and controls

An inside mount fits within the frame for a clean look and leaves the trim on show, provided the frame is deep enough. An outside mount covers the frame, blocks more light at the sides and suits shallow frames and windows with hardware in the way. We measure for both and recommend one for each window.

The fabric can roll off the back of the tube, close to the glass, or off the front, which hides the tube and brings the shade a little forward to clear a crank handle. Cordless operation keeps the window tidy and cords out of reach, and motorised shades lift from a remote or a wall switch.

How Your Order Runs

We stay in touch from your first question until every shade is fitted. An order for roller shades usually goes like this.

1. You call or use the form, tell us which rooms are too bright or too dark, and book a free quote.
2. A specialist measures every window in your home, noting frame depth, cranks, locks and anything out of square.
3. You choose the fabric, openness, colour and controls, with samples at your window or in the showroom.
4. You receive a quote, window by window.
5. The shades are made to the measurements taken in your home.
6. Our team installs them, checks each one rolls straight and stops where it should, and shows you how they work.

Across the SouthCoast and the East Bay

Swansea is home, but we measure and install roller shades in 25 towns across the SouthCoast of Massachusetts and the Rhode Island East Bay. Each town has a page about its own houses, such as roller shades in Somerset. Every town we cover is listed on this page.

Caring for roller shades

Dust the fabric now and then with a soft brush or a vacuum on low. Most fabrics take a gentle wipe with a damp cloth. Roll the shade up fully once in a while so it keeps its shape, and if the spring or a bracket ever gives trouble on a shade you already own, ask us about repair.

What Sets Window Works Apart

Window Works is family owned, founded in Swansea in 1988 and now in its second generation. Over 37 years, the store has fitted roller shades in Swansea, MA and across the SouthCoast and the East Bay, always made for the window in front of it.

• Window treatment specialists who measure and install every order
• Honest advice when a different product would suit a window better
• In constant contact with you until the job is done
• Warranties offered on the products we sell
• A showroom with fabrics and screens to compare in person

Visit the showroom

The window treatments page covers everything else we make, from blinds and shutters to drapes and fabric decor.

Book Your Free Quote

Use the call button to book a free quote for roller shades in Swansea, MA, arrange measuring in your home or ask about installation, or send the form and we will be in touch. If you would like to compare fabrics and screens first, come into the Swansea showroom; the contact page has the directions. Window Works holds a 5.0 rating on Google.