Bamboo Shades & Blinds for Bedrooms

Bamboo in a bedroom is about texture and warmth, a natural weave that softens hard walls. The catch is that an open weave on its own lets light and sightlines through, and a bedroom needs privacy at night and enough darkness to sleep. Bamboo shades and blinds for bedrooms solve that by pairing the woven face you want with a liner that does the work behind it. Every shade here is made to the width and height you measure and shipped direct to you.

Bamboo and woven wood options for a bedroom

Woven wood shades lead this page. The weaves run from all bamboo to bamboo blended with jute or paper, and on to jute and ramie, so you can go from a light, airy texture to a dense, earthy one. Choose Waterfall for a smooth, continuous face, Flat Fold for a crisp flat plane, or Hobbled for soft cascading folds.

The liner is the bedroom decision. With no liner, a woven shade is decorative and roughly half see-through. A light filtering liner closes the weave for daytime privacy while the room stays bright. A blackout liner is rated 100% blackout, the choice for a room you sleep in after sunrise. Whichever you pick, both the shade and its valance get the liner, so the top of the window matches the rest. A movable liner is also available: a second layer behind the bamboo with its own control, so you can keep the texture down by day and drop the liner at night.

Wood blinds sit alongside the bamboo here for anyone who wants natural wood at the window in a slatted form rather than a woven one. Hold a woven wood sample against the wall and the bed linen before you decide, since a weave reads differently next to painted plaster than it does on a swatch card.

Sizes, lifts and liners to check

Woven wood reaches 96 inches wide on every lift system. A wider bedroom window takes two or more shades on one headrail, up to 118 inches in total, though a shared valance still stops at 96 inches. Cordless, the usual pick for a bedroom, builds from 19 3/4 to 96 inches wide and up to 106 inches high. Clutch loop goes down to 11 3/4 inches wide and up to 118 inches high, so it handles both a narrow window and a very tall one. Every system starts at 18 inches high.

Top down bottom up lets you lower the shade from the top for daylight while the lower half of the window stays covered, which suits a bedroom at street level. It cannot be combined with a movable liner, so choose one or the other. For a motor, smart control works from a remote, a wall switch or an app, with Alexa, Google Home and Apple HomePod supported, and the standard DC motor builds from 12 3/4 inches wide.

Natural fibers are not suited to high humidity, so keep woven wood out of an ensuite with a shower and choose a polyester shade there instead.

Measuring a bedroom window yourself

For an inside mount, measure the width at the top, middle and bottom of the opening and use the smallest figure, rounded down to the nearest 1/8 inch. Measure the height on each side with your back to the wall and use the smaller number. Send us the exact measurements; the factory takes the 1/4 inch width deduction for you.

Then check the depth. An inside mount needs at least 1 5/8 inches of frame depth, and a flush fit, where the shade sits fully inside the frame, needs 2 5/8 inches. The cordless headrail measures 1 5/8 inches and the clutch and motorized headrails 2 inches. A twin or movable liner headrail is deeper, about 3 1/8 inches, so a shallow frame may point you toward an outside mount.

For a calm bedroom, choose a weave a shade or two deeper than the walls and a liner close to the wall color, so the window reads as one quiet surface at night. Order a sample, try it in morning light, and send us your sizes.