Cellular Shades & Blinds for Bay Windows

A bay window is three windows pretending to be one. The wide center window and the two angled sides each have their own size, and the corners where they meet are where a single covering usually fails. Cellular shades and blinds for bay windows solve it the simple way: one honeycomb shade per window, each made to that window's size, so every pane closes cleanly and the stacks sit neatly at the top of each opening. You get even light, privacy and a tidy line across the whole bay, and every shade is made to measure and shipped direct to you.

Cellular options for a bay

Light filtering cellular shades soften the light across all three windows and keep a living room or reading nook bright while screening the view from the street. Blackout cellular shades close each window off fully, the better choice for a bay in a bedroom or a room with a screen.

ZeroGlow is the third option, and it suits recessed bays. It is a 25 mm blackout cellular shade held in an edge-to-edge frame that presses into each window opening, with no drilling into the walls or trim. It is cordless, comes in six fabric colors (White, Black, Beige, Light Gray, Dark Gray and Straw) with a choice of three frame colors, and can be set to travel up and down the glass or side to side. It is built to your opening in inches or millimetres.

For the standard cellular shades, cordless keeps each window free of hanging cords, which matters on a bay with a window seat or a sill full of plants. Bead chain covers the widest center windows in one shade. Motorized shades come in battery and plug-in versions, so all three windows can rise together from a remote or an app. Top down bottom up lets you lower the tops for daylight while the bottoms stay closed, and Day and Night combines a sheer and a solid fabric in one shade.

Use one fabric color across all three windows so the bay reads as a single feature. A soft neutral keeps the room calm; a deeper shade frames a window seat nicely.

Sizing each window in the bay

Check each window against the lift you want:

• Cordless: 12 to 94 inches wide with up to 94 inches of drop.
• Bead chain: 18 to 197 inches wide with up to 157 inches of drop, the one lift that covers a very wide center window.
• Motorized: 23 to 126 inches wide, with the drop capped at 79 inches.
• Top down bottom up cordless: 12 to 98 inches wide, 8 to 94 inches high.
• Day and Night cordless: 12 to 79 inches wide, 8 to 94 inches high.

Narrow side windows suit cordless, since bead chain starts at 18 inches wide and a motor at 23. ZeroGlow is ordered to the size of each opening.

Measuring and installing it yourself

Measure every window on its own in inches with a steel tape, to the nearest 1/8 inch, width first. In a deep bay, inside mount gives the neatest result: each shade is built about 1/4 inch narrower than its opening so it clears the frame, and the three shades meet cleanly at the corners. For an outside mount, add about 3 7/8 inches to width and height to cover the edges, and check that neighboring shades will not collide at the angles. A no-drill mounting kit is also offered on the cellular line.

ZeroGlow installs in three steps: join the frame corners on a soft, flat surface, apply the rubber weather strip around the outside edge, then press the frame into the window opening until it sits snug.

Send us the size of each window in your bay, pick your fabric and lift, and your cellular shades are made to measure and shipped to your door ready to fit.