Roller Shades & Blinds for Bedrooms

Most people want two things from a bedroom window: a dark room for sleep and a clean, simple look during the day. Roller shades and blinds for bedrooms deliver both with very little fuss. A single panel of fabric drops flat over the glass, rolls up tight into a compact cassette, and leaves the window looking uncluttered. Every roller shade on this page is made to the width and height you measure and shipped direct to you.

Roller shade options for a bedroom

Blackout roller shades are the core of this page. The fabric stops light coming through, which suits a main bedroom, a guest room that catches early sun, or anyone who works nights or sleeps late. There are 30 blackout colors, from bright whites to linen textures and near-black tones, so a dark shade does not have to look heavy.

Light filtering roller shades are for bedrooms where daylight is welcome but the view in is not. They soften the room, cut glare on a screen, and keep the space private with the shade down. There are 32 colors, including linen weaves and subtle shimmer finishes.

Zebra shades are the third option, a banded fabric in 16 colors built in the same style of cassette as the roller shades above. They give a bedroom a more graphic, modern look than a plain panel, and on a motorized zebra shade you can fine-tune the band angle from the remote.

Sizes, fabrics and lifts to check

Blackout and light filtering fabrics are made on different rolls, so their limits differ. In our standard squared cassette, light filtering roller shades reach 98 3/8 inches wide and 137 3/4 inches high, while blackout reaches 94 1/2 inches wide and 118 inches high. A few fabrics come on narrower rolls and stop short of 96 inches, so check the fabric you like against a wide window before you order.

Any shade taller than 100 inches moves to the larger cassette with a heavier 43 mm tube, which carries up to 118 inches wide and 120 inches high. That covers tall bedroom windows and most floor to ceiling glass.

The lift affects the smallest window you can fit. In the standard cassette a bead chain shade starts at 11 3/4 inches wide, a motorized shade at 20 1/8 inches, because the motor has to fit inside the tube, and cordless at 23 5/8 inches. Cordless has no loose cords, which makes it child and pet safe near a bed. Motorized shades can be run from a remote, a wall switch or an app, and work with Alexa, Google Home and Apple HomePod.

Measuring and installing them yourself

For a bedroom, an outside mount is usually the better choice with blackout fabric. The shade overlaps the frame on each side, which closes the thin gap where light gets past an inside mount. An inside mount looks neater against trim and suits light filtering and zebra. Measure each window on its own and give us your exact figures; the factory makes its own deductions for the tube and fabric.

The cassette hangs on two brackets. Drill with a 6 mm (0.2 inch) bit, space the screws 1.1 inches apart, and use the anchor that matches your wall. Two screws on opposite sides hold a bracket on a standard wall, and the four pre-drilled holes give you two more for a wide shade. Hook the valance onto the bracket latch, press back until it clicks, and confirm the top and rear are both locked.

A white or light cassette disappears against white trim, while a black or grey cassette pairs well with dark window frames. Order a fabric sample to see how much light your chosen color holds back at night before you send us your sizes.