Sunroom Bamboo Shades & Blinds

Bamboo belongs in a sunroom. A room built around glass and daylight can start to feel hard-edged once every window carries something flat and technical, and a natural weave puts texture back while still taking the sting out of midday sun. A sunroom also asks a lot of a shade: long runs of windows, tall panes and shifting light. These sunroom bamboo shades and blinds are made to the width and height you measure and shipped direct to your door.

Choosing a weave, fold style and liner

Our woven wood shades cover a wide range of bamboo weaves, from tight all-bamboo grids to bamboo blended with jute, grass or paper, alongside jute, flax, reed and ramie weaves for a softer, more textile look.

Three fold styles set the mood. Flat fold hangs in one crisp plane when lowered, with the lift chains at the front, and suits a clean, modern sunroom. Hobbled holds soft cascading folds at every height for a relaxed, cottage feel. Waterfall runs the weave off the front of a hidden headrail for a smooth, continuous face.

The liner decides how the shade behaves. With no liner, a woven shade is roughly 50% see-through, which keeps the garden in view and still softens the light. A light filtering liner closes off the open weave, and a blackout liner makes the shade fully blackout, useful if the sunroom doubles as a guest room. Both come in nine colors, and the valance is lined to match. A movable liner runs as a second, separately operated layer behind the weave, so you can keep the bamboo down for texture by day and drop the liner at night. It needs a deeper headrail, about 3 1/8 inches, and it cannot be combined with top down bottom up.

Sizes and lift systems for a run of windows

Every lift system builds up to 96 inches wide. Sunroom windows often run in rows, and wider spans can take two or more shades on one continuous headrail, up to 118 inches in total, though a shared valance still stops at 96 inches. Height depends on the lift: cordless reaches 106 inches, while clutch loop, wand and motorized shades reach 118 inches.

Minimum width matters on the slim panes between big windows. Clutch loop builds the narrowest, from 11 3/4 inches, and the standard DC motor from 12 3/4 inches, while cordless needs 19 3/4 inches and the wand 24 5/8 inches. Motorized shades run from a remote, wall switch or app and work with Alexa, Google Home and Apple HomePod. Some looser weaves need edge binding, a border about 1/2 inch wide that stops the cut edge fraying and frames the shade neatly.

Natural fibers are not suited to high-humidity rooms. A dry, sunny room is exactly where they belong, but a sunroom that doubles as a plant room with daily misting is better served by fabric.

Measuring for an inside or outside mount

For an inside mount, measure the width at the top, middle and bottom of each opening and use the smallest, rounded down to the nearest 1/8 inch. Measure the height on both sides and use the smaller figure. Then check depth: woven wood needs at least 1 5/8 inches of frame depth to mount inside, and about 2 5/8 inches to sit flush on a clutch or motor build, or 2 1/8 inches for cordless. Give us the exact figures, because the factory takes the 1/4 inch width deduction.

The mounting bracket is 1 3/8 inches high and 1 3/4 inches wide, with 1/2 inch of clearance for the fabric. The valance grows with the shade, from 6 inches on shades up to 59 inches tall to 12 inches on the tallest, and valance returns are free on request if you want the sides closed in.

Keep one weave across every window in the room so the run of glass reads as a single wall rather than a patchwork. Order samples and look at them in the sunroom at midday, when the light is strongest and the true color of each weave shows.