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[C1351]Custom Made Roman Shades
by Jimmy Sturo, Jim

Roman shades are a classic window treatment. They are simple, elegant, and can fit in any style of room. Roman shades are made from a single of fabric panel. A cord is thread through loops running along the length of the fabric at regular intervals. When the cord is pulled, the fabric raises in the groups of evenly spaced panels. Most Roman shades are made of fabric, but bamboo Roman shades fit in rooms with an earthy or Asian décor.

You can buy packaged, basic Roman shades from most home stores, but you can also make or buy customized Roman shades. Roman shades are one of the most simple homemade window treatment projects. It is a great project for beginning home decorators. You can find free instructions to make them on the Internet. When you make your own Roman shades, you select the fabric, the spacing, and the style of Roman shade. The needed supplies, other than the fabric, are very inexpensive. You can make Roman shades without a sewing machine, but it will take much longer. The price of the fabric depends on the quality you select, but fabric stores carry lots of inexpensive fabrics.

You can also commission a local interior designer to design and make custom shades for you. The designer may suggest fabrics or styles you would have never thought of, and will make the Roman shades quickly. It will cost significantly more than if you made the custom Roman shades yourself.

You can also buy custom Roman shades on the Internet. A simple search on custom Roman shades will produce scores of online retailers. You will not have, however, the freedom you had with an interior designer. The shades will look custom, but you will have to search through the hundreds of available shades to find ones perfect for your windows. Buying shades online is less expensive than hiring an interior designer.


The reason quite simply is that custom blinds are much more costly to produce and they need to be made in small numbers because they are made to fit your windows perfectly. That's what makes them custom.

The main differences between cheap and cheap custom are:

No Compromising Of Quality.

When a roman blind is custom made the quality is there. Every one is made to order for the size you give them down to the 1/8". Doing this eliminates any type of mass production techniques that compromise quality.

The quality will definitely be their as the shade will need to be fabricated and sewn by hand. I am assuming that you are getting your custom blinds from a respected manufacturer in the blind trade. There are people who work out of their homes and garages who make excellent custom romans and there are some who don't know what they are doing. They will take your money and give you a junky, substandard product. If you don't know them ask for references. A honest fabricator will be glad you asked and pleased to furnish references.

No Compromising of Fit.

When you buy a cheap roman shade off the shelf there is not much of a chance it will fit properly. It will either be to small and leave a gap at each side or it will be too big and need to be mounted outside the window frame.

If you can avoid mounting your roman blind, especially a hobbled or waterfall roman on the outside of the window frame do so because they do not look their best mounted outside. Unless you go three to four inches on each side of the window you lose your privacy. People on the outside will be able to see right in the window through the big gap at the side.

Cheap custom roman blinds will be made to your exact measurements both width and length. They will fit your window perfectly assuring you of a clean quality look and feel that will garner compliment and ah h's.

Not As Many Choices.

There will not be as many choices of fabrics to chose from in the cheap custom roman blinds category. This is due to the fact the manufactures of custom roman blinds will only put a discount or sale price on a certain fabric or group of fabrics for a limited time.

Here To Day Gone Tomorrow.

These discounted specials are for a short time only. Take advantage while you can because once they're gone there are no more. It might be a year or more before that fabric goes back on sale if it ever does.

This is definitely a case of "He who Hesitates is lost". Cheap custom roman shades are constantly changing so check on cheap custom roman blinds often. The money you save will be...
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