Room darkening roman shades offer total privacy

Room darkening roman shades come in a vast variety of fabric collections and many fashion colors and styles with varying levels of light control, including blackout versions of total privacy. Roman shades offer you unlimited design opportunities.

Different manufacturers use different types of ranges to indicate their privacy level.  Hunter Douglas uses a 0-5 rating system, 0 is no privacy and 5 is maximum privacy. Bali, Comfortex and Graber use a low, medium and high privacy rating system. Low uses fabrics that lend a light, airy covering to windows, screening bright light while allowing you to still enjoy the view outside. Medium uses fabrics that screen bright sunlight to varying degrees and will still protect your furnishings from the damaging effects of sun-light.  Deep colored fabrics provide some room darkening, while lighter colors soften anddiffuse light. These fabrics provide a moderate degree of privacy at night, although silhouettes of objects and movement within a lighted room will be visible to some extent.The High rating uses fabrics that provide complete privacy both day and night which room darkening roman shades would be made of.  Even light colored fabrics provide excellent room darkening and protect furnishings from damaging sunlight.

Room darkening roman shades usually come with a opaque liner adhered to the back of the shade or a white backing to block light. This assures a uniform appearance from the street.  These shades do a great job at blocking light and are useful in bedrooms, nurseries or television rooms.