Woven Wood Shades

Woven Wood Shades Serving McCordsville, IN

Natural weave that warms a room of drywall and glass

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Here's what to know before specifying this for your house. Room conditions, mount type and lift system all change the outcome, and the answers below explain how each one moves the decision.

  • Service: Woven Wood Shades for McCordsville homeowners
  • Service area: McCordsville, IN and surrounding areas
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  • Serving McCordsville, IN since 2008
Woven Wood Shades Services

Expert Woven Wood Shades for McCordsville Homes

Woven woods are reed and grass on a string, and they answer a specific McCordsville problem: a lot of new houses here wear a modern farmhouse or a Craftsman influenced elevation with gable brackets and shake accents, and then have nothing inside that picks the texture up. Fischer's current plans at Hampton Walk are built on exactly that vocabulary. The other natural home for them is the water side, where rooms on Bayfront Shores and Shorevista Dr in Bay Creek at Geist run 20 to 30 openings and a warm natural weave keeps a room from reading as all glass and drywall. Daniel's Vineyard is ten minutes away and the material suits that side of the town's taste.

Natural material means natural variation, and it's much larger than people expect. Two shades cut from different bales of the same pattern can differ noticeably in tone, and a fabricator will tell you that's within specification rather than a defect. Light passes between the weaves by design, so a woven wood alone gives you filtered daylight and a silhouette rather than privacy, and a liner is a separate line item that adds stack. Unbound edges fray with handling. The material also takes on humidity, and central Indiana's muggy season runs 25 May to 22 September, so a shade that hangs flat in January can wave in August.

When to Call

Signs You Need Woven Wood Shades

If you notice any of these in your McCordsville home, it is worth booking a measure. None of it is urgent, and none of it fixes itself either.

The weave you want may be discontinued soon

Bare windows on a sunroom or a porch

A shade over the sink has warped from water

Bedroom light still comes in around the edges

A neighbor looks straight into a lit room

Strings on an old shade have started breaking

Two rooms of naturals were bought years apart

A wide natural shade sags in the middle

People can see in through the weave at night

Existing naturals have lightened unevenly in sun

Our Process

How McCordsville Window Treatments Handles Woven Wood Shades

Every job follows the same five-step process. Transparent, thorough, and done right the first time.

1

Weave and fiber chosen

2

Exposure ranked ahead of material

3

Outside mount width decided

4

Motor weight rating confirmed

5

Dry care routine demonstrated

Real Project Photos

Woven Wood Shades in McCordsville

Photographs from real woven wood shades jobs completed by our crew in McCordsville and surrounding areas.

Custom shades measured and installed in McCordsvillePlantation shutters fitted to a McCordsville windowCellular shades in a McCordsville living room
Scope of Work

What Woven Wood Shades Includes

Every McCordsville job is documented item by item. Here is what the crew covers.

Three widths and three heights at every opening plus a diagonal check, because a natural weave shows an out-of-level hem plainly

Inside-mount depth checked against the bundled material, which needs more room than a rolled fabric does

Stack height figured against the actual weave, since a natural material bundles much deeper than a roller of the same size

Material chosen by weave and fiber: split bamboo, flat reed, jute, grasses or a mixed weave with wood

Samples left in your own daylight for a day, because these read nothing like they do under a showroom bulb

Privacy liner decided window by window, light filtering or room darkening or none, and written on the order

The liner's effect on the look shown with a sample held behind the weave before you commit to it

Edge banding specified anywhere a cut edge would ravel or read unfinished against painted trim

Valance style and depth chosen so the headrail is actually covered rather than half hidden

Top-down bottom-up specified where a room wants daylight up high and cover down low

Lift specified as cordless, a cord loop with a tensioner, or a motor sized to a heavy lined natural

ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2022 cord safety applied per opening, and cordless specified in any room a child uses

Natural variation between the hand sample and the production run explained before the order goes in, not after it arrives

Every shade for one room ordered on the same purchase so the material comes off the same run

Openings over a cooktop or inside the spray of a shower identified and moved to a different product

Extension brackets specified where a shallow opening won't take an inside mount cleanly

Headrail brackets landed in framing, since a wide natural with a liner is heavier than it looks

Folds dressed and the shade cycled on install day so the material learns to stack evenly

Pricing

What Woven Wood Shades Cost in McCordsville

National category figures run about $60 to $600 per window for stock shades and about $250 to $2,600 per window for custom-fabricated ones. Read those as national ranges for a category rather than a price for a house in McCordsville. Naturals sit across a surprisingly wide part of that band. A basic split bamboo on a small opening is near the bottom. A hand-woven grass with a room darkening liner, edge banding and a waterfall valance on a tall window is a different animal. The liner is the single biggest add most people don't budget for, and it roughly changes what you're buying. McCordsville Window Treatments prices from measured openings in Hancock County, with the liner decision made before the number is written, not bolted on afterward.

By Product

How Woven Wood Shades Differ by Product

Every product in this trade behaves differently in a room. Here is what that means for this work.

Split bamboo: Round or halved bamboo canes woven with cotton or jute string. It's the most familiar natural look, it hangs with a strong horizontal line, and the gaps between canes are exactly where light and sightlines get through at night.

Flat reed: Flattened reed woven tight, giving a smoother face and a finer scale than round bamboo. It reads more refined in a formal room, and because the weave packs closer it holds back a little more daylight on its own.

Jute and grass weaves: Softer fibers with visible slubs and color shifts running through the material. This is where the texture argument gets won, and it's also where variation between one shade and the next is most obvious. That variation is the material, not a fault.

Mixed weave with wood: Thin wood slats woven in among reed or grass, adding a stiffer horizontal element and usually a second color. It bridges the gap between a natural shade and a wood blind, and it stacks a bit tighter than an all-grass weave.

Light filtering privacy liner: A fabric backing sewn behind the weave that blocks sightlines while letting a soft glow through. It's what makes a natural shade usable in a bedroom, and it hides the weave from inside the room when the shade is down.

Room darkening liner: A denser backing for bedrooms that need real darkness through the material. It adds weight and stack depth, and it stops the woven texture reading from inside entirely, so you get the look from the street and a flat panel from the sofa.

Edge banding: A cloth or matching-material tape finishing the cut sides of the shade. It stops a raw woven edge from raveling, and on a shade sized down from stock width it's the difference between looking made and looking cut.

Waterfall valance: The material carries up and over the headrail in one continuous piece instead of a separate flat panel. It hides the hardware without introducing a second horizontal line, which matters on a shade whose whole appeal is texture.

Top-down bottom-up: Two lift systems on one shade let you drop the top for daylight or raise the bottom for cover. On a street-facing room it gives you light at the ceiling and privacy at eye level without choosing between them.

Cordless lift: You raise and lower the shade by the bottom rail with nothing hanging beside the window. On a heavy natural with a liner the mechanism has to be sized for the real weight, so we specify the liner before the lift, not afterward.

Light Control

See What Each Fabric Does To The Light

Pick a fabric below and the window updates. It's a drawing rather than a photograph, so read it as a rough guide to what each family does in a McCordsville room, and to what it doesn't do.

Fabric type

Sheer, 10 percent openness

Ten percent of the weave is open, so you keep the view and most of the daylight. Glare drops a little. After dark, once your lamps are on, someone outside can read shapes through it, which is why this belongs on a view window rather than a bedroom.

Openness factor is printed on the fabric card, so you can compare one line against another before you order anything.

Keeps the viewNot private after dark

Solar, 5 percent openness

The usual pick for a west window or a covered porch. You can still read the yard through it, glare comes down noticeably, and the fabric intercepts a good share of the sun before it reaches you at four in the afternoon.

It also cuts the UV landing on floors and furniture. NFRC puts UV at roughly 40 to 60 percent of fading damage, so this slows fading rather than stopping it.

View and glare controlSlows fading

Solar, 3 percent openness

A tighter weave. The room goes dimmer and the view drops back to an outline. Choose it where the sun is the problem and the view is second, which around here usually means a west wall in July. That's a common call on this side of Indianapolis.

Openness affects how much you see out, not how private you are. A 3 percent fabric still shows silhouettes at night.

View becomes an outlineStrong glare control

Solar, 1 percent openness

Close to a solid fabric with a little view left in it. This is the strongest glare control in the solar family.

The trade is that it darkens the room on a gray January day too. Indianapolis averages a January high near 36F and the light is flat, so think about how the room reads in both seasons before you commit.

Darkest solar optionDim on gray days

Light filtering

No view through it. Daylight comes through the face diffused, so the room stays bright without a hot spot across the television or the kitchen island. This is the default for living spaces.

It isn't private in reverse at night. With the lamps on and the sun down, silhouettes still show.

No view through itBright without the glare

Room darkening

A denser fabric, usually with a liner behind it. Most of the light coming through the face is gone.

Light still arrives around the edges on an inside mount, so a room darkening shade gives you a dim room rather than a dark one. If someone in the house sleeps during the day, say so at the measure and we'll scope it differently.

Dim, not darkEdges stay bright

Blackout

The fabric itself passes essentially no light. What you'll still see is the perimeter. Lutron publishes an inside-mount light gap of about 3/4 inch per side on its Roller 20 and 64 shades, along with a standard factory deduction of 1/16 inch per side, and shades over 120 inches tall or past a 4:1 height-to-width ratio get larger gaps than that.

So if you need a genuinely dark bedroom, that gap has to be dealt with on purpose, either with side channels or by going outside mount. We tell you which one your opening can carry while we're still standing in the room.

Dark facePerimeter needs a plan

Openness factor is a measured fabric spec, so you can compare it line to line. The category names are not measured. One maker's room darkening can behave like another maker's light filtering, which is why the sample books come to the measure and get opened in the room they're going in, at the hour that room has the problem.

Common Questions

Woven Wood Shades FAQ

Questions we hear most often from McCordsville homeowners considering woven wood shades.

Closely, not exactly, and you should decide now whether that bothers you. The reeds and grasses are a crop. Color varies by harvest, by bale and by where in the bale the material came from, so two shades in one order can sit a half tone apart and a third ordered later can sit further out. Fabricators treat that as inherent to the product. We order a whole room at once and, on a Bay Creek door wall where four shades hang in a line, we ask for them to be cut from adjacent material. On separate walls the variation reads as warmth rather than error.
For any room where privacy matters, yes. The weave has real gaps in it, which is the whole aesthetic, and at night with a lamp on you are a silhouette to anyone outside. On the Ricks Drive streets in Stone Grove and Golden Grove, where rear lots face open farm ground and there is nobody behind you, plenty of people skip it. On a front room in the 1865 plat, ten or fifteen feet from a sidewalk on Broadway, you want it. A privacy or blackout liner adds thickness, which means more stack at the top and a slightly stiffer fold.
More than a cellular and usually more than a Roman, because the material has body and does not compress. On a typical opening expect ten to fourteen inches of stacked material, and with a liner attached expect the upper end of that. That is a genuine cost on the shorter openings in the town's ranch and villa product, where 10 to 16 openings per house tend to be wider than they are tall. Where the stack would eat too much view we mount outside above the trim, or we hang the shade permanently a few inches down and treat it as a decorative valance with a working lower section.
It will lighten, and unevenly, because natural material bleaches rather than fading uniformly. Rear elevations on the nautical streets in Bay Creek face broadly west and northwest into reflected light off open water, which is the most demanding exposure in the town, and a mid tone bamboo there will read noticeably lighter along its exposed edge within a few years. That is a slowing of damage rather than a preventing of it. If you want the look in that room, pick a lighter material where the shift hides, and put a 3 percent solar shade behind it to carry the heat and the ultraviolet load.
They are one of the few soft products that does. Those plans run 1,247 to 4,204 square feet across 25 floorplans with black exterior frames and large fixed units, and a black frame against white drywall with nothing warm in between is a cold room. A woven wood in a mid tone bridges it. Where they don't work is on the very wide sliding glass door walls in the upper plans, because a single panel past about 96 inches gets heavy and the natural material telescopes on the roll. There we run two panels or move to a panel track in the same material.
A kitchen away from the cooking, yes. Directly over a range or a sink, no, and a bathroom is worse. Grass and reed take on moisture, then release it, and the cycle leaves a permanent wave across the width. Cooking grease is the other problem: the material cannot be wiped, only brushed, and a woven wood over a range hood picks up a film that never comes out. Central Indiana's muggy season runs 25 May to 22 September, which is four months of exactly the conditions this material dislikes. In those rooms a faux wood or a washable roller is the better answer.
Unlined, no. This is the thing we say out loud before anyone orders. A woven natural is made of canes and fibers with gaps between them, and light passes both directions through those gaps. In daylight you can't see much from outside, so people assume they're covered. At night with the lamps on, the lighting flips and the room becomes visible in silhouette from the street. If a McCordsville room needs privacy after dark, it needs a liner, and that decision belongs in the quote.
It changes it, and there's no way around that. From the street the shade still reads as woven texture, because the weave is what faces out. From inside the room you're looking at the liner, so the grain and the shadow play you fell in love with are mostly gone when the shade is down. Some people order the liner anyway and love it. Others move the natural to a window that doesn't need privacy. We hold a liner sample behind the weave at the measure so nobody finds out later.
Because they're grass and reed and bamboo, grown outdoors, and they vary by harvest and by run. Two shades from the same order can differ a shade in tone or slightly in weave density, and both are correct. This is the same material that people pay extra for precisely because it isn't uniform. What we do about it is order every shade for a room at once so they come off the same production run, and show you a real hand sample rather than a printed swatch.
Yes, gradually. Natural fiber lightens with UV exposure, and a west-facing window will move faster than a north one. A liner slows it by taking some of the exposure, and so does keeping the shade partly raised during the hardest hours. Nobody in this trade can prevent it, and NFRC puts UV at roughly 40 to 60 percent of what causes fading, so the honest word is slowed. Over years, most naturals mellow rather than blotch, which is part of why the material ages well.
A kitchen window over the sink is fine. A window right beside a cooktop is not, because natural fiber takes on grease and cooking odor and never really gives it back. In a bathroom it depends on the room: a powder room is no problem, and a full bath with a shower running twice a day puts moisture into the fiber. If a shade is going to sit in the spray line, we move that opening to a poly shutter or a moisture-tolerant shade and keep the natural elsewhere.
A meaningful amount, more than a roller and often more than a cellular. Bamboo and reed don't compress, so raising the shade bundles the material into a thick stack at the top, and adding a liner makes that stack deeper still. On a short window the stack can take a real bite out of the daylight. We calculate the number at the measure, and where the view matters we mount outside the opening so the stack sits above the glass instead of on it.
Some, and less than a cellular shade. An unlined natural is mostly texture and shade, cutting glare and softening direct sun without adding much of a barrier. Add a liner and you get a bit more, mainly by cutting air movement at the glass. The documented energy testing in this trade sits with cellular shades, where DOE and ORNL work showed savings of up to 20 percent on heating energy against a bare window, and quoting that on a bamboo shade would be borrowing somebody else's result.
Dust regularly with a vacuum brush attachment on low suction, running with the weave rather than against it. A dry microfiber cloth works for touch-ups. Keep water off the fiber, since soaking swells the material and can leave a mark that dries in permanently. For a heavier clean, a soft brush and patience beat any liquid. If a liner picks up a spot, blot it rather than rubbing, because rubbing pushes the mark into the backing.
Yes. Cordless lift is available on most natural shades and it's what we specify in any room a child uses. ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2022 is the product safety standard behind that, and non-compliant inner cords are a substantial product hazard under 16 CFR 1120.3. The one thing to know is weight: a wide natural with a room darkening liner is genuinely heavy, and the cordless mechanism has to be spec'd for that weight or the shade won't hold where you put it.
Banding is a tape of cloth or matching material finishing the two cut sides of the shade. Natural material is woven in wide goods and then cut to your width, which leaves an edge where the weave wants to unravel. Banding closes that edge. On a shade that ends up close to a stock width you may not need it. On a shade cut down a long way you do, and it also gives you a chance to pull a second color out of the room.
Yes, and it's one of the better uses for the feature. A street-facing front room gets daylight from the top of the window while the lower part stays covered, which is exactly the problem naturals otherwise struggle with. The trade-off is a second lift system, more hardware in the headrail, and a stack at both ends of the shade. It also costs more. On a bedroom where you mostly want the shade all the way down, it isn't worth it.
They solve different problems. A solar shade is an engineered mesh with a stated openness factor, so it cuts glare and heat by a known amount while keeping the view out. A natural is texture and warmth, and its light control is whatever the weave happens to do. On a west-facing wall of glass where afternoon glare is the complaint, solar wins. In a room that reads cold and needs something organic against a lot of hard surfaces, the natural is the answer. Layering both happens often.
Assume not, and be pleasantly surprised. Natural material runs in production lots the way fabric runs in dye lots, and a bamboo woven next season can sit noticeably off the one you have. Side by side on the same wall in daylight, that shows. If you know another window is coming, order it now and store it. We'll record the material name and the run on your file, which improves the odds on a reorder without guaranteeing anything.
Individual canes can split over many years, usually in a window that gets hard afternoon sun and in a house that runs very dry through a central Indiana winter. It's not common and it isn't sudden. Keeping the shade off a hot glass surface during peak sun helps, and so does normal indoor humidity in January. A single split cane on a woven shade is usually cosmetic and stays put, since the string holds the weave together rather than the cane doing the structural work.
Areas We Serve

Woven Wood Shades Across McCordsville

We measure and install in every one of these McCordsville neighborhoods. Each has its own page with the build eras, window conditions and mounting notes for that section.

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