As modern window and traditional window treatments, bamboo shades offer sophisticated, stylish elegance to homes in both urban and rural settings. Traditional matchstick styles of woven wood shades are always popular and appealing. Such bamboo shades are constructed from their natural tubular forms in woven, braided, or tortoise shell patterns. With this versatility of design, you are sure to achieve the effect you desire and need for your home's current d'cor.

Woven wood bamboo shades can make a subtle fashion statement, or can help add bold dynamics to your overall design plan. Traditionally, bamboo shades are made from patterned mats of woven parallel bamboo sticks (match sticks) available in a multitude of diverse patterns and styles. To ensure privacy and gain control of outside light entry from your windows, shades can be purchased with attractive fabric linings which enhance the natural beauty of the bamboo, thus enriching the design and d'cor of your home's overall interior while filtering or blocking light. If you especially like the design of a certain style of unlined bamboo shades, you often can request that they be lined by your window covering supplier company before making your purchase.

When shopping for bamboo shades, be sure to purchase from suppliers that offer the important feature of ?smooth lifting? capacity for your window shades. The continuous cord loop control makes the opening and closing operation ultra-smooth, fast and efficient, and eliminates the dangers posed by a loose hanging cord if you have small children in your home. In addition, the modern clutch action of the control mechanism provides easy maintenance of the desired shade position when operated. Many bamboo shades can also be purchased with a motorized smooth lifting mechanism. Although it does allow a slight gap between shade top and decorative shade mechanism covering above your window, the popular ?Top-down / Bottom-up? control feature permits the bamboo shade to be raised or lowered (moved in either direction) for your light filtering preference and your convenience.

Deco style designer bamboo shades are one of the most requested types. With the chic elegance of Art Deco woven patterns and motifs, these shades expertly and tastefully emphasize the inherent nuances of color and texture variation of each bamboo shade. Basic Deco bamboo shades are available, starting at $119.80 for shade dimensions of 36 wide by 82 high. With addition of the ?Smooth Lifting? operating feature, the price would be approximately $157.50.

Deco Lined designer bamboo shades, with premium quality linings for privacy and offering complete or partial light blockage, according to your choice, are currently available at the price of $185.50 for window dimensions of 36 wide by 82 high. Addition of the ?Smooth Lifting? operational feature brings the total price to approximately $243.93.

Deco Woods premium designer bamboo shades (always lined to provide the precise extent of privacy and light filtering effectiveness requested) offer the latest in exclusive Deco designs and textures for window dimensions of 36 wide by 82 high at the price of $230.00. The pricing, including the ?Smooth Lifting? operational feature, is approximately $302.50.

Whether purchasing lined or unlined bamboo shades, you can choose from a wide range of bamboo weaves to suit your every preference and need. For instance, bedroom sleeping areas may require complete light blockage at windows. Yet, living rooms, dining areas and recreation rooms may need only partial or slight outside light filtering, according to usage needs and varying degrees of light exposure due to window placement in relation to the sun. For example, in rooms which receive direct outside light from windows at sunrise and sunset, lined bamboo shades with ?Top-down / Bottom-up? placement control are an excellent choice. Windows in recreation rooms, however, may only need light coverage from direct sunlight in early morning or late afternoon. Be sure to explore the different effects offered by various weaves of bamboo shades before buying, since close weaves or open weaves contribute greatly to the degree of light filtering effectiveness. The various bamboo weaves and shade linings available also have a strong effect on the degree of insulation bamboo shades can provide from extreme temperatures encountered during summer and winter seasons, and from varying levels of outside noise.

So, whether your bamboo shades purchase is purely a choice of design or d'cor preference, or also includes your home requirements of insulation from the outside elements, the elegance and versatility of tastefully, expertly designed bamboo shades will, without doubt, meet and enhance all your home window treatment needs.