Roller Shades With A Hobbled Look

If you’ve ever seen Hobbled Roman Shades, you probably remember billowy pockets of rich fabric giving the windows in a family room, or a study room the formal look. But did you know that Roller Shades can give you the same hobbled appearance with often a smaller price tag attached to them?

 

Here, what do you think about this example?

 

Two Roller Shades  With Hobbled Fabric Arrangement

 

What you are looking at is a couple of roller shades with a fabric arrangement giving the plain “roller” a new, fancy face-lift.

For the finished-headrail look, the roller shades have a metal cassette covering the roller cylinder and the control system. The same shade fabric was used to cover the cassettes all over.

 

Roller Shades - Matching Wall Colors With The Fabric Choice

 

At a glance, would you be able to tell if these are roman shades or roller shades? The owner of these fancy roller shades decided to coordinate the color with the one on the freshly painted walls.

 

Roller Shades With A Matching Fabric-Covered Metal Headrail Cassette

 

The close up above shows you the forming of the pockets.
Below the top material, there’s a flat sheer fabric to which the front decorative fabric attaches to.

Have you noticed the “reverse roll”? 
Perhaps the picture is too small to notice, but the roller shades roll down from the front rather than from the back of the cassette, which is the standard. It is one of the choices you can ask for when ordering roller shades.

When you have, say, large door handles on a sliding patio door, reverse-roll roller shades then clear the “obstacle” rather than hitting it on their way down.
With standard roller shades, the fabric unrolls at the back of the roller, or closer to the window or door; therefore closer to the handles and hardware attached to it.