Outdoor Solar Shades
Blinds & Designs of Florida provides custom outdoor shades for residential and commercial customers in the Sarasota, Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Lido Key, Bird Key and surrounding areas. All our shades are custom-made to fit your specific application and is available with many options to choose from. Visit our showroom today.
Solar Shades: Elegant Protection for Glare, Light, Heat & Privacy
Outdoor Retractable Shades for your patio or lanai
Retractable shades will keep your shade stable on a windy day. Providing coverage for even the largest areas.
When the sun’s glare becomes more than just an annoyance, when it heats up your home, fades your furnishings, or intrudes on your peace, you need a solution that balances light, comfort, and style. Solar shades are that solution. Crafted with precision, engineered for durability, and designed to enhance both indoor and outdoor spaces, solar shades deliver daylight control, UV protection, and aesthetic appeal in one.
These are innovative-high performance solar shades that helps improve energy efficiency in your outdoor living space and the comfort of their occupants. Made for home or commercial spaces, our shades are made by the highest quality manufacturers in the industry.
Solar Shades with a track system, also sometimes called a zipper screen, are designed to be attractive and add stability and durability to the screen. The track system prevents the screen from swaying back and forth when windy. Even a slight breeze can cause the shade to sway into the living space.
With the motorized systems you can cover large expansive areas without having to split up the openings with two shades or more.
Comfort in outdoor areas makes these shades a necessity. We invite you to discover how solar control systems and energy efficient solutions can improve your well-being and quality of life.
Screens come in several color options, opacities and textures.
Come in to Blinds & Designs Showroom or Call today (941) 360-9200 for a Free Consultation.
What Makes a Great Solar Shade
Before you choose a solar shade, these are the qualities you want:
- UV & Heat Management: The shade should block harmful ultraviolet rays, reducing fading on floors, fabrics, and furniture. At the same time, it should let in natural light to brighten your room without letting it overheat.
- Material & Durability: Fabrics should be resilient, sun-stable, resistant to tearing, mildew, or mold. Hardware and mechanisms should be built for long life, especially for tolerating sun, moisture, and wind in outdoor or semi-outdoor spaces.
- Customization & Aesthetic Options: Shade color, fabric openness, mounting type, motorization, and hardware finish should provide options so the shade complements your architectural style.
- Operation & Convenience: Manual, motorized, or smart-home integrated operation. Smooth, reliable operation is a must.
Energy Efficiency & Environment: Helping reduce cooling (and heating) costs, contributing to more comfortable indoor environments.
What Top Manufacturers Offer
We partner with leading names in the industry to bring you solar shades that meet or exceed the basic criteria. These companies offer a Limited Lifetime Warranty on the manufacturing of the shades. We only partner with manufacturers that provide the replacement parts and offer the best service for parts and repairs efficiently and quickly. Manufactured right here in Florida makes this happen even faster for us.
Benefits of Installing Solar Shades
Quality solar shades give you many advantages:
- Reduced Heat Gain: Less reliance on air conditioning, which lowers energy bills.
- Glare Control: Keeps bright light under control without darkening the room too much.
- Protection for Interiors: UV rays fade carpet, paint, furniture, and artwork. Good solar shades preserve them.
- Privacy Without Isolation: Depending on fabric openness, you can retain outward views while limiting visibility from outside.
- Improved Comfort Outdoors: For porches, patios, lanai areas, solar screens help make outdoor living more usable in sun or light rain.
Choosing the Right Solar Shade for You
Here are key decisions to make:
| Decision | Why It Matters |
| Fabric openness / transparency | Determines how much light gets through, how much view you retain, and how much UV is blocked. |
| Installation location | Indoor vs outdoor, window-mounted vs ceiling or wall mount; outdoor shades need more robust materials. |
| Operation method | Manual pull, chain, motor-driven, remote or smart-home controlled, all impact ease of use. |
| Color, style, texture | These choices affect aesthetics, light diffusion, heat absorption (dark fabrics absorb more heat). |
| Warranty & maintenance | Because shades endure sun, wind, moisture, warranties and ease of service are very important. |
Why Us
When you choose solar shades from our curated lines, you get:
- The best in cutting-edge engineering, tested durability, and premium materials.
- A wide palette of colors, styles, opacities to match your home or space.
- Options for motorization and smart control so your shades keep up with your lifestyle.
- Products built to last, backed by strong warranties and installation/service support.
Please give us a call at (941) 360-9200
We are ready to help and answer any questions you have.
Automated Shades
Today, automation is an integral part of how we interact with the world. It is the way of the future that now extends to window coverings. Automated blinds and shades combine style, convenience, and safety for the perfect solution to hard-to-reach windows. Or maybe you want to save time because you have multiple window coverings that you’d like to raise or lower all at once. Even if you just prefer luxury and the ease of operation that atomization provides, your life will become so much easier!
Simple to maintain, automated blinds and shades are the most convenient way to regulate sunlight and privacy. You can adjust your window coverings to the desired height with a remote, wireless wall switch, smartphone, or tablet. With the quick push of a button or flip of a switch, you can easily control your blinds or shades from across the room. No more leaning, reaching over the couch or climbing up a step ladder to grab hazardous cords or wands. Now, children and pets stay safe as well.
Huge Selection of Motorized Options
At Blinds & Designs of Florida, we strive to be the leader in automation by offering a huge selection of motorized options with the latest and greatest technology. From timers to sun sensors, we incorporate the most up-to-date equipment to keep your home insulated and protected when you are at work or on vacation. Timers allow you to program your window coverings to open and close at specific times while sensors signal them to close when the sun is at its brightest. These features provide significant savings in energy costs and keep fabrics, rugs, upholstery, and artwork from fading. We can even easily integrate new technology to work alongside an existing system.
The type of automation depends on what type of window treatment you prefer. With shades, a motorized lift is used to raise or lower the entire shade. Ask your Blinds & Designs of Florida designer about the top-down / bottom-up feature that lets you open your shades from the top and the bottom, allowing you to create the perfect balance of natural light and privacy. If blinds are more your style, motorized tilt is used to tilt the slats or vanes open or closed. Cellular, pleated, roman, roller and solar shades use motorized lift while vertical, wood, and faux wood blinds use motorized tilt.
Contact Blinds & Designs of Florida for a professional designer to show you how we can make your life easier!
Please give us a call at (941) 360-9200
We are ready to help and answer any questions you have.
Please give us a call at (941) 360-9200, stop by our showroom or send us a message. We are ready to help and answer any questions you have.