Roman Shades, Tailored at the Window

Vignette® Modern Roman Shades

The engineered flagship is Hunter Douglas Vignette roman shades: consistent, contoured folds with no exposed rear cords and a clean stack that disappears into the headrail. Vignette modern roman shades come in flat and contoured fold styles, fabrics from translucent to room-darkening, and full PowerView motorization, which solves the one historic complaint about romans, the daily raise, with a tap. For homeowners who love the look but want shade-grade engineering behind it, Vignette is the line we demonstrate first.

Workroom Romans in Your Fabric

Because our family runs its own workroom, we also sew romans the traditional way: your fabric, your fold style, your lining. Flat folds read crisp and modern; soft and relaxed folds curve gently for casual rooms; hobbled folds keep their depth even lowered. Roman shades for living room walls, kitchen sinks, and breakfast nooks are the classics, and blackout roman shades with sewn-in liners turn bedrooms genuinely dark while looking like decoration rather than equipment.

Built and Hung Like Tailoring

Romans punish sloppiness: uneven folds and crooked stacks announce themselves daily. So we measure each opening, calculate fold spacing to the window's proportions, match patterns across the face, and weight hems so the shade hangs square. At install, the folds get dressed by hand and trained to stack evenly. The result is roman shades for windows that look pressed every morning without anyone pressing anything.

Fabric selection deserves the same care as the fold. Patterns want flat folds that display them; textures forgive every style; and kitchens earn a practical note, romans near the stove should use performance weaves, or yield to a roller in the splatter zone while romans take the breakfast nook. Motorization, available across both Vignette and our workroom romans, removes the one daily friction the category ever had. If you've been treating romans as the shade you admire in other people's houses, bring us the window you'd start with; this is the most rewarding category in the family to do properly.