SmartWings Light Filtering Fabric Sample, Used for Motorized Roller Shade, Multi-Color

Bought one before buying for 9 other windows with about 4 of those going to be huge (108” wide). The roller blind works fantastic with my Zwave controller and with the remote control. It never misses an open close signal. The ivory color on the 70% transparent is high quality. I placed order for my next 4 of 9 shades roller shades.I asked a lot of questions to their support team as I am a big home automation guy and wanted to make sure they would work with my Universal Devices Eisy controller. The Zwave is Zwave 700. A few tips from all that analysis:1. Order the fabric samples from Amazon for Blackout shades and semitransparent. These are two separate books of sample. There are differences from colors on your monitor. Its an expensive purchase so you want to get it right.2. Follow the measurement guide for inside and outside mount shades closely.3. WIDTH: For inside mount you give them the exact width of the inside of the window. They will reduce this by .2” to ensure you can get the cartridge in there. That works out to .1” gap on both sides for you non-math types 😉. For outside mount, this is personal preference but also this determines if someone can peek through the side of the blind or for blackout shades how much light comes in. You need the actual fabric to extend out far enough to the left and right side of the window so no one can peek in. For me, I measured the trim on the right and left hand side to start from the outside of the molding on the left to the outside of the molding on the right. Due to the shallowness of my windows, I need to add 7.2” of shade width to ensure you cant peek in from the sides from the outside and minimal light comes in. 1.2” of the 7.2” is to account for the shade fabric being shorter than the cartridge. This gave me an extra 3” on each side.4. Length: For outside mount, I mounted over the window trim. Keep this in mind when calculating the length you want. When in doubt, order longer length as it really doesn’t matter how long a roller shade is as you just wont unroll it all the way anyway. For me, I measured from the top of my top trim to the bottom of my bottom trim. I then added 4” to that measurement to account for the cartridge sitting above the trim and I wanted it to go to the bottom of the bottom trim. For an inside mount I also added 4” to actual length to have extra fabric on roll when fully extended.5. One thing to keep in mind about blind width. Whatever width you select, that will be the width of the cartridge for outside mount and for inside mount, your measurement -.2”. THIS IS KEY: the actual fabric will be ~1.2” shorter than the actual cartridge width. That equates to .6” on each side. For outside mount if you followed my guidance in tip 2 to add 7.2” to width above it should be a non-issue. For inside mount, it will depend on if you mount it so the fabric is close to window or at the front edge of window toward front trim. If you mount it so the fabric is close to the window it should be a non-issue. No one would be able peek in and minimal light comes in. If you mount it toward the front of the window toward the room, there will be a .6” gap from the side of the window that light can get in. Don’t recommend that type of mount.6. As to where to order from Amazon is cheapest. I ordered my first one on there. On their direct website, it depends on the sales they run. I ordered my next 4 on their site. The only other difference is on Amazon you get a 2 year warranty and on their site you get a 3 year warranty. There is also an option to get a fabric wrapped bottom bar on their website.Very happy with shades and support from company. Great price and they are very quick to respond.

Ordered 4 blinds for our house. One I ordered too short. The seller made me a new blind for $100 and gave me instructions on how to remove the motor from the original one and use it in the new blind. When I needed programming help with the remote, their customer service area walked me through the process and had the blinds working flawlessly in short time. I would recommend them highly. The quality is great, installation was super easy and the support was outstanding.

These look better than the more expensive ones I was quoted at local big box retailers. Was initially hesitant to go with an offshore brand. Amazon has been good to me, so figured I give them a shot. Unboxing now. Pleasantly surprised at how nice they are. Boxes were well packed with good cushioning. There was some initial confusion with 2 separate orders I placed, but their excellent customer service was quick and responsive. They helped get everything in one order and made sure everything was ok. They confirmed how I measured before cutting just to be safe. All responses were within an hour of request via Amazon messages. Very happy with SmartWings so far. Shipping was way faster than expected. I’ll post more info after they are installed in a new house in a couple of weeks.

After using two months, I’m still very happy with this shade. It was easy to set up with apple home kit. I set it to open at sunrise and close at sunset. It can be set to raise to any height, not just all open or all close. I am ordering two more.

Ordered these beautiful blinds from SmartWings and we could not be happier!! Our ceilings are 11ft high, and finding shades for them locally was hard. Getting them customized at the big box stores was estimated to be 2x as much as the ones from SmartWings.Once the order was placed, Cherry from SmartWings contacted me to confirm the measurements. The product arrived in great shape. They packaged everything securely and well so nothing was damaged from China to the US. It took about 11 days for our shades to arrive! Talk about fast service for a custom made shade!I was hesitant to order from SmartWings because they didn’t have a lot of reviews, but gave them a chance! So glad I did!The color shade we ordered (pictured) is in “sand”.