Outdoor Solar Shades
Upgrade Your Washington Home with Custom Outdoor Solar Shades
Enhance your home with custom-built outdoor solar shades designed to block heat, reduce glare, and increase privacy for patios, porches, and large windows. Our motorized outdoor solar shades offer a smart solution for Washington homeowners seeking energy efficiency, sun control, and year-round comfort.
Perfect for west-facing windows and outdoor living areas, these retractable exterior window shades help protect your interiors from harmful UV rays — all with the convenience of remote control.
Ideal for homes in Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Tacoma, Olympia, Bonney Lake, Edmonds, Mercer Island, and beyond..
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Different Ways to Enjoy our Solar Shades
Outdoor Solar Shades for Patios
- Use your outdoor motorized solar shades to turn any space into a luxurious outdoor living area (porches, patios, balconies).
- Create a comfortable retreat for entertaining, dining, relaxing, or simply enjoying the landscape without intense sun glare.
- Lower to use as a bug screen.
- Enjoy use of outdoor space year-round!
Preserving Panoramas
Unobstructed Views Where It Counts
We offer many choices in fabric with varying degrees of openness, but one of our more popular choices balances sun protection with unimpeded views, allowing you to enjoy the scenery without sacrificing natural light or obstructing your window's panorama. Experience the perfect blend of functionality and aesthetics, ensuring every glance out your window remains captivating and serene.
Whether you're looking for fully opaque screens or unimpeded views, we've got you covered with outdoor window shades.
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Outdoor Solar Shades - Benefits & Features
NW Natural Lighting is proud to be a Templar Screens Premiere Dealer. Dealer of the Year 2024, to be exact.
The folks at Templar are proud to manufacture a world-class motorized screen. We'd love them from anywhere, but it doesn't hurt that they're a local business right over in Auburn, WA!Â
These self-proclaimed manufacturing nerds are constantly innovating and improving upon their process to deliver the highest quality product with ridiculously quick lead times.
Highest Quality Parts & Components
Each screen is custom manufactured to your exact specifications (up to 25' in both directions!), utilizing superior parts from the screen itself, to the motor, housing, and all the other pieces that come together to make up one great product that competitors just can't match.
Templar also takes quality control seriously. Do we recommend using the screen as a trampoline? No.
But it's been done. They've also rented a racetrack for the ultimate wind test against +80 mph speeds, without failure.
Smart Home & Smart Phone Compatible
Compatible with Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple Home, and more!
You can also automate your home with sun and wind sensors to automatically close or open your shades in specific conditions.
Custom to Your Home & Needs
Your screens should blend seamlessly in with your home. We can make that happen.
From the Frame to the Shade itself, we have literally 100's of options, including optional custom color matching.
Our experts would be happy to chat with you to go over all fabric options and features including opacity or openness to fully customize the amount of light entering your home, allowing you to perfectly dial in your indoor natural light to your preference. All of our screen fabrics offered are the highest quality, offering premium protection and privacy.
Reduce Your Home's Carbon Footprint
In the hotter seasons, about 76% of the sunlight that comes through standard windows enters to become heat. Exterior shades are about 40% more effective than interior shades in blocking out heat and UV rays, significantly reducing energy consumption (and cooling costs) by regulating temperatures while still permitting significant view and light transmission.
Our solar shades custom made product is built to order, eliminating wasted materials as well.
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Why Work With NW Natural Lighting:
Fastest Speed of Installation
Our Solar Shades are built here in the PNW, avoiding expensive shipping and long wait times.
NW Natural Lighting, customers enjoy quick turn-around times as quick as 2-3 weeks from consult to install.
If the sun is too intense and you cannot wait longer for your outdoor window shades to be installed, NW Natural Lighting is the way to go.
In-House Technicians
NW Natural Lighting is proud to have been working in PNW homes for over 29+ years!
All our specialists and technicians work for us - not contracted or outsourced. Trained specifically to install our window coverings, you are sure to experience a quick and easy screen installation!
Love my new retractable screens and I’m ready for a bug free summer! Great product and outstanding customer service. From ordering through installation an extremely professional and friendly staff. Highly recommend!!
How do I get my solar shades installed?
Seattle's Best Screen Company! Just Ask Our Customers...
Eric did a great job with installing our motorized screens. He was professional, did high quality work and explained what he was going. I would recommend him and the company in future projects!
Patios and balconies are popular areas to add exterior shades or privacy screens. This customer used their screen installation to add privacy to their outdoor entertaining area, and to keep out bugs and pests.Â
Screen installations are possible anywhere there is an overhead structure. By adding exterior shades to a pergola, you can transform the whole space into a fabulous al fresco dining or entertaining space!Â
Direct heat can be too intense. A benefit of our solar shades is they can be completely customized - you determine how much sunlight gets in! This also helps control the temperature of your home, and can decrease heating and cooling costs year-round.
How Do Solar Shades Work?
This part is easy! The window shade you selected mounts cleanly to the exterior of your home by a NW Natural Lighting installer. Measured to perfectly cover your window, or extend across patio openings, these exterior blinds are sized to match your property exactly.
Once the window coverings are mounted to the exterior of your home, you can open and close them with your remote control, smartphone app, or smart home device.
In the case of multiple shades installed on a home, they can be synced to open and close together. Your screen's high-quality Alpha Motors ensure for smooth screen deployment and stowing, every time.
Exterior Shades for Commercial Use
Exterior Motorized Screens for Business
Are you instead interested in window shades but for a business or commercial property?
Our Solar Screens make for excellent outdoor blinds for restaurants and offices too!Â
By controlling the amount of sunlight entering your business you can create a comfortable environment for customers to enjoy.
Your Local Screen Experts
NW Natural Lighting is a proud leader in window covering sales and installations. Our outdoor solar shades specialists serve homeowners throughout Western Washington—including Bellevue, Bonney Lake, Edmonds, Redmond, Mercer Island, Seattle, Kirkland, Issaquah, Sammamish, Tacoma, Olympia, and surrounding areas—and our service territory continues to grow!
If you are interested in any type of window coverings for your home, we are ready to help! Reach out today to schedule your complimentary consultation.
Interested in sampling our motorized retractable screens, or any of our natural lighting or ventilation products? Visit our showroom in Edmonds!Â
