Top-Down Bottom-Up Honeycomb Shades for a Renovated Bathroom in Pelham, NY

This newly renovated bathroom in Pelham pairs a deep green glazed tile shower with marble wainscoting and a marble hexagon mosaic floor. A large double-hung window sits right beside the shower, looking out toward the trees, and the room gets beautiful daylight.

The window also sits at street level. The homeowners wanted privacy from the street, but they did not want to cover the glass completely and lose the light that makes the new finishes glow.

Westchester Window Fashions chose Hunter Douglas Applause honeycomb shades with a top-down bottom-up design. The shade can be lowered from the top and raised from the bottom, so it can sit anywhere on the window. Here it covers the lower half of the glass, where the view in from the street would be, and leaves the upper sash open to the sky and treetops.

Privacy Without Losing the Daylight

Most bathroom windows force a choice: cover the glass for privacy and lose the light, or keep the light and lose the privacy. Top-down bottom-up honeycomb shades remove that choice. Because the shade can float anywhere on the window, the bottom sash stays covered at exactly the height where a passerby could see in, while daylight keeps coming over the top. The room stays bright at midday and private at eye level, with no adjustments as the sun moves.

The soft white fabric keeps the look clean against the marble and green tile, and the cellular pleats diffuse the light that does pass through. Set inside the white window trim, the shade stays quiet and tailored, so the tile work remains the focus of the room.

A Measured Fit for a Renovated Room

There is a practical side too. A bathroom window deals with steam and humidity every day, and a honeycomb shade handles that better than fabric panels or wood blinds: the pleats hold their shape, the fabric wipes clean, and there are no slats to warp. For a room designed to be used hard and cleaned often, top-down bottom-up honeycomb shades are as sensible as they are quiet-looking.

In a renovation, the window treatment is one of the last decisions, and it has to live up to everything that came before it. Westchester Window Fashions measured the window after the tile and trim were finished, so the shades sit precisely inside the casing with no gaps at the edges – important on a street-facing window, where even a narrow sliver can carry a view in.

The bathroom now stays private at street level without feeling closed in. Daylight still pours in over the top of the shade, and the homeowners can move it up or down through the day as the light and their needs change.

A shade that can sit exactly where the sightline is, and nowhere else, earns its place in a room built around light and tile. For bathrooms and other rooms that need privacy without giving up light, in Pelham and across Westchester County, top-down bottom-up honeycomb shades are one of the most flexible choices. The honeycomb construction adds one more quiet benefit: the cells insulate the glass, so a room with this much tile stays a little warmer on winter mornings. To learn more about cellular shades, see more of our work, or plan your own project, call Westchester Window Fashions at 914-685-9336.