About Window Modes

Decades of custom manufacturing.
A new standard for
architectural shading.

Window Modes is a trade-only window-treatment manufacturer and fabricator specializing in custom roller shades, architectural shading systems, and technically demanding applications.

For decades, we have manufactured custom shades for luxury residential and commercial projects.

Our partnership with Blindspace® expanded that expertise into a growing area of the industry: shading that must be considered as part of the architecture itself—from recessed pockets planned during design and construction to specialty shapes and difficult architectural conditions.

Today, Window Modes helps dealers and project teams solve both.

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FROM CUSTOM SHADES TO ARCHITECTURAL SHADING

When the architecture determines the shade.

Window Modes has been manufacturing custom window treatments in New York since 1952.

That experience began with the shade itself: accurate fabrication, custom sizing, motorization, specialty details, and the demands of high-end projects.

Our relationship with Blindspace® introduced another challenge.

Increasingly, shading is no longer something selected after the architecture is designed. Recessed pockets, concealed systems, wiring, access, ceiling details, and shade requirements may all need to be considered during design and coordinated through construction.

At the same time, modern architecture continues to create openings that do not fit conventional shade systems: angled glass, corners, curves, skylights, oversized spans, and specialty shapes.

We call this architectural shading.

It is the point where window-treatment manufacturing and architectural conditions have to be considered together.

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OUR SPECIALTY

Architectural shading starts with the architecture.

Some projects begin with a simple question:

What shade fits this window?

‍Architectural shading begins with different questions:

How should the shade disappear into this ceiling?
How do we shade this unusual opening?
What needs to be planned before framing and drywall?
How do the pocket, shade, motor, controls, and architecture work together?

Window Modes combines custom shade manufacturing with specialty fabrication and Blindspace® concealment systems to help the trade address these conditions:

- Architectural shading applications include:
- Recessed and concealed roller shades
- Blindspace® pocket and concealment systems
- Angled and specialty-shaped windows
- Corner glazing
- Curved conditions
- Skylights and overhead glazing
- Oversized openings
- Specialty mounting and hardware conditions
- Motorized shading requiring architectural coordination

The earlier these conditions are understood, the more opportunity the project team has to achieve the intended architectural result.

AN AUTHORIZED U.S. BLINDSPACE® DISTRIBUTOR

A concealment platform backed by custom shade manufacturing.

Blindspace provides architects and project teams with a flexible system for integrating shading into ceilings and other architectural conditions.

Window Modes brings something additional to that relationship: decades of experience actually manufacturing the shades that go inside those conditions.

That allows our team to look beyond the pocket alone and consider how the concealment system, shade dimensions, fabric, motorization, hardware, access, and project conditions relate to one another.

For standard applications, that can make specification easier.

For unusual applications, it creates greater flexibility to develop a project-specific approach.