Project Highlights

Modern Austin Home - Austin

A modern Austin house built around a pool courtyard with glass walls on three sides. Motorized Balmoral light-filtering roller shades on one app through a Bond Bridge; open roll on cast aluminum brackets, closed roll in 4-inch cassettes.

Modern living room with light-filtering roller shades lowered on a glass wall

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Residential · Austin · 2025

Glass walls, softened

A modern Austin house built around a pool courtyard, with floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides. Motorized light-filtering shades take the edge off the Texas sun without closing the house in.

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Living room with tall light-filtering roller shades and a view to the pool

ClientPrivate residence

LocationAustin, Texas

ScopeLiving room, dining, bedrooms, primary bathroom

ProductBalmoral light-filtering roller shades, motorized

ControlBond Bridge, one app

The brief

Expansive glass, modulated light

1app for every shade

2roll styles

4 incassette on closed rolls

The house is all openness: a courtyard pool, sliding glass walls, stone and warm wood. The brief was to keep that feeling and still be able to sit in the living room at four in the afternoon.

Balmoral light-filtering roller shades run across the glass walls. Lowered, they turn hard sun into an even glow and hide the neighbors; raised, they disappear into the ceiling line.

Every shade is motorized. A Bond Bridge brings them into one phone app, so the whole west side of the house drops with one tap when the sun comes around.

Living room with shades lowered across the glass wall — Living room, shades down

Tall narrow window beside the stair with a shade raised — Stair window

How it came together

Motorized, then made to disappear

Consult

Samples on the glass at midday. Light filtering, not blackout: the rooms are for living in, and the view is the point.

Measure

Every pane of the glass walls measured by the installer so the shades line up across each run.

Make

Balmoral rollers made to measure with motors in every tube. Open roll where the ceiling is clean, closed 4 in cassettes where the headrail shows.

Install

Installed by Rolli, then every motor paired to the Bond Bridge and grouped by room in the app.

Dining room with a light-filtering shade half lowered over a garden view — Dining room

Primary bathroom in dark stone with a light-filtering shade — Primary bathroom

Modern house with pool courtyard and glass walls — The house

Light-filtering roller shade lowered over a window with a tree outside

The details

What was specified

Fabric: Balmoral light filtering. Even glow by day, privacy without blocking the view.
Open roll: Exposed roll with cast aluminum brackets where the ceiling line is clean.
Closed roll: 4 in cassette headrail where the top of the shade is in view.
Motors: Quiet motorization on every shade, raised and lowered at the touch of a button.
Control: Bond Bridge: every shade in one smartphone app, grouped by room.
Who did what: Rolli: consult, samples, measure, made to measure, motorization, installation.

“On a glass wall the shade is as big as the architecture. Open roll on a cast bracket keeps it honest; a cassette hides it where it should hide.”Rolli design team