Project Highlights
Manhattan Apartment - New York
A minimalist Manhattan apartment: white light-filtering roller shades in the living room and office, navy and Armour blackout in the bedrooms, every shade motorized on one wall remote.
Residential · New York · 2024
A Manhattan apartment, room by room
White walls, tall windows and a lot of sky. The owners wanted the living spaces to glow and the bedrooms to go dark, with nothing on the walls but a single remote.
ClientPrivate residence
LocationManhattan, New York
ScopeLiving room, office, three bedrooms
ProductMotorized roller shades, light filtering and blackout
TimelineInstalled 2024 · photographed 2024
The brief
Glow by day, dark by night
5rooms
3fabrics
1wall remote
A minimalist apartment with tall windows and open sky. The light is the best thing about it and the worst: it washes out screens in the office and comes in early in the bedrooms.
The scheme is one product, three jobs. White light-filtering rollers in the living room and office so the rooms stay bright and the glass reads as a soft panel. Blackout in the bedrooms: navy in the primary for a moody, hotel-dark room, Armour in the guest room.
Every shade is motorized and runs from a wall-mounted remote, so the apartment goes from open to closed without touching a chain.
How it came together
Measured once, fitted to the glass
Consult
Samples on the glass at midday and at dusk. White light filtering for the living spaces, blackout colors chosen room by room.
Measure
Tall inside mounts, measured by the installer so each shade tracks straight over its full drop.
Make
Rollers made to measure with motors in every tube; fabrics matched across rooms so the hems line up.
Install
Installed by Rolli. Motors paired to a wall-mounted remote and grouped by room.
The details
One product, three fabrics
- Living and office
- White light-filtering roller shades. Glare off the screen, light in the room.
- Primary bedroom
- Blackout roller shades in navy. Dark enough to sleep past sunrise.
- Other bedrooms
- White blackout in the green bedroom, Armour blackout in the pink bedroom, light filtering in the guest room.
- Mount
- Inside mount, tall drops, hems aligned across each wall of glass.
- Control
- Motorized, with a wall-mounted remote and room groups.
- Who did what
- Rolli: consult, samples, measure, made to measure, motorization, installation.
“Tall windows forgive nothing. A shade that is straight at the top and crooked at the hem is the first thing a guest notices.”Rolli design team
What we used
The pieces, made for tall glass
Light-filtering roller shades
The living room and office shades. Soft, bright, private by day.
Blackout vs light filtering
Blackout roller shades
Navy, Armour, white and more. Dark bedrooms without a cassette.
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