Custom Window Shades by Carole Frederick
Combine elegance, precision, and unbeatable functionality with custom window shades for your Los Angeles home.
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Customization Is Endless & Functionality is King
Custom Window Shades Rule Over Style & Function
For over 45 years, Carole Frederick has been the premier choice for custom window treatment solutions in Southern California. The right window shade can transform your space, offering not just aesthetics but privacy, essential light control, and even energy efficiency.
From airy and beautiful to sleek and modern, one-hand controls to motorization, all shades prioritize functionality you'll love.
Our team of expert designers work with you every step of the way to understand the unique benefits of the different types and styles of shades so you can make the best decision for your home and lifestyle.
Explore Our Collection of Custom Shades
Clean Lines & Modern Simplicity
Designed for contemporary living, custom roller shades offer a sleek silhouette and smooth operation. We offer a curated selection of designer fabrics, rich textures, and opacities - from soft light-filtering weaves to complete blackout - tailored to complement your home's modern architecture.
Elevated Protection Without Losing Your View
Preserve your views while protecting your home from harsh glare and damaging UV rays. Ideal for sun-drenched, floor-to-ceiling windows, our high-performance solar fabrics keep rooms comfortable, safeguard your furnishings, and optimize energy efficiency.
Timeless Elegance & Custom Warmth
Roman shades bring warmth, texture, and tailored dimension to your windows, combining the soft beauty of fabric with the function of a shade. Available in flat, hobbled, or relaxed folds, our custom Roman shades can be crafted from designer fabrics and lined for light control, privacy, or energy efficiency.
Organic Texture & Artisanal Warmth
Handcrafted from sustainable bamboo, woven reeds, exotic grasses, and jute, woven wood shades bring rich tactile depth to your windows. Each shade filters light with earthy elegance on its own or can be paired with custom privacy liners for complete light control.
Dynamic Light Control & Modern Style
A striking addition to modern spaces, layered (or "zebra") shades combine alternating bands of sheer and solid weaves in a fluid, dual-layer design. Transition effortlessly from soft daylighting to privacy, adding tailored light control and modern dimension to your living spaces.
Soft Elegance Meets Precision Control
Designed for spaces that call for understated beauty, sheer (or "mezzanine") shades suspend adjustable fabric vanes between two layers of translucent sheer fabric. They gently diffuse harsh sunlight into a soft, ambient glow while providing privacy and precision control.
Climate-Conscious Comfort & Energy Efficiency
Crafted with an intricate honeycomb structure, cellular shades trap air at your windows to insulate your home against heat and cold year-round. Available in rich colors, blackout options, and versatile top-down/bottom-up styles, they combine energy savings with sleek design.
Tailored Structure & Lightweight Versatility
Featuring crisp, uniform pleats that collapse neatly to showcase your window trim, pleated shades offer a lightweight, tailored look. Crafted from premium woven fabrics, they bring subtle texture and a clean, refined finish to any room.
High-Performance Outdoor Protection
Extend your living space outdoors with durable exterior solar shades designed to block heat and glare before reaching your glass. Perfect for covered patios and large windows, these shades create a comfortable outdoor sanctuary without blocking your views.
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Why Choose Custom Window Shades?
Avoid Costly Mistakes
When you work with experienced professionals, you know that your window shades will be the perfect fit for each and every window you add them to. With decades of window treatment and home design, we know how to handle - and anticipate - issues that may arise, from what to do about windows that aren't square to how to fix an issue if it does arise. No hidden surprises means no hidden fees.
You get our warranty & our support of your manufacturer's warranty. We will always help keep your shades beautiful and functional for you.
Customization - With Help
With so many options to choose from, selecting the right window shade for your home can be a bit daunting. We're pleased to be able to offer such an extensive line of fabrics, colors, materials, opacities, controls, and more, but we know you don't want to become an expert in shades to choose one.
Thankfully, our experts are here to help. By understanding your style, your lifestyle, your preferences, and your goals, we can help narrow down what we think might be your ideal solution for your space. We work together as a team to enhance your home.
Modern Simplicity & Accessibility
Much like a remote control for a television, the way of manually controlled window treatments will once be a thing of the past. More than a third of homeowners and growing opt for motorized window shades for the ease of use, as well as energy-saving potential. With modern control options ranging from wall switches to mobile apps, remote controls or integration with SmartHome systems, you'll never look back once you can close your media room roller shades without pausing the movie, or no longer need to climb over the couch to gently lower your cellular shade.
Design Inspiration
Our Custom Design Process
Complimentary Consultation
Your journey begins with a private, no-cost consultation in the comfort of your home. A dedicated designer will collaborate with you to uncover your unique vision, design preferences, and functional needs. We provide the ultimate convenience by bringing our entire collection of exquisite fabrics and hardware to you, allowing you to confidently see and feel how each material looks in your lighting and complements your walls, furniture, and decor.
Quality Craftsmanship & Communication
Once your vision is defined, our artisans begin their work. Every window shade is meticulously designed to our exact specifications for your unique home. Decades of artistry and precision come together to ensure superior quality, flawless details, and a perfect fit. We believe a truly luxurious experience includes consistent, transparent communication, and we will provide you with personalized updates on the creation of your custom shades from conception until installation in your home.
Professional Installation
The final step in your design experience is a flawless installation. Our certified, in-house installers will meticulously install your new window shades, and ensure perfect functionality and fit. For motorized systems, our team handles all programming and provides simple and quick training so you can effortlessly control your new window treatments. Our work concludes only when your space is left pristine and ready for you to enjoy your new, elevated surroundings.
Why Choose Carole Frederick for Custom Window Treatments?
Concierge Service from Concept to Completion (and Beyond)
From scheduling an in-home design consultation, to the consultation itself, updates on your order, white-glove installation and warranty support, we ensure your experience is smooth, personal, and positive the entire step of the way.
Motorization & Home Automation Experts
Motorized window treatments are becoming as common place as remote controls, but not all options are equal. Our teams are certified Somfy® Experts, trained to install, program, troubleshoot, and teach you how to use the best in window treatment technology.
Complimentary Design Consultations
Designing custom window treatments is more challenging than people think, with so many unique factors to consider. Our team ensures you feel confident in the end result before you’ve even placed your order.
Trusted Installation Services
Our trusted, experienced internal installation team knows our products inside and out and will bring your design to life with professional precision and attention to detail.
Frequently Asked Questions
For custom window treatments, we schedule in-home consultations as our design consultants bring a full selection of samples to your home, measure your windows for your quote, and more.
If you’d like to see some offerings beforehand, you can walk into our showroom any time between 9am-5pm, Monday through Friday. Our consultants are available during those hours to aid you if you need help, or you’re welcome to pursue the huge selection we have on hand.
We carry many of the materials in our showroom, however our design consultants bring samples directly to your home during your consultation so you can feel, touch, and hold them up to your existing walls, art, and furniture. We also have technology that allows most options to be shown as a mock-up directly on your windows.
We pride ourselves in our large selection of superior quality fabric and window treatment brands such as Sunbrella, Thibault, Springs Window Fashions, Kravet, Fabricut, RM Coco, Carole Fabrics, Insolroll, and more.
Along with window treatments, we also offer a wide range of wallpaper, interior and exterior upholstery, custom bedding and pillows, and even exterior shade solutions such as retractable awnings, exterior draperies and solar shades, and retractable screen systems.
Absolutely. Working with other local businesses is a large part of what we do at Carole Frederick. To learn more about how our collaboration works, visit our To the Trade page for more details.
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Showroom Hours: Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm
Saturdays: By Appointment Only