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  Why You Need Skylight Shades
  
  
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  Room Darkening
  
  
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  Light Filtering
  
  
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  Control Options
  
  
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  Energy Efficiency
  
  
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  Manufacturers
  
  
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  Colors & Cell Count
  
  
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  How to Choose the Best
  
  
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  When to Install
  
  
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  Benefits

Benefits of Skylight Shades

Skylight shades give you versatile control over the light in your home and provide you with an easy option for saving energy and money all year round.

Skylights are perfect for channeling natural light into any room of your home and allow you to save money on heating and energy bills by using the sun to warm and light your home. But there are certainly times when you may want to block the sun or prevent excess heat from either entering or exiting through your skylights.

Skylight shades allow you to harness the sunlight when you need it most and block out daylight whenever you choose. Most skylight shades are designed from cellular shades, a type of blind that traps air between your room and the window, providing an extra layer of insulation against excess energy loss.

In the summer, these shades make the perfect addition to rooms where you want the light but not the heat. Light diffusing shades allow natural filtered light to enter the room while simultaneously blocking the direct sun and heat. In the winter, both room darkening and light-filtering shades give you even greater control over the light in your home by either blocking it completely (room-darkening) or diffusing it when the sun is overhead.