Providing Our Customers A Quality Product at A Fair Price!

We just saw this blog from back in August about our roman shades! Our customer described our business model perfectly! We provide affordable prices and so many options! Customers are able to provide their own fabric if they choose (like how this particular customer provided us with a World Market tablecloth to use as fabric for her roman shade!) or we can supply the fabric if one prefers us to supply. Our custom roman shades are a great deal cheaper than many other shops and even more affordable than bigger stores like Pottery Barn, Lowes etc.

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How to get affordable custom roman shades – tips and hacks

In this post, I’m sharing my DIY approach on how to get custom roman shades at a low cost. This is a roman shades hack I used for my kitchen and dining room, with them constantly getting praised by guests. I’ll also share the cost breakdown on my custom roman shades.

Whenever I post kitchen and dining room photos on my Instagram, one of the most asked questions is where I got those roman shades.

The truth is, it is not store bought, but rather a hack. First of all, it is custom made – but don’t get scared when you heard the word “custom”. In fact, it is a lot cheaper than a traditional custom roman shades, and even cheaper than buying pre-made shades from furniture stores.

Originally, I was interested in buying them from a store, because DIY roman shades sounds pretty hard. At first I had my eyes on Pottery Barn’s roman shade, but it has two problems:

1. The width is not customized. I need to order two roman shades for dining room and kitchen, in the same set. My kitchen has a wide window. So even picking the largest size, it will leave a 2-inch gap on each side of the window.

2. The price is a bit high. Two roman shades will cost me over $650.

How I got custom roman shades at affordable price

So I took a semi-DIY approach. This is not a real DIY roman shades project because I didn’t make the shades by my hand. But because I DIY the process of designing, sourcing and getting them made, I’ll call it a “semi” DIY roman shades project.

Here’s how I did it:

I bought two packs of table cloth from World Market. Then I had an Etsy store make two custom roman shades with the fabric I provided. The total cost of these two shades costed me around $250, including all materials and labor. What a great deal!

The Etsy store I used is called SewLovelyByKelly, but there’s many stores that offer making custom roman shades service. I chose their custom roman shades with cord. There’s cordless version too, but it will be pricier. Also they have a faux roman shade option if your roman shades is for decoration only.

I provided my own fabric but used the store’s regular liner option rather than blackout liner, because I want some light to come throw the shades.When you decide to move forward with an Etsy store, make sure to chat with the seller first. For custom orders, a lot of times Etsy seller will create a custom order for you with the details of your order and the total cost of product and shipping calculated for you. Also, even when you are not fully decided, you can still chat with the seller to get an accurate estimate on the job and shipping cost.

Custom roman shades cost breakdown

The exact total costs of my two custom roman shades is $253 – that is $127 each! Here’s the cost breakdown:

Fabrics: $30 (I got two packs during a promotion, original $24.99 each pack)

Labor – $164

Liner – $24

Shipping(NJ to CA) – $35

When buying fabrics for roman shades, there’s a few things to keep in mind:

• The fabric should be thick enough so it won’t see through. This is important because roman shades has this folding mechanism that you probably don’t want it to show through the fabric.

• It is recommended to use upholstery fabrics. What is upholstery fabric you ask? Well, it is those fabrics that are more durable than the general sewing fabrics and can withstand quite some wear and tear. Although in fabric stores upholstery fabrics tend to be expensive, there’s really some places you can get them at a much cheaper price. I have shared some super affordable general home decor fabric resources here in this DIY pillow post. I’ll also listed a few options below that are specifically good for making your own roman shades.

• You don’t need to provide roman shades lining fabric, usually. The Etsy store I did mine at has lining fabrics. Instead of buying some cheap lining fabric and probably spending more money on shipping, I just got the lining fabric from the Etsy store to save time and headache.

• Roman shades fabric sources

  To make roman shades you really need a large size of the fabrics, so the best way to find affordable fabrics is to look at table cloth choices. Here are a few fabric I think will make great roman shades at the fraction of the price of normal upholstery fabrics from fabric stores:

  1. cream with black tripes (same one I used)

  2. linen in natural color

  3. light gray with white grid line