Did you know that 5 out of 10 VELUX consumers want light control on their skylights, but only 1 out of 10 actually have it? Give your customers the control they want by suggesting VELUX blinds with every skylight order.
Types of Skylight Blinds
VELUX offers four different types of blinds to accommodate every customer's lighting needs and style preferences:
Room Darkening Skylight Blinds
- Double-pleated fabric
- Manual and solar-powered options
- Block a substantial amount of light, ideal for bedrooms
- Operate with included remote or VELUX ACTIVE with NETATMO
- Available in 5 in-stock colors and 7 special order colors
- Can improve energy performance by up to 45%
Light Filtering Skylights Blinds
- Single-pleated, flat fabric
- Manual and solar-powered options
- Softens and diffuses light, ideal for kitchens and living rooms
- Operate with included remote or VELUX ACTIVE
- Available in 5 in-stock colors and 15 special order colors
- Can improve energy performance by up to 39%
- Stylish slated look
- Manually operated
- Designed for varying light control while providing outdoor views
- Elegant aluminum is easy to wipe clean, available in 8 colors
- Can improve energy performance by up to 34%
- Double-pleated, flat fabric with unique honeycomb structure
- Manual and solar-powered options
- Designed to block out even the brightest sunlight
- Operate with included remote or VELUX ACTIVE
- Available in 5 in-stock colors and 24 special order colors
- Can improve energy performance by up to 45%
The Benefits of Skylight Blinds
Adding blinds to skylight orders not only gives your bottom line a boost, it also provides your consumers with a few added skylight benefits:
- Drama: VELUX Skylights help dramatize any room in a home. Play up that drama even more with a brightly colored blind!
- Privacy: You already know a skylight offers more privacy than a window, but a skylight with a blind offers more privacy than one without.
- Energy Efficiency: Adding blinds can increase the skylight's overall energy efficiency by 45%.
- Light Control: When you add blinds, you put more light control in the hands of your consumers. Blinds can also help control the temperature of a room with skylights and keep them from overheating in the sun.
In-Stock vs. Special Order
You may have noticed when we were listing the skylight blind types that certain colors were available in-stock while others are available as a special order. Our in-stock blinds are factory-installed on the skylight so there's no extra installing to do once you're on site. Our in-stock blinds are comprised of our most popular styles and colors so your consumers are less likely to wait for them to come in.
Special order skylight blinds, however, are not pre-installed with a skylight order and require a two-week lead time. These ship separately and you can make the trip back to install them yourself or they can be installed by your customers. VELUX blinds are fitted with pre-installed brackets as part of our Pick&Click!® system, so they just pop into place to achieve a perfect fit every time.
