Luxaflex Silhouette Shades
Privacy and light, beautifully balanced
Soft fabric vanes float between two layers of sheer fabric, giving you complete control over privacy, light and your view. The elegant alternative to net curtains.
What Is Silhouette?
See out without being seen in
Silhouette is a window blind unlike anything else. Soft fabric vanes are suspended between two layers of gossamer sheer fabric. Tilt the vanes and you control exactly how much light enters the room, how much privacy you have, and how much of the outside world you can see.
When the vanes are tilted open, the S shaped profile disrupts the view from outside. Anyone looking at your window sees only a soft, diffused surface. From inside, you look straight through the vanes to a clear view of your garden, street, or skyline. It is the best of both worlds: complete privacy with a full connection to the outdoors.
When the vanes are closed, Silhouette becomes a continuous layer of soft fabric for total privacy. And when you want the window completely clear, raise the blind to the headrail where it sits neatly out of sight for unobstructed views and easy window cleaning.
The Benefits
Six reasons to choose Silhouette
More than just beautiful. Silhouette delivers genuine performance for your home.
Privacy Without Compromise
Tilt the vanes open and the S shaped profile disrupts the view from outside while you maintain a clear view out. No more choosing between privacy and natural light.
Soft Filtered Light
Two layers of sheer fabric transform harsh sunlight into a gentle, even glow that fills the room. No glare, no hot spots, just beautiful ambient light throughout the day.
UV Protection
Even with the vanes open, Silhouette fabric filters a significant proportion of harmful UV rays. Protect your furniture, artwork and flooring from fading and sun damage.
Unobstructed Views
When you want an open window, raise the blind fully. It sits flush against the headrail, completely out of sight, leaving a clean unobstructed view.
Child Safe
Available with cordless LiteRise operation or PowerView motorisation. No dangling cords, no chains, no risks. Safe for every room in the home.
Beautiful Fabrics
A wide range of colours and textures from soft neutrals to rich statement shades. Three vane sizes (50mm, 75mm, 100mm) to suit the scale of your windows.
Innovative Design
How Silhouette works
The genius of Silhouette is in its layered construction. Fabric vanes float between two panels of sheer fabric, creating a single structure that combines the openness of a sheer curtain with the control of a venetian blind.
When the vanes are tilted open, the sheer fabric's special white backing and the S shaped vane profile work together to disrupt the view from outside. From the street, your window appears as a softly glowing surface. From inside, you look straight through to a clear view.
Close the vanes and the sheer fabric panels come together to form a continuous surface, offering full privacy. The light that enters is beautifully diffused, transforming harsh sunlight into a soft, even glow across the room.
50mm Vane
The smallest vane for a subtle, delicate look. Ideal for smaller windows where a finer detail is preferred.
75mm Vane
Most PopularThe classic Silhouette look. A beautiful balance of vane visibility and light filtering that works on most window sizes.
100mm Vane
A wider vane for large windows and patio doors. Provides a more contemporary, open feel with excellent light control.
Perfect For
Where Silhouette excels
Silhouette is particularly effective in rooms where privacy and natural light are both important.
Street Facing Windows
The most common reason customers choose Silhouette. If passers by can see into your home, Silhouette gives you privacy while keeping the room bright and open. A far better solution than net curtains.
South Facing Rooms
Rooms that get strong direct sunlight benefit from Silhouette's ability to diffuse harsh light into a soft, even glow. No more squinting at screens or fading furniture, while still enjoying the brightness.
Bay Windows
Individual Silhouette blinds fitted to each section of a bay window create a beautiful, unified look. The sheer fabric ties the whole bay together while each blind operates independently.
Home Offices
Reduce screen glare without blocking out daylight. Silhouette gives you the soft, even light that makes working from home comfortable and productive throughout the day.
Living Rooms
Create a warm, inviting atmosphere with beautifully diffused light. Silhouette adds a layer of elegance and sophistication that curtains and standard blinds simply cannot match.
Dining Rooms
Evening dinner parties benefit from the soft, ambient light Silhouette creates. During the day, enjoy natural light without neighbours looking in while you eat breakfast.
Smart Home
PowerView motorisation
Silhouette blinds can be motorised with the Luxaflex PowerView system. Control the vane position and the blind height from your phone, a Pebble remote, or through voice commands with Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, or Google Home.
Set scenes and schedules so your blinds adjust automatically. A morning scene opens the vanes for soft filtered light as you wake. An evening scene tilts them closed for privacy as it gets dark. For hard to reach windows, motorisation means you never need to stretch or use a pole.
Simple Process
How it works
From your first enquiry to the finished installation, we handle everything.
Home Consultation
We visit your home with the full fabric range. You see and feel the vanes, choose your colour and size, and we discuss which rooms will benefit most. No obligation, no pressure.
Detailed Quotation
A clear, fixed price quotation with exact specifications for every window. We explain everything so there are no surprises. No hidden extras.
Expert Installation
Our trained fitters install your Silhouette blinds and show you how everything works. Site sizing ensures a perfect fit every time. Five year guarantee included.
Our Five Year 'Perfect Fit' Promise
When you choose our family run business, you get the highest quality workmanship and a long lasting shutter or blind solution designed perfectly for you.
Accurately Measured
Precision survey by our trained specialists
Meticulously Fitted
Expert installation by our own team
Guaranteed for 5 Years
If you have a problem, we solve it
What Our Customers Say
"I absolutely love the pirouettes and the shutters. There is simply no other company we would deal with."
Kim Wilkinson
"I have been really impressed with the company. The friendly nature, the speedy response to queries, the fantastic guidance from David and the advice we received during our visit to the design studio. I wish all companies were the same."
Ian Robins, Dunfermline
See Silhouette in our brochure
The full Silhouette range with fabric options, colour guides, and real installations from homes across Scotland. Request your copy and take the first step.