Screen Innovations — known in the industry simply as SI — has built its reputation by approaching window treatments with an engineer's curiosity and a designer's eye. From their precision roller shades to their award-winning motorized drapery systems, SI consistently brings fresh thinking to a category that has sometimes been slow to innovate. Here's an overview of three of their principal product lines and what distinguishes each.
Roller Shades
Screen Innovations roller shades are built around a clean minimalist aesthetic — precise, uncluttered, and adaptable to any environment from residential bedrooms to corporate boardrooms. The fabric selection is genuinely broad, offering options from highly translucent solar screens that preserve views while reducing glare, to complete blackout constructions that are essential for home theater installations.
Operation is notably smooth and quiet — SI's motors and tube assemblies are engineered for minimal mechanical noise, a quality that is immediately apparent when you first operate a well-specified SI shade. Integration with leading home automation platforms is well supported, allowing roller shades to participate in scenes and schedules alongside other systems in the home. In home theaters specifically, SI has strong credibility: their blackout shades are a natural companion to high-end projection systems, delivering the complete light control that projection requires.
SilenTrac Drapery
The SilenTrac Drapery system represents one of Screen Innovations' most distinctive product contributions. Motorized drapery has historically been plagued by noise — the squeaking and rattling of fabric carriers running along tracks — and SI addressed this directly with a purpose-designed, near-silent track system that moves even heavy fabrics smoothly and quietly.
SilenTrac is particularly well suited to large-scale applications: floor-to-ceiling glass walls, wide-span window bays, and spaces where the drama of moving a large expanse of fabric is part of the design intent. The system handles heavy fabric weights that would challenge conventional motorized tracks, and the whisper-quiet operation makes it entirely appropriate for bedrooms and media rooms where silence is non-negotiable.
Revolve Curtain
The Revolve Curtain system is SI's most unconventional offering — a mechanism that allows curtain panels to rotate rather than simply traverse back and forth on a conventional track. This rotation opens up configurations and design possibilities that linear systems cannot achieve, including partial coverage at custom angles and a visual dynamism that makes the treatment itself an architectural element.
Revolve is well suited to spaces where the window treatment is meant to be noticed — statement living rooms, hotel lobbies, and residential spaces where design is a primary concern. The ability to adjust coverage angle independently from traversal position gives occupants nuanced control over both light levels and privacy without defaulting to the binary open/closed logic of conventional drapery.
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