Cellular Shades in Pittsburgh, PA — Cut Drafts, Lower Heat Bills, Custom Fit
Cellular honeycomb shades — Pittsburgh's best-insulating window treatment. Cut drafts, lower heat bills, and add quiet on every level. Free in-home consultation, professional measure, custom fit. Call (412) 634-5526.
- ★ Free in-home consultation
- ★ Licensed & insured installers
- ★ Lifetime workmanship warranty
- ★ Pittsburgh-based & family-owned
If your windows feel cold to the touch in January, your gas bill jumps every December, or one bedroom in the house is always too hot or too cold, cellular shades — also called honeycomb shades — are the most practical fix. The shade fabric is folded into hexagonal air pockets that trap a layer of insulation right at the glass, and Pittsburgh's long heating season is exactly where they pay off the fastest. Penn Shades sells and installs cellular shades across the Pittsburgh area: Moon, Sewickley, Mt. Lebanon, Wexford, Cranberry, and beyond.
Signs You Need Cellular Shades
The classic signs: your windows are noticeably colder than the surrounding wall in winter, you feel a draft sitting near the window even with new weatherstripping, and your gas bill climbs faster than your neighbors'. If one room of the house is always 5 degrees off the rest of the home — usually the bonus room, finished attic, or the room with the most windows — cellular shades close most of that gap. If you're losing sleep to street noise on West Liberty Avenue, McKnight Road, or downtown, cellular shades also deaden outside sound noticeably because the trapped air pockets absorb it.
Waiting on cellular shades costs you in heating bills you can't get back. Every Pittsburgh winter without insulating shades on big or older windows runs you 5–15% more in gas than necessary. Replacement (not repair) is the right call here — if your existing window treatments are paper-thin pleated shades, decorative blinds, or nothing at all, you're paying to heat the outside.
Our Cellular Shades Options
Cellular shades come in single-cell and double-cell construction — double-cell insulates more — and in several light and operation styles. Blackout Cellular Shades use opaque fabric layers for bedrooms, home theaters, and nurseries — they combine the insulation of a honeycomb shade with full light blockout, the best two-in-one product we install. Light Filtering Cellular Shades keep daylight glowing through the fabric while still insulating — the right pick for living rooms, kitchens, and home offices.
Top Down Bottom Up Cellular Shades let you lower the shade from the top and raise it from the bottom, so you can keep the upper window open for daylight while the bottom stays private — popular in bathrooms, front-facing windows, and dining rooms. Cordless Cellular Shades operate with a gentle push or pull on the bottom rail — no dangling cords, safer around kids and pets, and they look cleaner against the window.
Cellular Shades for Pittsburgh Homes & Businesses
Pittsburgh's heating season runs mid-October through mid-April — six full months of cold-side window performance matters here. Older homes in Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, the East End, and Mt. Lebanon often still have original or first-generation replacement windows that leak heat at the edges and through the glass itself. Newer builds in Cranberry, Wexford, and Sewickley still benefit on big or north-facing windows.
A double-cell honeycomb shade can cut window heat loss by 30–40% on a typical insulated double-pane window — the energy payback is usually 3–7 years on heating savings alone, and longer once you factor in summer cooling. We install across all of greater Pittsburgh including Moon, Coraopolis, Robinson, Carnegie, Bethel Park, Upper St. Clair, Fox Chapel, McCandless, and surrounding communities.
What to Expect
Same process across all our shade products. Call or book online, free in-home consultation usually within a few business days, our installer brings fabric and cell-size samples so you can see and feel the difference between single-cell and double-cell honeycomb on your own windows. We measure every window, lock in a fixed quote, and order. Cellular shades typically ship in 10–14 days from order. Install is one visit, 1–3 hours.
Why Choose Penn Shades for Cellular Shades
Family-owned, Moon Township-based, licensed and insured Pennsylvania installers. Free in-home consultation and professional measuring, upfront fixed pricing with no surprise add-ons, lifetime workmanship warranty on our installation. We install the shades we sell — no subcontracting to whoever's cheapest that week — and we take responsibility for the result.
Want to see the rest of what we install? Visit the Penn Shades main site for our full range of window treatments and smart film.
Pick the right cellular shades for your space
Blackout Cellular Shades
Honeycomb insulation + full blackout — the best two-in-one we install.
Learn More →Light Filtering Cellular Shades
Soft daylight through the fabric, insulation behind it.
Learn More →Top Down Bottom Up Cellular Shades
Lower from the top, raise from the bottom — privacy + daylight together.
Learn More →Cordless Cellular Shades
No dangling cords — safer around kids and pets, cleaner look.
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Winter is when cellular shades pay you back. Call (412) 634-5526 or book a free in-home consultation online — orders placed this month typically install in 2–3 weeks, in time to feel the difference on the next month's gas bill.