If you don't know what this means, I'll tell you that top down bottom up shades can be opened from either bottom or top, thus allowing you to look outside though whatever part of the window you wish.Do you want to open them like you'd do with any normal horizontal blind, Roman shade or pleated shade? Raise them from the bottom headrail. Do you want that romantic, classic style cafe curtains look? Open them from the top and reveal as much of the glass surface as you wish.

Moreover, top down bottom up window blinds are made of two layers of fabric, so you can choose which one you want to remain on the window: the opaque or the transparent one. This is how you can better control your light filtering and your privacy.

If your room has more than one window, you can play with your top down bottom up shades and find good looking positions for the blinds in order to create a creative effect for the viewers.

If you like the idea of installing top down bottom up shades at your windows, then you should know that moat of the biggest window treatments manufacturers have at least a few models that match your demand. Bali, especially, has some extraordinary cellular shades series that can be installed in this version. Hunter Douglas is another well-known shades, blinds and shutters company which can offer you excellent choices of such shades.

However, brand names usually come with a price tag attached. If you are on budget restrictions, just try some cheaper, no-name models of window shades, because it's not that hard to have two rollers and one piece of fabric between them and to use two spring motors to make some great cordless top down bottom up shades. Almost anybody could even do it at home, provided that he or she has some craft skills and a lot of creativity.

In the video below, you can watch detailed explanatiuons on how to make top down bottom up Roman shades for cheap.