Custom Motorized Shades in
Shreveport, LA

Summer in Shreveport runs long, and most of it runs hot. The temperature here goes past 90 degrees on about 87 days a year, and the humidity stays high in every season, so even a shady afternoon can feel sticky. A covered patio does its job at noon, when the sun sits high overhead. By mid afternoon the sun has dropped low enough to come in under the roof, right across the table and the grill and into your eyes, and that's usually when the whole family heads back inside.

Shade Doctor installs custom motorized shades for Shreveport, LA homeowners who want that patio back. Our patio shades roll straight down the open sides of a covered patio, porch or outdoor kitchen, and they run in side tracks, so they hold their place when the wind picks up. The solar mesh blocks up to 90% of UV rays, and you can still see the yard through it and feel the breeze move across the patio. When you want the open view again, one button rolls the shade back up into its housing.

A covered patio is a common starting point, and plenty of homes here start somewhere else. A house with no patio cover can take a motorized retractable awning. An open spot out in the yard can take a louvered pergola. An older patio that needs a beam, a squared-off wall or a little more slab to mount to gets that work built into the same project. All of it comes from one company, so the outdoor shades on your Shreveport, LA home are measured, built, installed and backed by the same team from the first visit on.

Built for Shreveport's Heat, Humidity and Wind

Outdoor shades in Shreveport, LA have three jobs on top of looking good: handle the heat, stand up to the damp and hold steady in the wind. Each one shapes how we build them.

The heat comes first. Shreveport passes 90 degrees on an average of 87 days a year, and those days pile up all summer long. The worst of it lands in the afternoon, when the sun sits low on the west and south sides of the house. A vertical shade on those sides is what blocks it, and the solar mesh stops up to 90% of the UV before it reaches your furniture, your slab or you. The motor runs on a battery, a plug-in transformer or hardwiring, whichever suits your patio, and these electric shades work from a remote, an app or your smart home system. You can even put them on a schedule, so they come down on their own when the afternoon sun shows up.

The damp comes next. Humidity here runs high in every season, and the city averages 51.3 inches of rain a year, with thunderstorms on about 57 days a year. Anything that lives outside in that much moisture has to be built for it. Our fabric and mesh carry a 15 year warranty, the motors and controls carry 10 years, and the hardware is covered for life. How much rain a shade keeps off the patio depends on the fabric you choose, so your designer will go over the options for whichever side of the house takes the weather.

The wind is the last piece, and it's the one that tests a shade the hardest. Winds top 40 mph on about 12 days a year around Shreveport and Bossier City, and they pass 58 mph on about 4 days a year, mostly when spring storms and squall lines roll through, with a second round in late fall and early winter. Wind like that grabs any fabric with a loose edge. Our shades run in side tracks with a weighted bottom bar that keeps the panel tight from top to bottom, and the hardware is guaranteed up to 105 mph.

Motorized Shades, Awnings and Pergolas for Shreveport Homes

Three product lines cover most outdoor spaces in Shreveport, and the right one depends on what's already out back. A covered patio or porch gets shades on its open sides. A house with no cover gets an awning. An open spot in the yard gets a pergola. Plenty of homes end up using two of the three, one for the patio and one for the yard.

Motorized Patio Shades

Our motorized patio shades in Shreveport, LA go anywhere there's a roof and open sides: covered patios, porches, garages, outdoor kitchens and pool cabanas. Each one is a roller shade wound on a tube inside a housing at the top of the opening, and at the push of a button it rolls down into side tracks on both sides. Those tracks and the weighted bottom bar close the gaps along the edges and the floor where mosquitoes would get in, so the same shade that stops the afternoon sun keeps the bugs out at dusk. Fabrics run from a solar mesh you can see through to high-opacity fabric for full privacy, and a single shade can cover an opening up to 30 feet wide and 20 feet tall. You can read up on how our motorized patio shades work, what they're made of and how they're warranted any time before your visit.

Motorized Retractable Awnings

A house with no patio cover can still get shade from a motorized retractable awning. It reaches out from the wall when you want shade and retracts fully when you want the sun back. The dimmable LED lights are built right into the arms, so you can stay outside long after dark, and the same remote runs both the awning and the lights. You change the pitch with a crank from the ground, no ladder and no tools, which comes in handy as the sun angle shifts with the seasons. Every awning also has a manual override, and that's a real comfort around here, where a strong storm or an ice storm can take down power lines and you still want to bring the awning in. The LED lighting, pitch adjustment and color options on our motorized awnings are worth a look before your visit.

Louvered Pergolas

For an open spot in the yard with nothing overhead, our louvered pergolas in Shreveport, LA give you a roof that opens and closes. The louvers turn up to 90 degrees by hand, open for sun or closed for shade and rain, and a gutter built into the frame carries the water away from where you're sitting. There's no motor and nothing to plug in, so the pergola can go anywhere in the yard you like. Sections come in 10 by 10 and 12 by 12 feet and join up for bigger spaces, all in powder-coated aluminum, with privacy walls if you want them. This pergola design has won several national product design awards, and the sizes, features and privacy wall options for our modular pergolas are all laid out on one page.

Custom Fit for Shreveport's Older Homes

The typical house in Shreveport was built in 1974, and about two out of every three homes in the city are stand-alone, single-family houses. That adds up to a lot of back patios and porches that were framed decades before anyone planned to hang a motorized shade on them. Some have an open gable with no beam across the top. Some meet the house at an angled wall. Some have a slab that stops short of where the shade needs to land.

Each of those has a fix, and we build it as part of the job. A beam buildout gives an open gable a solid beam to mount to. An angled wall buildout uses cedar posts to square up the opening, and you can paint or stain the posts to match your patio. Coping carries the mounting line past the edge of the slab in tile, stamped concrete or brick, so the shade comes down right where it should. For gables and hinged spaces where a rolling shade can't go, a fixed shade fills the gap for good. A sloped slab gets the fabric cut to follow the slope, and arched openings can be fitted too.

These custom shades for Shreveport, LA patios are priced as part of your shade project in one turn-key quote, and the workmanship is covered for a full year after install. You can see how each beam, angled wall and coping buildout works ahead of time, so you'll know what the designer is talking about when they look over your patio.

Why Shreveport Homeowners Choose Shade Doctor

Shade Doctor grew up in Houston and became the number one volume shade installer in Texas. Our team brings more than 50 years of combined experience and over 4,500 completed projects to every job, and Shreveport homes get the same products, the same process and the same warranty that stand behind all of that work.

Customers have given us a 4.7 star average across more than 380 Google reviews, and the things they bring up most are the installers, how quickly the work gets done and how the patio looks at the end. We're BBB A+ accredited as well.

One company handles the whole outdoor job. Shades, awnings, pergolas and the buildouts that get an older patio ready all come from the same team, on one quote. Most installs are finished in a day or two once your shades arrive, and the crew works to leave your patio the way they found it, just a lot shadier.

Serving Shreveport, Bossier City and Northwest Louisiana

Shreveport sits on the west bank of the Red River, right across from Bossier City, and we install motorized shades, awnings and pergolas on both sides of the river and out into the surrounding parts of Caddo and Bossier parishes. The two cities share the same long summers and the same spring storm days, so the same shade options fit a patio in either one.

Shreveport is part of our outdoor shade work across Louisiana, and every project here starts the same way, with a visit to your home to measure the openings and talk through how you use the space.

Getting a Free Estimate in Shreveport

Getting started is simple, and there's no need to have everything figured out before the first visit. Every project begins with a free consultation, and we get back to every request within 24 hours to set a time. A designer comes out to your home, walks the patio with you, measures each opening and listens to how you and your family use the space. We ask that everyone who'll have a say in the decision be there for that visit if they can, so nothing has to be explained twice.

From there you get a custom design proposal, and the price comes back as a firm number after the on-site measure. It accounts for the width and drop of each opening, the fabric you pick, the controls and any buildout the patio needs. Once you approve the design, your shades are built to your openings and installed, usually in a day or two. Whenever you're ready, you can schedule a free consultation and we'll take it from there.