Anderson Windows Roller Shade Bracket

What is this? A corner bracket that marries the geometry of an Anderson Picture Window to a Bali roller shade.

Why did I design this? We have a view that gets the full afternoon sun. My wife wanted pleated up-down/down-up shades, and I wanted a roller blind so that I could still see the view. I had initially thought I could buy both a roller shade and pleated shades, and then mount both to the window casing so we could use either or both, but the Anderson Window requires more depth, and I lost about 1.25" of window casement. I needed a way to mount the roller shade into the Anderson frame, so that the pleated shade could be in the window casing toward the inside. This bracket allows me to mount both shades, with the roller shade behind the pleated shade.

Limitations: It only works with the picture window frame geometry - not an opening window geometry. It was designed around the picture window frame that we just had installed, so I'm not sure if this will work for earlier or different models of their picture window frame.

The bracket included here is a left/right pair. If your roller shade is not a Bali shade, this might not work, but you could edit this model to suit your shade's brackets.

There are a number of triangle sections in the plane where the roller shade is mounted to the window frame - those are there specifically for strength, since screwing this to the window casement requires drilling 2 holes through the Anderson frame and into the casement. The added strength just seemed like a good idea.

Photos show the bracket, the roller shade without the pleated shade in front, and the whole setup, in our dining room window.