Crestron Merinda Fabric
10 colourways, blackout / light filtering, openness 1%, Crestron Tier 2/3. Every swatch and every figure Crestron publishes, from the Crestron-certified team in Fort Lauderdale that specifies and installs Crestron shades from Miami to Palm Beach.
The 118-inch Coulisse pair with the Designer Half-Wrap hembarTier 2Tier 3
Merinda is the widest of the four paired Coulisse fabrics, 118 inches on the roll, and the only one whose light-filtering weave Crestron lists at 1% openness rather than under it. Five colours, Sand, Oyster, Grain, Dust and Ash, each come as that light-filtering cloth, which softens the daylight and removes the view, and as a blackout of the same name; both are 100% polyester. The light-filtering rows sit in Tier 2 and the blackout rows in Tier 3 of the budget grid on this page, one step above the other three pairs.
Merinda is the one pair that takes every Crestron hembar, including the Designer Half-Wrap, where the bar is wrapped in the shade's own fabric with no weld line and a flush end cap; Crestron offers it up to 120 inches wide on select fabrics, and a Merinda shade never exceeds 118. Crestron will neither railroad nor seam Merinda, so 118 inches is the limit of a single shade and a wider opening is two shades on one line, aligned at a mullion. The blackout is dual sided, the light-filtering weave is not, and the two are meant to share a bedroom: light-filtering in front on a dual roller, blackout behind.
Woven by Coulisse.
What Merinda does on your glass, and what it does not
Best use
Merinda earns its higher tier where the bottom bar shows. A primary bedroom takes both on a dual roller, each on a Half-Wrap bar; a living room or stair facing a neighbour takes the light-filtering weave alone; the blackout goes into a media room by itself, in side channels. Where the bar hides in a pocket and the glass is within 116 inches, Mika does the same job a tier or two lower.
Privacy
By day nobody sees into a room behind the light-filtering Merinda, whatever the colour. At night the light is indoors, and people moving in the room show as shadows on the cloth, so a bedroom that is overlooked needs the blackout down after dark. The blackout blocks every view at every hour; its only tell is light escaping at the edges, which side channels shut off.
Glare control
At 1% openness the light-filtering Merinda turns direct sun into an even glow with no beam through it: easy on a dining table, hard on a television on the opposite wall. A darker colour on the card glows less than a paler one; Crestron gives no light figures for Merinda, so we compare them at your window. When the room holds a screen that must stay readable, the blackout is the fabric.
Limitations
Neither weave shows the view, and the light-filtering one will not darken a room: a bedroom in it alone wakes with the sun. Crestron's guide lists neither weave as mould and bacteria resistant, so a bath that fills with steam is better in Mika, which carries that line. Where a blackout wall runs to two shades, light shows at the join unless an H-channel closes it.
Merinda colourways
5 colours, 10 colourways. Openness 1%; up to 118 in wide; Crestron Tier 2 and Tier 3; woven by Coulisse.
Composition, ratings, certifications, hembar options and cleaning are from Crestron's Fabric Information Guide, revision 3.23.26.
Colourways
Every Merinda colourway, with Crestron's published figures
Ts = solar energy transmitted, Rs = solar energy reflected, As = solar energy absorbed and Tv = visible light transmitted, in percent, as Crestron publishes them in its fabric shop and its Fabric Information Guide (revision 3.23.26) for each colourway; Ts, Rs and As add up to 100. Openness is Crestron's figure; width is the usable roll width. We bring samples of the colours you shortlist to the consultation.
What a Crestron shade in Merinda costs
Crestron places this fabric in price Tier 2. Its budgetary guide of June 2022 lists a motorized 5 Series roller shade in a Tier 2 fabric at $1,000 for 3 ft x 5 ft, $1,300 for 5 ft x 10 ft and $1,600 for 10 ft x 10 ft, MSRP, motor included, before options, control, wiring and installation.
| Shade size | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 ft wide x 5 ft high | $900 | $1,000 | $1,200 | $1,400 |
| 5 ft wide x 10 ft high | $1,100 | $1,300 | $1,600 | $2,200 |
| 10 ft wide x 10 ft high | $1,400 | $1,600 | $2,000 | $3,200 |
Options in the same guide: fascia $20 per ft; top and back cover $20 per ft; pocket $50 per ft; dual shade (two fabrics, one bracket) double the single-shade figure. The guide names example fabrics per tier: Tier 1: Bella, Mika, Merinda, Nava; Tier 2: E Screen, SheerWeave 2500, 2700 and 7500, Perla, Dilanna; Tier 3: SheerWeave 7000, Rachel, Nohea, Cosima; Tier 4: Flocke, Vizela, Harika; a few have changed tier since, and every fabric page gives the tier the Crestron fabric shop lists today. The guide excludes control processors, keypads, interfaces, wiring, power supplies, programming and installation. Source (PDF).
Figures are Crestron's own budgetary MSRP guide of June 2022 for one motorized 5 Series roller shade, motor included, before options. They exclude the control system, wiring, power, programming and installation, and Crestron may have changed them since. We quote every project at the measure.
Where Merinda works here
Merinda is our specification for the bedroom wall of an oceanfront condo on Sunny Isles Beach or Hallandale Beach where the primary suite has a 9 ft slider and the client wants the hembar to disappear: a Half-Wrap bar on the blackout Merinda, in a pocket, behind a light-filtering Merinda on the same bracket. It is also the pair for a wide dining-room window on a golf course, light-filtering alone. Past 118 inches we split the opening into two shades on one line, and we set that split on a mullion at the measure.
Merinda is the 118-inch Coulisse pair, a 1% light-filtering weave and a dual-sided blackout, with every Crestron hembar and no railroading or seam; Bella, Mika and Nava are the tighter pairs a tier lower, Bella the one that railroads and Mika the one at 116 inches.
Merinda: frequently asked
What is the Designer Half-Wrap hembar, and why does it matter on Merinda?
It is Crestron's hembar wrapped in the shade's own fabric, with no weld line across the bottom and a flush end cap, and Merinda is one of the fabrics Crestron offers it on, alongside the Open Pocket, the Sealed Pocket and the Exposed Blackout bar. On a shade that hangs in the open, or in a dual roller where two hembars are seen together, the wrapped bar reads as fabric rather than hardware. For a blackout that runs in side channels we still specify the Exposed bar.
Is the 1% Merinda a solar screen?
No. Crestron lists it as light-filtering: at 1% openness the weave is dense enough that you see light and shadow through it, not the garden or the water, and Crestron groups it with the fabrics that transmit diffused light rather than the sheer weaves you look through. If the view is the reason for the window, the solar screens are the answer; if the room should be lit and private in the day, this is.
What does a Crestron shade in Merinda cost?
Crestron places this fabric in price Tier 2. Its budgetary guide of June 2022 lists a motorized 5 Series roller shade in a Tier 2 fabric at $1,000 for 3 ft x 5 ft, $1,300 for 5 ft x 10 ft and $1,600 for 10 ft x 10 ft, MSRP, motor included, before options, control, wiring and installation. Options, the control system, wiring and installation are on top; we quote the finished shade at the measure.
How wide can a Crestron shade in Merinda be?
Crestron lists a usable roll width of 118 inches for Merinda; it is not railroaded, so an opening wider than the roll takes two shades side by side, coupled on one bracket with the light gap set at a mullion. We confirm the limit for the chosen hardware when we measure.
Can I see Merinda samples before ordering?
Yes. We bring samples of the colours you shortlist to the in-home consultation, so you judge them against your own glass, and both showrooms, 4539 Powerline Rd in Fort Lauderdale (by appointment) and 500 South Pointe Dr #150 in Miami Beach, have motorized shades running.
Compare Merinda with
Crestron Merinda shades in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Boca Raton & Palm Beach
We specify Merinda on Crestron Digital QMT motors and hardware for any project from Miami to Palm Beach; Crestron builds each shade to order from our measurements, and we install it with our own team and commission it with your integrator. Both showrooms, 4539 Powerline Rd in Fort Lauderdale (by appointment) and 500 South Pointe Dr #150 in Miami Beach, have motorized shades running so you can see the fabric in motion.
See Merinda in your own light
Book a complimentary in-home consultation. Shortlist the colours you like and we bring samples, demo motors, and honest answers about openness, colour and what your windows actually need.