TOP Milan Blackout White Backing Fabric
5 colourways, blackout, white backing, 280 cm roll. TOP Window Covering fabric, made into roller shades in our Fort Lauderdale workroom and installed from Miami to Palm Beach.
Five plain neutrals in a thick white-backed blackout, 110 inches wide
Milan Blackout White Backing is a short card from TOP Window Covering: five neutrals, White, Cream, Stone, Dark Gray and Anthracite, on a 100% polyester blackout with an acrylic foam coating and a white back. At 0.67 mm and 380 g/m2 it is one of the thicker cloths among TOP's blackout rollers, and the roll is 280 cm, about 110 inches. On the window it reads as a solid panel of colour inside and a white shade from outside. It is for bedrooms, bathrooms and media rooms in a white, stone and charcoal interior.
The decision is short because the card is. Anthracite or Dark Gray suit a media room or a bedroom that should feel dark as well as be dark; White or Cream suit a room that should stay bright under lamps. TOP lists Milan as suitable for humid environments, so a bathroom is fine. TOP publishes no optical figures for it and rates its light-fastness at 4, at the low end of its blackouts. The thickness is the other cost: a tall drop rolls large.
What Milan Blackout does on your glass, and what it does not
Best use
Bedrooms, bathrooms and media rooms in a white, stone and charcoal interior, on windows up to about 110 inches. Take Anthracite or Dark Gray where the shade should disappear at night, White or Cream where the room should feel open. If one of the five fits the scheme, the short card makes the choice quick; if none does, look at Sorrento. For a gray-and-white house, choose Milan.
Privacy
The fabric hides the room at all hours in every colour; that is the blackout class, though TOP publishes no transmission figures for Milan. The edges are the weak point: after dark a lit room shows a thin line of light down each side of a roller. Side channels, or a recessed pocket at the head, close it.
Glare control
Down, it takes away glare and daylight together, which is what a media room wants and what a home office does not. Without published figures, the blackout class is the guide. Where the sun sits low in the window, the gaps at the sides glow first, and channels deal with that.
Limitations
No view, no daylight, no fire listing, and no optical figures to put in a specification. At 0.67 mm a long drop builds a fat roll that a shallow pocket may not take. Where the pocket is tight, the thinner Riva Blackout White Backing is the answer, on the same 280 cm roll.
Milan Blackout White Backing
5 colours. Blackout, white backing; 280 cm (110 in) roll.
Colourways
159004
159002
159003
159005
159001
Swatch pictures and room photos: TOP Window Covering. Screens and monitors shift colour: judge on the sample.
Milan Blackout White Backing in TOP's room photos
TOP's own photography of the fabric on a window, to show the colour and the weave. These are not Exotic Shades installations.
Every Milan Blackout White Backing colourway, with TOP's published figures
TOP publishes no optical figures for Milan Blackout White Backing. We bring TOP samples of the colours you shortlist to the consultation.
Where Milan Blackout White Backing works here
Milan fits a Miami or Fort Lauderdale condo where the interior is white, stone and charcoal and the building wants white at the glass. At about 110 inches it covers most bedroom windows in one piece, on a Lutron or Somfy motor. We check the pocket depth before ordering a tall shade. For a lobby or a corridor we move to TOP's flame-retardant contract fabrics, since Milan carries no fire listing.
Sorrento Blackout White Backing is the nearest match in build, white-backed on the same 280 cm roll at almost the same thickness, with nineteen colours where Milan has five.
Milan Blackout White Backing: frequently asked
Milan or Sorrento?
They are close in build: both are white-backed blackouts on a 280 cm roll at nearly the same thickness. Sorrento has nineteen colours, a higher light-fastness rating and TOP's workstation listing; Milan has five neutrals. If one of Milan's five is the colour you want, it is the simpler choice; if not, Sorrento's card is where to look.
Can it go in a bathroom?
Yes. TOP lists Milan as suitable for humid environments, with a damp cloth for care. The white back keeps a bathroom window matching the rest of the building from outside, and side channels stop the strip of light at the edges that a bathroom on a walkway would otherwise show at night.
How wide can a roller shade in TOP Milan Blackout White Backing be?
TOP makes Milan Blackout White Backing in a 280 cm (110 in) roll. The roll width is the widest single piece we can cut, so one roller shade can be made a little under 110 inches wide. A seam in a blackout shows as a line of light, so wider openings get two shades side by side, set to move together. We confirm the exact limit for the operating system when we measure.
Which shades can be made in Milan Blackout White Backing?
Milan Blackout White Backing is a roller shade fabric. We buy it from TOP Window Covering by the roll and make the shades ourselves in our Fort Lauderdale workroom: cut square, finished with a weighted hem bar and fitted to a Lutron, Somfy or Crestron motor or a manual chain, then installed by our own team from Miami to Palm Beach.
Can I see Milan Blackout White Backing samples before ordering?
Yes. Shortlist the colours here and we bring TOP samples of them to the in-home consultation, so you can hold them against your own glass in your own light. Our Fort Lauderdale workroom (4539 Powerline Rd, by appointment) and Miami Beach showroom (500 South Pointe Dr #150) have motorized shades running if you want to see one move.
Compare Milan Blackout White Backing with
Perugia Blackout White Backing
A blackout with a visible weave, 118 inches wide, marked fungal resistant
Roma Blackout White Backing
The heaviest blackout in TOP's roller line, in seven neutrals with a visible weave
Riva Blackout White Backing
The thinnest blackout in TOP's roller line, for tall windows and tight pockets
Garda Blackout
Five woven neutrals on a 118-inch blackout roll, for dry rooms only
Palermo Blackout White Backing
Four grays on a 118-inch blackout roll, the night half of a Palermo pair
Sorrento Blackout White Backing
Nineteen colours inside, a white back to the street, 110 inches wide
TOP Milan Blackout White Backing roller shades in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Boca Raton & Palm Beach
We buy Milan Blackout White Backing from TOP Window Covering, make the roller shades in our Fort Lauderdale workroom and install them with our own team from Miami to Palm Beach. 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 how a shade moves.
See Milan Blackout White Backing in your own light
Book a complimentary in-home consultation. Shortlist the colours you like and we bring the TOP samples, demo motors, and honest answers about light, privacy and what your windows need.