Buying custom window coverings should not require imagination.
Fabric samples help. They cannot show how the whole room will feel. Quasar narrows the choices, visualizes the recommendation in your actual space, then proves the result after installation.
Same window. Same camera. Only the textile changes.
At 4:17 PM, your living room should not become unusable.
Most people do not arrive knowing they want a 3 percent solar roller. They arrive because a room stopped working. Tell us which one this is.
The screen is unreadable and the floor is hot.
Solar fabric chosen by openness and orientation. You keep the view.
It works all day, then the windows turn into mirrors at night.
Layered day and night. We photograph the room at both.
It is never actually dark in here.
Blackout with side channels, or blackout behind drapery. The halo at the edges is the part nobody plans for.
Everything else is done. The windows still look temporary.
Ripplefold curtains with real fullness, hung floor to ceiling.
One apartment, photographed the whole way through.
Problem
Corner glass on two exposures with nothing fitted. Unusable from mid afternoon, and every hard surface in the apartment throwing light back at you.
Recommendation
Solar rollers across every opening, specified by orientation rather than by one fabric for the whole apartment. The kitchen and the living room do not have the same problem and were not given the same answer.
Result
The room is usable through the afternoon and the skyline is still there. The last photograph was taken after the client had been living with it.
Designed around how you live, not around a catalogue.
Roller Shades
Solar, light filtering or blackout, chosen by openness and orientation rather than by swatch.
For the room the afternoon ruins
Custom Curtains
Ripplefold and pinch pleat, made to the millimetre, hung floor to ceiling with real fullness.
For the room that is finished except for the windows
Roller plus Curtain
The layer most people actually need. Solar fabric for the day, textile for the evening.
For west and southwest glass
Motorized Living
Quiet motors, scheduled scenes, commissioned and calibrated on site.
For the windows you cannot reach and the hours you are not home
Seven steps, and you know where you are in all of them.
Fifteen minutes. The room, the problem, the timing.
Orientation, hour, heat, privacy, view, acoustics, use. On site.
Two or three recommendations. Not a wall of swatches.
The recommendation, visualized in your own photograph.
Every opening, to the millimetre, recorded against your project number.
Protected floors, clean edges, hardware aligned to the frame.
We come back after you have lived with it.
Designed by Quasar. Made to measure with our Montréal production partner. Installed by Quasar.
Your windows are measured by the person who will install them. The order goes to our production partner in Montréal and is made to those exact dimensions. Nothing is cut to a standard size and trimmed to fit on the day.
By Quasar, on site
With our Montréal production partner
By Quasar, by the person who measured
I stay on the project until it is right.
I'm Mike. I have worked with window coverings since 2000. I stay involved from the first conversation through the finished installation.
The most common story in this trade is a measurement error that turns into the customer's problem, and a chain of people who each point at the next one. On a Quasar project there is one name on it. Mine.
Your blinds should not need you.
One tap, one schedule, or nothing at all.
07:03WakeThe bedroom opens to daylight instead of an alarm.
16:17GlareThe living room shades itself before the sun arrives.
SunsetPrivacyThe sheers close as the glass turns to mirror.
22:50NightBlackout down, house quiet, nothing to remember.
Motorized projects are commissioned on site. We set the scenes, name them, and hand them over working, so the app is something you can ignore rather than something you have to learn.
Keep scrolling. The blind follows.
Closed. That is the whole interface.
Powered by Somfy on specified projects.
More than an installation.
Presented after the work is understood, because none of it replaces getting the windows right.
A professional portrait made in the transformed room on installation day.
Available on qualifying projectsYour old window coverings are removed and eligible materials are routed toward reuse, recycling or responsible recovery where practical.
Exclusions apply by materialA private digital record of every window: textile, colour, openness, motor, dimension, installation date and applicable warranty.
Wake, day, glare, privacy and night scenes programmed on site.
Qualifying motorized projectsA return visit after you have lived with the installation. Tension, level, alignment, scenes.
Qualifying membership built on service, access and continuity.
Qualification threshold published at launchFour things in writing before you sign.
Two of these are unusual in this trade, and both are deliberate. We diagnose the problem in writing before you buy, so we are willing to be held to whether we actually solved it.
A Quasar measurement error that stops the product fitting as specified is corrected by Quasar.
If the installed solution does not solve the light problem named in your written diagnosis, we replace it within 30 days of installation. Fabric and labour, both at our cost.
The written proposal price does not move between signature and installation.
We come back after you have lived with it, and adjust what living with it revealed.
Quasar is new. The trade is not.
You will not find a wall of client quotes on this page, because we are not going to invent them. Here is what is true instead, and you can check all of it.
Twenty-six years specifying and installing window coverings in Montréal homes. Quasar is the studio he built to do it his way, not the start of the experience.
Your order is made to measure by Deco Stores, a Montréal blinds manufacturer with a 4.8 rating from 31 Google reviews. That rating is theirs, not ours.
Bare apartment, the 3D render, the installation, the finished room. The same job photographed the whole way through rather than one flattering frame.
Every option above was photographed from the same position in the same room. Nothing is a mock-up and nothing is borrowed from a supplier catalogue.
Proof you can see beats proof you have to take on trust.
See the whole projectWhen we have client reviews, they will appear here with the client's name, their permission and a link to the original. Not before.
Questions before the first conversation.
Standard windows start at $500 installed. Three things move it from there: the size of the opening, the textile you choose, and whether it is motorized. A small bedroom window with a light-filtering roller and a wall of west-facing glass with motorized solar fabric are not the same conversation, and we would rather tell you that now than after a visit. You get a written range on the first call and a fixed proposal after measurement. The fixed proposal does not move.
Made to measure takes time. We give you the current written estimate with your proposal rather than a number on a website that goes stale.
Most Montréal towers do. We work to the building's declaration and specify the exterior-facing side accordingly. Bring the document to the first conversation if you have it.
Not on its own. Blackout fabric blocks the light that passes through it, and the gap at the sides is what people notice at six in the morning. Real darkness needs side channels or drapery in front. We will tell you which one your room needs.
The two real failure points are batteries and the app. We specify the power method to the window and the room, commission it on site, and set the scenes so nobody needs the app day to day.
No. Flat curtains look cheap and heavy curtains look heavy. Fullness, hem weight and track behaviour are what make drapery read as finished, and those are specification decisions, not fabric decisions.
We do, on installation day. Eligible materials are routed toward reuse, recycling or responsible recovery where practical.
If a Quasar measurement error prevents the product from fitting as specified, Quasar corrects it, subject to the final written terms.
Mike reads it and replies within the published business-response window to arrange a 15-minute conversation. No visit is scheduled and nothing is quoted until you have had that call.
The Montréal Light Guide, by exposure
Which way your windows face decides the answer, and most people are sold a fabric before anyone asks. This is the one-page version of the diagnosis we do on site: what each exposure does to a room in Montréal, and what actually fixes it.
- West · glare and heat
- South · all-day load
- East · early light
- North · flat and cold
- The blackout halo
- Condo rules
Here it is.
Open the Montréal Light Guide. A copy is on its way to your inbox as well.
Everything below happens before you pay for anything.
Most companies measure after you have committed. We do the diagnosis, the render and the written proposal first, so the decision is made with the answer in front of you rather than a swatch.
Orientation, hour, heat, privacy, view and use. What the room actually does.
Not a fabric book. The shortlist that fits the problem, with the reasons.
Your room, your view, the recommendation in place, before anything is ordered.
Specification, dimensions and price in writing. No moving numbers.
Every opening, recorded against your project number, by the person who installs it.
Protected floors, aligned hardware, and motorized scenes set and named on site.
We come back after you have lived with it. Tension, level, alignment, scenes.
A private record of every window: textile, colour, openness, motor, dimension, date and warranty.
You pay for the windows. The thinking is part of it.
Design My Windows
Let's see what your windows could become.
A 15-minute first conversation to understand the room, the problem and the appropriate next step.
Sent. Mike has it.
You will hear back within the published business-response window to book the 15 minutes. If it is urgent, call 514 603 5531 directly.