I posted a while back for help deciding on wood blinds. In the end, with much help from posters here, I decided to go ahead and order some standard size wood blinds from JC Penney. I started out by putting them just in our family room windows. I found that I loved them so much that I wound up ordering them for every window in the house. I ordered the white ones and find that they reflect a lot of light and really brighten up the rooms, too. I'm sorry that I can't add any info about how they are to raise and lower on a daily basis because I just tilt them open and closed. We haven't had them for long, but so far we only raise them a bit if we open a window. Hope this helps.

I have an 8 ft. window & at one time I had a roller blind. It was very effective for blocking the sun.

Thanks all for your input. pennydesign, that's a great suggestion I hadn't thought of. Will definitely check with manufacturer. Film would probably be a down-the-road consideration. Jamie, we have a walk-out basement so three stories up for the windows in question, which I'm sure is part of the problem. Too windy for an awning, but appreciate the suggestion. I checked and it does look like a roller shade can tuck up between the top bar of the cellulars and the window, as the sills are quite deep. I may just try to diy a small bathroom window that way and see how it looks.

It says, "Blinds or window treatments must be installed within 30 days of occupancy.” So blinds and window treatments are addressed separately. You don't have blinds, you have window treatments, so we go to the window treatments part: "Window treatments must have white lining." You state that your cellular shades are white backed. Now, this is clearly within the spirit of the regulations, which is to say that everything should look white or wood tone (for blinds) from the exterior - no bare windows, no mini blinds, no colors. We only need to figure out if the cellular shades meet the letter of the regulation, as well. Since they're white, the back and front are both going to look white, so its hard to determine if they're white backed because they're white or if that backing constitutes lining, so let's consider if you had gotten blue. Would blue cellular shades come with white backing or the option of white backing? If so, they would be lined, meaning that so long as yours have white backing, they can be considered lined (since they show a presentable white face to the exterior, which does not have to be the same as the interior color).