Assuming you have can lights and an attic access door - are they sealed? Check your attic insulation around a can light and if it shows signs of dirt, you have an air leak. Heat travels to cold (or so I"ve been told...) so there should be some telltale signs somewhere.
The greater the temperature differential, the more the heat will travel. Also, the more your AC will run - you didn"t say where you keep the t-stat set, just a thought.
Sounds like the place is well insulated. Is there a possibility you"re not getting the benefit of cool night air? In other words, when it cools off at night your house is still harboring hot air that has not escaped or is insulated enough from the outside that it does not cool? Insulation works both ways. I know the vaulted ceilings do a great job of stratifying the air - one reason older houses with high ceilings seemed to cool better. I"ve found that running the ceiling fan in the rooms sends the hot air back down (don"t know if you have these or not). We keep them off in the summer unless temps are right. Read a study somewhere that found ceiling fans do not help at all with energy savings unless they are used to cool the occupant below them, letting the t-stat be set to a more efficient setting. Once you leave the room, they don"t help.
Last... the shades are a good idea, but better is to shade the house or shade the windows from the exterior.
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