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How to Choose Window Treatments for Your Living Areas

Whether you’re planning a new build or just looking to refresh your current home, the window treatments for your living areas are some of the most important to consider. Living rooms, family rooms, dens, theater rooms, game rooms, and playrooms all have their own particular needs. To help you decide which window treatments are right for you, we’ve broken them down by those needs and even provided suggested Hunter Douglas window treatments to make your decision easy.

Hunter Douglas Modern Precious Metals® Aluminum Blinds, Window Treatments near Seneca, South Carolina (SC)

Visibility

In homes with children, visibility can be one of the most important factors for your windows. The ability to see when the bus arrives or monitor children while playing in the backyard is essential. However, you also need to maintain light control and privacy at times. Choose a flexible window treatment such as wood or metal blinds, which can be tilted to redirect light, closed to offer privacy, or open all the way for maximum views.

Suggested: Modern Precious Metals® Aluminum Blinds

If view-through is important to you, Modern Precious Metals® Aluminum Blinds with MagnaView® might be the right choice for your living area. MagnaView® offers double the visibility of typical aluminum blinds without sacrificing any of the style.

Light Blocking

Living areas are often used for watching TV and playing video games, so blocking light might be your highest priority in these spaces. Look for window treatments with blackout liners to maximize the experience with your entertainment devices.

Suggested: Duette® Honeycomb Shades

Duette® Honeycomb Shades offer LightLockTM, a cutting-edge system to improve the blackout function of your shades by absorbing and deflecting nearly all light. Saturday movie marathons have never looked better.

Privacy

In crowded urban areas and neighborhoods with homes close together, privacy might be the primary concern when selecting your window treatments. One option is to keep your blinds or shades closed, of course, but blocking the light isn’t the only way to gain privacy. Investigate the wide range of sheer and screen window coverings on the market for alternatives.

Suggested: Silhouette® Window Shadings

We love the combination of light and privacy offered by Silhouette® Window Shadings from Hunter Douglas. The sheer fabric blocks the view into your home even with the vanes open during the day without blocking the sunlight.

Child Safety

Safety is the priority when there are small children or pets in a home. Cord-loop window treatment adjustments pose strangulation hazards, so we recommend looking for cordless options. Fortunately, many excellent cordless shades and blinds available today give you all the peace of mind you need without looking like you’ve child-proofed your windows (even when you have!).

Suggested: Design Studio™ Roller Shades

The cordless LiteRise® system for Hunter Douglas Design Studio™ Roller Shades makes them look better than ever and operate more easily than ever by eliminating the traditional cord-loop adjustments. That helps make your home more pleasant while also keeping small children and pets safe, which is a win-win situation in our books!

Contact Us

Let Blinds and Us Seneca help you find the perfect window treatments for all the living areas in your home. Call us today at (864) 882-7544 or contact us online to schedule a consultation appointment. Our showroom is located in Seneca, SC, and we are proud to serve Anderson County, Oconee County, and Pickens County.