PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
Sheer Shades
Learn more about Hunter Douglas custom window sheers, including our shadings and privacy sheers. Innovative, light-diffusing sheers. Your trusted source for window treatments.
Cellular Shades
Cellular honeycomb shades from Hunter Douglas. An energy-efficient design that traps air in distinct pockets to help keep your house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Roman Shades
Custom-made fabric Roman Shades by Hunter Douglas, combining the look of soft folds with the ease and convenience of a shade. Custom-crafted.
Roller Shades
The Hunter Douglas roller shades & solar screen shades collections offer excellent light control and a clean, stylish look in a range of fabrics and materials.
Woven Shades
For a warm, natural look our Hunter Douglas Woven Wood Shades collection of window treatments transforms sunlight into captivating design statements. Choose yours today.
Vertical Shades
Find the right custom vertical shades for any room in your home. Search our most popular window shades.
Wood Blinds
From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, wood blinds have been a favorite among homeowners for decades.
Metal Blinds
Find the perfect metal blinds for any room in your home. From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, metal blinds have been a favorite among homeowners.
Vertical Blinds
Discover Hunter Douglas customized vertical blinds featuring elegant styling and translucency in a large selection of colors, treatments, and textures. Lifetime guarantee.
Shutters
Hunter Douglas custom window shutters provide superior light control and privacy with classic styles, long-lasting finishes, and exceptional craftsmanship.
Drapery
Choose from timeless and on-trend fabrics, including lofty textures and alluring jacquards, artisanal embroideries and luminous sheers.
Light Enhancing
Enjoy the beauty of natural light and make any space more captivating, with the following light-enhancing shades.
Room Darkening
Want a darker room for better sleep or optimal movie binging? These shades and drapes help block light at the window.
Energy Efficient
Live comfortably and save energy with these shades. Designer to keep a room warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Door Coverings
Manage natural light and add privacy with these window treatments that work well for sliding-glass and patio doors.
Sound Absorption
Create a quieter, more relaxing room with these window treatments, which help absorb sound, reducing exterior noise.
Top-Down Bottom-Up
For privacy and natural light, position shades from the top, bottom or both. These shades have this feature available.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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Home Office
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Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
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Angled Windows
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Arched Windows
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Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
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French Doors
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Sidelights
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
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Automated
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Blackout
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Energy Efficient
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Light Filtering
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4 Best Sidelight Shades
Entryways can significantly affect the mood and feel of a home. This is especially true for guests, where this is what makes the first impression as they enter. To bring in more light and visual detailing, homeowners can add sidelights and vertical windows that flank a door. Sidelights are generally narrow, rectangular, and can be made of clear or colored glass. Because they are immediately adjacent to doorways, their needs for dressings are unique as homeowners often want the additional sunlight the sidelight windows afford but still need to cover the window for privacy. As such, when we polled the experts at Blinds & Us about the best sidelight shades, they came up with four options that combine light-loving qualities with the ability to provide reliable privacy for residents.
4 Best Sidelight Shades
1. Mini Blinds
– With individual slats that rotate up or down, blinds are incredibly nimble when balancing light control and privacy. Depending on the room's unique needs at the time, the slats on blinds are easily adjustable to suit the requirements. And the smaller proportions of mini blinds work nicely in the often-narrow dimensions of sidelights, making these an easy and fashionable addition to accent your home’s front door.
2. Sheer Shades
Using semi-opaque materials, sheer shades provide privacy by obscuring the view but are thin enough to still let some sunlight filter through. Hunter Douglas has vertically and horizontally oriented sheer shades that work seamlessly as sidelight shades.
3. Plantation Shutters
The hard louvers of shutters are easily customizable to any number of specialty shapes for windows, including entryway windows like sidelights and transoms. Their louvers, like the slats on mini blinds, allow homeowners to easily balance their need for privacy and light control by tilting the louvers up or down. These classic window treatments are the perfect combination of classic charm and modern convenience, making them perfect for your sidelights.
4. Motorized Shades
The PowerView® system motorizes shades and adds the benefit of automation for custom window treatments. By pre-scheduling your shades to open or close during essential times of the day, you ensure that the right level of privacy is provided around the clock without worrying about remembering to open or close the shades daily.
Update your entryway with new sidelight shades from Hunter Douglas. Whether you like the durability of blinds, the light-loving nature of sheer shades, the timeless style of shutters, or the reliability of motorized shades, the team at Blinds & Us can help you design custom window treatments to suit your household needs and styles. Blinds & Us has two locations near Seneca and Greenville, South Carolina, to serve the communities of Seneca and Greenville as well as the surrounding areas of Salem, Sunset, Keowee Key, Walhalla, West Union, Central, Clemson, Pendleton, Liberty, Pickens, Townville, Westminster, Lake Keowee, Anderson, The Cliffs at Keowee Falls, The Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards, The Cliffs at Keowee Springs, The Cliffs at Lake Keowee, and The Reserve at Lake Keowee. Request a consultation to get started today!