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.
Interior Design Ideas
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Bathroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and moisture-resistance.
Bedroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and room darkening.
Home Office
See window covering solutions for light filtering and glare control.
Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
See window covering solutions for light filtering and UV protection.
Media Room
See room darkening window treatments for your media room.
Nursery & Kids Room
See child-safe window coverings for baby nurseries and kids rooms
Angled Windows
See blinds and shades for angled, sloped, and triangle-shaped windows.
Arched Windows
See blinds and shades for arched, half-circle or half-moon windows.
Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
See blinds and shades for bay, bow and corner windows.
French Doors
See shutters, blinds and shades for French Doors.
Sidelights
See blinds and shades for sidelight windows.
Sliding Glass Doors
See blinds and shades for patio and sliding-glass doors.
Skylights
See blinds and shades specifically suited for skylights.
Automated
See all options for automated blinds and shades.
Blackout
See our options for blinds and shades that best control light.
Energy Efficient
See blinds and shades that help save energy at the window.
Light Filtering
See blinds and shades for light filtering and UV protection.
Child and Pet-Friendly
See blinds and shades that are safer for children and pets.
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Blackout Shades vs. Curtains: Which Are Better?
While ample natural sunlight flowing into a home can be wonderful, blocking it out for complete darkness can be equally sublime. This is especially true in rooms like family or media rooms, where bright sunlight only creates glare, or bedrooms, where blackout curtains can help create the ideal sleeping ambiance.
Suppose you're in the process of upgrading to blackout window treatments in your home. In that case, the team at Blinds & Us is ready to help you weigh the benefits of blackout shades vs. curtains by exploring different model types, from room darkening curtains to blackout roller shades, sorting through the tech features available that enhance each’s blackout abilities, all to find the best product in the Hunter Douglas line to meet your household's needs.
Blackout Roller Shades
For blackout roller shades, we love the effectiveness and efficiency of Duolite® Designer Roller Shades. The innovative Duolite system includes two roller shades controlled in a single window unit. The front shade in this system is light-filtering, while the rear treatment has room-darkening qualities. Using the shades independently or in tandem, homeowners can create different levels of darkness inside a room to suit any unique needs. Aesthetically, the flat fabric front of blackout roller shades lends itself well to prints and patterns, and with over 350 fabric choices for Designer Roller Shades, homeowners can easily find fabrics to match and elevate their existing home décor. The fabric selection also includes a range of opacities from sheer to opaque, so homeowners can craft treatments that respond to a wide range of interior lighting demands, from bright light to pitch-black interiors.
Blackout Curtains
When it comes to blackout curtains for bedrooms, nurseries, family rooms, or any other part of the house, there are two aspects to remember: what the drapery is made of and how the drapery is installed. For room-darkening, drapery air on the side of thicker fabrics that are better at deflecting or absorbing light. Always opt for a back liner for another layer of sun protection.
Secondly, you'll want to hang your drapery high and wide well past the window frame size if possible; this ensures the treatment can block the sunlight from windows without light leaks around the edges. And just because these treatments are used in functional ways to control light doesn't mean this window fashion's bold aesthetics are dulled. Carole Fabrics™ Custom Drapes from Hunter Douglas adds environmental control and style to rooms with a fabric library that boasts over 4000 fabric options.
Blackout Layered Shades
If you still can't decide which side you land on when it comes to blackout shades vs. curtains, why not have both? Layered window treatments give homeowners expanded benefits, with both layers providing their unique attributes and light control abilities. We love to pair custom drapery with blackout roller shades for the ultimate room-darkening experience.
Darken your home with new blackout curtains for bedrooms or blackout roller shades and the help of the design team at Blinds & Us. With two locations near Seneca and Greenville, South Carolina, Blinds & Us serves homeowners in 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, The Reserve at Lake Keowee, Seneca, and Greenville, SC. Request a consultation today to discuss blackout shades vs. curtains for your home.