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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Blackout
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Comparing Blackout Shades vs Blackout Curtains
Blackout shades and curtains have a number of benefits that South Carolina homeowners can enjoy. However, knowing which window treatment is right for your home can be confusing. With a little help from the team at Blinds and Us in Seneca and Greenville, we can make the selection process easier for you.
Our team has been assisting South Carolina residents with their window treatments since 1999, giving tips and advice on window shutters, blinds, and shades that fit our customers' wants and needs. With all the various perks that blackout roller shades and curtains offer, these are just some differences and similarities that the two share.
The Benefits of Blackout Shades and Curtains
Before picking out blackout curtains or shades for your home, you may first want to know some of the benefits that these window treatments provide. Our blackout shades and curtains can help improve different areas of your life, such as sleep quality, privacy, and energy efficiency.
- Quality of Sleep: Those who work unusual hours or have sensitivity to light when trying to sleep may enjoy having blackout curtains for the bedroom. Blackout curtains and rollers can help block out light and UV rays, making it easier for people to sleep during the day or when there’s still daylight. You may also find that these window treatments can reduce light exposure from outdoor lights and streetlamps, allowing you to maintain a restful sleep throughout the night.
- Increased Privacy: Getting a set of blackout curtains or a blackout roller can also help you increase your privacy. With their thickness and opacity, these unique window treatments make it difficult to see inside of your home from the outside, giving you peace of mind even when you’re away.
- Help with Energy Efficiency: Blackout rollers and shades help to reduce the strain on your wallet by shading the inside of your home. When closed or pulled down completely, you can block out light and UV rays during the hottest parts of the day with ease, allowing you to have a more energy efficient home.
3 Things We Love About Blackout Roller Shades
- Chic Styles: Roller shades have a streamlined design and sleek profile that gives the treatment a simple yet graceful style. Their chic aesthetic makes them useful in a variety of interior design styles as well as different rooms in the home. The flat front of blackout roller shades also makes them great canvases for patterns or geometric prints.
- Advanced Operating Systems: For modern South Carolina homes, Hunter Douglas Designer Roller Shades are compatible with several advanced options for control. That includes Duolite®, a blackout system that combines a light-filtering and a room-darkening shade into a single treatment, and PowerView® Automation for motorized roller shades.
- Insulating Benefits: It always behooves a homeowner to explore the money-saving benefits of insulating shades that help reduce unwanted energy loss in a home. And with Hunter Douglas roller shades, there are styles that have a cellular construction like Sonnette® Roller Shades for elevated insulation and energy efficiency.
3 Things We Love About Blackout Curtains
- Timeless Style: With fabric choices that number in the hundreds, blackout curtains can truly be customized to individual homeowner styles. Plus, with optional liners and textiles with varying levels of translucency, the resulting treatments can precisely address the unique lighting needs of different rooms in a household.
- Full Coverage: Unlike other window shades that are mounted inside a window frame, blackout curtains for bedrooms can be installed well outside the entirety of a window. This can reduce light leaks and help to darken interiors while also giving the treatment a sense of dramatic purpose within the space.
- Automated Control: We offer custom drapery, and some of our options even come with a feature that allows you to control them remotely. With this ability, you can have your blackout drapes on a scheduled timer so that they’re automatically closed during a designated time of the day or night.
Blackout Roller Shades and Curtains near Seneca, SC
Blinds & Us Inc. in Seneca and Greenville is ready to help homeowners with their custom window blackout treatments from Hunter Douglas. If you want to learn more or get started, give us a call at (864) 234-2882 or contact us online today.
Our company proudly serves Seneca, Greenville, Salem, Sunset, Keowee Key, Walhalla, West Union, Central, Clemson, Pendleton, Liberty, Pickens, Townville, Westminster, Lake Keowee, 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, and Anderson, as well as Anderson County, Oconee County, and Pickens County.