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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Bathroom
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Bedroom
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Home Office
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Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
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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
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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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Child and Pet-Friendly
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Our Top Blinds and Shutters for South Carolina Humidity
Anyone that has spent time in South Carolina knows it's humid here. And when it comes to our homes, humidity can prove a worthy adversary causing damage that can be costly or impossible to fix. And in addition to the regional humidity we experience around the Seneca area, there are also home rooms with added moisture, like the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room. In these rooms it's even more important to find moisture-resistant window blinds and plantation shutters that can withstand the unending aqueous assault.
Humidity vs. Window Treatments
Water damage caused by humidity can present in several different ways depending on the type of window treatment. Fabric shades will suffer from staining or deterioration of the fabric. Window blinds or plantation shutters might see their hard materials warp or splinter with telltale blurred discoloration. Generally, the durable materials in composite or vinyl hard treatments (like plantation shutters and window blinds) are more moisture-resistant than soft, fabric-based window coverings or natural, real wood treatments.
Comparing Window Blinds & Plantation Shutters
Both window blinds and plantation shutters come in models built of advanced man-made materials engineered to be moisture resistant, among other things. Their durability ensures long-lasting performance in humid climates or wet rooms of the home. Another humidity-fighting feature of window blinds and plantation shutters is their ability to allow for natural ventilation while providing light control and privacy. By tilting their slats or louvers even partially open, air can flow through the open spaces helping to decrease indoor mugginess with natural ventilation.
And for everything that window blinds and plantation shutters have in common, one key difference is their operating system.
While plantation shutters use a tilt bar (front, back, or hidden) to open or close the louvers, window blinds use a wand and cord system; the former tilt the slats open and close, and the latter raises the blinds from the bottom up. The unique operating system of blinds means they have the added feature of dual motion and the ability to open entirely for unimpeded views. The cord-free design of plantation shutters, on the other hand, makes them a more child-safe option for family households looking for humidity-resistant shades.
Top 3 Window Blinds and Plantation Shutters for South Carolina Humidity
Shopping the lines of plantation shutters and window blinds in the Hunter Douglas collection, we've comprised a list of our top three styles that meet the needs of South Carolina homes with the ability to stand up to humidity with grace and aplomb.
Where to Find Blinds and Shutters Near Me
Learn more about the best window treatments from Hunter Douglas to stand up to South Carolina humidity by contacting the Blinds & Us Seneca team. From window blinds to plantation shutters, find it all at our showroom near Seneca, South Carolina. Blinds & Us Seneca serves those in and around 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 in northwest South Carolina. Request a consultation today to get started!