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
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
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Designing with the Color Black in Your Home
There’s lots to love about the ways modern interior designers are using the color black in residential design. While the expectation might be that a dark color like black will cast down a room, creating a bleak, gloomy atmosphere, the opposite is true. With the smart use of the color black, homeowners will enjoy sophistication with an edge and a truly harmonious balance between simple elegance and stylish drama. Join our team at Blinds & Us as we look at how to design with the color black and our favorite options for black window shades.
5 Tips for Designing with the Color Black
1. Use Differing Textures with Your Shades of Black
Black can fall flat in interior design because of its light-absorbing nature. Adding textures or using contrasting textures helps to give the hue depth and keep it feeling alive and dynamic. Use different textures through décor, furniture, or woven window treatments that feature natural textures that bring a unique look to your home.
2. Pair Your Black Colors with Natural Elements
Natural elements complement black, so when using it in interior decor we like to accent the color by using wooden elements and natural greenery. Think about using Hunter Douglas wood blinds or custom wooden shutters to achieve this look.
3. Implement Different Patterns
We can use black patterns in two different ways, both of which really showcase the hue’s dynamic profile. First, there is the sleek black-on-black color pairing in patterns for an understated sophistication. The second is pairing black on white for pattern work with high contrast and striking, dramatic style.
4. Use the Color Back in Primary and Accents Pieces
You can use black in several different ways in a color scheme. You can use this unique color to create design focal points, like painting an accent wall black, or introduce it as an accent color to add richness and grounding to other colors in play.
5. Implement Natural Sunlight into Your Design
To prevent black from feeling gloomy or overshadowing in space, balance the dark hue with abundant natural sunlight that helps give the color a warm feel for the home design.
Our Favorite Black Window Shades, Shutters, and Custom Drapery
- Black Plantation Shutters: Using the color black on shutters imbues this traditional window treatment with a modern sense of style. Opt for larger louver sizes for black plantation shutters to enhance the modern aesthetic and create larger gaps between the louvers for more natural sunlight.
- Black Cellular Shades: Using a darker color like black on cellular shades helps to add a layer of light control to the treatment as black absorbs rather than reflects light. Duette® Cellular Shades also have the option to upgrade to the Duolite® system or the LightLock® blackout system for additional light control. This adds to the renowned environmental control that black cellular shades provide with industry-leading insulation and sound-absorbing qualities.
- Black Roman Shades: The luxurious, sculpted fabric folds on black Roman shades give the hue the dimension and texture it needs to stay vibrant. There are thousands of fabric and color choices for Hunter Douglas Roman shades, ensuring South Carolina homeowners can find textiles that use black as a primary or accent color, black pattern options, and many shades of the hue to suit individual home decor.
- Black Drapery: The flowing movement of black drapery brings the color black to life, creating striking visual elements for home decor. We also love using drapery in layered window fashion with black Roman shades, black cellular shades, or black plantation shutters to add depth to the color choice and personal style of the window covering.
- Motorized Black Window Shades: Elevate black window shades with a motorized operating system to back the modern aesthetic with performance optimization. PowerView® Automation is available on select models of shutters, cellular shades, Roman shades, and drapery to create the ultimate black window fashion.
Find Black Window Shades Near Seneca & Greenville, South Carolina
Bring black into your South Carolina home with the edgy sophistication of black window shades from Blinds & Us near Seneca and Greenville, South Carolina. Let our team help you design one-of-a-kind black window treatments that embody the unique modern aesthetics of black window shades and meet your household needs – request a consultation now.
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