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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What are Solar Shades?
Are you wondering what solar shades are and if they could be good in your home? You’re not the only one. In South Carolina, we’re blessed with some beautiful weather, but that sunlight comes with a price. UV in natural sunlight can have destructive effects on your home. Prolonged UV exposure can cause discoloration, warping, or cracking in a number of household items, including furniture, flooring, paint, and fabric or upholstered items.
Solar shades help homeowners control sunlight and create protected, comfortable, and stylish interiors. Join our team at Blinds & Us as we answer the question, “What are solar shades?” and examine how South Carolina homeowners can use them effectively.
Hunter Douglas Solar Shades Explained
Solar shades, sometimes also called solar screen shades, are a type of fabric-based window covering whose primary use is curbing the harshness of direct sunlight in sun-soaked rooms. Solar shades use semi-opaque textiles to filter out UV and create a spacious ambiance thanks to their open translucency. Hunter Douglas makes a model of solar shades named Designer Solar Shades that embodies the best of this type of window treatment with sophisticated style and dependable protection from sun exposure.
Roller Shades vs Solar Shades
One way to look at these two treatments is to say solar shades are roller shades, but not all roller shades are solar shades. Solar shades are a category of roller shades that use a specific type of screen or sheer material. So, while they may operate like a roller shade, they receive their own classification in the world of window treatments because of their unique use of translucent textiles.
Hunter Douglas Designer Solar Shades feature a rich collection of over 100 fabric choices with 5 levels of opacities to provide more or less privacy and UV protection as needed. The fabric selection for Designer Solar Shades also includes GreenScreen® Sea-Tex™ fabrics made from reclaimed marine plastics re-spun into urbane textiles.
Rooms Best Suited for Solar Shades
There are two major features of solar shades that make them useful in different areas of the home. The first is their incredible light control. This makes solar shades ideal in rooms that get a lot of natural sunlight, like sunrooms or mudrooms. It also makes them ideal for southern-facing windows that often get the most natural light in homes in North America or on windows in your home that have the most exposure.
The second facet of solar shades that makes them desirable for different rooms in the home is the open sightline they provide with their translucent materials. This can help make small rooms, like laundry rooms, feel larger. You can also use solar shades to cover bay or corner windows, letting homeowners enjoy the benefits of the extra windows in their homes without sacrificing protection.
Performance Upgrades for Hunter Douglas Solar Shades
For homeowners who elect to have Designer Solar Shades installed in their homes, several advanced upgrades can expand light control and elevate proficiency.
- Dual Roller Design: This design enhancement expands the interior lighting options that a solar shade can provide by combining two shades in one treatment. By choosing textiles with different opacities for each shade on the window treatment, homeowners can fashion shades specifically suited to their home's light control and privacy needs.
- PowerView® Automation: Hunter Douglas Designer Solar Shades are compatible with PowerView® Automation for motorized treatments. PowerView® Automation makes shades more efficient with automated scheduling, allowing you to synchronize your custom shades to daylight hours in South Carolina to ensure that when the sun is out, your home is automatically protected.
Buy Window Treatments Near Seneca & Greenville, SC
Are you interested in learning more about Hunter Douglas Designer Solar Shades? Connect with our team at Blinds & Us to explore this unique option for window coverings further. Request a consultation today or visit us near Seneca or Greenville, South Carolina.
Blinds & Us serves residences 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, South Carolina.