PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
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Learn more about Hunter Douglas custom window sheers, including our shadings and privacy sheers. Innovative, light-diffusing sheers. Your trusted source for window treatments.
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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.
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From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, wood blinds have been a favorite among homeowners for decades.
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Discover Hunter Douglas customized vertical blinds featuring elegant styling and translucency in a large selection of colors, treatments, and textures. Lifetime guarantee.
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Energy Efficient
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Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
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What are the Benefits of Composite Window Treatments?
Today, our team at Blinds & Us is putting a spotlight on composite materials used in shutters and blinds to explore the benefits of this material when used in window treatments for South Carolina homeowners. Plus, we’ll look at some of the unique features and upgrades for composite plantation shutters and blinds from Hunter Douglas.
4 Benefits of Composite Window Treatments
1. Composite Shutters and Blinds Help with UV Protection
Do you know what prolonged UV exposure can do to your home and furnishings? The effects can be quite costly as UV damage affects a wide range of elements in a home’s interior. UV rays can fade or discolor paint, bleach fabrics, cause warping in flooring, and result in premature aging of furniture.
The benefit of composite window treatments is that they feature man-made composite materials that are UV-resistant. This allows your composite plantation shutters and other window treatments to not only protect your home interior from sun damage, but the window treatments themselves are also UV resilient, allowing them to last for years.
2. Composite Window Treatments Resist Moisture
For South Carolina homeowners, moisture is a notable factor to consider for window treatment design, as moisture can be a detrimental element in the home. Moisture can not only seep in and damage materials like wood or fabric, but it also creates a breeding ground for mold and mildew. Composite shutters and blinds that are moisture-resistant are a more practical and long-lasting option for window treatments. They can also prove useful in bathrooms, laundry rooms, kitchens, and basements where additional water content may accumulate on a daily basis.
3. Composite Plantation Shutters and Blinds Provide Design Flexibility
The hard materials that make up composite shutters and blinds are highly formable to fit a wide range of window sizes, door varieties, and specialty window shapes including arches, angled windows, hexagons, circles/ovals, and bay windows. Composite plantation shutters and blinds are also aesthetically flexible suiting numerous interior design styles from cozy French farmhouse to modern minimalism. Additionally, they’re a great base for layered window treatments, as their streamlined profile fits seamlessly under various top layers.
4. Composite Window Treatments are Durable
Crafted to be especially durable, composite materials have enhanced strength and longevity when compared to other window treatments. This fact is especially useful in high-traffic areas of the home, for window treatments used multiple times a day, or in family households where small children enjoy rough play. Composite shutters and blinds won’t suffer the visible wear and tear that can appear in window treatments made from softer materials.
Comparing Composite Shutters vs Faux Wood Blinds
Hunter Douglas Composite Shutters
NewStyle® Composite Shutters have the look of genuine wood shutters but the strength that comes from composite materials. Elevating the durability of these composite plantation shutters is a Truemill® dovetail construction for added internal strength. NewStyle® Composite Shutters allow for customization with 8 different neutral color choices and the option for three different louver sizes—2 ½", 3 ½" or 4 ½".
Hunter Douglas Faux Wood Blinds
EverWood® Faux Wood Blinds use faux wood composite materials to boost durability and create aesthetic flexibility that allows these blinds to complement individual decor styles. The EverWood® Faux Wood Blinds collection includes 50 color choices spanning from bright white neutrals to dark wood tones, plus two vane sizes (2" or 2 ½") to craft custom style in your composite blinds. PowerView® Automation is also available on EverWood® Faux Wood Blinds for motorized blinds.
Get Composite Window Treatments near Seneca & Greenville, SC
Learn more about how your South Carolina home can benefit from composite shutters or blinds by reaching out to our team at Blinds & Us. Request a consultation to discuss the different model options from Hunter Douglas and customizations that can tailor composite shutters and blinds to your home’s unique needs.
Blinds & Us has a showroom near Seneca and Greenville, South Carolina, to serve the surrounding areas of 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.