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When you are looking for Hunter Douglas blinds for your windows in the house you own, this online store can be the solution for you. They allow you to get all the coverings for your windows made by the highest quality designers at affordable prices.

Since you want to make sure your coverings match the rest of the house, it is essential to look through their selections before jumping right into ordering one.

If you want to match them to your décor within your house, you are able to order samples with different colors that allow you to match the ones you want to the rooms you want covered. This can make life easier instead of trying to guess which ones would go then finding out they don’t.

You will then need to return them for a different pair, and it may happen to you again, so be careful when ordering. They can make sure you find what you are looking for when you order their samples for free to match them with your home furnishings. You will be glad you did when you find out which ones match, and which do not.

You do not have to wait to get these coverings for your windows; all you have to do is visit shadesshuttersblinds.com/blog and find out more about their services and the products they offer when you visit them. This is all done online, so there is no need to get dressed, and drive around to get the information and window coverings you are looking for.

Savoy fabrics for the Skyline™ and Designer Screens are on permanent hiatus. There are no plans to return these do to quality issues.

Hunter Douglas™ Sillouette™ window shadings

This information comes directly from Hunter Douglas.

1. Transformation- Silhouette™ window shadings will transform the look and feel of a house by altering the harsh quantity of outside light into soft, bright beauty while keeping the view when the vanes are tilted open. You get a superior view because there are no cords or tapes to distract from the formal appearance.
2. Control- With this product, you can get total privacy and manage the light control.
3. Protection- It blocks 88% of the ultraviolet rays when open and 99% when closed. No damaged furniture!
4. Selection- Hunter Douglas offers over 200 color and fabric combinations! You can motorize these, select from three vane sizes.

Cadence by Hunter Douglas

This is about the new Cadence® by Hunter Douglas and can be found in their View™ magazine that is published a few times per year. When the Cadence® was first launched, it redefined the vertical blind market. Hunter Douglas™ patented and proprietated the curved louver with rich, textured fabrics. Hunter Douglas just added new styles and patterns to the Motif™ and for the Impressions™. There are now 5 new styles of fabric with thirty nine color choices for the Motif. The Impressions now has 6 styles of printed and textured vinyl louvers with over forty two colors. You can now buy fabric by the yard to compliment your blinds. The fabrics are available in eleven designer colors to match the Cadence or any Hunter Douglas product. Some of the new options include a wood valance in ten stains and the PermAssure® Safety Wand system which eliminates the chain and cord for enhanced child (and pet) safety.

We just got the new price books from Hunter Douglas. The great news is that most of the items do not have a price increase and they added some cool new features we will be adding to the site. For all the motorized blinds, Hunter just reinstated the wireless wall switch control. For the 2 1/2 inch blinds (alternative and real woods), you can now have the cordless option. For duettes, try out the new continuous cord loop top down, bottom up. Nantucket can now be motorized. Now, discontinuation.  Puressence Applause Honeycomb shades are gone. So are those cool extension poles for skylights. No more small cassettes for the sunscreens. Lastly, no micro pleat backings for the woven woods.

This comes directly from Hunter Douglas. More to choose from. More styles to fit a variety of sizes and shapes of windows, in more fabrics and colors. So you can find the perfect choice for your home. And they’re available at the largest number of professionally-trained dealers and showrooms throughout the country. Innovation and Technology. Almost every major advance in the window fashions industry was delevoped in their workrooms and testing labs. From the invention of honeycomb shades to innovative Silhouette™ window shadings to their newest achievement, Duette Architella™ shades with their superior energy efficiency, Hunter Douglas continues to bring you window coverings that combine the latest in fashion, function, and technology. Lifetime Guarantee. Every single Hunter Douglas window fashion is designed and custom assembled by trained craftsmen right here in the U.S. So they can back every purchase with their exclusive Lifetime Guarantee, ensuring that your window coverings stay around for as long as you do. You have our word on this.

This is more information directly from the Hunter Douglas™ Designing Windows book.
Now, you have the power to change light.
Think how your mood changes when a glaring summer afternoon melts into a soothing sunset or when a rainy morning becomes a sun-soaked afternoon. The secrete is light. Light has the power to change not just what you see…but how you feel. With Hunter Douglas™ window fashions you will be able to master light, shape it and control it. Use it not only as your most versatile and valuable decorating tool, but as a way to create the peaceful and calming atmosphere you want for your surroundings. Of coarse, this unique light controlling power also has its practical side. Turn a south facing beach house into a cool, private retreat. Or convert a brightly lit den into a sleep welcoming guest room. Its endless possibilities are yours to choose from when you choose Hunter Douglas™. Ask any decorator, any photographer, or, for that matter, any real estate agent what makes a room beautiful and desirable and they’ll say it’s all a matter of light. That’s why Hunter Douglas products are especially designed for maximum light management. Proper light control can soften the brilliant blaze of noon. Welcome early morning light without sacrificing your privacy; screen ultraviolet rays to protect valuable fabrics and carpeting. And, most important, lift your spirits, ease your tensions and create the mood you want when you want it.

Express your own personal style.

Formal, cozy, country estate or studio apartment, whatever your decorating preferences and functional needs, Hunter Douglas™ has the right product to help put your stamp of individuality on your rooms and your home. Design versatility is built into every custom window fashions we make, so the Hunter Douglas™ product you choose for your elegant living room will look just as appropriate in your cozy den.

Hunter Douglas™ Designer Screens Melbourne Linen Beige, Amber Blue, Pearl Linen, Midnight Storm, White Pearl, and Storm Blue have been discontinued and are no longer in production.

These are comments made by top designers in major cities in the U.S. They are answering the question: Light. It can be a designer’s best friend or biggest challenge and how window coverings by Hunter Douglas solve this?

“Controlling the flow of light into a room requires window treatments that are both stylish, well-built and adjustable to accommodate the light’s changing brightness through the day. I love Hunter Douglas products for their style, quality and diversity. There’s a light-control and privacy option to fit every style, every color and every mood.”

Ms. Griffin, New York

“As the production designer on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” I was presented with shooting in buildings that had walls of glass which flooded the spaces with too much light. Hunter Douglas window fashions were the perfect solution to control the light and add another texture and color in the background.”

Ms. Van Patter, Los Angeles

“I’ve seen the light. I have a lot of jobs in Florida where the light is strong and blazing all winter long. The solutions for covering windows there must be extremely well thought out, innovative and appropriate. Hunter Douglas has an array of products from shutters to sheers that function flawlessly and beautifully control the light in any climate.”

Mr. Donovan, W. Palm Beach

“My goal is to design rooms that serve as refuges. I enjoy the application of draperies for their visual softness, sound absorption and light diffusing properties. The current trend of large screen televisions in the home poses a challenge in controlling light as well as preventing glare. I have found that Silhouette™ window shadings offer the softness of a drapery with the glare-controlling properties of a blind.”

Mr. Handman, Chicago

“Windows are the most exciting part of my design products. I am always excited to explore natural light dancing through the fibers, textures and weaves offered in window treatments. A personal favorite of mine are Silhouette™ Quartette™ window shadings. They are sheer elegance with a view!”

Ms. Younts, Miami

This comes directly from the Hunter Douglas Designing Windows Volume 2.  It talks about the effect colors can play in a room.

The basic vocabulary of white on white.

White wall and white window coverings are the perfect backdrop for today’s eclectic approach to decorating. Hunter Douglas offers a surprisingly wide spectrum of whites whose names tell their stories in the beautiful language of light: Radiant White, Bright White, White Dawn, Classic White, White Satin and dozens more.

For punctuation, an exclamation point of color.

Some rooms can use a bolt of blue at the window, repeated, perhaps, in a pillow on the bed or a print on the wall. Hunter Douglas offers colors that range from subtle to striking. Just a little can go a long way toward enlivening the scene.

Light helps neutral speak in clear tones.

Subtle neutrals take on a new dimension when the light in your room is modulated to enhance them. Earth tones. Sky tones. Pale mineral tones. Each requires its own kind of light for maximum effect. And Hunter Douglas lets you achieve that effect with ease.

The more color, the more drama.

Emerald green, sapphire blue, yes, even ruby red… you can use them, even combine them. Then, let your choice of Hunter Douglas products deliver the precise degree of light to make them glow instead of glare.

All of our Hunter Douglas products can be found at: Hunter Douglas Products.

This is the last of the ongoing series from Hunter Douglas™ “We Make Green Beautiful” promotions.

Out planet gets an enormous amount of energy (solar) from our sun. In the summer, people do not want the dynamic energy entering our houses to become heat. That is why if you live in a hot climate, or anywhere the spring and summer is baking your house, you need a window treatment that will effectively reduce the solar heat gain from the sun.

The Coefficient for Solar Heat Gain

A coefficient from 0-1 is how solar heat gain is measured and that tells us what fraction of the suns energy hitting your window actually makes it into your house. The lower the number, the better for you. A standard window (double paned) will have a heat gain coefficient of around a .76. That means basically that seventy six percent of the solar energy (heat) makes it though and into your house. Most window covering products by Hunter Douglas™ reduce that amount dramatically. For instance, if you add the Luminette™ Privacy Sheers to that opening, that number will drop to as low as a .2 meaning only twenty percent makes it in. Now that’s dramatic. It not only blocks the heat but saves on electricity and money.

Just the opposite in the Winter

In the fall and winter, to bring down the heating energy consumption, you need to take advantage of as much free heat the sun can give you. You need to raise the shades whenever direct sunlight is shining and it doesn’t matter if it is cold out or not. For east windows, do this in the morning. For your west windows, in the afternoon and most of the day for your south windows.

Just out.

• Applause™ Honeycomb Shades- Sunterra™ is now 10% less than Casuelle™ and Legends™, Sunterra is now available in blackouts (we still don’t have these yet).
• New fabrics in the Duette™- Mertage™ and Classic, Continuous Cord Loop (EasyRise™) is now available in a top down, bottom up.
• Nantucket™- Now you can motorize this.

None of these have been offically launced yet but they are some great new options for 2009. We will have them up and ready as soon as they are out.

This comes directly off the Hunter Douglas™ “We Make Green Beautiful” brochure. R-value is the measurement or the resistance to heat flow. A regular wall for a typical house has an R-value of around 19 whereas s typical double paned window only has a value of around a 2. Window covering such as some of the Hunter Douglas Duettes™ can add up to TRIPLE there R-value! This will be huge on your energy bill. If you are in a colder area of the county and you need to have that heater on regularly (more than half the year), you need a window treatment that adds at least 1 point of R-value but the more the better. When you choose a product for its insulating properties, be certain to specify that it be inside mounted and fully recessed in the opening in order to get maximum efficiency. If you can’t mount on the inside of a casement and have to go over the whole thing (outside the window), make plenty of overlap. Cold air between the shade and the glass can too easily go around the sides, edges and bottom which will greatly reduce the effective r-value of that window treatment.

Hunter Douglas™ has a coordinates chart to match the Park Lane™ Privacy Sheers with the Nantucket™ window shadings and also for the Luminette™ Privacy Sheers to match the Silhouette™ Window Shadings. This is a great chart to finding the CLOSEST match. However it’s just that. A close match. It isn’t the exact same color. If you choose one to go right by another such as a slider directly next to a regular window, you need to keep this in mind. These are different products that compliment each other but they are NOT the same thing made with the exact same material and they can and do look different right next to each other.

Again, this comes from Hunter Douglas™. Hunter Douglas™ provides everything to make your windows a beautiful expression of the way you live.

1. Light source. Where the light is coming from is important. First make sure you know which direction your windows face. North light tends to be cold and clear, suggesting energy-efficient window treatments. Light from the south is warm and strong year-round, so you might choose light-diffusing window coverings to protect your furniture. If you windows face east, bright, warm morning light calls for window coverings that block UV rays. And if light comes from the west, hot, hot bright afternoons demand solutions that are both light controlling and light diffusing.
2. Privacy. Do you need full privacy from your neighbors or just a little screening from, say, the garage or a central air conditioning unit? With the power of Hunter Douglas™ you can have just the degree of privacy you need.
3. Style. Do you prefer traditional or contemporary look? Relaxed or formal? Country warmth or urban sophistication? Hunter Douglas™ gives you the style you’ve set your heart on.
4. Color. Hunter Douglas™ is constantly expanding the rainbow. Whatever color or shade, tint or texture you want, you’ll find it among the endless choices available.
5. Energy Efficiency. Fuel bills soaring? Hunter Douglas™ window fashions: they are impressively energy efficient. So you can save on fuel bills while doing your bit for the environment.
6. UV Protection. Built-in ultraviolet protection gives you the power to reduce harmful rays that fade carpets, discolor upholstery and degrade your finest possessions.
7. Safety. Kids or pets, and loose cords can spell trouble. So we offer operating systems and special features designed to make your home both safer and more beautiful.

Check this article out and the new easy to use website at: www.hunterdouglas.com

Ah, we are so used to just using the back end that we didn’t notice this. Probably a couple of weeks old. Hunter Douglas™ just totally redesigned their website. www.hunterdouglas.com. The flash based design is much more user friendly and searching for pictures is much easier. Great job guys.

We keep telling you that for the battery operated remote controlled blinds, Hunter Douglas™ is one of the best if not the best out there. Besides the new radio technology, the specifications for the PowerRise™ with Platinum™ is fantastic. Check these new specs out: For the Applause™ Casuelle™ 3/4″ light filtering single cells,

Width to: 120″ maximum height is 90″. Width to: 132″ maximum height is 78″ Width to: 144″ Maximum height is 66″ and Width to 156″ Maximum height is 54″.  That’s a 13 foot wide blind by 4 1/2 feet high! On 8 AA batteries!

This article comes directly from “We Make Green Beautiful” brochure that we received from Hunter Douglas™. It has a ton of useful information and will keep you posted. They give us great info like this all the time and I wish they would let us know who the authors of this so we can give them credit.

This has happened to all of us. We’re stopped at a traffic light with a long line of cars behind us. Out thoughts wander, our attention drifts. Suddenly a loud honk jolts us back to the moment. We look up to see that the light  has changed, and we sheepishly accelerate- quickly, to make up for the delayed response.

Think of future generations honking.

As a society, we’ve reacted slowly to warning signals about depletion of natural resources, climate change and the quality of life in coming years. Now, clearly, the light is changing to green and it’s time for us to keep moving.

The Benefits of Window Coverings

You probably know that Hunter Douglas™ offers the most extensive selection of window fashions on the market, but you may not realize how much our products can impact energy efficiency. Not only do they help protect against UV damage to furnishings and most are GREENGARD Indoor Air Quality Certified®, Hunter Douglas™ window fashions also add insulation at the window to reduce heating costs, moderate the sun’s heat in summer to reduce cooling costs, and improve the quality of natural daylight to reduce the costs of electrical lighting.
Today, our window fashions are so much more than fashionable. They are tools to save energy, and important contributors to reducing energy use, utility costs and greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, Hunter Douglas™ window fashions are one of the easiest ways to “go green.”