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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.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Consumer Financing by Wells Fargo
We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
Interior Design Ideas
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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
See blinds and shades that are safer for children and pets.
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Transforming Window Coverings into Blackout Shades
There’s a lot to love about natural illumination, but when it comes to sunlight, some aspects are less than desirable, like harmful UV rays. There are also numerous reasons why homeowners may want to invite natural sunlight in or block it completely, and those contrasting needs might even be present in the same room, just at different times of the day. While many styles of window treatments offer flexible light control, it takes a little more structure to create darker interiors, and for that Hunter Douglas offers different room darkening systems to elevate their shades from ordinary to blackout shades.
For homeowners interested in keeping that sun out, our team at TaylorMade Window Fashions has put together a list of the best ways to transform cellular shades, drapery, roller shades, sheer shades, Roman shades, blinds or shutters into blackout window treatments.
Transforming cellular shades into blackout shades
For Hunter Douglas cellular shades, the innovative LightLock® system elevates the treatments to blackout shades by eliminating light leaks around the edges of the shade. The LightLock® system does this with U-shaped tracking around the sides of the window that trap light trying to sneak in for comprehensively darker interiors.
Transforming drapes into blackout shades
For drapery, the key to creating blackout darkness is by styling with layers. Starting with the drapery itself, choose denser weaves and darker colors for the primary fabric then add a back liner to create darker interiors by blocking more of the incoming sunlight.
Drapery can also be used in layered window fashions, partnering with shutters, roller shades, Roman shades, sheer shades, blinds, or cellular shades. In a multi-tiered window treatment, each individual shade adds another layer of protection against incoming sunlight and compensates for the vulnerabilities of the other layers.
Transforming roller, sheer, or Roman shades into blackout shades
Using the exclusive Duolite® system, homeowners can have blackout shades in the style of roller shades, sheer shades, or Roman shades. This is because the Duolite® system uses a unique combination of two shades on a single unit. In this manner the front roller, sheer, or Roman shade acts as a light filtering shade with a second, room-darkening shade at the back to provide light blocking capabilities. Homeowners with Duolite® shades can enjoy a wide range of lighting solutions from soft filtration to blackout darkness.
Transforming blinds into blackout blinds
The de-Light™ system developed for Hunter Douglas blinds transforms the treatments into blackout shades by reducing the size of the cord holes in each slat, which in turn reduces the amount of light that pushes through into your home. Less like coming in makes for darker interiors, and the system is compatible with all three types of Venetian blinds by Hunter Douglas.
Transforming shutters into blackout shutters
Shutters, with their hard materials, are great at blocking light since they are impenetrable by solar rays. Selecting smaller louver sizes for shutters will help reduce the amount of light coming in with smaller open spaces between their correspondingly smaller louvers. Additionally, with an automated system like PowerView® Automation, shutters can create blackout interiors with pre-programmed efficiency ensuring both privacy and easy light control for homeowners.
Contact Us
Are you ready to transform your home’s interior with new blackout shades, shutters, and blinds from Hunter Douglas? The team at TaylorMade Window Fashions is ready to help you take control over the sunlight coming into your home – request a consultation today!
TaylorMade Window Fashions serves the areas of Granite Bay, Sacramento, Elk Grove, Natomas, Woodland, Lincoln, Rocklin, Roseville, El Dorado Hills, Folsom, and Rancho Cordova, CA.