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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.
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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.
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Hunter Douglas custom window shutters provide superior light control and privacy with classic styles, long-lasting finishes, and exceptional craftsmanship.
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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.
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5 Magical Benefits of Sheer Window Shades
If you look at a piece of sheer material it’s a lightweight, translucent fabric with seemingly little heft behind its weave. However, sheer is an incredibly versatile building block for modern window treatments because its ethereal aesthetic hides a diverse selection of design advancements and features that modern homeowners prioritize. At Today’s Window Fashions, we’ve identified 5 magical benefits of sheer window shades and the design features that Hunter Douglas sheer shades have that sets them apart from the competition.
5 Magical Benefits of Sheer Window Shades
1. A Spacious, Open Feel
Sheer materials have a range of opacities, all of which allow for some level of view-through and visibility. This translucency not only allows natural sunlight to enter, but it also creates a visual bridge to the outside world. The combination of more light and a view out has a volumizing effect, making the interior spaces feel more open and roomier. This is true for Hunter Douglas sheer shades that use both sheer and opaque materials like Silhouette® Sheer Shades or Pirouette® Sheer Shades as well as custom sheer curtains.
2. Protection Against UV
Though sunlight does pass through sheer materials to create soft, interior illumination, it does not pass through the materials unaffected. Sheer window shades filter out harmful elements of natural sunlight like UV to protect against sun damage in your home.
3. Flexible Design Aesthetic
The hues of Hunter Douglas sheer shades as well as their polished style help to make this type of window treatment copasetic with a range of modern, interior design aesthetics. Find sheer window shades in styles as varied as Hollywood glamour to contemporary coastal to modern minimalism where their looks and features elevate home décor.
4. A Complete Spectrum of Light Control
While sheer textiles excel at filtering sunlight, it’s the additional innovation of opaque fabric vanes in the modern collection of Hunter Douglas sheer shades that give the treatments their extended range of light control. Sheer and opaque materials used in tandem allow a singular window treatment to respond to bright or low lighting conditions to create appropriate interior illumination. Select styles of sheer window shades are also compatible with the Duolite® system that adds a second, blackout shade to the sheer window treatment for heightened room-darkening abilities.
5. Hands-free Operation
Several sheer window shades are available with PowerView® Automation, the latest motorized operating system from Hunter Douglas. In addition to the wall mounted or handheld Pebble® remote, Hunter Douglas shades with PowerView® can also be controlled through the PowerView® app on your smartphone or tablet or by synchronizing the system with your home’s existing home assistant or smart home program. Some smart home systems can then in turn grant homeowners voice control for their motorized sheer shades. PowerView® Automation also has an option for scheduling automation that puts motorized shades on a pre-set schedule that homeowners can set and forget, trusting PowerView® Automation to keep your shades performing optimally around the clock.
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Dive into the magical beauty and surprising efficiency of sheer window shades with Today's Window Fashions Alaska. Request a consultation with the design team to discuss customizing Hunter Douglas sheer shades for your home.
Today's Window Fashions serves homeowners in the Greater Wasilla area as well as Palmer, Big Lake, Willow, Houston, Talkeetna, Eagle River, Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula, Soldotna, Kenai, and Homer in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. We can’t wait to help you find the best sheer shades, blinds, shutters, drapes, and more for your home.