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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.
After-Hours & In-Home Consultations
Our schedule is flexible, and we can come to your home for a consultation.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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2023
How to Dress Small Windows near Wasilla, AK
Do you have small windows in your home and you’re not quite sure what to do with them? Small windows can be a unique challenge for window shades because of their diminutive proportions, so we have our top 5 tips for you on how to dress small windows to make the most of every inch.
Tips for Dressing Small Windows
1. Keep it Simple
Our first tip for how to dress small windows revolves around a single word: simplicity. Because of the proportions of small windows, they can be easily overwhelmed. So, when looking at new window treatments for small windows, opt for styles with simple grace and clean lines like mini blinds, classic plantation shutters, or modern sheer shadings.
2. Go Cordless
The second tip we have for those interested in how to dress small windows is to go cordless. Cordless window treatments like shutters have a cleaner aesthetic, and when it comes to small windows, hanging lines and cords quickly create a messy, unkempt look. Add a layer of convenience when going cordless by upgrading to motorized shades for small windows such as PowerViewÒ Automation from Hunter Douglas that is available on styles of blinds, shutters, and shades like our sheer shadings.
3. Use Color Strategically
It's not only the type of window treatment that needs to be considered when planning how to dress small windows in your home, but you also need to strategically think about color. Generally, the smaller the window, the lighter the color you want to use on your window treatments, as lighter colors will open up small spaces while darker ones will close them off. So, unless you’re dressing a small window in your bedroom or other area where room-darkening is a priority, opt for lighter colors. Our custom side panels and drapery from the Design Studio® by Hunter Douglas come in a range of whites and light colors to suit small window design.
4. Be Cognizant of Proportion & Pattern
You can visually change the perception of your window’s size by using proportion or pattern, which is something to keep in mind when determining how to dress small windows in your home. Long treatments that run floor to ceiling will elongate a space while shades fit exactly to the size of the window will shorten and define the space. Likewise, patterns used can augment our perception of the size of the window with strong vertical patterns making windows seem taller and horizontally inclined patterns like the strong lines in shutters or sheer shadings drawing out the width of a window.
Hunter Douglas Shades for Small Windows
In the Hunter Douglas collection, there are numerous styles of window treatments to choose from that can work on small windows throughout your home, but our favorites from the collections include blinds, sheer shades, and interior shutters for dressing small windows:
- Blinds – Modern Precious Metals® Mini Blinds
- Blind Slats: ½”, 1”, or 2”
- Motorized operating systems: PowerView
- Sheer Shadings - Silhouette® Window Shadings
- Minimum width: 6"
- Minimum height: 12"
- Motorized operating systems: PowerView
- Interior Shutters - Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Shutters
- Minimum width: 7"
- Minimum height: 8 7/8"
- Motorized operating systems: PowerView
Contact Us
Today’s Window Fashions Alaska serves the window treatment needs of residents in Palmer, Big Lake, Willow, Houston, Talkeetna, Eagle River, Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula, Soldotna, Kenai, and Homer in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley and greater Wasilla area. Request a consultation today.