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.
Blind and Shade Repairs
We offer quick and professional repairs for your blinds and shades.
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Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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3 Powerful Upgrades for Sheer Shadings
Sheer shades are ethereal and light when solely judged on looks thanks to the diaphanous materials used to construct them. But the translucent sheers don’t sacrifice modern amenities in the name of a delicate aesthetic, for modern sheer shadings are available with many high-tech upgrades that improve the functionality of the window treatment without affecting the overall look. Such upgrades for Hunter Douglas sheer shadings include PowerView® Automation, enhanced UV protection, and the Duolite® system.
PowerView® Automation
One of the most popular options homeowners have for upgrades to their sheer shades is a motorized operating system. Motorized blinds are easy and convenient to use. At the same time, they are also more precise and have better control for coordinated movement. Hunter Douglas’s motorized system, PowerView® Automation, not only has the useful functionality of motorized shades, but it also has user-friendly interfaces that are state-of-the-art with automated, handsfree, and off-site control.
PowerView® Automation achieves this range of usability by offering multiple user interfaces, including a handheld remote, wall panel, and synchronization with home-assistant programs like Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant for voice-control options. You can also use the PowerView® App for global accessibility or link to a smart-home system for complete integration into your household. PowerView® Automation is available on the following styles of sheer shadings:
UV protection
Though sheer shadings look delicate, they actually offer a great deal of protection. The sheer materials used in sheer shadings have been engineered to have protective qualities, like the ability to filter or deflect harmful solar rays like UV. UV rays can damage your home’s possessions (like furniture) or parts (like flooring) with common examples of the resulting sun damage, including a faded or bleached color, warping, bending, cracking, or deterioration of materials, and a premature aging effect on the overall appearance of an item.
To protect against the damage UV rays can cause, consider upgrading to UV protective fabric choices for your sheer shadings. Fabric choices for Pirouette® Window Shadings include options that can filter up 99% of UV with the fabric vanes closed and up to 81% of UV when the vanes are open.
Duolite®
For select styles of sheer shadings, there is an additional upgrade to consider. This is the addition of a blackout shade. Duolite® from Hunter Douglas uses an innovative roller system to combine two shades into a single window treatment. The result is a shade with double the light-control versatility. This means Duolite® sheer shadings can create lighting effects that cover a spectrum, including bright illumination, soft diffusion, room darkening or blackout effects. Silhouette® Window Shadings are available with Duolite® and PowerView® Automation for a state-of-the-art upgrade to light control and maneuverability.
Conclusion
Modern sheer shadings have numerous upgrades to consider, so don’t hesitate to reach out to design professions to help you choose which upgrades would be most beneficial to your household. Contact the knowledgeable team at Little's Custom Blinds & Shutters to request a consultation or visit their showroom located near Brunswick, Georgia. Little's Custom Blinds & Shutters serves communities on Saint Simons Island, Sea Island, Jekyll Island, and Brunswick as well as the surrounding cities and mainland areas.