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.
Cornices
We offer window treatments for any business or commercial setting.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
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Angled Windows
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Arched Windows
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Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
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French Doors
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Sidelights
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
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Automated
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Blackout
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Energy Efficient
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Light Filtering
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Alternative or Genuine Wood Blinds
At Designer Accents at Home, we know that adding new window treatments is an exciting process! New window treatments can enhance and transform a home by introducing light control in new ways you’d never imagine. Of course, deciding on which window treatment is best for your home is a whole different ballgame. Blinds, shades, shutters, and drapes all have something to offer one’s home décor.
Blinds, for example, are among one of the most popular types of window treatments. They offer great light control and view-through and come in a variety of closure options. But the choices don’t end there. Once you decide that you want blinds, then you have to decide the brand and type of blinds they have to offer. At Designer Accents at Home, we recommend Hunter Douglas for their quality materials, custom craftsmanship, and selection of features. Hunter Douglas offers metal, wood, and faux wood blinds that come with wonderful benefits and a few downsides depending on what you are looking for in a window treatment, and we are here to break the pros and cons down for you.
Parkland® Wood Blinds
When it comes to deciding on alternative or genuine wood blinds, there is no denying the warmth that radiates from the 100% hardwood poplar or basewood material and the rich wood grains within the genuine slats. Our Parkland® Wood Blinds are no exception. You can enjoy the rich, authentic wood tones of these blinds and notice how they instantly transform the interior of your home. Plus, with a variety of slat sizes, colors, paint, and stain finishes, these window treatments can be customized to your liking. Parkland® Wood Blinds are also harvested from responsibly managed forests, which means that for every Parkland® blind purchased, Hunter Douglas makes a donation to the Arbor Day Foundation®.
When it comes to the cons, genuine wood blinds do require some maintenance to prevent them from damaging. While our Parkland® Wood Blinds are crafted with durability, genuine wood is not suited for constant humidity and heat, making bathrooms and kitchens not ideal spaces for them. If you don’t mind the maintenance, then Parkland® Wood Blinds are for you.
EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds
On the flipside of the alternative or genuine wood blinds debate are our beautiful Hunter Douglas EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds are perfect for those who want little to not maintenance but all of the beauty of genuine wood blinds. Capable of resisting fading, yellowing, warping and bowing, EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds are perfect for bathrooms, kitchens, and sunrooms alike. Plus, they boast realistic woodgrain finishes that ensure that your alternative wood blinds look anything but fake.
Of course, there really is never a true replacement for genuine wood blinds. If your designer heart calls for the real thing, then EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds may not satisfy your window treatment needs. However, if you don’t mind being as close as possible to the real thing, then EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds are for you.
Modern Precious Metals® Aluminum Blinds
Sleek and durable, aluminum metal blinds may call to mind an industrial look-and the Modern Precious Metals® Aluminum Blinds from Hunter Douglas would look at home in a bedroom, boardroom, or workroom. These blinds offer great views with the option of doubling your open space with our MagnaView® feature, which offers twice the view-through of ordinary aluminum blinds. They even come in a large variety of colors and finishes from neutral matte tones to colorful pearlescent hues. Ask about special features like the de-Light™ system that eliminates cord holes, so the sun doesn’t seep through. However, the look of metallics isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, which is why we offer these fine, durable blinds alongside our hardwood and faux wood options.
Conclusion
To learn more on if alternative or genuine wood blinds are best for your home, be sure to contact or visit us today at Designer Accents at Home. We proudly serve the greater Cleveland, Ohio area from our showroom in Bedford, including Gates Mills, Shaker Heights, Beachwood, Lyndhurst, Pepper Pike, Moreland Hills, Solon, Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Orange Village, Fairlawn, Stow, Aurora, Hudson, Twinsburg, Montrose Aurora, Hudson, Medina, and Bath, Ohio.