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.
Awnings
Save energy, reduce glare, and protect furniture from fading.
Custom Closets
Maximize storage space - custom-made for your home.
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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Bathroom
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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
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Best Blackout Shades for Homes
Sometimes, simply getting relief from direct sunlight is all you want from your window treatments. But in some cases, you’ll want blackout shades that can thoroughly darken your home. The last thing you want when shopping for room-darkening shades is to find that your new window treatments don’t quite get the job done after you’ve installed them. That’s why you should turn to Hunter Douglas for getting custom blackout shades that are both stylish and effective.
Custom Shades with Duolite®
One of the best reasons to choose Hunter Douglas custom shades when styling your home is that you can turn just about any shade into blackout shades. The available Duolite® system is a clever feature you can add to a wide range of custom shades. It allows you to lower a blackout liner behind your front shades to turn them into room-darkening shades. So now, you have plenty of options when it comes to light control.
The liner doesn’t add any bulk to your shades either since it can lower from the same headrail as your shades.
This system is especially fun with Duette® Honeycomb Shades. The design gets switched up a bit by fitting your cellular shades with a center control rail. You can move the rail up to reveal your blackout shades and down to open up your sheer shades.
LightLock™
Another fun option you can choose for Duette® Honeycomb Shades is the available LightLock™ feature. This relatively new system stands out in the home decor industry as the most effective room-darkening shade you can get. The key to this blackout shade design is the series of side channels that encase the cellular shades, which prevents light from leaking through. As a result, you can lower your shades and make any room pitch black even on a bright summer day.
So, if you want the ultimate solution for your bedroom shades or for keeping your home theater dark during the day, then LightLock™ is what you’re looking for. And another perk of having Duette® Honeycomb Shades as your bedroom window treatments is that the cells will help keep your room quiet and peaceful.
Designer Roller Shades
Designed to bring a potent one-two punch of style and light control to any room in your home, Designer Roller Shades revel in simplicity and luxury. Hunter Douglas aims to have the most precise roller shades on the market, so each set of Designer Roller Shades is carefully built based on measurements from your windows.
Adding to the precise fit is the Custom Clutch headrail system, which gives you intuitive control of how you raise and lower your shades. This system is designed to allow you to gently close your shades within the windowsill without having your shades folding. As a result, your shades will provide a clean look and excellent light control.
Here at Appalachian Blind & Closet Co, we are proud to offer a great selection of custom blackout shades from Hunter Douglas. We are located in Boone, NC, and serve Banner Elk, Blowing Rock, Boone, Linville, Newland, and Jefferson in North Carolina, and Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol, and Elizabethton in Tennessee. Contact us today to get started!