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.
Commercial Blinds & Shades
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.
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Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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French Doors
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Blackout
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Discover the Softer Side of Vertical Blinds
Say “vertical blinds,” and visions of cheap plastic blinds with annoying, clacking slats might come to mind. But thanks to modern design and state-of-the-art operating systems, present-day vertical blinds are softer and more elegant than their predecessors, though no less effective as window coverings.
When the Bopp brothers invented vertical blinds in 1950, it was a contemporary design response to traditional horizontal blinds (also known as Venetian blinds). Their invention utilized the same operational methodology as traditional blinds, but with a fresh aesthetic that was especially suited for large windows and doors. Vertical blinds open side to side, unlike Venetian blinds that open by going up and down. So, the side-to-side maneuverability made vertical blinds ideal for doors (or windows) that also open side to side. The popularity of vertical blinds then spread throughout America, especially in the growing suburbs where they were often seen over patio doors leading to little green yards surrounded by white picket fences. Fast forward to 2021, and we're seeing another design revolution for blinds as soft-touch vertical blinds are taking over the market.
Traditional blinds, horizontal and vertical, are considered hard window treatments. The firm slats, clean lines, and smooth minimalistic aesthetic holding true for all styles. But sometimes, though we may want the functionality of hard blinds (which provide privacy, insulation, and view-through light-control) we may crave a different style of window treatment; one that is softer, more inviting, and cozier than traditional, hard vertical blinds. If that is the case, say hello to the soft-touch vertical blinds from Hunter Douglas.
Besides traditional vertical blinds, and top of the line wood and aluminum horizontal blinds, Hunter Douglas developed two styles of vertical blinds (Cadence® Soft Vertical Blinds and Skyline® Gliding Window Panels) that have the utility of traditional vertical blinds but are constructed from soft textiles to give the window treatment a whole new look and feel.
Cadence® Soft Vertical Blinds
Cadence® Soft Vertical Blinds are the elegant unison of drapery and vertical blinds. The slats are sculpted vanes of fabric that can be maneuvered. They operate like vertical blinds but look like drapery, and the combination produces a window treatment with enhanced sound and light control. Because Cadence® Soft Vertical Blinds are great for sound and light absorption and because of the warm, cozy mood they set in a space, it’s popular to utilize Cadence® Soft Vertical Blinds in bedrooms and more intimate spaces in the home.
Skyline® Gliding Window Panels
This one-of-a-kind vertical blind uses slats inserted into fabric, but those slats are spaced farther apart creating the overall appearance of panels rather than individual hanging slats. This design really highlights the fabric that is used, and they are great for wide windows. The broad panes of fabric in Skyline® Gliding Window Panels also work well as room dividers.
Sun Catchers Blinds, Shades, & Shutters is here to answer any questions you might have about vertical blinds. With their wide selection of soft vertical blinds (including Hunter Douglas Cadence® Soft Vertical Blinds and Skyline® Gliding Window Panels) and their years of expertise, Sun Catchers Blinds, Shades, & Shutters can help you find the perfect modern vertical blind for your home. So, contact Sun Catchers Blinds, Shades, & Shutters today to request a consultation. Sun Catchers Blinds, Shades, & Shutters is located near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and serves Ooltewah, East Brainerd, Soddy Daisy, Hixson, Cleveland, Signal Mountain, Lookout Mountain, and Chattanooga, TN.