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.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
Interior Design Ideas
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See current and past decorating ideas from our 'Fresh Ideas' Newsletter.
Bathroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and moisture-resistance.
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
See blinds and shades that are safer for children and pets.
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The Best Modern Upgrades for Blinds
Blinds are a classic window treatment dating back centuries to ancient Persia, and they have remained popular through the ages because of their slatted design that gives the window treatment its unique amalgamation of features and simple, refined style. From Venetian nobility to Thomas Jefferson to your own home or office, blinds can be found everywhere because their usefulness is so diverse and their style so customizable. Blinds by Hunter Douglas stay true to the slatted construction of traditional styles but offer modern upgrades for blinds that make the window treatment better at blocking light, easier to incorporate into décor, and more convenient than ever to operate.
Enhanced Light Control
A key feature of traditional and modern blinds is their ability to precisely control light. The hard slats of blinds (made of wood, metal, or man-made material) excel at this thanks to the solid, impenetrable nature of the construction materials themselves. However, light can leak through the cord holes on individual slats that are needed to connect the operating system on some styles of traditional blinds. Hunter Douglas solves this problem with one of their most popular upgrades for blinds, the de-Light™ system. This upgrade blocks 50% more light by minimizing light leaks and getting rid of the need for cord holes.
Additionally, when it comes to light control it’s equally as important that a window treatment can block light and that it can withstand it. Prolonged exposure to direct sunlight can have damaging effects on household items including some styles of window treatments. But modern upgrades to blinds include enhancements to materials that ensure durability and resistance to sun damage. EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds are constructed from an ultra-durable wood alternative that is guaranteed to uphold its appearance resisting bowing, warping, and discoloration. EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds are also available with the Hunter Douglas de-Light™ system for upgraded blinds that have enhanced light control and damage-resistant properties.
Colorful Updates
Style is personal, a direct expression of our inner beings taking shape to shape the world around us. And so, our home décor becomes an expression of our tastes just as our workspaces become a statement of style in the company’s voice. Therefore, in the evolution of blinds, it’s become important that blinds grow to be adaptable to suit an array of design styles. Modern upgrades for blinds include a richer color palette selection and a choice of slat material. Hunter Douglas makes lines of wood blinds, alternative wood blinds, and metal blinds. Modern Precious Metals® Aluminum Blinds have the widest array of color choices in the Hunter Douglas blind collection. Choose from not only a rainbow of colors but also different textures and a range of finishes from matte to glossy metallic. The slat size can be adjusted as well for additional customizable options that make blinds such a versatile yet personal modern window treatment.
PowerView® Automation
For the ultimate in high-tech upgrades for blinds add PowerView® Automation for fully motorized operation. Combining the classic style of wood blinds and the modern convenience of automation, this upgrade for blinds is the epitome of a stylish form that meets utilitarian function. Parkland® Wood Blinds are top-of-the-line wooden blinds from Hunter Douglas and are available with several cutting-edge operational systems including cordless, child-safe systems like LiteRise® and SimpleLift™ as well as PowerView® Automation for a traditional style with modern amenities.
Sun Catchers Blinds, Shades, & Shutters offer classic styles of blinds and modern treatments with all the latest features and upgrades for blinds. Contact them today to speak with a design representative who can help show you all the benefits that upgrades for blinds could offer to revamp or revitalize your window treatments. Located near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sun Catchers Blinds, Shades, & Shutters serves residents and businesses in south-central Tennessee including the areas in and around Ooltewah, East Brainerd, Soddy Daisy, Hixson, Cleveland, Signal Mountain, Lookout Mountain, and Chattanooga, TN.