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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The Best Summer Blinds in Hot, Humid Weather
When summer days start to bring summer temperatures and the humidity rises, it’s important that your window treatments can meet and beat the heat or your home’s interior can grow to be as uncomfortable as the muggy outdoors. That’s because windows and glass doors are one of the top culprits for energy exchange between a home’s interior and exterior, which in the summer means the heat can get in and cooling air conditioning can get out. Hunter Douglas makes several styles of wood and faux-wood blinds that can play a key role in helping homeowners take control of their home’s interior environment. In the summer blinds can help maintain a comfortable living environment while also reducing your home’s carbon footprint by decreasing the need for artificial cooling throughout the day and supplementing it with eco-friendly options.
5 Benefits of Summer Blinds
- The hard louvers of blinds make them ideal for deflecting or completely blocking direct sunlight which in turn blocks the sweltering solar heat that comes with it.
- A second benefit of the hard louvers found in blinds is that they create a layer of insulation over windows that helps keep air conditioning inside the home improving energy efficiency.
- The sleek profile of blinds means they are also ideal in layered window treatments (for example paired with lined drapery) for window fashions whose overall ability to block light and insulate is enhanced.
- Though blinds are quite adept at keeping light and heat out, they’re also amazing in the summer because of what they let in. The slatted design of blinds means that even when partially closed they can still allow natural ventilation and cross breezes to enter the home. Natural air flow helps cool interior spaces and is an environmentally friendly and cost-effective way to increase the comfort level of your home in the summers.
- It doesn't matter if a window treatment can block the heat if it can’t stand up to the harmful UV rays of the sun. Long-term usage is important when investing in window treatments, so you want a product that won’t succumb to sun damage and need to be replaced before its time. Blinds, both wood and faux-wood composites from Hunter Douglas are incredibly durable and able to perform optimally for years in the heat and humidity of Tennessee summers.
Hunter Douglas Blinds
- EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds: The ultra-durable composite material of EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds make them ideal for hot weather and humid climates because they are guaranteed to stand up to long-term sun exposure without fading, warping, bowing, or discoloring. A feature especially useful in moisture-prone rooms like the bathroom, kitchen, or laundry room where temperatures can fluctuate; and for that same reason they’re also optimal for central Tennessee where summers can be notoriously hot and muggy.
- Parkland® Wood Blinds: Sturdy and strong, real wood blinds excel at controlling light and blocking the invasive solar heat that direct sunlight brings, a key component of temperature control in the hotter and longer hours of sunlight during summer months. Parkland® Wood Blinds are especially adept at blocking light thanks to the de-Light™ feature, an exclusive upgrade available on Hunter Douglas blinds that eliminates light leaks through cord holes thus increasing blocked light by 50% over traditional designs.
Enjoy the many benefits of Parkland® Wood Blinds or EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds in your home by contacting the window treatment experts at Sun Catchers Blinds, Shades, & Shutters today to request a consultation. Summer blinds make blissful homes and it’s easier than ever to have Hunter Douglas blinds installed throughout your home for a beautiful, unified style that helps cool your home using less energy. Sun Catchers Blinds, Shades, & Shutters is located near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and serves residents in the surrounding areas including Ooltewah, East Brainerd, Soddy Daisy, Hixson, Cleveland, Signal Mountain, and Lookout Mountain, TN.