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.
Accessories for the Home
When creating the perfect interior design for your home, no detail is too small. That is why the team at Kugler’s Home Fashions carries an entire collection of home accessories.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Blind and Shade Repairs
We offer quick and professional repairs for your blinds and shades.
Free Estimates
Get a free estimate for your next decorating project.
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
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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
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Media Room
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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
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French Doors
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Sidelights
See blinds and shades for sidelight windows.
Sliding Glass Doors
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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
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Child and Pet-Friendly
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Comparing Sheer and Solar Shades for your Home
If you have two priorities when it comes to your next set of window coverings, and those two priorities are light control and view-through visibility, odds are you already know that you're looking at sheer and solar shades as window treatment options. After all, these two types of treatments utilize view-through materials of different opacities for preserving the view and providing light control. Come along with us as we explore the similarities and differences between sheer and solar shades to help you better understand which would work best in your home.
3 Similarities Between Sheer and Solar Shades
- Same Ambiance: With the use of see-through materials, both sheer and solar shades create an airy, serene ambiance. Their view-through qualities allow in natural light and a view of the outdoors and make the rooms the shades are in feel more spacious and open. Also, they provide a visual focal point in the space and a way that residents can stay connected with the outdoors even when stuck inside.
- UV Protection: Both sheer shades and solar shades protect homes against UV. This harmful element in natural sunlight can damage flooring, furnishings, décor, and wall art in a home causing fabrics to fade, wood to crack, and plastics to rot prematurely. Sheer and solar shades filter out UV to varying degrees depending on the fabric's level of opacity.
- Motorization with PowerView® Automation: Motorization is a popular window treatment upgrade in modern Maryland homes because it adds efficiency and convenience to traditional window fashions. The Hunter Douglas collection's sheer and solar shades are available with PowerView Automation.
3 Differences Between Sheer and Solar Shades
- Use of Opaque Fabrics: Unlike Designer Solar Shades that use only view-through fabrics, models of sheer shades like Silhouette® Sheer Shades and Pirouette® Sheer Shades use both translucent and opaque fabrics. In these sheer shades, the sheer material comprises the base layer, and the opaque fabrics are used like vanes in a set of blinds.
- Vertical Applications: There are also vertical applications for sheer shades in the Hunter Douglas collection, unlike solar shades that only have horizontal uses. Luminette® Sheer Panels are the combination of sheer shades plus vertical blinds, great for vertical applications on patio doors, sliding glass doors, French doors, and picture windows.
- Drapery Applications: Sheer is an incredibly versatile material in the world of window treatments, which is why modern manufacturers use it in multiple styles of window coverings. Besides the horizontally orientated Silhouette and Pirouette Sheer Shades and the Luminette Sheer Panels for vertical treatments, homeowners can also find sheer material fashioned into drapery and side panels.