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Stylish Window Coverings for Sun Protection

When we think about protecting our homes, we often think about the biggest and most visual ways we can add to our home’s security—adding cameras, alarms, or expensive monthly services to monitor the safety of your home’s exterior. But there are some dangers that silently attack our homes—factors that may damage our belongings and that look beautiful while doing so, like natural sunlight. Sunlight can provide a space with numerous beneficial assets, like warmth and natural illumination. On the other hand, UV rays also carry solar heat that can alter the comfort level of a home and physically destroy items like flooring or furnishings.

Hunter Douglas Designer Solar Shades near Anaheim and Rancho Santa Margarita, California (CA)

At Don’s Drapery Service, we offer a selection of window coverings from Hunter Douglas. Choosing window treatments rated for UV protection can safeguard your home against the ravages of UV rays found natural sunlight.

UV Blocking Window Shades

The sun’s UV rays can cause of host of issues in your home, many of which are irreversible and require replacement to rectify. Exposure to UV can cause sun damage in all different kinds of materials including wood, photos and paper, plastics, paint, and fabric and can damage your home’s flooring, furniture, décor and window shades. This damage includes issues with color like bleaching or fading as well as problems with material stability manifested as cracking, bowing, peeling, or premature degradation.

Among the best window coverings for sun protection that can help reduce the amount of UV entering your home include solar shades and sheer shades. Both of these styles of window coverings use sheer materials to diffuse sunlight, filtering out UV but allowing diffuse light into a space so that homeowners can still enjoy the natural illumination of the sun and enjoy clear views of the outdoors.

Sheer Shades from Hunter Douglas come in horizontal and vertical applications for use on doors or windows of most any size in the home.

  • Silhouette® Sheer Shades combine two sheer fabric panels with soft opaque vanes. With up to 88% UV protection when vanes are open and 99% when closed, these shades not only enhance your home's aesthetic but also shield your interiors from harmful UV rays.
  • Pirouette® Sheer Shades combine the function of blinds with the softness of sheers with unique, horizontal fabric vanes attached to a single sheer backing. When open, Pirouette® Sheer Shades provide up to 81% UV protection, increasing to 99% when fully closed, ensuring your furnishings and décor are safeguarded against sun damage.
  • Luminette® Sheer Panels feature rotating vertical fabric vanes suspended within a sheer fabric face, with up to 86% UV protection when vanes are open and 99% when closed.

Window Shades to Deflect Solar Heat

In addition to UV, natural sunlight also brings with it solar heat. In the summer, solar heat pushes interior temperatures to uncomfortable highs and forces your air conditioning to work harder, costing you more on your energy bill each month. Window coverings for sun protection focused on heat control include insulating styles like cellular shades.

Cellular shades use a design that hides internal honeycomb-shaped air pockets to create an insulating layers at the window that can both keep outside air out and keep inside air in, helping to maintain a comfortable temperature inside no matter how hot it is outside. Of course, these shades do double duty in the cooler months, allowing you to save all year long.

Hunter Douglas offers several styles of cellular shades, including the Duette® Cellular Shades, Duette® Architella® Cellular Shades that offer a honeycomb-within-a-honeycomb design for extra protection, and and Sonnette® Roller Shades, a unique amalgamation of insulating cellular shades and chic roller shades.

Homeowners can also increase their window treatment’s insulating abilities by fashioning layered window treatments with cellular shades under full drapery. The dual layers of shades and drapes provide enhanced light control and protection against sunlight by working in tandem plus layered window fashions have a completely unique aesthetic that can be customized to match the existing home style.

Contact Us

Learn more about choosing the best window coverings for sun protection by connecting with our team at Don’s Drapery Service. Request a consultation today and a member of our team is standing by to help!

Visit Don’s Drapery Service at our two showrooms located in Anaheim and Rancho Santa Margarita, California. We serve the areas surrounding Irvine, Yorba Linda, Rancho Santa Margarita, and Anaheim, CA.