Hunter Douglas Window Coverings Review

Hunter Douglas Window Coverings Review

No other manufacturer offers the breadth and depth of selection that Hunter Douglas does. Hunter Douglas is widely known worldwide as the industry leader in window treatments and coverings, including blinds, shades, shutters and louvers.

If you’re looking for high quality, the latest in window covering styles and affordable prices, chances are Hunter Douglas will end up on any list of top suppliers. And for 2008, the Hunter Douglas brand offers five distinct product categories to meet your needs:

The Hunter Douglas Alustra Collection

Available only through exclusive Alustra dealers, Hunter Douglas offers the premier Alustra line of designer window coverings, which includes select products from Hunter Douglas’ various lines, including Siloutte window shadings, Luminette privacy sheers, Duette honeycomb shades, Vignette modern Roman shades and the woven textures, wood blinds and modern precious metals collections.

Custom Hunter Douglas Window Shadings, Sheers, Louvers and Panels

Hunter Douglas is well know and respected in the industry for its non-window blind products and sets the standard in terms of window coverings, decorative hardware, privacy sheers and other innovative products.

Hunter Douglas Window Shadings

Within its versatile window shadings category, Hunter Douglas offers several product lines of shadings:

Signature S-Vane™ – constructed using soft vanes of fabric suspended between two facings made with sheer fabric, Hunter Douglas offers shadings with a wide choice of elegant materials and features options.

Nantucket – window shadings with suspended fabric vanes supporting two sheer fabric facings, treated to block out UV rays and give your room a soft glow of natural or colored light.

Pirouette® – combines the look of a classic fabric shade with improved versatility and control over privacy and light entering your room.

Hunter Douglas Window Sheers

Luminette® – privacy sheers give you privacy without losing the soft light and touch of draperies.

Park Lane® Privacy Sheers – get the ultimate in designer appearance with matching sheers, drapes and vertical blinds combined within a single line. Park Lane makes it simple for even non-decorators to give their room a unique designer look!

Hunter Douglas Window Shades

From basic roller shades to today’s high tech, energy efficient honeycomb shades, Hunter Douglas offers you many options:

Duette Honeycomb Shades – with clean lines and durable construction, the Hunter Douglas Duette honeycomb shades come in single, double or triple honeycomb versions to give you ultimate control over opacity, color and texture of the cellular shades you select. Fabrics range from sheer to semi-sheer, semi-opaque and opaque depending on the level of privacy, energy efficiency and light transmission suited to your window coverings objectives.

Vignette Modern Roman Shades – a complete line of Hunter Douglas woven wood shades, pleated shades and classic roller shades available in a nearly endless selection of styles, materials, textures, colors.

Hunter Douglas Horizontal Blinds
Whether you want the look of real wood, faux wood, aluminum or composite materials, Hunter Douglas covers the entire gamut with its renowned horizontal blinds collections:

Wood Blinds & Cornices – Crafted from the finest hardwoods featuring the exclusive TopShield™ II finish.
Hunter Douglas Country Woods® Genuine Woods Blinds

Produced from the finest North American hardwoods such as genuine oak, cherry, maple and pine, Hunter Douglas offers the world’s most complete selection of wood grains, finishes and styles in terms of real wood window blinds, including features such as distressed wood finishes, oversized, beveled slats, and traditionally proportioned basswood slats in painted finishes as a less expensive alternative.

Hunter Douglas EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds

EverWood X-tra Alternative Wood Blinds – look like real wood shutters, but with the ease of use and flexibility of horizontal blinds, wide 2.5 inch beveled slats in 20 finishes.

EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds – with two inch wide slats, the EverWood® blinds in Hunter Douglas’ widest color and finish selections available.

WoodMates® Alternative Wood Blinds – the best available value in two inch faux wood blinds, come with three inch valance, perfect for moist, humid room conditions, such as bathroom and kitchen applications.

Hunter Douglas Custom Wood Shutters and Vinyl Shutters

Heritance® Hardwood Shutters – real hardwood with maximum strength and durability, high quality dovetail joinery available in any of the 100 paint and stain finishes Hunter Douglas offers.

Palm Beach™ Polysatin Shutters – UV-resistant polysatin compounds help eliminate warping, chipping or peeling; perfect for kitchen and bathroom applications where real wood shutters may still preferred over vinyl, but where the effects of moisture and humidity must be considered.

NewStyle hybrid shutters – hybrid shutters combining the look of real wood with the enhanced strength and durability of composite materials.

Hunter Douglas Louvers and Panels

Alouette® LightLouvers – this Hunter Douglas collection pulls together the functional advantages of a traditional blind and the designer appeal of a wood shutter, with fine fabric finishes that will soften your room décor.

Hunter Douglas Skyline™ Gliding Window Panels – versatile and attractive, Hunter Douglas’ Skyline products offer a modern window panel that glides open and shut for a very sophisticated, yet understated contemporary look.

Aluminum Blinds – Hunter Douglas makes contemporary metal horizontal blinds, but Bali may a better bet in this category.
Hunter Douglas Vertical Blinds – Hunter Douglas also offers a complete line of vertical window blinds.

How Does Hunter Douglas Compare to Bali, Levolor and Others?

Hunter Douglas consistently gets positive customer ratings and satisfaction levels. While you may pay a slight premium for the Hunter Douglas name, you know you’re getting quality window coverings from a name you can trust to deliver style, performance and durability.

Hunter Douglas remains a popular choice of many interior designers and discerning consumers who have had good luck with the brand in the past and consistently choose to stay with Hunter.