The character of each room in your house is as individual as the personalities that fill them. Just as you wouldn’t paint matching colours on all the walls, install identical flooring, and use the same furniture in every single room, we don’t recommend using the same window treatments throughout all of your spaces. Each room has a unique look and purpose that necessitates an individual approach to the way you choose your window coverings. While our design consultants will work one-on-one with you and your design plans, here are some no-fail tips to keep in mind for the main rooms of your house.
Bedroom
As the room where you do the majority of your sleeping, you’ll want window treatments that can create an alluring space to doze off in. Options with soft lines and lavish fabrics can help to make a comfortable bedroom, but you’ll want to focus on blinds that provide the ultimate in privacy and light control. Even the most inviting bedroom can be hard to sleep in if you feel vulnerable to prying eyes or agitated by the brightness of the sun (or street light). For that reason, we especially like the Hunter Douglas Silhouette shades combined with a room-darkening roller shade. The soft fabric shades (in the Signature S-Vane formation) allows you to diffuse the amount of natural light throughout your space during the day. When used with the roller shade, you can eliminate light completely from your bedroom, so you can get a good night’s rest.
Bathroom
Your bathroom is a place where humidity and moisture levels are at their highest in your home. The steam from hot showers and the constant running of water can wreak havoc on window treatments that aren’t specifically designed with this in mind, especially if this room doesn’t have a fan. Fabric shades and genuine wood blinds shouldn’t be installed in your bathrooms because they can’t hold up to the humidity. When fabric shades remain damp, mould and mildew can breed quickly in its fibres, while wood blinds tend to warp and crack under extreme humidity. Our roller shades and aluminum and faux-wood blinds offer a great alternative that can stand up to the moisture in your bathrooms. Meanwhile, when rolled down, they provide the privacy you come to expect in this room.
Living Room
Your living room is one of the most versatile rooms in your entire house, as it can take just about any of our window treatments without difficulty. More often than not, when our clients come to our design consultants for living room inspiration, they’re looking for the most stylish ways to update their windows. For large living room windows, our vertical blinds offer unparalleled coverage with impactful style large enough for the size of the window. For smaller living room windows, our consultants have something a little more appropriate in mind. When light control is a factor, Hunter Douglas Luminette shades are at the top of their lists, as the soft drapes can be manipulated to diffuse light into your space. This allows you to maximize natural light sources and reduce the need for lamps and overhead lights. If heating is an issue in your living room, then our honeycomb shades are a perfect addition to the room. While they look like typical blinds, the honeycomb cells provide an insulating layer between your couch and the outdoors.
The possibilities for your rooms are truly endless. That’s why it’s a good idea to speak with one of our professional designers before you see our full selection. Once you understand what you want to achieve with your window treatments (in terms of functionality and style), we can start to narrow down which of our blinds would best suit each room of your house. When you spend ample time searching your options, you can arrive at the best ones. No one-size-fits-all style is good enough for your house, so we work to ensure each of your rooms has real character.