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.
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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.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
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Our schedule is flexible, and we can come to your home for a consultation.
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Nursery & Kids Room
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French Doors
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
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Automated
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Blackout
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Top Three Benefits of Automated Shades
Purchasing something new is always exciting. Whether that’s a new pair of snazzy shoes or a car with seat warmers, adding something new in our lives — big or small — can make our lives that much better. The same is especially true with our homes. If you have ever become frustrated with adjusting your window treatments throughout the day, you’re not alone.
This can be especially frustrating if you’re running late for work, forgot to shut your shades altogether while on the road, or, even worse, far away on vacation. Fortunately, Hunter Douglas has a solution. Read on to learn more about the benefits of automated shades.
Benefit 1: Convenience
It’s been said that anything worth having doesn’t come easy. While we appreciate the sentiment, enjoying shade, sun, or privacy in your home should come easy. That is why one of the benefits of automated shades is convenience. Instead of manually operating your window treatments by hand, you have three options.
The first is utilizing the PowerView® App via your smartphone or tablet. With the app, you can schedule your window treatments to open and close ahead of time, or you can adjust them in real-time. The second option is the Pebble® Control. This sleek remote comes in multiple colors, can be mounted on the wall, and can adjust up to six window treatments together or separately. Finally, you can control your window treatments via your voice. Connect your PowerView® Automation system to your Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, or other compatible smart home device and speak your preferred window treatment position into existence.
Benefit 2: Security
If you have ever left your home without shutting your window treatments, you know the dread that comes with it. When you accidentally leave your window treatments open, you can possibly invite intruders into looking into your home. Sure, you could ask your neighbors to come in and shut your window treatments, but this isn’t always an option that everyone has or is comfortable with. That is why another one of the benefits of automated shades is security.
Since PowerView® Automation can be operated from anywhere in the world, you can rest easy knowing you can close your shades from work, out of state, or even out of the country. Plus, you can schedule your shades to move throughout the day to give off the illusion that someone is home.
Benefit 3: Energy Efficiency
And when those hot summer months come rolling in, you might find yourself shutting your shades when the sun is at its peak. Quality window treatments prevent intense light from heating up your home. If it’s a particularly sunny day on a cold winter’s morning, you might open your shades to let in some warm sunlight. Another one of the benefits of automated shades is energy efficiency, because it automatically does this for you.
Sensing the rising and setting of the sun, PowerView® Automation can close your shades automatically once the temperature rises to a certain degree to keep your house cool. Conversely, it can open the shades when it is sunny to warm up your home naturally. This keeps your home comfortable all year long without driving up your energy bills.
Contact Us Today
To learn more about the benefits of automated shades, be sure to contact or visit us today at All About the Windows. We are located in Mobile, Alabama, and proudly serve the surrounding area, including Spanish Fort, Daphne, Fairhope, Point Clear, Bay Minette, Foley, Robertsdale, Loxley, Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, and Mobile, Alabama.