Your Guest Room Needs Room-Darkening Window Shades
Though many refer to them as guest rooms, homeowners use this space for other purposes besides sleeping quarters for their visiting friends and family. Whether yours hosts overnight visitors or doubles as a home office, craft room, or reading nook, it should have the right atmosphere.
Our Midwest Blind & Shade design experts often recommend room-darkening shades for this space. We have the best recommendations for Hunter Douglas window treatments to incorporate into your guest rooms.
Why Room-Darkening Shades Matter in Guest Rooms
Your guests deserve quality sleep, especially if they’ve been traveling or are here for the holidays. Room-darkening shades block unwanted morning sunlight, allowing guests to sleep in if they like. That way, they’ll wake up refreshed and enjoy their time with you more.
Light and privacy control are just as essential for guest rooms that function as other spaces. For instance, some home offices require reduced screen glare and craft rooms benefit from controlled lighting conditions that don't create unwanted shadows or color distortion.
Types of Hunter Douglas Room-Darkening Shades
Our team can help customize room-darkening window shades for any room in your home. These three Hunter Douglas window treatments are sophisticated and versatile, so let’s explore:
Silhouette® Sheer Shades
Hunter Douglas Silhouette® Sheer Shades have soft fabric vanes suspended between two sheer panels, creating beautiful daytime ambient lighting to impress your guests.
Here are a couple of the room-darkening options for this style:
- Duolite® System: This enhancement has a Silhouette® Sheer Shade with an independently operated roller shade for greater light control.
- Silhouette® Halo™ Window Shadings: These feature even more flexible vanes that let you adjust the vanes as you please.
Duette® Cellular Shades
With an energy-efficient honeycomb design and sound-absorbing qualities, Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades are ideal for all bedrooms. Pick from room-darkening fabrics that control light.
These upgrades will help your guests get more shuteye:
- LightLock™ Blackout System: This system has a side channel design that absorbs or deflects almost all incoming light.
- Duolite® System: Combine two fabrics, like one light-filtering, one room-darkening, into a single shade.
Vignette® Roman Shades
For a style with a single fabric panel with consistent folds that offer an elegant, tailored appearance, go for Hunter Douglas Vignette® Roman Shades. These room-darkening shades come in an impressive selection to help you match your interior design style.
These room-darkening options for these shades include:
- Fabric Opacities: Choose between three fabric opacities for these Roman Shades, including room-darkening.
- Vignette® Duolite® Roman Shades: This enhancement has a light-filtering or sheer front shade and a built-in room-darkening back panel on a single roller.
Our Favorite Tips for Room-Darkening Shades
One of our favorite tips to share with clients is to consider the guest room's primary function before ordering room-darkening window treatments. If it’s primarily guest quarters, prioritize a good night’s sleep. In a guest room/home office, room-darkening shades like Silhouette® Sheer Shades create a radiant effect during the day that suits this space.
Additionally, to make a rich, textured design statement, layer your room-darkening window shades with custom drapery. Adding in drapes eliminates potential light gaps and surrounds your guests in total comfort.
Shop Custom Window Treatments in Mishawaka, IN
Our talented designers at Midwest Blind & Shade help homeowners select Hunter Douglas room-darkening window shades. We have installation experts complete these custom projects with care and precision, so all you and your guests have to do is enjoy your brand-new coverings.
Request a consultation online or call (574) 271-0770 for more information about our Hunter Douglas window treatments and the room-darkening enhancements. Midwest Blind & Shade proudly serves our surrounding neighbors, including Mishawaka, Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Syracuse, Auburn, South Bend, Granger, Elkhart, LaPorte, Plymouth, and Michigan City, Indiana; Niles, St Joseph, Benton Harbor, New Buffalo, and Three Rivers, MI.