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Benefits of Top-Down/Button-Up Window Treatments

Do you want more control over the light in your home? Top-Down/Button-Up is among the more unique window treatment customizations and can help achieve the light control of your dreams. Find out how Top-Down/Button-Up on woven shades, cellular shades, and certain Roman shades can benefit your home.

Top Down Bottom Up shades in an Office near Barrington, IL

Benefit 1: Top-Down/Button-up Window Treatments Offer Premium Light Control

If you’ve ever woken up from sun streaming directly into your eyes from a window, Top-Down/Button-Up Window Treatments can help. This operating system lets you open your window shades from the top or the bottom. So, if you want to have some light in your bedroom, or any other room in your house, when morning rolls around, you can unbutton the top or the bottom before bed.

Benefit 2: Top-Down/Button-up Window Treatments Encourage Privacy

Whether it’s daytime or nighttime, you don’t want anyone to see into your house – intentionally or unintentionally. With this operating system, the top part of your shade can open while the bottom remains closed. You can still see and enjoy your view, but no one can see in.

Benefit 3: Top-Down/Button-up Window Treatments Lower Your Energy Bills

Hot and cold air escape through your windows. Window treatments help reduce that energy loss by adding insulation, which lowers your energy bills. The Top-Down/Button-Up system lets you open the top of your shades in winter when it’s cooler. The sunlight keeps it warmer without the extra energy increase from the heater. In summer, you can lock the cold air in and block out the heat.

Benefit 4: Top-Down/Button-up Window Treatments Protect Against Harmful UV Rays

As beautiful as sunlight is, it’s also harmful. Just like it can harm your skin, the sun’s UV rays can wreak havoc on your furniture, your flooring, and even artwork in your home. Top-Down/Button-up treatment allows you to prevent that by adjusting where the light hits the things in your home, depending on the time of day. Or motorize it with PowerView Automation, so it does it automatically.

Add Top-Down/Button-up to woven shades, cellular shades, and Roman shades. Hunter Douglas shades that offer this operating system are:

  • Vignette® Roman shades: Choose room-darkening, sheer, or light-filtering fabric, from more than 25 fabric colors, and whether the folds will roll or stack when they’re open.
  • Alustra® Woven Textures® Roman Shades: Made from fabrics ranging from sheer to semi-opaque and sourced from around the world. The Roman shade style adds a contemporary appeal, and they come in more than 70 colors.
  • Duette® Cellular Shades: The most energy-efficient shades available. They’re extra insulating because their honeycomb shapes prevent air from escaping. Select from more than 150 fabrics.
  • Provenance® Woven Wood Shades: Woven from natural fibers, including bamboo, grasses, reeds, and woods, the textured fabrics invite nature indoors and are available in more than 80 different colors.
Barrington Draperies is proud to carry Hunter Douglas window treatments— we also create custom bedding and re-upholster furniture. Our professional staff is on hand to answer your questions and help you find the best window treatments for your home. Contact us to schedule a free, in-home consultation today or to find out how the Top-down/Button-up system could help you. We proudly serve Barrington, Kildeer, Palatine, IL, and the Northwest Chicagoland area.