Cold-Resistant Winter Window Coverings
When it comes to winter window fashions, there’s only one word you need to remember, the same word you embrace as you get dressed in the chilly Midwest: Layers. Even in spring and summer, layered window treatments provide more options for controlling light and temperature. In winter, layers are essential to cozy, luxurious, and cold-resistant window coverings, but there are other elements to consider. At Barrington Draperies and Shutters in Barrington, Illinois, we carry Hunter Douglas window treatments to connect you with the best window coverings all year. Let us help you find your winter window fashion today.
Energy-Efficient Choices for Winter Window Fashions
On frigid winter days, you need the insulation from a coat to keep warm when you step outside. Similarly, the insulation from a window treatment will make your home more comfortable. Cold-resistant window coverings include:
- Duette® Cellular Shades: These window treatments use four layers of fabric to create small cells that trap hot air. These air-filled fabric cells press against your window and keep warm air from leaving in winter and entering in summer. Duette® Cellular shades come in over 150 colors and fabrics.
- Vignette® Roman shades: These products add classic grace with folds of fabric that also bring in softness, warmth, and dimension. Layering them with other products can help keep your home warm more effectively. There are more than 25 color and fabric options.
- Provenance® Woven Wood Shades are handwoven from various woods and grasses to create sophisticated, insulating textured fabrics. They’re available in over 80 color and fabric combinations, and you can get them in the flat Roman style, the traditional Roman style, or as vertical shades.
Cold-Resistant Window Coverings: The Art of Layering
Just like wearing a sweater and a blouse beneath your coat is warmer than wearing a t-shirt with your coat, layering your window treatments makes them work more effectively. It also means you can adapt as the temperature changes. When you select two to three layers and styles of fabric, you can adjust them to let in light, enjoy the view, or start enjoying an early spring.
When the weather turns cold, you can keep warm with these cold-resistant window coverings that are easy to swap with the seasons:
- Exchange side panels (which beautifully frame your windows in spring and summer) for draperies to add warmth and fullness.
- Exchange sheer draperies for opaque or room-darkening draperies to keep out late-night and early-morning cold.
- Exchange pale, cool colors for warmer colors, particularly in drapery, to ensure you keep as much heat as possible within your home.
Choose the Right Colors and Textures for Cold-Resistance
Winter colors often include cool colors, like pale blue, silver, gray, white, and off-white, which make your home feel colder. Incorporate rich browns or warm shades of red, green, or gold to give your home a cozy atmosphere.
Texture can also make a room feel warmer and cozier. Think of the soft, fuzzy blanket draped across the arm of a chair. Make your home cold-resistant with the following:
- Window Coverings: A warm-colored drapery layer for fall and winter that’s a different fabric than your other window treatments.
- Throw pillows on couches and chairs: These add places where people can rest and remain warm throughout the winter.
- Blankets: Draping thick, warm blankets across the backs of couches allows you to use them or add a layer of warmth to the room.
- Decorative items: Pinecones, wreaths, greenery, wood picture frames, and bronze, silver, or gold vases or glasses give a warmer tone to your space.
- Bedding: Exchange lighter spring and summer sheets and blankets for heavier fall and winter choices to stay warm throughout the night.
- Throw rugs: Incorporate fuzzy faux animal fur, patterns, and warm colors by doors and wood floors to trap heat inside.
Find Your Winter Window Fashions at Barrington Draperies and Shutters
Barrington Draperies and Shutters has everything you need to prepare your home for winter. Our winter window fashions will keep your home looking beautiful and stylish while eliminating the winter chill. Our friendly staff can help you answer any questions you have. We proudly serve Barrington, Palatine, Kildeer, and Northwest Chicago, Illinois. Contact us today!