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.
Metal Blinds
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.
Custom Bedding
We create one-of-a-kind custom bedding designs.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Upholstery
We offer re-upholstery services for all furniture styles.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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Bathroom
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Bedroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and room darkening.
Home Office
See window covering solutions for light filtering and glare control.
Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
See window covering solutions for light filtering and UV protection.
Media Room
See room darkening window treatments for your media room.
Nursery & Kids Room
See child-safe window coverings for baby nurseries and kids rooms
Angled Windows
See blinds and shades for angled, sloped, and triangle-shaped windows.
Arched Windows
See blinds and shades for arched, half-circle or half-moon windows.
Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
See blinds and shades for bay, bow and corner windows.
French Doors
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Sidelights
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
See blinds and shades specifically suited for skylights.
Automated
See all options for automated blinds and shades.
Blackout
See our options for blinds and shades that best control light.
Energy Efficient
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Light Filtering
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Child and Pet-Friendly
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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!