Sheers & Shadings
Transform light and provide UV protection for your furniture and artwork with innovative, light-diffusing Hunter Douglas sheers and shadings.
Cellular Honeycomb Shades
Hunter Douglas' cellular honeycomb shades offer superior energy efficiency, helping to keep your home warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.
Roman Shades
Hunter Douglas Roman shades combine the soft look of fabric folds with the operating ease and convenience of a traditional shade, stacking smoothly and evenly when raised.
Roller & Solar Shades
Simple, classic and elegant, Hunter Douglas roller shades and solar screen shades offer a clean, contemporary look at the window.
Woven Woods
Hunter Douglas' Woven Wood shades add warmth and character to your space with materials that pay homage to unique textures found in nature.
Shutters
Hunter Douglas' shutters are available in long-lasting materials and elevated finishes and can be made to fit a variety of windows, including specialty shapes and sliding-glass doors.
Vertical Blinds
The ideal choice for sliding-glass doors or large windows, Hunter Douglas custom vertical blinds are designed in a range of materials, including vinyl, fabric and aluminum.
Wood & Metal Blinds
Rustic. Traditional. Classic. Hunter Douglas provides only the finest wood, faux wood and aluminum horizontal blinds, all available in numerous colors, textures and slat sizes.
Side Panels & Drapery
Complete your look with Hunter Douglas side panels and drapery. Choose from timeless and on-trend fabrics.
PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
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Transform Your Home with Light
Innovative window treatment designs by Hunter Douglas transform the natural light in your home to create the perfect ambiance, whatever the moment.
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The Hunter Douglas Right Choice Promise
As a Hunter Douglas Gallery dealer, we offer the Gallery-exclusive Hunter Douglas Right Choice Promise® to you: Try out your new window coverings in your home and exchange them if you are not completely satisfied.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Flooring
We offer a large selection of flooring options for your home.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Rugs
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We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
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Blackout
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Stunning Shutters for your Home in the Summer
The key to enjoying the seasonal heat of summer is that you don’t let it follow you home. Home is where we want cool temperatures and comfortable spaces to refresh and recharge for another fun, summertime outing. Creating this ideal indoor summertime environment requires the strategic use of natural elements, namely light and airflow, which is achievable by getting shutters for your home this summer.
Natural light presents two special challenges during the summer. First, when sunlight enters a home through a window the solar heat is intensified which in turn increases the indoor temperature. More light entering the home means more heat, and more intensified heat is entering the home, and so to maintain a cool indoor temperature that light, and the subsequent heat, need to be controlled. Secondly, natural light can interfere with the sleep cycle for some people in the summertime because of the extended hours of daylight. So, if you’re a person or have a child whose bedtime is early or whose wake-up time is late, summer sunlight can pose a challenge in achieving healthy lengths of sleep. Therefore, light control is crucial to the home environment during the summer to control heat and create a dark, sleep-inducing environment.
The second natural element that helps to create comfortable indoor spaces during the summer is natural ventilation, or in other words fresh air. Natural ventilation prevents the inside of your home from feeling stuffy or musty especially on humid days. And, with the strategic use of cross breezes a natural cooling effect occurs as air movement, like that from a fan, helps spaces feel more comfortable for the inhabitants.
One window treatment that helps control light and simultaneously allows for natural ventilation is plantation style indoor shutters. The louvered design of shutters has stood the test of time, remaining a popular window treatment for hundreds of years because the slatted design can ingeniously control both natural light and airflow. The hard louvers of shutters are excellent at blocking light for room-darkening effects; they can also be tilted to deflect direct light but still allow natural illumination to enter. The louver’s tilting also affects natural airflow in a space; the louvers can close completely to block movement, open partially to allow some natural airflow yet still protect against the elements or open completely to create cooling cross breezes. That’s why getting shutters for your home is so popular in the summertime; they help reduce solar heat and increase natural airflow simultaneously and at adjustable levels that are easy for homeowners to control.
Hunter Douglas makes three plantation style interior shutters: Heritance® Hardwood Shutters, Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Shutters, and NewStyle® Hybrid Shutters. All three styles afford the same degree of control over light and airflow that you want in shutters for your home so that you can better control the temperature and overall atmosphere in the home. They differ only in the material their louvers are made from and the features those different constructions afford.
To learn more about shutters for your home and the different benefits and features of the Hunter Douglas line of plantation shutters, contact Classic Blinds and Shutters today. Their helpful design team is ready to help you find and install the perfect shutters for your home this summer. Request a consultation online or stop by our showroom in Alpharetta, GA. Classic Blinds and Shutters serves the entire North Atlanta metro area, including Alpharetta, Milton, and Johns Creek, GA.