Aura
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
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 Drapery
No matter if you choose to add custom drapes or curtains as a stand-alone feature or pair them with Hunter Douglas window treatments as a unique layered look, drapery is one of the easiest ways to transform a room.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
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We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
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Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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Classic Blinds & Shutters Design Center is your resource for the best quality custom window treatments available in the greater Alpharetta, GA area.
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We are here to assist you with your project, from one window to the entire home or office.
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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.