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.
Commercial Blinds & Shades
We offer window treatments for any business or commercial setting.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Blind and Shade Repairs
We offer quick and professional repairs for your blinds and shades.
Window Covering Cleaning
We offer professional window treatment cleaning services.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
Blinds & Shades by Room
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Bathroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and moisture-resistance.
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
See shutters, blinds and shades for French Doors.
Sidelights
See blinds and shades for sidelight windows.
Sliding Glass Doors
See blinds and shades for patio and sliding-glass doors.
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
See blinds and shades that help save energy at the window.
Light Filtering
See blinds and shades for light filtering and UV protection.
Child and Pet-Friendly
See blinds and shades that are safer for children and pets.
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3 Tips for Layering Shades
Drapery is a chic and modern window treatment that provides many benefits. This is especially true when it comes to layering your drapes with shades. For example, let’s say you live on a busy street where noise pollution is constantly an issue. Layering drapery with window shades can block the outside noise and improve your home’s acoustics. Or, let’s say you have a room in your home that is always hot in the summer and cold in the winter. This might be an insulation issue! By layering drapery with window shades, you can improve insulation.
At Betz Blinds, we offer all kinds of ways to layering Hunter Douglas drapery with other fine window treatments to offer increased style and functionality to your space. However, how do you go about finding a style that works best for you? That is where our team of experts come in to help.
Tip #1: Layers Are Not Equal
When it comes to layering shades or blinds, one of our first tips for layering drapery is to remember that order is important. This is because the different elements of window treatment that you are layering provide different benefits, and can only provide these benefits if hung accordingly. Your base layer should be an inside-mounted blind or shade that hangs flush against the window. Your second layer is where custom drapery comes in. Because of their length and thickness, drapery looks beautiful when mounted over simpler blinds or shades. You can stop here if you wish. Or, if you want to add a third layer—sheers, a valance, or an additional liner adds decorative appeal and additional function to your window treatment.
Tip #2: Mix & Match Textures
If you are worried that your layered look will just look like a bulk of fabric, don’t be afraid to vary your colors, patterns, and textures! In fact, basic, solid curtains and drapes look gorgeous when paired with textured blinds or shades. Simple shades are also beautifully complemented with ruffled valances for an extra touch of texture. Of course, when it comes to patterns, we encourage you to use them sparingly. Conflicting patterns can look busy and make a space feel smaller than it is.
For a subtle and elegant touch of organic texture, try layering drapes or shades with Provenance® Woven Wood Shades, available in layerable Roman shade, Waterfall Roman shade, and drapery styles. The natural woven woods, reeds, and grasses of these shades are available in colors and neutrals perfect for layering and adding dimension to your interiors.
Tip #3: Any Window Can Participate
If you think that layering shades is strictly for wide windows, then we are happy to help provide some new insight. While layering curtains over blinds or shades on picture windows looks absolutely gorgeous, there are more avenues to explore when it comes to layering drapery. In fact, any window in your home can benefit from drapery layering!
Since drapery provides added light control, noise reduction, and plenty of privacy, you can layer smaller windows, tall windows, wide windows, bowed windows, sliding glass doors, and just about any window you can think of. If you are concerned about the size of your windows when it comes to layering, allow our friendly team to help!
Contact Us Today
We are located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and proudly serve the areas surrounding Harrisburg, Brookings, and Mitchell, SD; Rock Rapids, Larchwood, Spirit Lake, and Okoboji, Iowa; and Luverne, Minnesota. A member of our team is standing by to help you create the next exciting new window treatment design for your home, and we can’t wait to start working with your family!
To learn more about layering shades, blinds, and drapery from Hunter Douglas, be sure to contact us online or visit us today at Betz Blinds to learn more.