Enjoy Energy Efficiency Year-Round With Cellular Shades
Like clockwork, heating and cooling costs climb every summer in Georgia, and the windows are usually where the trouble begins. At Metro Shutters & Blinds, our team has been helping homeowners make their spaces more contented and energy-efficient, all with the help of a favorite window treatment: cellular shades from Hunter Douglas.
Cellular shades rank among the strongest choices for holding indoor temperatures steady through every season.
How Do Cellular Shades Work?
The construction of these window shades does the heavy lifting. A cellular shade has rows of internal honeycomb-shaped pockets that trap air between the glass and the room. That captured air slows heat as it tries to move in either direction.
According to the United States Department of Energy, windows can account for possibly up to 30 percent of a home’s energy loss, making the glass the weak spot in an otherwise well-insulated house.
The payoff of cellular shades may show up twice a year. During August afternoons, the fabric layer keeps solar heat from settling into your living room and pushing the thermostat lower. In January, those same pockets hold warm air inside instead of letting it drift toward cooler panes.
With these energy-efficient shades, rooms hold their temperature longer, and the HVAC system runs in shorter cycles. That steadier baseline is what turns up on the utility bill across a full year.
What Makes Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades Different?
Hunter Douglas introduced their innovative Duette® Cellular Shades to the market back in 1985 as the first honeycomb shades of their kind. Since then, the line has remained at the forefront of the category.
Duette® Cellular Shades come in three-quarter-inch and one-and-a-quarter-inch pleats, with fabric opacities ranging from sheer to room-darkening options, so a home office and a nursery can each get the light level that suits the room. The honeycomb fabric also absorbs sound, reducing echo in spaces with tile or hardwood flooring.
Additionally, Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades received a 2024 Good Housekeeping Home Renovation Award, which recognizes the excellence of these premium window treatments.
And, when it comes to the shade’s actual aesthetics, you’ll love how they invite in a warm glow and look incredible while doing so. You can select from a collection of luxury fabrics that contain over 50% recycled content. Colors and textures run from crisp solids to loose weaves with visible grain.
How Can I Control Light and Privacy With Cellular Window Shades?
How a custom shade controls light and privacy inside your home matters as much as how it insulates, and Hunter Douglas offers several ways to handle light, privacy, and those awkward openings:
- Top-Down/Bottom-Up is a flexible system that lowers the shade from the headrail to let in daylight, while the bottom half stays closed for privacy or vice versa.
- Duolite® System pairs a light-filtering fabric with a room-darkening fabric in a single shade, so one window covering handles bright mornings and dark evenings.
- LightLock® System uses U-shaped side channels that blend into a window frame and block light along the edges, making it a great option for bedrooms and media rooms.
- Vertiglide™ System travels side to side on a cordless track, making it ideal for sliding glass doors or as a room divider.
- PowerView® Automation raises and lowers shades on a schedule or from your phone, remote, or voice commands, handy for skylights, floor-to-ceiling windows, and windows above your stairs.
Metro Shutters & Blinds Measures and Installs Cellular Shades With Care
Custom window treatments, especially a cellular shade, earn their keep when they fit the opening perfectly. Gaps along the sides let in light when you’re trying to rest or let warm air from the window slip past the fabric, which is exactly what you’re trying to avoid. That’s why our team at Metro Shutters & Blinds measures every window ourselves and places the order based on those measurements rather than a rough estimate.
Trim depth, tile sills, and frames that sit out of square all affect the numbers, which is why we take them on-site.
Shop Hunter Douglas Cellular Shades Near Marietta, GA
At Metro Shutters & Blinds, we know what excellent quality looks like, and we hold Hunter Douglas window treatments to that same standard. Our showroom near metro Atlanta lets you raise and lower working samples, compare pleat sizes, and get advice from our experts before you commit.
Lower energy bills start with a look at your window treatments. Call (770) 726-3656 or reach us online to book a free in-home consultation, and we’ll bring samples to you.
Metro Shutters & Blinds serves Marietta, Acworth, Peachtree City, Kennesaw, Atlanta, Woodstock, and Cherokee County, GA.