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.
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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.
Flooring
Give your interiors a design step-up with quality home flooring.
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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Heat-Blocking Window Treatments for Your New Orleans Home
As the summer season gets closer, you might notice that those sunny rays are getting hotter and your energy bills may be getting higher. While you can crank up the AC and hunker down for another season, there is another solution for dealing with the heat: with your window treatments. Your windows are not just a gateway to allow you to enjoy your views. They also are a gateway for sunshine to come in and heat up your home. While all shades provide some form of light filtration, there are certain window treatments that do the job better than others.
At Classic Interiors, our team is here to share our knowledge of some of our favorite heat-blocking window treatments from Hunter Douglas. With cellular shades, solar shades, and other insulating window coverings, you can save big on your energy bill and enjoy cooler temperatures in the summer and warmer homes in the winter by choosing the right shading solution.
Insulate Your Space with Cellular Shades
When it comes to heat-blocking window treatments, are one of the more popular options. Crafted with a discreet layer of honeycomb shaped cells, these shades trap air at your windows to prevent any cool air from seeping out and any hot air from creeping in. This allows you to enjoy a comfortable home without cranking up that AC throughout the day.
Cellular shades gently filter natural sunlight, offer privacy, and trap air right at your windows to repel heat in the summer and cold in the winter. This will help keep your home cooler even when the sun is at its highest, brightest, and hottest. Duette® Cellular Shades from Hunter Douglas can be placed on a variety of window shapes and are offered in over 150 fabric options—including room darkening shades—so you can select a style and opacity level that you love.
Curb Harsh UV Rays with Solar Shades
Do you feel like you need to grab your sunglasses when entering certain rooms in your home throughout the day? Or are you worried about your furniture fading and cracking in the summer sun? Hunter Douglas Designer Solar Shades have the ability to protect against UV rays while optimizing your views. Even when the summer sun is shining through your windows, Hunter Douglas solar shades will block glare, reduce heat, and allow for easy operation all day long. This UV protection also means that solar shades will stop harmful UV rays from damaging your upholstery, carpet, artwork, hardwood floors and artwork.
Designer Solar Shades are available in a variety of opacities and fabric selections—including the sustainable GreenScreen® Sea-Tex™ fabric collection. Lighter colors better reflect heat and fill a room with soft light. Dark fabric colors, on the flip side, are excellent at reducing glare and UV rays. We can help you pick the best opacity level for your home.
Enjoy Optimum Control with Automated Shades
These and several other Hunter Douglas blinds, shutters, drapes, and shades are compatible with Hunter Douglas PowerView® Automation, an innovative system that can adjust your shades automatically or via your smart device, voice, or with the Pebble® remote. PowerView® Automation can be programmed to open or close your shades depending on the time of day or temperature. In the summer, your shades can automatically close when the temperatures rise. This will combat any additional heat from entering your home during peak sunshine hours. In the winter, your shades can open to let in sunshine to warm your home naturally. Sleek and efficient, PowerView® Automation takes heat-blocking window treatments to the next level.
Contact Us Today
To learn more about heat-blocking window treatments, be sure to contact or visit us today at Classic Interiors. We are located in Kenner, Louisiana, and proudly serve Kenner, Metairie, New Orleans, St. Charles, and the surrounding area.
A member of our team is standing by to help you, so request a consultation and let us show you how you can keep cool this summer in your New Orleans area home with window treatment solutions from Classic Interiors.