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How Window Shades Protect Your Home

Window shades can play a major role in protecting your home. Your living space is your personal dwelling and place of relaxation. Nothing should impede you from enjoying the peace, privacy, and comfort of your home, but there are outside elements that can make your residence less enjoyable or secure. By investing in quality window shades, you can protect your family and furnishing while adding a new visual element to your interior design.

Silhouette® Sheer Shades in a living room near Miami, FL

UV Protection

While sunlight is great for illuminating your home with warming natural light, excessive exposure to UV rays can damage flooring, furniture, and home decor. Window shades protect against UV degradation by filtering the harmful rays out of the natural sunlight. Sheer shades and solar shades both use semi-opaque textiles to simultaneously filter sunlight and permit filtered illumination.

Burglary Prevention

Like having a light on a timer to make it look like someone is home while you are away, having window shades set to automatically open and close will also create the illusion of occupancy while your home is vacant. PowerView® Automation from Hunter Douglas gives homeowners the ability to set automated schedules for their window shades or control them remotely using their smartphone. PowerView® Automation is also compatible with numerous styles of window fashions including sheer shades, roller shades, cellular honeycomb shades, shutters, blinds, woven wood shades, drapery, and other vertical treatments.

Personal Privacy

Windows are a wonderful visual asset for any room. They provide natural beauty to interior spaces and a view into the surrounding outdoors. However, a view into your home through windows or glass doors creates an intrusive feeling because it exposes the private lives of residents.

Window coverings protect privacy by blocking or obscuring the view in, and there are many options that can do so without blocking your ability to see outside. Shutters can tilt their louvers up so that residents can see the outside of their homes while blocking others from viewing their interior.

There are also operating systems such as the Top-Down/Bottom-Up LiteRise® system by Hunter Douglas that can extend the privacy afforded by shades. Top-Down/Bottom-Up treatments can open from the top or bottom, making it easy for homeowners to precisely adjust their window shades as needed for their preferred level of personal privacy at home. The Top-Down/Bottom-Up LiteRise® system is available on select styles of roller shades, Roman shades, cellular shades, and woven wood shades by Hunter Douglas.

Find Quality Window Shades at Fine Shadings & Decor

Window shades can protect your home and family in a variety of ways. For more information on how to find the best window treatments for your residential windows, contact Fine Shadings & Decor. Located in Miami, we provide the greater Miami area with the latest window treatments from Hunter Douglas.

With over 25 years of experience, our company is ready to help you select a quality window covering that enhances your interior and protects your family. Call us today at (305) 466-1144 or visit us online to request a consultation.