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.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Frosted Privacy Film
Frosted Films offer a broad selection of vinyl glass films designed to mimic the look of costly Frosted or Etched Glass Finishes at a fraction of the cost without any sacrifice in appearance or quality.
Outdoor Shades
For over 15 years, Blinds and Designs has been the premier source for custom window treatments in Western North Carolina.
Window Tinting
Sun damage is a constant and consistent problem. The ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun can cause your furniture and interior décor to discolor or fade.
Blind and Shade Repairs
We offer quick and professional repairs for your blinds and shades.
Consumer Financing by Wells Fargo
We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
Video Design Consultations
We offer Video Design Consultations, using video conferencing tools such as FaceTime, Zoom, Skype, and Duo.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
About Us
Blinds and Designs is the premier source for custom window treatments in Western North Carolina.
Meet the Team
Blinds and Designs is locally-owned and operated and has been proudly serving our Western North Carolina since 2004.
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Fletcher, NC
Locally owned and operated, Blinds & Designs has provided the best Hunter Douglas blinds, shades, shutters, and drapes to Western North Carolina for almost 20 years.
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Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
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Angled Windows
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Arched Windows
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Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
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French Doors
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Sidelights
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
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Automated
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Blackout
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Energy Efficient
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Light Filtering
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Controlling Autumn Light with Screen Shades
As the color rolls through North Carolina and humid summers turn cooler, it’s time to open our homes and embrace the turning of the seasons and the loveliness that fall brings. Welcome fall to your home with screen shades that enhance autumn light, allow cool autumn breezes and maintain view-through visibility so homeowners can truly enjoy the changing seasons from the comfort of their home. In the Hunter Douglas collection, there are several different styles of mesh textiles, sheer fabrics, and screen materials that are used in window treatments to create unique styles of screen shades for homes in North Carolina.
Designer Screen Shades: Step one in enjoying beautiful autumn light is making sure your home and its contents are protected from sunlight’s harmful elements; after all, it’s hard to enjoy the season when the sun is causing damage to furniture, flooring, or décor in your home. Designer Screen Shades can block 86%-99% of the harmful UV rays, yet depending on the shade’s opacity, they can still provide natural illumination, helping you make the most of shorter daylight hours in the fall. The enhanced screen materials in the designer collection include weave with varying degrees of openness and a wide variety of colors.
Designer Banded Shades: Choose more views of the autumn hues or opt for more privacy when needed, and be able to go seamlessly between the two with Designer Banded Shades. This style of screen shades uses alternating bands of opaque fabrics and sheer materials on a roller unit that raises and lowers the bands to creates a range of balances between light and privacy. Designer Banded Shades spotlight the view, framing it with a clean, streamlined design that makes interior spaces feel open and spacious. Banded styles of screen shades work throughout the house in any room with sun dominant features, including living rooms, sunrooms, patios, bathrooms, and bedrooms.
Pirouette® Window Shadings: Sheer shades make a visually desirable option for the fall because they allow natural, warming light and maintain visibility, so the beauty of the season is easily enjoyed indoors. In fact, like the blinds, these screen shades can be drawn up into a headrail for completely open views and to allow easy access to natural ventilation and the cooling breezes of fall. And while Pirouette® Window Shadings preserve the view, they can also be engaged for protective measures to block harmful UV rays or obscure the view into your home for trustworthy privacy. Pirouette® window shades use floating vanes on a single sheer backing for a softer aesthetic that still provides the light-filtering properties of traditional screen shades.
Enjoy the beauty of autumn in your home with screen shades from Hunter Douglas. Whether you like the performance of Designer Screen Shades, the style of Designer Banded Shades, or the softness of Pirouette Window Shadings®, you will find a selection of choices at Blinds and Designs. Request a consultation today to speak with a design representative about screen shades for your home or stop by the Blinds and Designs location near Fletcher, North Carolina, for in-person service. Blinds and Designs serve residents in western North Carolina, including Asheville, Hendersonville, and Weaverville, and Fletcher, NC.