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Get
Into Shape
This Spring! Or
At Least Get Into SHAPED WINDOWS |
Are
you into shapes? As the weather gets warmer and the daylight hours
increase, specialty shaped windows are likely to be more on your customers
mind. Give them the ability to control the light, reduce the heat and
protect their furnishings. It still holds true that most window covering dealers
tend to leave shaped windows uncovered. This may provide the biggest
untapped market in the industry. If you are able to help your customers with
increasingly popular shaped windows, you're likely to gain them as a lifelong
customer.
There
is a tendency to believe that it is a limited group of Hunter Douglas products
that may be used to treat arches, trapezoids, angles, bays and other
shapes. But take a look at this wide array of products that have options
that will help you get into shaped windows.
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Alouette
Light Louvers
Alouette Light Lovers may not come in specialty shapes, but they can
certainly be used for some specialty applications. Take a wide
Palladian arch window, for example. Alouette Light Louvers can
cover a span of up to 84 inches with just one bracket at each end.
No center support is required. This allows you to cover the rectangular
portion of the window and leave the top arched portion of the window
uncovered. Or, as pictured on the left, Alouette can be used in
the rectangular portion of an arched window and coordinated with a
Duette shade above, (See
previous tip and download the color
coordination chart) |
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Brilliance®
Pleated Shades
Pleated shades also offer privacy for windows with angled tops, angled sides,
half-circle arches, circles and other specialty shapes. |
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Duette®
Honeycomb Shades
Absolutely the most versatile product for specialty shaped windows.
Duette shades offer superior insulation and all kinds of light control
options for circles, half-circle arches, quarter-circle arches, angles, arches and
even the most unusual specialty shapes.
A more limited
selection of specialty shape solutions is available in the Applause
Honeycomb Shade line. |
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Heritance®
Hardwood Shutters
These shutters offer superb hardwood beauty and craftsmanship for window walls and doors and are
now available in arches.
Heritance Hardwood Shutters may also be used for bay and bow windows
applications. |
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Latitude®
Arch Window Treatments
They look like wood but are crafted into a sunburst arch from light and affordable PVC material. The arch has moveable louvers and its color can coordinate with
Vinylbilt Shutters and many Hunter Douglas window fashions. |
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Country
Woods Wood Blinds
Country Woods
blinds offer fixed slat treatments for arches, circles and angles.
As an option the ends of the slats may be rounded to improve the light
control and appearance on arched windows. Moveable slat options are
available for some angled windows as well. |
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Luminette® Privacy
Sheers
Luminette can be used in applications as shown to treat just the
rectangular portion of arched windows. Luminette also provides a
great look for bay windows (See
previous tip). |
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Provenance®
Woven Wood Shades.
These highly textural shades have an angled top application and are available in a rich assortment of bamboo,
reeds, slats and grasses. |
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Silhouette®
Window Shadings.
Fabric vanes suspended between sheer fabric facings provide light control and privacy. Silhouette is offered in curved and top-sloped applications for arches and angled windows. |
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Vertical
Blinds.
Hunter Douglas offers a curved track that makes our vertical blinds great for
Arches, bay and rounded windows. Elegant fabric, vinyl and aluminum styles work for angled windows too. |
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