Bridgeway Specialty Shapes by Hunter Douglas

Number 254 | May 26, 2006
© 2006 Designer Blinds

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In these windows Bridgeway Specialty shapes coordinate well with Crosswinds Vertical Blinds
and Country Woods Blinds

Bridge The Gap
In Specialty Windows

Here's A Great Way To Treat
Specialty Windows And Coordinate Across Product Lines.

Bridgeway is a standalone specialty shape line designed to coordinate with a range of other window covering products. Similar to shutters, Bridgeway offers the look of a finely painted wood arch combined with the strength and straightness of manmade materials. The louvers are rabbeted for tight closure when needed. Bridgeway also offers excellent energy efficiency. The R-value for Bridgeway is rated at 5.91 with louvers closed, and the shading coefficient rating is an excellent .169. That's a big improvement for often neglected specialty windows.

Popular Specialty Shapes, Outside Mount Only
Bridgeway offers the six most popular specialty shapes, perfect arches, eyebrow arches, extended eyebrow arches, quarter circles and full circles. Bridgeway is able to accommodate a wide range of windows from quarter-circle openings as small as fourteen inches up to perfect arches as wide as eighty-four inches. Bridgeway is designed for outside mount installation only.


Perfect arch	Eyebrow Arch	Extended Eyebrow Arch	Extended Quarter-Circle	Perfect Quarter-circle	Circle

The twenty Bridgeway colors coordinate with the best selling colors from the various Hunter Douglas product lines likely to be used in conjunction with Bridgeway. These include Country Woods, Chalet Woods, Crosswinds vertical blinds and, the EverWood Collection. A brochure with actual color chips is available to allow your customers to easily choose the best color. On the backside of the order form, you will find a color coordination chart to help you narrow down color choices quickly for various Hunter Douglas product lines. Designer Blinds requests that you use the Bridgeway Order Form to enter all appropriate details.

The Bridgeway order form can be downloaded from the Bridgeway page at Designer Blinds InfoCenter.

No Template Required
To make this process as simple as possible, no template is required to get the exact size needed. The ordered width, will be the finished size of a custom built Bridgeway treatment. If ordered with returns, the returns add an additional quarter-inch to the width of the base.

For "perfect" arches and quarter arches, the bottom rail always adds one inch in height. So, for example, if a quarter-circle arch is ordered at an eighteen inches, it will be eighteen inches wide by nineteen inches in height. For Circles are actually composed of two arches with one inverted. Since there are two bottom rails, the circle will be two inches taller than the width of the circle. So an thirty inch wide circle will be thirty-two inches in height This allows "perfect" Bridgeway to be installed in windows that are not quite so perfect.

Returns Add To The Width Bridgeway shapes may be ordered with returns or without. If they order them with returns, the returns add ¼” per side on top of the ordered dimensions. When returns are ordered, they are Returns are added to the ordered width. Returns can help you align with products installed below the arch.
The returns may be used to help create alignment with rectangular products installed below. These arches are custom-built to a tolerance of within a sixteenth inch of their ordered width to allow for alignment with any product that may be installed in rectangular widows below the arches.

Hub Variations
With imperfect specialties there can also we a difference in the size of the hub on each specialty shape. This occurs because the width of the specialty determines how long the louvers need to be to cover the opening and the louver length in turn drives the size of the hub required to accommodate the louvers.

The wider the width of the specialty is, the larger the hub that will be required. When the center hub is larger than the side arches, as you can see here, the difference in size seems natural. In some unique situations however, we have found that the companion arches on the sides of a central arch opening can sometime be wider than the central arch and this can result in the central hub being smaller than the side hubs.