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.
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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.
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Hunter Douglas custom window shutters provide superior light control and privacy with classic styles, long-lasting finishes, and exceptional craftsmanship.
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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.
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Tips for Window Coverings for High Windows near Anchorage, AK
When you look at the windows in your home, are you looking up at a high, hard to reach window? While the aesthetics of high windows add richness to home interiors, dressing them can prove problematic due to their unreachable elevation. So, let us help you when shopping for new window coverings for high windows with smart and stylish tips for dressing the hard to reach but hard to miss, high windows in your home.
5 Tips for Customizing Window Coverings for High Windows
1. Upgrade to Motorization
For high windows or hard to reach windows, motorization can be a needed upgrade to make the treatments more accessible. In lieu of installing extended lines or wands to open or close window coverings for high windows, opt instead for the convenient access of systems like PowerView® Automation that can be controlled with our handheld Pebble® remote, wall panel, or smartphone-enabled PowerView® app. There are motorized operating systems compatible with almost every type of window treatment, and you’ll see PowerView® on a variety of models including drapery, cellular honeycomb shades, and interior shutters.
2. Use Proportions to Your Benefit
High windows often have a very dramatic look adding architectural interest and natural sunlight. Be sure the treatments you are using are aesthetically strong enough to hold up in the space. Drapery, some styles designed to run floor to ceiling, stand up to the demands of window coverings for high windows with elevated style. The Design Studio™ collection of drapery and side panels includes multiple designer fabric lines from modern textile artists for the latest in contemporary interior design apt for treatments on your highest windows.
3. Consider Insulation
It doesn’t matter if the window is high or low, all windows can benefit from the insulating power of cellular honeycomb shades. Glass panes are some of the biggest culprits of energy inefficiency in a home allowing the unwanted transfer of energy in or out of the home. During summers you lose cooling AC, in the winters you’re fighting to keep the cold out. Honeycomb shades use a cellular design to trap air and create an insulating layer, so any window in the home (including high windows) can be transformed into a force for energy efficiency.
4. Custom Fit Counts
Fit counts on high windows that will only call attention to any imperfections if shades are measured, made, or installed incorrectly. And with many high windows having special shapes, like arches, you need a style of window covering for high windows that can be customized into different shapes. Interior wood and vinyl shutters can be tailored into a range of specialty shapes to cater to the unique window shapes in your home, and they also allow for cut-out details around window cranks and air conditioners. Hunter Douglas has models of plantation style shutters that can be crafted into the following window shapes:
- Arches and Half Circles
- Angles and Top/Bottom Sloped
- Circles
- Corner Windows
- Hexagons
- Octagons
- Ovals
- Trapezoids
5. Trust the Experts
As with any decision if you’re unsure about your choices there is only one thing to do, ask our experts. Afterall, that’s what we are here for and it’s what we’re good at! Armed with product knowledge and industry insights into the latest trends for window coverings for high windows and more, let our team be your guide.
Contact Us
In the greater Anchorage area, the design team at Exciting Windows by Miniblind King is ready to help you find your next set of window coverings for high windows. Request a consultation today to discuss all the options open to you in the Hunter Douglas collection. Exciting Windows is located near Anchorage, Alaska, and serves residents in Eagle River, Girdwood, and the greater Anchorage area.