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.
Fabrics
Choose from our large selection of fabric colors, patterns and textures.
Consumer Financing by Wells Fargo
We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
About Us
Exciting Windows! by Mini Blind King is Alaska's only full-service Hunter Douglas Gallery and window fashion showroom, offering exclusive Hunter Douglas window fashions, custom draperies, designer fabrics, shutters, automation/smart shades, and so much more.
Window Treatment Repair
Exciting Windows by Mini Blind King is your go-to destination for expert window treatment repair near Anchorage, AK.
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Home Office
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Transform Your Space with Room Darkening Shades
While it's true that natural sunlight can have a transformative effect on your home interior, the same can also be said about its absence. Darkness can also be transformative in your home environment in surprising ways, from improving your sleep to lowering your heating bills. Let our team from Exciting Windows show you how darkness at home and room-darkening shades from Hunter Douglas can transform your Alaska home.
Transform Your Space with Room Darkening Window Treatments
- Transforming Sleeping Areas: No matter where you hang your head to sleep, you need certain conditions. Sleep is best when it's dark, quiet, and calm. Room darkening shades help create that ideal sleeping atmosphere by controlling the amount of light entering your room, ensuring you can get enough sound sleep without interruption from sunlight or streetlamps.
- Transforming your Living Spaces: Though there are many benefits to inviting natural sunlight into your home, from free lighting to health benefits, there can be drawbacks, too. Prolonged exposure to UV in sunlight can harm household items, and the blinding glare that direct sunlight can have can render living areas uncomfortable. Room darkening window treatments can help homeowners combat these adverse effects, making living room spaces comfortable any time of day and protecting your décor from fading.
- Transforming your Home's Energy Efficiency: Room darkening window treatments can help control your home's energy use in two ways. First, they offer elevated light control, assisting homeowners in utilizing the free resource of natural sunlight. Second, they help with insulation, a key component to improving your home's overall energy efficiency because experts estimate as much as 30% of unwanted energy loss happens through unprotected windows. Between free light and better insulation, room-darkening window treatments can help reduce your home's energy consumption, resulting in monetary benefits like lower heating bills.
Our Favorite Hunter Douglas Room Darkening Shades
- Cellular Shades: Duette® Cellular Shades with the LightLock® blackout system combine the insulating power of cellular shades with a blackout treatment to provide unparalleled darkness. They are ideal for bedrooms, living rooms, and specialty windows like skylights and sidelights.
- Roman Shades: With a timeless aesthetic and the capacity to be tailored to suit individual style tastes, Vignette® Roman Shades are a sophisticated option for room darkening shades when upgraded with the innovative Duolite® system. The Duolite® system adds a back, room-darkening shade to the traditional Roman shade design, creating layers of light-blocking precision.
- Shutters Under Drapery: By layering multiple window treatments in a single window fashion, homeowners can enjoy unmated room darkening capabilities as the layers each help to block light leaks from the other. One of the best pairings for room darkening shades is plantation shutters under lined drapery.
Room Darkening Shades near Anchorage, Alaska
At Exciting Windows, we're ready to help you explore the world of room-darkening window treatments by Hunter Douglas to find the ideal style for your home's needs. Whether you're looking for bedroom shades for better sleep or living room treatments that improve your home's energy efficiency, find them at our showroom location near Anchorage, Alaska, or request a consultation today. Exciting Windows serves Anchorage, Eagle River, and Girdwood, AK homeowners.