PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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At Sunbeam Window & Door, we offer custom awnings made from the finest acrylic fabrics and long-lasting aluminum frame parts.
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At Sunbeam Window & Door Company, we know that the actual windows in your home are just as important as the window treatments covering them.
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Sunbeam Window & Door Company has been your choice for vinyl replacement windows, entry doors, retractable awnings, and window treatments since 1946.
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Room-Darkening Shades for Homes
As autumn makes itself at home, you might try to get as much natural sunlight as possible. However, there are some instances where bright light—both natural and artificial—is unwanted. Whether you’re trying to watch a movie Friday night with family or want to get a little extra shut-eye Sunday morning, there are many times when blocking outside light is needed. That is where room-darkening shades come to the rescue.
Room-Darkening Shades
Room-darkening shades are often categorized as either soft treatments or multi-tiered treatments. The best option for your home will depend on your light-blocking and aesthetic needs.
- Soft Treatments: When using fabric-based treatments for room-darkening shades, fabric choice and liner options become the key elements in creating blackout interiors. Thicker fabrics and darker colors block and absorb sunlight more effectively than sheer or light fabrics, but a good blackout liner can turn many types of ethereal feeling treatments into incredibly effective room-darkening shades. Side panels are also a great option for creating multi-layered window fashions with enhanced light-blocking capabilities. Their strategic placement framing a window helps to block light gaps or leaks around the edges of the base window treatment.
- Multi-Tiered Treatments: When it comes to blocking light, multi-layered room-darkening treatments perform better than each covering on its own thanks to the cooperative power of tandem use. Take that efficiency one step further with exterior light-blocking treatments like window awnings. Every layer filters out more and more sunlight for a comprehensively darker interior.
Operating Systems for Better Room Darkening
If you want to take room darkening to the next level, consider one of these available systems:
- Duolite® : This innovative operating system from Hunter Douglas utilizes two shades on a singular roller head. One shade is light filtering and the other is a room-darkening shade. By working together, they can cover the complete spectrum of lighting needs. Duolite® is compatible with several different styles of window shades. These include honeycomb shades, Roman shades, and roller shades.
- LightLock™: For Duette® Honeycomb Shades, the LightLock™ system features a two-layered defense to keep sunlight out. A U-shaped side channel that overlaps the front and back of the shades, plus an innovative side channel design featuring rows of micro-ridges, absorb and/or deflect unparalleled levels of incoming natural sunlight.
- de-Light™: Specifically designed for a lighting challenge particular to blinds, the de-Light™ system minimizes light gaps by eliminating cord holes thus allowing less light to pass through these hard-based room-darkening shades.
Contact Us Today
Learn more about room-darkening shades for you home by contacting SunBeam Window & Door Co. Our elite team of window treatment experts are ready to help you create blackout interiors with fashion forward room-darkening shades by Hunter Douglas. Never has the process been so easy to upgrade your home’s lighting control.
Request a consultation, visit our promotions page for great deals, or shop the extensive Hunter Douglas inventory at the showroom near Pennsauken, New Jersey. SunBeam Window & Door Co. serves residents in the Pennsauken Township and surrounding areas of Maple Shade and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.