Please take a look at the most recent developments in our window coverings.
In early December Castec, North Hollywood, California, ceased production because they lost some of their line of credit to the point they could no longer operate. They are in the process of recapitalizing, but this is going to take an unknown amount of time. Weeks, maybe months. Until they are back in production Shades Of The Future will use alternative vendors.
Castec has been a prime vendor for us for nearly 20 years. We hope they are able to reestablish themselves shortly. They are a significant source of quality products for our industry and a very large company with multiple manufacturing facilities.
The Hunter Douglas line has expanded again! A new bark pattern – Rustica, has been added to the line. A new design option is now available: A hobble style of Roman with gentle folds even when fully lowered. The hobbled roman is not available in Safari fabric.
Provenance now offers attached linings, (in Chocolate, Cocoa, and Ivory), instead of independently operated linings behind the decorative shade. Provenance Woven Wood shades is a line of textured woven woods, bamboo and delightful materials creating a natural and unique look at a price never available. These shades are roman style – soft fold. Now available up to 144″ wide. And clutch lift systems are now offered – a big plus. This product is now on display in our showroom.
Hunter Douglas introduces their latest line of Privacy Sheers. Similar to Luminette® Privacy Sheers, this vertically oriented product dresses large window walls with ease. Park Lane is for outside (on the wall) mounts, not for inside mounts due to gaps on the sides for inside mounts that results from the Park Lane headrail system. It tilts for privacy and stacks back, when you desire a clear window. The sheer facings provide a view to the outside and with a quick twist of the wand you have privacy. Room darkening vanes are available, as is an optional valance for the headrail. Savings over Luminette® is about 25%. Park Lane™ Privacy Sheers used the Paramount vertical headrail and fabric that is less costly than Luminette® to provide these savings. Other features of Luminette® including split stack, inside mounts, motorization and additional fabric choices are reserved for owners of Luminette®.
Just released by Hunter Douglas, the new 1″ and 2″ slat Reveal™ metal blinds is a whole new product that affords twice the view to the outside, when tilted open. Here’s how it works: When you tilt a Reveal™ metal blind open, every other slat “sticks” to the one above it creating double the open view area. On 1″ blinds instead of a 1″ open view, you now see a 2″ open view and on a 2″ blind the view is doubled to a 4″ open view. When you tilt the blind closed the slats settle to their closed position. This product has visible route holes (no delight or motorization is available.) I have a hand sample to demonstrate this clever shade in your home.
Pirouette® window shadings are the newest Hunter Douglas product addition. This product is a hybrid of Vignette roman shades and Silhouette. Pirouette is a roman shade that rolls up in its own header like a Vignette, but the privacy vanes can be lifted to provide view outside. All controlled with a single loop lift system. Beautiful product!