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Provenance® Woven Wood shades

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:23:09 +0000

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.

Park Lane™ Privacy Sheers

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:20:38 +0000

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®.

Reveal™ with MagnaView™ Metal blinds

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:18:07 +0000

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.

Product line Enhancements/Changes

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:24:44 +0000

For all Hunter Douglas cellular lines, Duolite™ now available with EasyRise™ lift system instead of just cord lifts.
Applause cellular is now available with PowerRise 2.0 Platinum Techology lift system.
Hunter Douglas now offers battery operated, remote controlled tilt, called PowerTilt™ on their entire horizontal metal, wood and faux wood collection including Country Woods, Everwood lines. (Motorization is not available on Reveal™ with MagnaView™ metal blinds.) The full featured remoted control includes 3 channels plus an “all” button. This motorized tilt feature is available on blinds up to about 50 square feet.
Everwood faux blinds: Tru-Grain by Hunter Douglas is a process they have developed that is a man-made, simulated, wood grain that appears almost exactly like nature’s own wood. Available in Everwood horizontal blinds and Cross Winds Vertical lines.
Hunter Douglas is now building Duette and Applause cellular shades with Ultrawear™ Cord. The average cycle life of standard cord is 3,134 cycles. Ultrawear cord has an average life of 47,583 cycles! The most common time for customers to request a restring of their shades was 7 years. The new cord should make shade restringing a thing of the past. This is an exclusive, money-saving innovation from Hunter Douglas.
The width limit has been changed to 120″ for UltraGlide™.

Pirouette® Window Shadings

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:20:55 +0000

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!

Hunter Douglas has now added their battery operated PowerRise 2.0 option to Pirouette. Now a remote control can operate this great new window covering.