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Shades for Mid-Century Modern Style

First popularized during the middle part of the 20th century around the late 1940s through the 1960s, mid-century modern design embraces a simple style that highlights the natural, innate beauty of your space. Homes with a mid-century modern style feel open and spacious and have clean lines complemented by organic curves with minimal ornamentation. The color palette for mid-century design embraces natural colors such as ochre, oranges, mustard yellow, and a range of browns including the often-abundant use of wood and wood tones. The clean style of mid-century modern design makes this aesthetic easy to maintain and incorporate into modern home décor.

Hunter Douglas Designer Roller Shades near Bellingham, Washington (WA)

For shades for mid-century modern style, keep these three primary principles of the aesthetic at the forefront of your shopping mind:

  1. Stick to the natural mid-century modern color palette
  2. Keep embellishments to a minimum with clean lines and streamlined design
  3. Look for shades that can match the aesthetics’ open feel
At Walls & Windows, we carry several types of Hunter Douglas shades, blinds, and shutters perfect for mid-century modern style that have both horizontal and vertical applications, so whether you’re dressing windows or doors, there are many ways to incorporate style-appropriate coverings into your design aesthetic.

Horizontal Shades for Mid-Century Modern Style

  • Sheer Shades: Sheer materials not only keep to the open feel of mid-century modern style, their use in modern sheer shadings with opaque fabric vanes form clean lines and an airy feel suitable for the style and their neutral tones complement mid-century modern color schemes.
  • Roller Shades: Known for their sleek profile, roller shades fit right in as shades for mid-century modern style available in a wide range of style-specific color choices. With this type of treatment, it is also easy to keep ornamentation to a minimum with smart styling and minimalistic hardware.
  • Shutters: The many wood-based options for interior shutters along with their strong linear style and ability to provide privacy with a view make this window treatment option stylistically ideal for mid-century modern homes.

Vertical Shades for Mid-Century Modern Style

  • Drapery: The key to using drapery for mid-century modern style is to keep the styling simple with minimal adornments. For example, no valances to finish the look and avoid the use of small or floral prints. Instead, choose from the wide range of color-appropriate fabrics or large geometric prints in the Hunter Douglas library and utilize style appropriate hardware to keep the overall look smart, clean and sophisticated.
  • Panel Track Blinds: A modern window treatment style that suits the timelessness of mid-century modern style by streamlining vertical shades with sculpted fabric panels that give this soft textile treatment clean, hard lines. Panel-track blinds also stack away to the side when not in use for fully open spaces that add to that telltale spacious feel of mid-century modern style.
  • Sheer Shadings: There are both horizontal and vertical styles of sheer shades from Hunter Douglas that effortlessly fall into the design aesthetic of mid-century modern style with the smart use of translucent and opaque textiles.

Contact Us

If you embrace a mid-century modern aesthetic at home, connect with the team at Walls & Windows to find the perfect shades to suit your style. Shop the complete range of Hunter Douglas window treatments at the showroom location near Bellingham, WA, or request a consultation online to discuss shades for mid-century modern style. Walls & Windows serves the communities of Blaine, Anacortes, and Bellingham in northwestern Washington and the surrounding areas.