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Stay Cool with Cellular Shades this Summer

The defining feature of cellular shades is their internal honeycomb construction. This unique design traps air within the shade itself, creating discreet pockets of air that, in turn, provide an extra layer of insulation, giving rise to these shade’s superior insulating abilities. With the intelligent use of cellular shades, homeowners can fend off the heat of a Washington summer or keep out the cold of a Washington winter with efficiency and ease. That’s why we've got five of the most valuable ways Hunter Douglas cellular shades can keep homes cool, laid out by the team of window treatment experts here at Walls & Windows.

Hunter Douglas Sonnette® Roller Shades decorating a modern home living room with a leather lounge chair at Walls & Windows near Bellingham, WA

5 Ways Cellular Shades Help Homes Stay Cool

  1. Keeping Sunlight Out: With natural sunlight comes solar heat, so step one in maintaining a cooler home with cellular shades is to keep the sunlight out. The more Sunlight you can keep out of your home, the better, as that will translate into less disturbance of the internal temperatures. The LightLock® blackout system for the Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades greatly enhances the shade's light-blocking capabilities by using u-shaped tracks along the sides of the window. These sidetracks deflect any sunlight trying to sneak around the edges of the cellular shades, providing your home with deep, cool darkness when you need it.
  2. Keeping Air Conditioning Inside: If you're paying for air conditioning, you more than likely want to get the most out of your money and keep all that cool air inside. Hunter Douglas Cellular shades are excellent insulators thanks to the internal air pockets created by their cellular construction. Using insulated shades ensures that less AC is lost to the exterior world through windows, keeping that cool air inside where it's meant to be.
  3. Cool New Styles: While traditional cellular shades have been around since the 80s, Hunter Douglas has continued to innovate and has kept their window treatments current with frequent updates to performance and style. Hunter Douglas Sonnette® Roller Shades are a modern cellular shade created by combining cellular honeycomb and roller shades. Sonnette® Roller Shades offer all the insulating power of cellular shades but with an alternative aesthetic customizable to any interior design style with over 50 fabric choices.
  4. Complete Home Coverage: Cellular shades from Hunter Douglas can be crafted with several different control systems, including options for both windows and doors. As such, homeowners can benefit from using cellular shades throughout their entire home. With the ability to cover arches, angles, trapezoids, hexagons, circles, ovals, bay windows, corner windows, sidelights, cut-outs, and skylights, as well as French doors and sliding glass doors, cellular shades can cover nearly any glass feature in a home for better overall efficiency.
  5. Cooler Energy Bills: By regulating energy transfer through windows, which can account for up to 30% of energy loss in a home, insulated cellular shades play a crucial role in improving the energy efficiency of the entire house. Cellular shades help maintain a comfortable interior atmosphere without additional energy use by organically keeping heat out and cool air in. This can result in lower monthly energy bills for homeowners year-round. Furthermore, by upgrading to a system like PowerView® with automated scheduling options, homeowners can ensure their cellular shades operate at optimal levels by synchronizing the shades to be drawn whenever the AC is scheduled to run and during the day's peak heat.

Cellular Shades from Walls & Windows

Stay cool this summer with new cellular shades from Hunter Douglas. Working with the team at Walls & Windows, Washington homeowners can find and customize insulating shades for doors and windows in their home. Request a consultation to learn more about all the benefits of custom cellular shades. Walls & Windows is located near Bellingham, Washington, to better serve the communities of Blaine, Anacortes, and Bellingham, WA.