Duette® Cellular Shades from Hunter Douglas set the standard for energy conservation and stylish design when it comes to cellular blinds and shades for the home or office. Duette® Cellular Shades are available in a variety of colors and rich textiles with different textures and weaves, as well as opacities from light-filtering to blackout options. Additionally, these cellular shades can be customized with different pleat sizes (3/8", 3/4" or 1 1/4") and operating systems for optimal visual appeal and usability. Duette® Cellular Shades can be fitted to any style of window, including windows with custom shapes and sizes or uniquely placed windows like skylights.

1) Energy Efficiency

While many of the original cellular blinds were designed to insulate during winter, Duette® Cellular Shades were the first to benefit homeowners in all four seasons. Their honeycomb design can keep heat in during colder months and out during hotter months, resulting in lowered energy consumption year-round.

Duette Architella®, with its dual honeycomb design, takes energy efficiency to the next level keeping up to 40% of heat in the winter and up to 80% more of heat out in the summer. Therefore, cellular shades can help ensure that homeowners not only enjoy the monetary benefits of improved energy efficiency (through lowered heating/cooling bills), but also the increased comfort of spending time inside in a more temperature-controlled environment.

2) Room Darkening

A second benefit of Duette® Cellular Shades is their room-darkening ability. Since cellular shades come in a variety of opacities, the light-filtering or light-blocking levels of honeycomb shades represent another customizable element of this window treatment. For those looking for the ultimate in light-blocking ability, Duette® Cellular Shades are available with the LightLock™ system that uses a side channel design to deflect or absorb light for nearly complete blackout levels of light control.

This is an especially useful feature in places like the bedroom to create a healthy sleep environment, but it’s also useful in other areas of the house as well. Direct sunlight can be harmful because it can cause flooring, furniture, artwork, and other valuable items inside your home to prematurely age, fade in color, warp, or crack. So, shades that can block the sun's harmful rays have a protective element ingrained in their light-control abilities.

3) Noise Reducing

Another element in creating a healthy sleep environment is quietness, and Duette® Cellular Shades can absorb up to 70% of sound energy. So, when combined with the additional benefits of room darkening and temperature control, Duette® Cellular Shades can help create a virtual sleeping oasis for restful and restorative shut-eye. Accordingly, cellular shades are particularly popular for bedrooms and nurseries (especially when installed with a child-safe cordless or automated operating system).

Though the modern iterations of cellular shades continue to grow and diversify in style and aesthetic, a singular key trait still unites them all: a cellular construction that utilizes trapped air for the purpose of insulation. And since all cellular and honeycomb blinds and shades share this useful (and often money saving) feature, it is personal taste at the base of choice when it comes to which style of cellular or honeycomb blind or shade to install in your home. For that reason, it’s often useful to talk to an interior design expert at this point who can help you define your style and find the right balance of function and fashion in a cellular shade or blind to match your home’s décor and your personal lifestyle.

Duette® Cellular Shades

With its revolutionary hexagonal cellular construction, Duette® Cellular Shades embody the very best features of cellular shades, including their money-saving insulating properties and modern, on-trend fabric choices.

Duette Architella®

A step beyond the traditional honeycomb shape of cellular shades, Duette Architella® Shades have a unique dual-honeycomb design. This cell-within-a-cell design increases energy efficiency in both hot and cold climates while still retaining a chic and stylish appearance.

Duette Alustra® Collection

For sophisticated clients and interior designers who expect only top-of-the-line fabrics and hardware for their cellular shades, the Duette Alustra® Collection provides an exquisite collection of exclusive fabrics, modern color choices, and the very best in hardware to choose from.

Duette Vertiglide™

Cellular blinds don’t just have horizontal applications for windows, there is also the possibility for vertical applications to be used over doors. Vertical cellular shades use the same construction materials and hardware as standard horizontal cellular shades (and therefore have the same overall style), but they are operated with a left and right movement instead of up and down. For wider doors, Vertiglide™ shades can be designed to cover the entirety of a space with a single shade or two can be used for a split stack shade that opens in the middle.

Sonnette™ Cellular Roller Shades

The deceptively simple aesthetic of Sonnette® Cellular Roller Shades hides a depth of design features, including a cellular construction that increases energy efficiency and produces warm, diffuse light. This cross of a roller shade with a cellular shade by Hunter Douglas utilizes the best of each window treatment (the straightforward design of roller shades and the energy efficiency of cellular shades) to produce a one-of-a-kind, elegant, and efficient window treatment available in an array of colors.

As important as the style of the cellular blinds or shades that you choose is the selection of the operating system. Hunter Douglas products, including honeycomb cellular shades, are available with a variety of operating systems, from traditional manual options to the latest in motorization and automation.

UltraGlide®

The traditional way to operate cellular shades is with a manual system that uses strings and a pull cord to raise or lower the shades. UltraGlide® is Hunter Douglas traditional operating system but with several modern features, including a retractable cord that makes the shades more visually appealing and safer for young children and pets (for whom a hanging cord can pose a strangulation or choking hazard).

LiteRise®

For child-safe blinds, LiteRise® by Hunter Douglas provides cord-free operation using a proprietary design that lifts, lowers, or holds a cellular shade in place with the touch of your hand. Without a hanging cord, the system offers a cleaner look for window treatments and the convenience of easy operation while also being a child-safe option.

PowerView® Automation

Hunter Douglas cellular shades can be motorized using PowerView® Automation. This operational system makes cellular shades easier and more convenient to use by motorizing the movement thus negating the need for manual labor, and it also has the benefit of automated features like a programmable schedule to save time. There are a variety of user interfaces to choose from with PowerView® Automation, including a remote control, mounted wall panel, app that can be accessed with any smartphone or table, and, for the ultimate level of integration, PowerView can be linked to systems like Amazon Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, or other smart-home systems for voice control and whole-home unification.

Top-Down/Bottom-Up

Top-Down/Bottom-Up is a customization you can make to several operating systems (including manual and automated systems) that allow cellular shades to open both from the bottom up like traditional shades and also from the top down increasing the shade’s range of use. The Top-Down/Bottom-Up design gives homeowners increased control over light and privacy, and the ability to find the exact right balance of those elements for each room in their home.

Duette Vertiglide™

This operating system is used for vertical applications of cellular shades and operates largely the same way its horizontal counterparts do, though with a left-to-right motion (instead of up and down) that makes it more suitable for doorways or windows that open in the same fashion.

Beyond their energy efficiency, cellular shades are ideal for home and office décor because they present a range of styling options whether they’re used on their own as a solitary window covering or paired with other window treatments (like custom drapery, side panels, or a cornice) to create high-end, luxury window fashions. The keen eye of an interior designer can help incorporate cellular shades into your décor by assisting with style selection and color choice, using their expertise to match patterns or textures in a layered window treatment, and ensuring a copasetic relationship amongst all design elements throughout the home.

Interior Views near Manasquan, New Jersey, offers homeowners not only a wide selection of cellular shades and blinds but also a team of professional designers to help you find, customize, and install cellular shades in your home or office. Contact Interior Views today to request your consultation to discuss the many cost-saving benefits of cellular shades and how this energy-efficient window treatment can work for you. Interior Views serves Northern Ocean County and Malmoth County, including Wall Township, Spring Lake, Seagirt, Avon, Northern Brick, Farmingdale, Bay Head, Point Pleasant, Mantoloking, Lavalette, Sea Side Park, and Manasquan, NJ.

Contact us today to learn more about bringing cellular shades and honeycomb shades into your home.