Aura
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
Sheer Shades
Learn more about Hunter Douglas custom window sheers, including our shadings and privacy sheers. Innovative, light-diffusing sheers. Your trusted source for window treatments.
Cellular Shades
Cellular honeycomb shades from Hunter Douglas. An energy-efficient design that traps air in distinct pockets to help keep your house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Roman Shades
Custom-made fabric Roman Shades by Hunter Douglas, combining the look of soft folds with the ease and convenience of a shade. Custom-crafted.
Roller Shades
The Hunter Douglas roller shades & solar screen shades collections offer excellent light control and a clean, stylish look in a range of fabrics and materials.
Woven Shades
For a warm, natural look our Hunter Douglas Woven Wood Shades collection of window treatments transforms sunlight into captivating design statements. Choose yours today.
Vertical Shades
Find the right custom vertical shades for any room in your home. Search our most popular window shades.
Wood Blinds
From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, wood blinds have been a favorite among homeowners for decades.
Metal Blinds
Find the perfect metal blinds for any room in your home. From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, metal blinds have been a favorite among homeowners.
Vertical Blinds
Discover Hunter Douglas customized vertical blinds featuring elegant styling and translucency in a large selection of colors, treatments, and textures. Lifetime guarantee.
Shutters
Hunter Douglas custom window shutters provide superior light control and privacy with classic styles, long-lasting finishes, and exceptional craftsmanship.
Drapery
Choose from timeless and on-trend fabrics, including lofty textures and alluring jacquards, artisanal embroideries and luminous sheers.
Light Enhancing
Enjoy the beauty of natural light and make any space more captivating, with the following light-enhancing shades.
Room Darkening
Want a darker room for better sleep or optimal movie binging? These shades and drapes help block light at the window.
Energy Efficient
Live comfortably and save energy with these shades. Designer to keep a room warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Door Coverings
Manage natural light and add privacy with these window treatments that work well for sliding-glass and patio doors.
Sound Absorption
Create a quieter, more relaxing room with these window treatments, which help absorb sound, reducing exterior noise.
Top-Down Bottom-Up
For privacy and natural light, position shades from the top, bottom or both. These shades have this feature available.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Frosted Privacy Film
Frosted Films offer a broad selection of vinyl glass films designed to mimic the look of costly Frosted or Etched Glass Finishes at a fraction of the cost without any sacrifice in appearance or quality.
Outdoor Shades
For over 15 years, Blinds and Designs has been the premier source for custom window treatments in Western North Carolina.
Window Tinting
Sun damage is a constant and consistent problem. The ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun can cause your furniture and interior décor to discolor or fade.
Blind and Shade Repairs
We offer quick and professional repairs for your blinds and shades.
Consumer Financing by Wells Fargo
We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
Video Design Consultations
We offer Video Design Consultations, using video conferencing tools such as FaceTime, Zoom, Skype, and Duo.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
About Us
Blinds and Designs is the premier source for custom window treatments in Western North Carolina.
Meet the Team
Blinds and Designs is locally-owned and operated and has been proudly serving our Western North Carolina since 2004.
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Since we're locally owned and operated, we take our long-term commitment to the community seriously, and we are proud of the professional products and services we provide.
Fletcher, NC
Locally owned and operated, Blinds & Designs has provided the best Hunter Douglas blinds, shades, shutters, and drapes to Western North Carolina for almost 20 years.
Asheville, NC
Blinds and Designs has provided quality window treatments to the Asheville, North Carolina, area since 2004.
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Nursery & Kids Room
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Arched Windows
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French Doors
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Sidelights
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
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Automated
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Blackout
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Energy Efficient
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Light Filtering
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Colorful Window Shades
What is color to you? Does it represent more than just an aesthetic choice? In fact, bold hues like orange, red, yellow, and purple are some of the most visible colors in the color spectrum and call up emotions of passion, love, vitality, power, and authority. Its effect on people is energizing, and physical responses to color can include elevations to blood pressure, metabolism, heart rate, and respiration rate. For that reason, vibrant color when used in home décor should be placed in high-energy rooms like the kitchen or family room. One practical option for adding color to your home décor is through your window shades.
3 Tips for Colorful Window Shades
1. Always Use a Liner
The first rule, and the most important when it comes to using warm, vibrant colors like red, orange, or yellow, etc for window shades, is to use a neutral liner. Without a liner, sunlight filtering through brightly-colored window shades causes a most unwanted and often unflattering glow. This blown-out fluorescent illumination is painful-beyond warm and welcoming- considering it can easily be prevented with a backer.
2. Choose Color Shade Strategically
Not all bright vibrant colors are going to work in all rooms. In addition to taking existing décor into consideration when choosing the shade for your new window treatments, also keep in mind a general rule of thumb for all colored shades. Generally speaking, lighter shades will work better for smaller rooms or smaller windows while deeper tints will be more suitable for larger rooms or larger windows.
3. Play with Pattern
Since color is such a dominant design choice, even its fleeting use can be a powerful statement for interior design. When considering options for new window shades explore choices with patterns, prints, or those that use vibrant colors as a daring accent hue as an alternative to using solid applications
3 Modern Styles of Colorful Window Shades
The rich fabric folds of Roman shades add dimension to enliven the use of color in window treatments. And with the latest in motorized operating system, the treatment can also give the color a graceful sense of movement.
The Design Studio™ collection of exclusive fabrics includes several designer patterns with both bold and nuanced uses of color. Tree of Life by Rebecca Atwood, Floret by Seema Krish, and Amaryllis by Marcie Bronkar all play well and come in multiple shades to match a variety of spaces.
The clean lines of roller shades play well with warm color palettes and strong prints. The style is also ideal in layered window treatments as it pairs well with both side panels and full drapery.
If you love the rich, passionate tones of colors, talk with a design expert at Blinds and Designs about custom window shades for your home. Let their knowledgeable team walk you through all the design options from Hunter Douglas and help you find the perfect shade of shade for your home. Blinds and Designs is located near Fletcher, North Carolina, and serves residents in Asheville, Hendersonville, Weaverville, and Fletcher, NC. Request a consultation today.