Designer Roller Shades - A Great Solution

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Once again it seems our favorite window treatments for 2016 are Designer Roller Shades and Designer Screen Shades from Hunter Douglas. I do think the reason for this is the fact that they are so versatile. Designer Roller Shades are a perfect solution for many homes - contemporary to traditional and anywhere in between. With so many fabrics, colors and textures to choose from, they will not only enhance your windows, but will help insulate your home keeping it warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. 

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Roller Shades at the Lake

Recently one of our loyal clients stopped by the showroom and asked us to help her cover the windows on her new lake house at Cedar Creek Lake just South East of Dallas. They have a beautiful home on deep water and their view is outstanding. Her home has a traditional feel outside, however the interior is more contemporary. Designer Roller Shades by Hunter Douglas were the perfect solution because it correlated with both interior and exterior styles. Because the home is open concept, we used the same shades for all the windows. We selected the fabric Pure Earth in the Arbor color because it picked up all the neutral colors in the home. We also opted for the PowerView Motorization Lift System with the Hub to allow her to control the shades from her iPhone - whether she is there or not. With the Hub you can set the scene and program exactly where you want the shades to stop. As you can see they look beautiful. 

“Read Design, you did it again! As I pull into the neighborhood I open up the App and hit the button and by the time I walk in my house the shades are up and I am officially on vacation! The view is absolutely beautiful”

— Barbara

Designer Screen Shades By Hunter Douglas

If the Designer Roller Shades aren't what you are looking for, you might consider the updated line of Hunter Douglas Designer Screen Shades. There are so many new fabrics and colors to see! The Designer Screen Shades provide excellent UV protection all while allowing you to enjoy the view to the outdoors. The Alustra Collection of Screen and Roller shades by Hunter Douglas is another place to find beautiful options. With the fabrics and hardware, this will give a more contemporary look.

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Drapery Panels Added to Designer Screen Shades

We recently helped a client in North Dallas update her Ranch Style Home. She wanted the look to be more transitional and with her furniture, that was easy to do. We picked up the old carpet and put in a light wood floor and painted the walls a neutral tan. Now for her windows we used Designer Screen Shades by Hunter Douglas called Umbria with a 3% opacity. With this shade, we were able to give them the amount of privacy they desired while still allowing them to view the outdoors. We used the Custom Clutch lift system because we knew we could hide it behind the drapery panels. For the curtains, we used a neutral silk Dupioni from the Kravet Couture line of fabrics in a fawn color and installed them floor to ceiling to give the room some height. We are very pleased with the finished room.

Screen Shades in Broken Bow, Oklahoma

Last weekend we traveled up to the beautiful area of Broken Bow, Oklahoma to install some Designer Screen Shades from Hunter Douglas. In this cabin in the woods, privacy is not the issue. In fact, this client said they wouldn't have covered the windows at all if the sun didn't shine through and make the room very hot. Screen shades were the only solution! We kept the stunning view of the forest while protecting the interiors from harmful UV rays and keeping the room nice and cool in the summer. Now they can sit and watch the wildlife roam around. 

Read Design Plano and Read Design Southlake

Stop by either of our Hunter Douglas Galleries in Plano or in Southlake. Our Window Fashion Experts can help you find a Designer Roller Shade or Designer Screen Shade (or any other Hunter Douglas product) that is just right for your next project. We can help you with colors, textures, opacities and lift systems all while keeping your budget in mind. Our 4 certified installers will be ready to measure and install when you are. 

Finding Roller Shades in Dallas, University Park, Texas

Read Design has been a Dallas, TX leader in Hunter Douglas Window Fashions, custom drapery treatments, wallpaper, upholstery and more services for over 27 years. We offer one on one personal design services and we work with your particular style and personality in mind. Stop by either location to see over 60 working samples of Hunter Douglas products, drapery curtain samples, furniture and more. Or give us a call and have one of our Mobile Showrooms come out to you for an in home consultation. We are looking forward to helping you with your next project.

Areas We Service

We service Colleyville, Dallas, Keller, Frisco, Trophy Club, Allen, Robson Ranch, McKinney, Fort Worth, Southlake, Plano, Del Webb, Cedar Creek Lake Area, Grapevine, Rockwall, Celina, Prosper, Lewisville, Northlake, North Richland Hills, Carrollton, Highland Park, University Park, Kessler Park,  McKinney, Wylie, St. Paul, Murphy, Park Cities, Richardson, The Colony, Little Elm, Aubrey, Savannah, Parker, Fairview, Lucas, Melissa, Sachse, Roulette, Heath, Sunnyvale, Addison, Farmers Branch, Irving, Las Colinas, Flower Mound, Denton, Corinth, Argyle, Bedford, Arlington, Euless, Grand Prairie, Gunter and everywhere in between!!

Hunter Douglas Pirouettes

A Roman Shade with a View

We recently attended the Premier of Hunter Douglas’ newest products. There are many new and exciting window fashion products and some of our favorites are the newest fabrics in the Pirouette Alustra Collection. Our favorite “ Best of Both Worlds” Shades just got better.

The already amazing beauty of Pirouette window shadings just received a heightened level of style. The many new fabrics and colors bring these window coverings into an exclusive world of high fashion window treatments for the ultimate in style and sophistication. Striking design and dramatically filtered light. With Pirouette window shadings, the look and feel of a traditional fabric shade is enhance, the gentle pull of a cord lets you change a room’s lighting in a whole new way. Soft, horizontal fabric vanes close to filter natural light, or open to give you a perfect outside view. Our revolutionary Invisi-Lift system allows the vanes to float gracefully, and even when opened they offer UV protection and reduced glare through the sheer backing.

Let Light Create a Distinctive Manner of Expression

The dramatic backdrop of your View, the maximum view through to your beautiful landscape has been improved as the Pirouette Alustra Collection offers sheer backing in dyed colors for a softened viewing experience even beyond what made Pirouette window shadings remarkable in the first place. These Window coverings highlight the beauty of your view with with fabric vanes that adjust open for a range of levels that offer you light control at your fingertips. You can create the perfect atmosphere with these shades.

So many fabrics with new textures and colors offer so many possibilities in creating the perfect look for your home. Most all of Hunter Douglas lifting systems can be used with Pirouette including the new PowerView Motorization where with the touch of a button, you can control the lighting in your room.

Colleyville, Texas Installation

Recently we used one of my favorite fabrics - Valencia, color - Calatravafor our customer in Colleyville. She had called our Southlake Store for an in-home consultation. We showed her the new Alustra Pirouette and she also fell in love with the color and texture. It was the perfect treatment for her Family Room where the view to the yard was important. She now tells us she will be adding these shadings to her Master Bedroom and will use the room darkening lining.

Call Read Design Plano or Read Design Southlake to see all the newest Trends and latest styles in Hunter Douglas Window Fashions. All of the new samples are here and ready for viewing.  Our Designers can also help you finish the look with Custom Window Treatments including Drapery Panels, Curtains, and Top Treatments. Also make sure to get of the new Art of Window Dressing Books as our gift to you.

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Plano: 972.608.4999

Southlake: 817.416.7164

Read Design helps customers From Dallas to Fort Worth including Highland Park, Park Cities, Preston Hollow, Plano, Frisco, Prosper, Celina, Allen, McKinney, Richardson, Lucas, Wylie, Irving, Carrollton, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Robson Ranch, Grapevine, Colleyville, Southlake, Keller, Roanoke, Trophy Club, Denton and all areas in bebween.

Fresh Ideas For Your Home - Draperies

Draperies are soft on the eyes and soft to the touch.

Adding draperies to your decor will beautifully finish your interior design plans.

Draperies are a design element that has so many looks and so many functions!

The versatility of draperies means that they can enhance the openness of your rooms to make them appear larger - or make your living spaces more intimate and private with a cozy feel.

• Tailored, formal panels with clean lines
• Soft and feminine sheers
• Lusciour draperies with tassels and fringe
• Side or top treatments that are totally ornamental

The possibilities of decorating with draperies are almost unlimited! You can make draperies the star of a room, adding color and drama - or consider them as a beautiful background to quietly blend with your other home furnishings elements.

Draperies are used primarily to enhance your decor; but they can be functional too, providing privacy and preventing fading. Best of all, add draperies as a decorative accent over shades, blinds or shutters that provide the function you need at the window - improving energy efficiency, preventing fading and keeping a room dark even during the brightest sunny day.

Often draperies don't just cover the window and window frame, but are sized to optimally fit the wall they hang on and complement your decorating plan. Even a small window can have draperies covering and entire wall from side to side and floor to ceiling!

When purchasing draperies, there are important decisions about the fabric fullness, type of lining, where the draperies should draw, what kind of pleats work best, whether your should consider motorization, and more. That's why getting advice from an expert is best when you ordercustom draperies!

Add a little softness to your decor with the magic of draperies!

Hunter Douglas: Beyond Beautiful

We're about more than just a pretty room. From industry-leading innovation and design to the highest quality materials and assembly in the USA, Hunter Douglas offers an unrivaled commitment to bringing the finest customized choices to your windows.

Quality And Innovation

The finest materials, expert craftsmanship and unparalleled quality: that's just the beginning of what you get with your Hunter Douglas purchase. You'll also be assured of the most innovative designs and technological advancements. Our Duette Architella Honeycomb Shades are a good example of this. Their patented honeycomb-within-a-honeycomb construction forms three air pockets that dramatically reduce heat flow at the window, helping save both energy and your heating and cooling costs.

Lifetime Guarantee

The Hunter Douglas Lifetime Guarantee demonstrates our desire to provide a thoroughly satisfying experience when shopping for and living with your window fashion products. In support of this policy of consumer satisfaction, we offer a Lifetime Limited Warranty.

American Design And Craftsmanship

For over 60 years, Hunter Douglas has made a commitment to customers to provide the very finest customized choices for dressing their windows. That commitment has driven our industry-leading innovation and design, an extensive portfolio of window fashions constructed from the highest quality materials, and superior customer service. As part of this commitment, all of our products are designed and custom-assembled right here in the United States. Truly exceptional American Design and Craftsmanship just can't be matched.

Social Responsibility

Hunter Douglas has long been a leader in social responsibility and charitable giving, with generous support of important initiatives and causes that impact both the communities in which we live and work, as well as those on a more global scale. We're particularly involved helping people who have been affected by natural disasters, and our work with Habitat for Humanity is especially gratifying. Home and comfort are two key concepts for Hunter Douglas, because we know how important they are to people everywhere, every day.

Hunter Douglas Designer Roller Shades

Roller Shades are a clean classic look that work for any room in your home. Sophisticated but uncomplicated: for a look that’s both custom and classic, Hunter Douglas Designer Roller Shades offer a clean appearance in a beautiful range of 82 designer fabrics along with a variety of design options and operating systems including the New PowerView Motorization. Over half of these fabric styles are offered in the Harmony Program - choose the same fabric for your vertical and horizontal window fashions when you combine Designer Roller Shades with Skyline Gliding Window Panels.

Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication.

Keep it simple. Roller Shades have a sleek, modern design and an uncanny ability to regulate natural light and privacy in your home. Perfect for cutting down on glare and catching up on sleep. Roller Shades are easy to operate with all of the Lift Systems made by Hunter Douglas. They are the perfect window treatment for a clean, finished look.

Designer Roller Shades

Our Designer Roller Shades by Hunter Douglas combine the ease and simplicity of a Roller Shade with hundreds of fabric choices - sheers to opaque, patterns to textures, and traditional solid colors.

Designer Screen Shades

Our Designer Screen Shades are the best at balancing privacy with views. They offer excellent UV protection while maintaining your view of the outdoors. Our Designer Screen Shades are available in varying levels of opacity to fit your light control needs. Offering a minimal yet sophisticated shade with light control, color and style - a perfect roller screen shade for your patio or sunroom.

The Alustra Collection of Roller Shades

An innovative alternative to Woven Woods and Solar Screens, The Alustra Collection of Roller Shades artfully blend unique fibers and sophisticated design to create distinctive light filtering fabrics.

Designer Roller Shades and Screen Shades are one of the most popular window coverings today and they are fun to show because many of the fabrics can be used in a contemporary or traditional setting. Today more people are wanting to keep their view the outdoors. They want privacy when they need it, but also an unobstructed view when they want to see the outside. These shades are the perfect solution and the fact that there are so many fabrics and colors to choose from just makes it fun. You can also easily pair roller shades with stationary panels to finish the design look.

We recently helped a customer in North Dallas who had remodeled their Family Room. She wanted an open view of the back yard as it looked onto a creek. Of course she needed privacy at night but wanted that full open view during the day. We suggested Hunter Douglas Designer Roller Shades. The fabric was called Flaunt and the color Whisper White. This shade has a wonderful texture so when it is down it looks beautiful and when it is up the fabric is tucked into a cassette head rail and you really do not know the shade is there. Hunter Douglas introduced their new Square Cassette at the beginning of April. It gives a very clean look and we love it!

This customer also selected the new PowerView Motorization lift system. Because there are 5 shades in a row, the motorization just made everything easier. Next step will be adding Drapery Stationary Panels.

Stop in either of our Galleries- Read Design Southlake or Read Design Plano. Our Designers are ready to show you the latest trends in Window Fashions including Designer Roller Shades, Designer Screen shades and the Alustra Collection of Roller Shade. We have all of the new products and the new sampling. We also a full Interior Design Studio and can help you with any Drapery Project including Stationary Panels, Valances, Cornices, and Curtains.

You call either store and we will send out our Mobile Showroom.

Plano: 972.608.4999

Southlake: 817.740.6779

Read Design provides Roller Shades and all of Hunter Douglas Window Fashions to Dallas, Highland Park, Park Cities, Preston Hollow, North Dallas, Plano, Frisco, Prosper, Celina, Gunter, Richardson, Garland, Murphy, Allen, McKinney, Fort Worth, Keller, Westlake, Northlake, Grapevine, Southlake, Colleyville, Flower Mound, Little Elm, Corinth, Lewisville, Carrollton, Farmers Branch and everywhere in between.

Design For The Future

Great design comes to the forefront through the beautiful textures and vibrant colors of Hunter Douglas Window Coverings. It is also equally important in the unique operating systems including the most recent innovation, PowerView Motorization and its artfully designed controls. Design carries through to the installation of these products in your home. Well-designed window fashions do more than simply cover a window. At Hunter Douglas, form and function are inseparable. Great design is beautiful to live with, provides variable light control, insulates rooms against heat and cold while saving energy, protects your furnishings from damaging UV rays, and even absorbs sound improving the acoustics in a room. Our advanced operating systems make using Hunter Douglas products a pleasure everyday. Now that’s artful window dressing. 

April 2016 Launch of the newest Hunter Douglas Products.

Recently we attended the 2016 premier of Hunter Douglas' new products launch. (Check out the new Hunter Douglas Logo!) There are many new products, new fabrics, new colors, and new lift systems. This is a time when we always get excited because of the new products and we see so many possibilities. We have already received our new books and have many of the new products installed in our displays. Above all our favorite new product is the Silhouette DuoLite.

Silhouette DuoLite.

Light diffusion and room darkening together in one extraordinary product. This product offers the best of both worlds when it comes to managing light. Silhouette DuoLite shadings seamlessly combine a Silhouette Shading together with an independently operated room-darkening roller shade that nestles behind it in the same headrail. The addition of the roller shade enhances the room darkening and privacy benefits of Silhouette, while still allowing you to enjoy the softly diffused light and view through that the Silhouette shadings are known for.

Variable Light Control

Once the Silhouette shading is down with the vanes open, the room-darkening roller shade can be positioned in the window at any height to allow maximum flexibility when determining your light control and privacy needs. The shade can even be completely recessed into the headrail and out of sight for maximum light and view.

Room Darkening

When completely lowered, the roller shade significantly reduces the amount of light entering the space, creating the perfect setting for sleep time, movie time, or any other time when room darkening in desired. The Silhouette DuoLite can be ordered with the UltraGlide Lift system as well as the New PowerView Motorization.

Stop in to see the new Silhouette Duolite

Stop in Read Design Plano or Read Design Southlake to see this exciting new product and all of the new products from Hunter Douglas. We have all of the new samples and are excited to show them to you. Most of the New products can be automated with the PowerView Motorization. We can help you with any residential or commercial project. This is also a time when we are getting our new fabrics and wallpapers. If you want, call either store set up an in home appointment and our Mobile Showrooms can come to you. Our Designer would love to show you the new style and trends that are out today.

We service all of these areas: Fort Worth, Keller, Westlake, Robson Ranch, Denton, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Grapevine, Southlake, Northlake, Coppell, Colleyville, Arlington, Grand Prairie, Carrollton, Farmer’s Branch, Dallas, Park Cities, Preston Hollow,  Highland Park,  Plano,   Richardson, Murphy, Garland, Allen, Prosper, Celina, Frisco, McKinney and all areas in between.

Hunter Douglas' Right Choice Promise

The Right Choice Promise is certainly unique.

Make your choice with confidence… Our Right Choice Promise guarantees it!

Read Design, your Hunter Douglas Gallery Dealer, and Hunter Douglas are thoroughly committed to customer satisfaction. We know you will appreciate the quality workmanship and beauty of our window fashion products. With your purchase, you will not only have the Hunter Douglas name on your new window fashions, you will also have our exclusive Right Choice Promise.

Here’s how it works:

Once the installation of your new window coverings is complete, we invite you to experience and enjoy them in your home for 21 days. In the unlikely event you’re not thoroughly satisfied with the way they visually enhance your home at the end of this 21 day period, contact us, your Hunter Douglas Gallery Dealer. For a nominal fee (not to exceed $75 per window covering), we will make a one time replacement of your window coverings with a Hunter Douglas product of equal or lesser value of your choice.* It’s that simple.

In addition to the Right Choice Promise you will have one of the best product warranties in the business: the Hunter Douglas Lifetime Limited Warranty.

At Hunter Douglas, we stand behind our products. The Hunter Douglas Lifetime Guarantee means your product comes with a Lifetime Limited Warranty, so you can expect a thoroughly satisfying experience when selecting, purchasing and living with your window fashion products.

You’ll find it all… only at the Gallery.