What's New for Spring 2014!

Every spring Hunter Douglas refreshes their window shade offerings, introducing innovative new options and exciting fabrics in keeping with the latest trends.
Spring 2014 brings us new fabrics and expanded color palettes for Silhouette, Vignette, Applause, Designer Rollers and more... Solera, a brand-new style of shade... enhanced design & operation options for Parkland Wood blinds.

Stunning new fabrics have been added to the Silhouette and Alustra Silhouette collections, including Myst, French Linen, Monaco and Mystere. Color selections for several favored fabrics have been refreshed to embrace current trends, with classic style to last. A navy blue called 'Starry Night' has been added to the Matisse Collection and is just fantastic.

Silhouette window shadings

Also of note for Silhouette is the introduction of 'UltraGlide 2', an enhanced variation on the very popular retractable cord system. Watch this video to see in action.

Solera soft shades

Introducing Solera Soft Shades- Combining the ease & efficiency of cellular shades with the soft draping look of roman shades.

Available light-filtering or room-darkening in a wide selection of fabrics and colors, and with all the convenient operating systems you expect from Hunter Douglas.

Designer Roller shades

Designer Roller shades have also undergone a transformation: a select few past favorites remain, but dozens of fresh new fabrics have been added. Wonderful new sheens, textures and patterns from elegant to earthy.

Exciting enhancements in Parkland Wood blinds and Applause honeycomb shades include the UltraGlide retractable cord system now available, as well as expanded Applause fabric choices and Parkland decorative hardware upgrades.


Applause also introduces the first anti-microbial honeycomb fabric, 'Venue' with MicroShield.



All these and more are ready to view at Bruton's. Stop by today to discuss the perfect window treatments for you!

Motorized & Remote Control shades and blinds

While reactions vary to the mention of remote controlled or motorized window treatments, most people's first thought goes to "extravagant"
... or something along that line.
But the fact is there are practical reasons to consider powered shades, in addition to the simple, wireless installation and attractive pricing.





Difficult to reach windows

Duette SkyRise

There are many conditions that could fall under the description of 

"difficult to reach":

• Tall or high-up windows
• Skylights
• Windows obstructed by furniture or fixtures (corner bathtub, anyone?)
• Disability or limited mobility concerns

All these conditions can make it awkward, if not impossible to get the most out of your windows.

Quantity of windows
A bank of several windows in a room adds openness and light; but when you want more privacy or a bit less light, the thought of adjusting each shade individually can seem like a chore.

Silhouette

PowerRise shades allow you to control just one, or all shades at once at the touch of a button. Shades can be programmed into fully customized groups as well, to best suit your needs. If you habitually prefer to keep your shades at a certain height, you can easily "teach" your shades to stop at that point each time they're raised.

Luminette with coordinating Silhouette above

Extra-wide windows or doors
Just as with a large quantity of windows, large shades on very wide doors and windows can be cumbersome to operate.


Safety concerns
PowerRise shades eliminate dangling lift cords or loops, for child and pet safety.








Experience the ease and convenience of operating shades with PowerRise, PowerGlide or PowerTilt for yourself: visit Bruton's to try out the various options on display in-store.

Explore PowerRise further

Adding Window Treatments to Patio & Garden Doors

One of the questions we hear very often is "I have a patio door, what do I put on that?" The good news is, there are a number of options.
First things first- is your door a sliding door, or a pair of French/hinged doors that swing open? Hinged doors allow for mounting directly on the doors, covering just the glass portions. Sliding doors require alternate treatments that cover their larger glass areas.

Vignette roman shades

Sliding Doors:
There are a great number of shade styles that most people don't first consider for sliding doors. Most often for these styles, an individual shade is mounted above each section of the door.

Silhouette shadings

This arrangement allows for the two sides to be operated independently, for greater flexibility in controlling light & privacy.  Mounting this way leaves your options wide open to all types of shade styles, from Silhouette to Duette to Vignette and more.

Luminette with decorative rod

Many people like the idea of a vertical treatment that can slide to one side, out of the way. Traditional vertical blinds are still an economical and versatile option, with many great options and materials to choose from.
If traditional verticals aren't for you, a great many other options are available! Luminette Privacy sheers combine the elegant look of drapery sheers with tilting vanes for privacy and sun control.

Vignette Traversed shades

Both Vignette roman shades and Duette honeycomb shades are available as vertically-oriented gliding shades.
Provenance Woven Wood shades offer wonderful organic textures, available in a drapery-style traversing treatment.


Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding panels are a streamlined treatment available in sheer to opaque fabrics, a great choice for a sleek, clean look.

Skyline Gliding Panels

Hinged /French Doors:
In some ways, hinged doors can be easier to work with. Because you can mount shades right on the door itself, there's no worry about opening or closing the door- the shade moves with the door. 
On hinged doors popular choices are often fairly slim, so they don't project off the door too much. Cordless is also a great feature for doors, eliminating swinging or dangling cords.

Vignette Tiered cordless romans

Duette 'Duolite' shades

Duette honeycomb shades and Vignette Tiered roman shades are two styles that are both low-profile, and are available with LiteRise cordless.

Silhouette shades are another great choice for French doors, offering additional light and privacy variations.

via irepairhome.com

Drapery can be a fantastic addition to a patio or garden door, either as the sole treatment or in combination with shades. A treatment with both shades and drapery will allow you to maintain the look you desire with the drapery while using the more easily adjusted shades to control your light and privacy.
Check out some additional photos on Houzz.com for inspiration!

Silhouette & Nantucket PowerRise Rebate! Summer 2012

Good News:
You still have time to take advantage of the Hunter Douglas Silhouette & Nantucket PowerRise rebate!

How To: Measuring Your Windows

Should I install the shade inside the window, or outside the window frame?

Whether to fit your shades inside the window frame or outside to overlap the frame is, for the most part, a personal preference.
What sort of look do you want to achieve?

Summer 2012 Silhouette and Nantucket Rebate!

Hunter Douglas is your first choice for style & innovation. Contact Bruton's Decorating today to discover how you can take advantage of a manufacturer's rebate on Silhouette and Nantucket window shadings...

Bruton's Decorating  located at 279 10th Street in Hanover,ON

519-364-5080 or toll-free, 1-877-278-8667

office@brutonsdecorating.com

Monday-Friday   9:00am-6:00pm
Saturday             9:00am-4:00pm
Sunday              12:00pm-4:00pm

Keep your furnishings looking beautiful...

The Sun is astonishingly powerful...


From 150 million kilometers away it has the power to give light and heat, provide usable energy and toast our skin, if we wish. Unfortunately it also has the power to damage furnishings, causing fading and/or brittleness for all sorts of items including upholstery, flooring and cabinetry.

Window coverings protect your valuable home furnishings, and allow you to enjoy your views when desired. Many different options are available, from the sleek and understated to focal and elegant... and everything in between!
                




A very common concern is that of not wanting to lose a great view, or to be 'shut off' from the outdoors & lovely light during the day- but still protect from harmful sun. The good news is that there are several types of shades that can allow you to get the most out of your windows and solve this dilemma.

Silhouette & Nantucket shadings from Hunter Douglas combine two layers of sheer fabric, with a soft vane suspended between. This gives the benefit of up to 87% UV blocking even when tilted open, allowing diffused, soft sunlight to bathe your room, and providing a filtered view of outdoors.The vanes can also be tilted to any degree for complete privacy and lighting control. 

Much of the same effect can be attained in a vertical, drapery style treatment with Luminette Privacy Sheers.

Hunter Douglas Designer Screen Shades offer sun protection and view when total privacy and light control aren't the main concern. Easy-care fabrics and a variety of opacity and texture choices make these a popular choice for kitchens, sun-rooms and offices. Available as roller shades, roman shades as well as vertical gliding panels.

Another opportunity for enjoying both light/view and complete privacy,
the 'Duolite' option for Hunter Douglas Duette and Applause...

A private and insulating honeycomb fabric is paired with a fine, sheer honeycomb above to create a two-in-one shade. An excellent choice for bedrooms and bathrooms in particular, as you can ensure total privacy at whatever height you wish, while allowing in diffused, softened light above when desired.


Stop in at Bruton's to explore all these possibilities and more, available to protect your furnishings and enjoy your windows.

Bruton's Decorating  located at 279 10th Street in Hanover,ON

519-364-5080 or toll-free, 1-877-278-8667

office@brutonsdecorating.com

Monday-Friday   9:00am-6:00pm
Saturday             9:00am-4:00pm
Sunday              12:00pm-4:00pm

Hunter Douglas Extraordinary Window Fashions Contest

 Details at http://hdextraordinary.com/contest.php

UltraGlide®: no more extra-long cords in the way!

The revolutionary Hunter Douglas UltraGlide® operating system uses a retractable cord mechanism to raise and lower the window shade or shading.  Easy to use, a few quick tugs of the cord raise or lower the shade.
Constant cord length means there are never any long, dangling cords to detract from the appearance of the shade. The cord length can be easily shortened, providing increased safety for children and pets.

The UltraGlide® system is available for a range of Hunter Douglas products and design options:

Pirouette
         -Traditional shades

Duette & Alustra Duette
         -Traditional shades
         -Top-Down/Bottom-Up

        -Duolite

        -2-on-1 headrail shades

Silhouette & Alustra Silhouette

        -Traditional shades

Nantucket
         -Traditional shades

Vignette & Alustra Vignette
         -Traditional shades
         -Top-Down/Bottom-Up

         -Tiered shades

         -Tailored shades

And from now until February 28, you can take advantage of a FREE upgrade to the Ultraglide system on your purchase of Silhouette or Nantucket shades!

Bruton's Decorating  located at 279 10th Street in Hanover,ON

519-364-5080 or toll-free, 1-877-278-8667

office@brutonsdecorating.com

Monday-Friday   9:00am-6:00pm
Saturday             9:00am-4:00pm
Sunday              12:00pm-4:00pm

October 2010 'Wrapped in Luxury' Contest!

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Tame the sun, enjoy the view!

Energy Efficiency

Without energy-efficient window treatments, as much as 50% of a home's heating and cooling energy can be lost through its windows. All Hunter Douglas window fashions provide window insulation, offering your home increased protection against heat loss during the winter, as well as minimizing the sun's heat or "solar heat" during the summer.

Solar Heat Control

The warmth provided by the sun, its solar energy, may be desirable during the winter to help heat your home, yet it can make a room overly hot and uncomfortable while driving up air conditioning costs in the summer. Many Hunter Douglas products are designed to reduce the amount of solar heat that passes through the window, which is known as the Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC). The lower the SHGC, the more protected your home is from the sun's heat. To enjoy the sun's warmth when desired, simply raise or open the window fashion and invite it in.

Form & Function

Daylighting

Daylighting is the practice of lighting rooms with natural light rather than generating illumination from electricity. With Hunter Douglas window fashions, you can control how much natural light comes into your room. Our sheers and other select styles actually diffuse light as it enters and help to draw it deeper into the room. By drawing natural light into a room many of our window treatments reduce your energy needs for other types of lighting.

Styles such as Screen Roller shades (left) allow you to maintain an open feel, and keep a view while tamping down the glare of the sun by up to 99%.

Others, like Nantucket Sunscreen shadings (above,right) offer the view-through of screen shades while allowing you to tilt soft louvers for added light control & nighttime privacy.
For the ultimate in heat/cold insulation, look to Hunter Douglas Duette Architella shades (left). Their exclusive, innovative 'honeycomb within a honeycomb' design gives you three pockets of insulating air between you and your window, creating an R-value of up to 7.18 or a SHGC value as low as 0.17

UV Protection

Just as sunscreen protects our skin from the sun's damaging ultraviolet (UV) rays, window treatments protect our room interiors and add to the lifespan of valuable possessions. Virtually every Hunter Douglas product filters out at least 75% of the sun's harmful UV rays when installed over double-glazed glass windows. Many of our products provide even greater protection, up to 99%, when fully lowered and with slats, vanes or louvers in the fully closed position. The rating of Good to Excellent to Superior for this product will partly depend on the fabrics and product features you choose and whether your window covering is opened, closed, raised or lowered.
For additional statistics or information on these or other possible options, get in touch with us!

Bruton's Decorating  located at 279 10th Street in Hanover,ON

519-364-5080 or toll-free, 1-877-278-8667

office@brutonsdecorating.com

Monday-Friday   9:00am-6:00pm
Saturday             9:00am-4:00pm
Sunday              12:00pm-4:00pm

Photos courtesy of Hunter Douglas
Some text excerpted from 'product info', hunterdouglas.com