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.
Custom Roman Shades and Valances
The right window coverings serve as decorative and functional roles in a room's interior design.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Blind and Shade Repairs
We offer quick and professional repairs for your blinds and shades.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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Arched Windows
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Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
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French Doors
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Blackout
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Everything You Need to Know about Hunter Douglas Vertiglide™
When it comes to options, at The Blind Alley, we offer several different types of Hunter Douglas window treatments to be the star of your windows’ show. But it’s the innovative and thoughtful Hunter Douglas operating systems that are your window treatments’ silent backstage heroes.
The right operating systems ensure the smoothest and most consistent performance whenever you use your blinds, shades, or shutters. Quality parts will prolong your window treatments’ lifetimes, and with over 100 years of history of window treatment engineering, Hunter Douglas operating systems are developed with the latest designs and functions for your modern comfort.
Duette® Cellular Shades with Vertiglide™ is one such result of Hunter Douglas engineers’ hard work. Duette® Vertiglide™ allows homeowners to effectively cover all of their home’s glass with beautiful and energy-efficient honeycomb shades.
What are Duette® Cellular Shades with Vertiglide™?
Duette® Cellular Shades are unique honeycomb shades with a discreet layer of cells that insulate your home with an innovative cellular construction to trap excessive hot and cold air before it reaches your interiors. This energy-efficiency is important throughout the home, but is especially crucial for your larger glass pieces, which left uncovered can easily be a burden on your home’s heating and A/C.
Hunter Douglas developed the Vertiglide™ system to easily cover your large windows, sliding glass doors, or even your entryways between your rooms. Duette® Vertiglide™ lets you easily operate your honeycomb shades from side-to-side on vertical applications, sliding smoothly over your glass, window cranks, and door handles. Don’t reach for cords: Duette® Vertiglide™ is conveniently cordless for clutter-free and child-safe window treatments. Duette® Vertiglide™ extracts and retracts your shades like an accordion. Simply push your cellular shade forward and back for neat stacking and confident coverage. For your complete convenience, Duette® Vertiglide™ won’t inhibit your access to your outdoors when used on sliding patio doors.
Upgrade Duette® Vertiglide™ with PowerView® Automation
Duette® Vertiglide™ is also compatible with PowerView® Automation. PowerView® Automation motorizes your Hunter Douglas window treatments so you can operate them with a remote, from an app, or hands-free with your favorite voice assistant. Make your Duette® Cellular Shades motorized and manual at the same time with Dual Operation. Dual Operation lets you use any PowerView® control alongside the Vertiglide™ manual operating system. Equipping your Duette® Cellular shades with both Vertiglide™ and PowerView® Automation is an excellent advantage for when your motorized shade batteries need to be recharged or your home suddenly loses power.
Contact Us
At The Blind Alley, customers can trust in our Hunter Douglas products and our expert knowledge and installation. Talk with one of our Window Fashion Designers today to learn more about Duette® Vertiglide™ and other Hunter Douglas styles and operating systems.
We are located in Bellevue, Washington, and encourage our customers to come into our finely curated showroom and see our window treatments for themselves. We are also proud to demonstrate our window treatments in your home when you call or contact us for an in-home consultation.
Our experts are skilled at helping homeowners select the window treatments and window treatment operating systems they need for functional window fashions. We serve Bellevue and the greater Bellevue area, including Seattle, Lake Washington, Renton, Mercer Island, Newcastle, Issaquah, and Carnation, WA, as well as their surrounding communities.