Incorporating Color Theory into Your Window Treatment Design

Color is an important pillar in interior design. Color, like light, is integral to how we perceive our environment—and how we experience our living space.

At The Blind Alley, we offer the entire line of Hunter Douglas window treatments, including hundreds of colors and fabrics. The Design Studio™ collection of roller and Roman shades and custom drapes feature one-of-a-kind designs from world-renowned textile artists like Rebecca Atwood, Marcie Bronkar, and Seema Krish. The exclusive and coveted Alustra® Collection bring globally-sourced fabrics and designs directly to your windows. Together, these collections offer homeowners over 250 fabric and color combinations.

Achieving Your Room’s Ambience Using Color

• Red: Around the world, red is used to represent luck, marriage, love, and anger—ultimately, red is the color of passion. Use red to evoke emotion in your rooms.
• Pink: Pink is tenderer than red. Its tenderness envelopes you and your guests in its soft glowing ambiance.
• Orange: Friendly and forthcoming, orange represents unapologetic enthusiasm. Use burnished shades for a warm, inviting tone in your gathering spaces.
• Yellow: Yellow is effortlessly eye-catching. Yellow can inject energy into your interiors, though its attractiveness can be easily overused, making it best suited as a distinctive accent color.
• Green: Green is the color most easily recognized by the human eye. It’s the color of nature and therefore associated with success and harmony.
• Blue: Another color that represents our earth, blue is synonymous with peace and tranquility. Use it to create your own private oasis.
• Purple: Historically, purple has often been associated with royalty. It is also a color of balance, bringing in the stability of blue with the vibrancy of red. Soft purples are gentle enough for bedrooms, nurseries, and other private, calming spaces; while darker shades offer unapologetic drama.
• Brown: As a neutral tone, brown is resilient yet bold. It can be a velvety main room color or a tasteful touch of an accent.

Colorful Window Treatments

If you’re looking for a specific shade color, Hunter Douglas shades with the most color options include:

• Designer Roller Shades (350+ color choices)
• Duette® Cellular Shades (150+ color choices)
• Silhouette® Sheer Shades (150+ color choices)
• Designer Solar Shades (130+ color choices)
• Designer Banded Shades (90+ color choices)
• Provenance® Woven Wood Shades (80+ color choices)

Window treatments are essential home accents. They manipulate the light in your room, but their colors and patterns also introduce a new facet of visual interest in your rooms. Coordinate your window treatment color with your other interior accents and utilize prints and patterns for a statement-making conversation starter.

Contact Us

Call or contact us today and tell us how you want to incorporate hue theory in your interiors. We have experience using space colors to create interiors our customers love.

See our window treatments for yourself in our showroom in Bellevue, Washington, or set up an in-home consultation.

We bring our design expertise to the greater Bellevue, WA area, including Seattle, Lake Washington, Renton, Mercer Island, Newcastle, Issaquah, and Carnation, WA, as well as the surrounding areas.