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.
Drapery Hardware
Choose from a wide selection of styles.
Fabrics
Choose from our large selection of fabric colors, patterns and textures.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Commercial Window Treatments
Hunter Douglas commercial shades have a reputation for innovation and quality.
Drapery Repair & Alterations
We offer expert repair and alteration services.
Window Covering Cleaning
We offer professional window treatment cleaning services.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
About Us
Curtain Time is a full-service window treatment dealer specializing in custom drapery, Hunter Douglas and Comfortex.
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With over 40 years of experience in the window fashion industry, Curtain Time’s interior design professionals are ready to help you find the perfect window treatments for your home.
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Smart and Stylish Upgrades for Roller Shades
There are two ways to upgrade roller shades, either stylistically or functionally. Stylistic improvements include better fabric selection rich with design interest and high-end fabrication. Functional upgrades for roller shades focus on the operational systems with improvements to design that make shades easier to use with a wider range of light control abilities. Roller shades from Hunter Douglas offer numerous upgrades to both the look and performance of traditional roller shades, with the top upgrades for modern roller shades revealed below.
Motorization & Automation: To make your roller shades easier and more convenient to use, consider upgrading the standard manual operating system to a motorized system with automated control features like PowerView® Automation from Hunter Douglas. Motorized window treatments allow homeowners to open or close their roller shades from the touch of a button (when using the remote, wall panel, or PowerView® app), via voice control (if integrated into a home assistant or smart home program), or on a schedule programmed following local the solar rotation or household routines. This makes using roller shades around the home easier and more efficient, especially when using the automated scheduling feature.
Fabric Selection
Since roller shades are a fabric-centric window treatment, a popular upgrade is in the quality and type of fabric used, which affects roller shades' look and functioning. Roller shades from Hunter Douglas are available in over 400 fabrics, including private designer lines in the Design Studio™ collection. But these high-end fabrics not only polish the aesthetic look of roller shades, their weave and composition can also change the performance of the shade itself. For example, roller shades are available in sheer materials for window treatments that filter light creating warming interior illumination. Roller shades can be made with densely woven opaque materials that block light and create darkened interiors. The style and way your roller shade's function is entirely governable with smart upgrades to the treatment's fabric.
Child Safety Features
For households with young children or small pets, upgrades to the safety features of roller shades are of utmost importance. Hanging cords or loose lines that are a part of some manual operating systems pose a strangulation hazard for children or pets who can become tangled in the cords. There are several styles of cordless roller shades from Hunter Douglas, thanks to innovative operating systems that can function sans cord. Cord-free operating systems from Hunter Douglas include PowerView Automation®, LiteRise®, SoftTouch®, and the classic Cordless systems.
Doubled Light-Control
Double the functionality of roller shades by upgrading to a two-fabric design. The Dual Roller system and the Duolite® system from Hunter Douglas allow two distinct fabrics to be combined into a single window treatment, meaning the roller shade can then command a greater range of natural illumination thanks to the combination of sheer, semi-opaque, opaque, or blackout fabrics. Duolite® styles of roller shades are also available with the additional upgrade to motorization and PowerView® Automation.
Learn more about the top upgrades for roller shades and additional options available from Hunter Douglas by contacting Curtain Time, located near Stoneham, Massachusetts. Curtain Time serves Boston, Weston, Winchester, Wakefield, Melrose, Lexington, Lynnfield, Lincoln, North Andover, Medford, Reading, Wilmington, Burlington, Woburn, Wellesley, Newton, Somerville, and Stoneham, MA. Request a consultation or stop by the showroom today.