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.
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 premium brands, including Hunter Douglas and Comfortex.
Testimonials
See what our customers say about our products and services.
Stoneham, MA
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.
Bedford, MA
Homeowners are always looking for ways to improve the aesthetic of their interiors - some people invest in plants, others order furniture, but one of the most affordable and effective ways to improve the home is with custom window treatments.
Burlington, MA
Beautiful window treatments can truly add to the aesthetics of your home. At Curtain Time, we have over 40 years of experience in the window fashion industry.
Winchester, MA
At Curtain Time, we love nothing more than helping our clients select the perfect window treatments for their homes.
Melrose, MA
At Curtain Time, there’s only one thing we love more than window fashions and that’s our customers.
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Bathroom
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Bedroom
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Home Office
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Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
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Media Room
See room darkening window treatments for your media room.
Nursery & Kids Room
See child-safe window coverings for baby nurseries and kids rooms
Angled Windows
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Arched Windows
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Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
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French Doors
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Sidelights
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
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Automated
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Blackout
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Energy Efficient
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Light Filtering
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The Top 3 Ways to Enjoy Room Darkening Shades
If you want darkened interiors, you want to invest in room-darkening shades. There are multiple reasons why we enjoy our room darkening shades. And those reasons range from room to room as blackout shades work throughout the home not only helping homeowners control light within different spaces, but also creating connective design elements as part of an overall interior design aesthetic. Our top three reasons to install blackout shades include:
For better sleep
Obviously, the main way room darkening shades are useful to everyone is in the bedroom because the optimal sleep environment is dark, cool, and quiet. So, in the evenings or early morning when room-darkening is needed to create that ideal sleeping environment, blackout shades play a crucial role. In the Hunter Douglas family, Duolite™ treatments are excellent room darkening shades because the innovative two-fabric system creates a range of light control from full illumination to darkness. Duolite™ shades accomplish this by using two fabrics, one sheer or semi-opaque and the other opaque or room-darkening, operating on a single roller unit. The variety of light-filtering or darkening styles of illumination that Duolite™ shades produce is flexible enough for the bedroom, whose usages changes throughout the day. The Duolite™ system is available on Hunter Douglas Designer Roller Shades, Silhouette® Window Shadings, and Vignette Roman Shades.
For Movie Nights
Though useful for sleep, room darkening shades are also great when awake for movie nights with family or an evening bingeing your favorite TV show. That’s because nothing ruins a plot twist or a great reveal like a view-blocking glare on your TV or computer screen. Create an ambiance with room darkening treatments and lighting that elevates rather than interferes with your viewing habits. Hunter Douglas’s de-Lite™ feature blocks light leaks through the cord holes of traditional blinds improving their light-blocking ability by up to 50%, creating that darkened interior where all monitors can be seen with clarity.
To improve energy efficiency
Illumination isn't the only thing coming in with the sunlight, natural light brings solar heat as well. In the winter that might be welcomed, but in the summer, it makes things miserable. And when it comes to blocking both light and heat from sunlight, honeycomb cellular shades are the premiere choice because they do both and look stylish. The honeycomb shade’s unique cellular construction insulates to block heat, and Duette® Honeycombs Shades from Hunter Douglas goes one step further with additional room darkening features like the LightLock™ system. Like the de-Lite™ system for blinds, the LightLock™ system increases a shade’s room darkening ability by blocking light leaks; specifically, light leaks around the edges of the shade using U-shaped side channels. Blocking energy exchange and having greater control over the natural light in your home will make your home more energy-efficient, and that’s a money-saving benefit that honeycomb shades provide year-round.
Enjoy room darkening shades this summer by having Curtain Time install them in your home. The knowledgeable staff at Curtain Time can help you select the best blackout treatment for your needs, style it to match your personal tastes, and have them professionally installed. Contact Curtain Time online to request a consultation or stop by the showroom located near Stoneham, Massachusetts. Curtain Time serves the greater Boston area including Weston, Winchester, Wakefield, Melrose, Lexington, Lynnfield, Lincoln, North Andover, Medford, Reading, Wilmington, Burlington, Woburn, Wellesley, Newton, Somerville, and Stoneham, MA.