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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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.
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Bathroom
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Bedroom
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Home Office
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Kitchen
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Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
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Angled Windows
See blinds and shades for angled, sloped, and triangle-shaped windows.
Arched Windows
See blinds and shades for arched, half-circle or half-moon windows.
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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Benefits of Shutters
We’ve all seen classic interior style shutters. Maybe in our homes, our parent’s homes, on TV, in office and government buildings; they’re everywhere. This is partially because their design is so smart that its popularity as a window treatment has been able to remain strong for hundreds of years, and partially because they are an incredibly versatile window treatment that can be styled to suit seemingly any home or business aesthetic. If you’re thinking about upgrading to shutters, but you’re still a bit on the fence, let our design team help by outlining what we think are some of the treatment’s best features.
Benefits of Shutters
Light Control
One of the main reasons why anyone gets window coverings is to control light. Though we all enjoy the beauty of natural sunlight, its glaring heat at blinding light is at times, quite literally, too much. Shutters include many mechanisms of light control with their hard louvers that tilt up or down and their ability to be paired with shades or drapes. Homeowners can harness sunlight to allow in natural illumination but deflect the unwanted solar elements.
Natural Ventilation
Another one of the many benefits of shutters is ventilation control. Thanks to the gaps between louvers on shutters natural airflow is possible even when the shutters are partially closed. This means homeowners don’t have to choose between light control or natural airflow because the unique slatted construction of shutters allows for both simultaneously.
Privacy with a View
If you have a view you love, one of the benefits of shutters is that they have view-through visibility. So, with shutters homeowners get to enjoy their view and the openness helps to create a sense of expanding interior space. However, sometimes homeowners also require privacy. The beauty of shutters is that their tilting louvers can balance these two elements: privacy and a view to suit whatever the homeowner needs from absolute privacy to a full view out.
Design Versatility
When styling shutters you’ll see that one of the major aesthetic benefits of shutters is their ability to harmonize with almost any style of interior design. From classic to contemporary to cozy seaside cottage, they work in all types of homes. They can do this because though rooted in a classic motif their simple sophistication, clean lines, and customizable elements like louver size make them aesthetically flexible.
Better Insulation
While some of the benefits of shutters are purely aesthetic, others offer real money-saving benefits for homeowners. Since windows are one of the biggest sources for unwanted energy transfer in the home, window treatments are in a unique position to really add to the overall energy efficiency of a home. Shutters can help to block unwanted heat from entering in the summer and that precious AC from escaping making interiors cooler, keeping them at a more consistent temperature, and costing less to do so with lower monthly energy bills.
Child Safety
Plantation style shutters are naturally cord-free, utilizing a tilt bar for movement in lieu of hanging lines. This is an important feature when it comes to child safety because young children can become entangled in hanging window shade lines, which poses a strangulation hazard. So, for households with kids (or small pets), the cord-free safety features are one of the major benefits of shutters over other types of corded window treatments.
Contact Us
Contact the helpful and knowledgeable team at Curtain Time today to learn more about the benefits of shutters for your home. Were happy to answer any questions you have or help with customizing treatment to your home’s unique needs and style. Curtain Time is located near Stoneham, Massachusetts and serves the greater Boston area including the towns of Weston, Winchester, Wakefield, Melrose, Lexington, Lynnfield, Lincoln, North Andover, Medford, Redding, Wilmington, Burlington, Woburn, Wellesley, Newton, Somerville, Stoneham, or Boston, MA.