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.
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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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Better Sleep with New Window Shades
When it’s time to sleep, if you’re like most, you need three things to create the ideal slumber chamber: you need it dark, you need it quiet, and you need it at a comfortable temperature. So when designing your bedroom, keep those things in mind when you’re considering the options you have for various elements like furnishings, wall or floor coverings, and of course window shades.
Cellular honeycomb shades from Hunter Douglas have the unique ability to improve all three elements of our ideal sleeping environment (light, sound, and temperature) with a plethora of design ingenuity and modern features. Read on to learn more about getting better sleep with new window shades for your bedroom.
Light Control
Step one in transforming a bedroom into a slumber oasis is light control. Though natural sunlight can be a beautiful option for interior lighting, when it’s time to sleep we want to block that light for room darkening effects. And while the fabrics and honeycomb interior of cellular shades can filter or absorb light, it’s their many advanced operating systems that help the treatment take your bedroom from dark to blackout.
LightLock™
Eliminate light leaks around the edges of cellular shades with Hunter Douglas’s exclusive LightLock system. With LightLock cellular shades meld seamlessly into the window frame thanks to a unique u-shaped side channel making it impossible for light to sneak in and ruin the darkening effect. Better sleep with new window shades starts with controlling light, and no system elevates that feature more for cellular shades than LightLock.
Duolite®
For balanced light control in the bedroom opt for the Duolite® system for your cellular shades. Duolite is a state-of-the-art operating system that uses a single roller head that controls two independent shades: one shade having a light filtering opacity and the other being a room darkening option. Get better sleep with new window shades and the ability to control lighting effortlessly throughout the day with Duette® Duolite® Cellular Shades.
Sound Blocking
After light, noise is often a reason given for interrupted sleep. So, when designing your sleeping space make efforts to control sound through strategic décor. Thick rugs and wall hangings can help dampen sound, and cellular shades take that a step further by controlling both external noise pollution and improving internal acoustics. Whether you like to sleep in silence or use sound machines the acoustic environment created will be more conducive for rest, thus affording homeowners better sleep with new window shades.
Environmental Control
Cellular shades are considered some of the most energy efficient window treatments available. The interior design with a honeycomb of air pockets is incredibly insulating. In the bedroom controlling temperatures is a key part of getting better sleep with new window shades, as those shades help to keep the heat in during the winter or out during the summer. If you’re like most the ideal temperature range for sleeping is in the mid to high 60s, and with cellular shades you can reach that optimal sleeping temperature with more consistency and less reliance on artificial means of heating or cooling for soothing sleep year-round.
Contact Us
Are you ready to get better sleep with new window shades? Curtain Time is ready to help you transform your bedroom into a slumber oasis for years of restful sleep. Request a consultation today to talk with the Curtain Time team about the many options and features available for Hunter Douglas Shades. Curtain Time is located near Stoneham, Massachusetts, and serves residents in Weston, Winchester, Wakefield, Melrose, Lexington, Lynnfield, Lincoln, North Andover, Medford, Reading, Wilmington, Burlington, Woburn, Wellesley, Newton, Somerville, Stoneham, and the greater Boston area.