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Protective Window Treatments for All Your Windows

Feeling safe at home is important. Whether it’s knowing that your belongings are out of harm's way or feeling at ease when you’re away from home and knowing it’ll be there waiting for you when you return, surprisingly, when it comes to creating a protected home, no matter what that might mean to you, protective window treatments play a big part.

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At Curtain Time in Stoneham, Massachusetts, whether you’re looking to safeguard your home against the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays or protect your interiors from the prying eyes of those who may be hoping to sneak a peek inside, we’ve got you covered with some innovative designs and upgrades from industry leader, Hunter Douglas!

3 Ways Protective Window Treatments Safeguard Your Home

1. UV Protection

Though natural sunlight can have many positive attributes in a home, from making interior spaces feel more open to improving the mood of its residents, the sun can also have negative effects as well. UV rays found in natural sunlight can cause sun damage to items left exposed for an extended period of time. This means that the beautiful ray of sunlight that falls through your dining room window every afternoon could actually be harming the furniture, decor, or flooring that it hits. The sun’s ultraviolet rays can cause damage such as discoloration or bleaching, cracking or chipping, warping, peeling, or sun rot to all kinds of materials in the home including wood, fabric, and plastic.

Designer Solar Shades by Hunter Douglas offer homeowners the UV protection they need in sunny rooms. Solar shades are made of an innovative, view-through screen material that not only curbs the harshness of direct sunlight but also filters out those negative elements like UV. The results are protective window treatments that guard against UV but don’t block the view or darken interiors.

2. Personal Privacy

Another way protective window treatments defend the home is by safeguarding the residents’ personal privacy. Obviously, windows present a major vulnerability to the privacy of a home as they allow outsiders to look in if they are not properly covered. This can be an issue for those in the home not only because it can expose aspects of their lives that they would otherwise like to keep behind closed doors, but also because it poses a real-life safety risk if it allows criminals visual access to the home.

Plantation style shutters are one type of window treatment that directly addresses the homeowner’s need for privacy. By tilting their louvers, shutters can block the view but still permit indirect illumination inside and allow for natural airflow. Custom shutters by Hunter Douglas also have the choice of louver size. For additional privacy, opt for smaller louvers whose correspondingly smaller gaps make for more private and protected interiors.

3. Security When Away

For unsavory sorts, an unoccupied home can be an opportunity for mischief. This includes those periods of time the home may be unoccupied because the residents are at work or school, or it could be during extended periods of absence while homeowners are on vacation or traveling for business. For experienced criminals, it can be easy to spot when a home is empty, and thus vulnerable to attack, due to inactivity. This is where a good set of protective window treatments comes in, to help create the illusion of occupancy through pre-programmed movements.

PowerView® Automation is a motorized control system for window treatments by Hunter Douglas. Among the many modern features of this operational system is the ability to create custom scenes throughout the day where in your motorized shades are programmed to move automatically. This helps shades maintain an optimal position all day long to maximize performance and efficiency and create the sense of occupation to protect your home while you’re away.

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No matter what protection means to you, find window treatments to meet those needs at Curtain Time located near Stoneham, Massachusetts. Request a consultation now to discuss protective window treatments for your home.

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.

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