Blinds and Roller Shades
How-To Guide
| Glossary |
| Blinds |
 50 ways to lever your louver! |
| Designing with vinyl shutters. |
| A closer look at your Reflections™ |
| Country wood blinds with 2-5/8" beveled slats |
| A great way to cover patio doors with a horizontally oriented product! |
| A high profile at the bottom of the blind. |
| See how this unique rail radically improves both the appearance and function of your blinds. |
| A Little Extra On The Side |
| Covering Those Narrow Sidelight Windows |
| A pivotal decision. |
| A look at the fabric-covered valance for Aloouette® light louvers |
| Add Motorization When There Is A Remote Possibility! |
| New motorization system for Remembrance Window Shades and new Designer Screen shades with wireless controls. |
| Adjusting Alouette Light Louvers. |
| Using a nickel for making adjustments to tilt bars on Alouette light louvers. |
| Alouette® - When You're Down And Out |
| A few outside mounting measuring and installation tips. |
| Angle Windows Provide Opportunity If You're So Inclined |
| Hunter Douglas Products Have The Inclination To Cover Nearly Any Angle. Do You? |
| Answers to frequently asked questions about the new Eccenture™ valances. |
| Are you afraid of heights? |
| Important measuring tip for PowerRise® shades. |
| Assembling Cadence Valances |
| At te touch of a button |
| Silhouette® with PowerRise now available for Silhouette Quartette. |
| Back To Skew |
| Additional Adjustments For Silhouette® and Nantucket™ |
| Beady eyes prevent interference. |
| New ferrite bead for Luminette with PowerGlide. |
| Bigger, Bolder, & Better than ever. |
| New options for Silhouette® window shadings. |
| Bypass Those Patio Doors |
| Bifold and Bypass track systems are becoming popular for customers that are looking for something a little bit different and upscale for patio doors - this new Valance a way to make Vinylbilt Bifold and Bypass Track shutters look even better. |
| Bypass Those Patio Doors! |
| New Valance For Track Systems And Other New Options For Summerwind Shutters By Designer Blinds. |
| Channeling Albert Einstein. |
| A lesson in persistence and how to change channels on Silhouette with PowerRise. |
| Clamp Your Style |
| Changes make Luminette Privacy Sheers easier to install. |
| Cleaning Up With Alouette® Light Louvers™ |
| Easy care and cleaning techniques for the latest innovation in window fashion. |
| Control light your way. |
| Ways to control light with Silhouette window shadings. |
| Control yourself! |
| A summary of Hunter Douglas control systems. |
| Creating a tropical paradise in your home |
| Designer Blinds Newest Tip Of The Week |
| New blinds tip from Designer Blinds. |
| Designer Blinds Tip Of The Week Index and Archives! |
| A valuable source of how to tips from installing blinds to restringing them, installing hardware to pleated curtains and more. |
| Do the twist! A simple way to keep Luminette Privacy Sheers® in perfect alignment. |
| Here's a little installation twist that will keep vanes aligned and perfectly in sync. |
| Don't be sunk by "Depth Charges"! |
| Make sure windows are deep enough and brackets spaced for Country Woods® Reflections™ and Everwood X-Tra™. |
| Don't Let Arched Windows Throw You a Curve |
| Heritance hardwood shutters are now available for half-circle arches in custom sizes. The fan-style shutter arches are available for stand arches or with rectangular shutters below the arch in a continuous opening. |
| Don't Let Arched Windows Throw You A Curve! |
| Heritance® Hardwood Shutters Are Now Available for Perfect and Near-Perfect Arches. |
| Duette UltraGlide is usually a smooth operator. |
| Here's how to fix one quickly if it's not so smooth. |
| Duette Ultraglide™ |
| A revolutionary retractable cord operation |
| Dynamic Duolite™ |
| Combine the versatility of Duette Duolite™ with the function of UltraGlide™. |
| Enhanced operation for Duette® with LiteRise™. |
| Plus - How to give your shade a massage. |
| Even if you're all thumbs it's easy to program PowerTilt blinds. |
| Extension bracket end mounts for: |
| Duette PowerRise, EasyRise, EasyGlide, UltraGlide Lightlines or Décor Blinds Any product with an over-the-rail mounting bracket |
| Fixed-slat specialty wood blinds - A quick and easy solution |
| Get Into Shape |
| Are you into shapes? As the weather gets warmer and the daylight hours increase, specialty shaped windows are likely to be more on your customers mind. Give them the ability to control the light, reduce the heat and protect their furnishings. |
| Get Into Shape! |
| A look at the wide array of Hunter Douglas options for specialty shaped windows including new options. |
| Getting all the angles on bay windows. |
| An easy measuring techniques that works! |
| Hang in there when things get tight! |
| Ways to hang shades in windows with narrow depths |
| Home automation for window fashions. |
| Get Smart! Your connection to controlling window fashions with home automation systems. |
| Installing LiteRise for trouble free operation. |
| Interference From Above |
| Troubleshooting remote control operation and dealing with interference from fluorescent lighting and other sources. |
| It only looks the same! |
| Improved Paramount track on Hunter Douglas verticals. |
| It Stands - At A Tension |
| Setting The Proper Tension on Duette Vertiglide Keeps it Operating Without Much Attention |
| It Starts With The Finish... |
| ...And it keeps getting better! Here are some of the ways Hunter Douglas Country Woods® Blinds are clearly superior to other wood blinds. Click here for Wood Blinds |
| It's a good time to be talking about energy efficiency. |
| The best energy efficient products for year round heating and cooling benefits. |
| It's Nature's Way! |
| Natural Characteristics Make Every Provenance Woven Wood Shade A Unique Work Of Art. |
| It's only natural! |
| About Provenance™ woven wood shades. |
| Keep it up front. |
| Installing Jubilance shades with an optional attached valance requires special attention. |
| Keep Pluggin' Along |
| Upgrading Existing Luminette® Privacy Sheers® To PowerGlide™ |
| Keep Silhouette® shadings looking great! |
| Cleaning tips and warning about electrostatic wipes. |
| Keep the shape of angled windows with duette shades |
| Keeping a low profile. |
| Here's a new low-profile version of Silhouette that will raise your profile with a perfect solution for sidelight windows or french doors. |
| Keeping Track |
| Track options for Hunter Douglas Vertical Blinds |
| Keeping Track! |
| Hunter Douglas Provides A Wide Array Of Choices In Vertical Blinds. Here's How To Keep Track Of Which Tracks And Other Features Are Available With Each Collection. |
| Launch a satellite! |
| Using satellite eyes with PowerRise® Products. |
| Leveling Summerwind shutters. |
| An easy leveling technique for Summerwind Shutters. |
| Look! Up In The Sky... |
| Control Heat Gain or Loss Faster Than A Speeding Bullet With New Duette PowerRise for Skylights! |
| Louver and Lever |
| Apply the louvered look of shutters to French doors and keep your lever handle. |
| Luminette privacy sheers for bay windows |
| Make it big with Alouette®. |
| Alouette® is now available in longer and wider sizes. Plus details about new tandem side-by-side operation and magnetic hold-down brackets. |
| Make Vertiglide DuoLite™ come across twice as nice |
| Plus installation update |
| Making the switch to Silhouette |
| Making adjustments for switch controlled motorized Silhouette. Features new type of switch. |
| Many happy returns! |
| How to determine return length for inside mount blinds. |
| Measuring for Blinds |
| How to measure for vertical or horizontal blinds and shades. |
| Micro-Manage your windows. |
| Micro-pleat option for Provenance™ woven wood shades. |
| Motorized verticals are this easy. |
| Connecting the switch control version of the Hunter Douglas Motorized PermAlign™ track for vertical blinds. |
| Nantucket™ now using the same reliable hardware system as Silhouette® |
| New brackets for Luminette® Privacy Sheers™ |
| New Cord Stop |
| For All Cordlock Operated Top-Down/Bottom-Up and DuoLite® Honeycomb |
| New Crosswinds Real Wood Vertical Blinds |
| The new Crosswinds Collection was designed to solve the challenges represented when you have a vertically-oriented window opening in the same room as standard rectangular window. |
| New options for designer screen shades |
| Wider widths and new options for designer screen shades. |
| New safety cord stops on all horizontal blinds |
| No matter what shape your window is in |
| Silhouette available in new specialty shapes. Installation of specialties easier than ever. |
| Not exactly the straight and narrow. |
| With Hunter Douglas vertical blind specialty systems you'll want to throw a few curves in along the way. |
| Once More From The Top! |
| Installing New Silhouette Top-Down/Bottom-up with TiltAnywhere. |
| Pivotal Points |
| Installing Alouette® Light Louvers™ |
| Plug In To PowerGlide |
| A step by step look at installing Luminette Privacy Sheers with PowerGlide. Includes video demonstration. |
| Plug In To PowerGlide |
| OF ALL THE motorized products offered by Hunter Douglas, the PowerGlide motor for Luminette Privacy Sheers is one of the easiest to install. Here's a step by step look at installing PowerGlide with a video demonstration as well |
| Powerful New Option For Vignette® |
| The operational magic of PowerRise™ is now available for Vignette window shadings. |
| Put on a side show. |
| New cordless operable sidelight shades available as narrow as just six inches. Choose from Top-Down, Bottom-up, or Top-down/Bottom-Up. |
| Raising The Bar |
| Improved bar system for Alouette Light Louvers |
| Recuce center gaps on Luminette |
| Relieve Tension |
| Adjusting the combined wand and cord for Luminette and some Millenia™ verticals |
| Relieve Tension Headaches! |
| Too Much Tension Can Lead To Trouble. |
| Safety and window fashions. |
| Important safety tips. |
| Setting limits with hard-wired motorized window fashions including: |
| Duette® shades Silhouette® window shadings Vignette® window shadings |
| Shape Up! |
| Duette EasyView Arch is a great way to cover arched windows and still allow an open view when needed. |
| Silhouette Power Rise |
| Vane alignment and resetting |
| Stay on track with Vertiglide™ (Part 1) |
| Installing outside mount VertiGlide™. Includes video. |
| Stay on track with Vertiglide™ (Part 2) |
| Installing inside mount VertiGlide™. Includes video. |
| Strike Up The Band |
| Edge banding and other new options for Provenance Woven wood Shades |
| Summerwind ClearLight™ Shutters |
| Measuring considerations and how they work. |
| Take it to the limit. |
| A common installation problem for Duette shades wit PowerRise can be prevented or easily fixed. |
| Take to the skies with PowerRise (part one) |
| A look at the assembly process. This is the most current information and reflects updated information about Duette PowerRise for Skylights. |
| Take to the skies with PowerRise (part two) |
| A look at the installation process. This is the most current information and reflects updated information about Duette PowerRise for Skylights. |
| Templates for arched windows. |
| Easy and perfect templates in about five minutes - even for windows that aren't so perfect. An updated look at the yardstick compass. |
| The eyes have it. |
| A close up look at Vignette® with PowerRise™. |
| The Greatest Of Ease. |
| Recent changes to Duette EasyRise™ - the original special lift system. |
| The Long And Short Of It |
| New adjustments for honeycomb Shades |
| The means to justify the ends. |
| Making sure end treatments hang straight on Luminette® Privacy Sheers® |
| The old switcheroo! |
| Changing control slides on Silhouette® window shadings. |
| The Taming of the Skew |
| Adjusting shades and shadings |
| These Changes Will Keep You Riveted |
| New Installation For Luminette® Privacy Sheers |
| They'll see right through it! |
| There isn't anything like Luminette Privacy Sheers®! Plus - Ultrasonic Cleaning for Luminette® |
| Things are looking Up! |
| Skylight window coverings help reduce heating costs |
| This EasyRise® shade is wider than I ordered |
| The headrail on EasyRise® and Easy Glide® shades in made wider than the ordered dimensions for outside mounts. Find out why. |
| This ought to catch on! |
| Great new enhancements to Heritance Hardwood Shutters. |
| Trouble-free Vertiglide®. |
| How to have a trouble-free installation of Vertiglide® every time! |
| Troubleshooting Duette® PowerRise |
| Troubleshooting Luminette® with PowerGlide™ |
| Most issue can be easily addressed during installation. |
| Vane closure on Silhouette® and Nantucket® shadings |
| Welcome to the Dew Drop Inn! |
| Controlling condensation. |
| Which Alouette System Is Best? |
| Let The Window Decide. |
| Your Reflections™ are looking better than ever. |
| Recent improvements make Reflections™ operate better. |
