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.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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3 Reasons to Choose Roman Shades
Thousands of people love the grace and simple beauty of Roman shades. The classic style draws the eye and can make your windows pop. At McCarty’s Window Fashions in Santa Cruz, California, we carry gorgeous, top-of-the-line Hunter Douglas window treatments, including Roman Shades. Discover why this timeless window treatment is always in style and three of its top benefits that will have you loving them for years to come.
#1: Hunter Douglas Roman Shades are Energy Efficient
As energy costs rise, you may be looking to cut costs. Modern Roman shades can help because they provide insulation against your windows. They trap air between the window and the shade, creating a barrier that prevents hot air from leaving your home in the cooler months. During the warmer months, you can allow warm air to come in and naturally heat your home so it remains a comfortable temperature. If it gets too warm, you can close them.
If you motorize your shades using PowerView® Automation, you can tie the technology to your Smart Thermometer. This opens or closes your Roman shades to reach your desired temperature before kicking on your HVAC system. All of this saves you money on your energy bills.
#2: Modern Roman Shades are Customizable
Roman shades are highly customizable, so they can fit the style requirements of someone who wants a modern, classic, romantic, or minimalist style. They can lie flat against your window when they’re down and flat at the top when they’re up. These Hunter Douglas shades can also have a soft, flowy look of billowing fabric that’s elegant and appealing. You can even choose whether they roll or fold at the top of your window.
Hunter Douglas has three styles of Roman Shades, each with unique fabric and color selections:
- Vignette® Roman Shades are available in sheer, light-filtering, and room-darkening fabrics in over 25 color combinations.
- Alustra® Woven Textures® Roman Shades are made from globally sourced fabrics that exude elegance and sophistication and come in over 75 color and fabric combinations. The fabric opacity ranges from sheer to opaque.
- Provenance® Woven Wood Shades are artistically hand-woven from various reeds, bamboo, grasses, and woods. The fabrics are durable and available in more than 80 combinations of fabric and color.
#3: Roman Shades Offer Outstanding Light Control
Beyond the color and style customizations, you can also determine the amount of light control you want to have. You can select sheer, light-filtering, opaque, or room-darkening fabrics, any of which will alter your lighting experience. While you can open or close the shade to control light, you can also:
- Add an independent liner, which operates separately from the shade, so you can open or close it to affect natural light.
- Select the Top-Down/Bottom-Up system, which allows you to operate the shade from the bottom or the top to direct light.
- PowerView® Automation allows you to create scenes, so the shades will automatically slide into the correct place with its voice activation feature.
Find Hunter Douglas Roman Shades near Santa Cruz, CA
When you’re ready to use Roman shades to style your home and get the light control you need, reach out to McCarty’s Window Fashions in Santa Cruz, CA. Our professional staff can answer your questions and help you through the customization process. We proudly serve Santa Cruz, Aptos, and Scotts Valley, CA. Contact us to find your dream shades today!