Aria™️ Fabric Blinds
Crafted of lightweight and translucent fabric. For a first-of-its-kind design.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Discover Hunter Douglas customized vertical blinds featuring elegant styling and translucency in a large selection of colors, treatments, and textures. Lifetime guarantee.
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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.
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At Sunbeam Window & Door, we offer custom awnings made from the finest acrylic fabrics and long-lasting aluminum frame parts.
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At Sunbeam Window & Door Company, we know that the actual windows in your home are just as important as the window treatments covering them.
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Sunbeam Window & Door Company has been your choice for vinyl replacement windows, entry doors, retractable awnings, and window treatments since 1946.
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Room Darkening vs Blackout Shades for the Bedroom
Bedrooms require window treatments that prioritize privacy and block out the light. We often hear the terms “room-darkening shades” and “blackout shades” used almost interchangeably when people come into the shopping showroom searching for new shades. While both terms describe light-blocking window treatments that are great in the bedroom, there are subtle differences that may matter to different homeowners depending on their lifestyle.
So, let our team of experts at Sunbeam Window & Door Company share some of our product knowledge when it comes to window treatments of differing opacities. We’ll explain the differences between room-darkening vs. blackout shades, as well as our top three bedroom window covering ideas.
Room Darkening vs Blackout Shades
Room-darkening shades provide privacy and block most of the incoming sunlight for darkened interiors, which is ideal for sleeping areas, bathrooms, living rooms, or home theaters. Blackout shades take that room-darkening effect to the next level by adding a supplemental element that blocks any additional light leaks allowing exterior illumination through for comprehensively darker home interiors.
While we can say that some fabrics are more or less opaque than others, no fabric itself is truly “blackout,” though we do carry some options that are truly room-darkening. To illustrate these differences, let’s look at some of the most popular styles of bedroom window treatments and the differences between room-darkening and blackout shades.
Bedroom Window Covering Ideas: Shutters
Shutters are excellent at blocking out sunlight thanks to their impenetrable slats made of hard materials like wood, faux wood composite, or vinyl. In the bedroom, they provide privacy and light control at once with the coordinated tilting of their vanes.
To transform room-darkening bedroom shutters to blackout window coverings, add opaque drapery with a liner to block the light leaks around the edges of the shutters. This results in a window fashion with an elevated ability to block light and a more customizable look for personalized decor.
Bedroom Window Covering Ideas: Cellular Shades
Duette® Cellular Shades are a popular choice for bedroom treatments because their innovative honeycomb construction helps to create an interior environment ideal for sleeping. Their cellular construction insulates the room, absorbs sound, and blocks light for darkened interiors that are also quiet and cool.
For rooms like a nursery or bedroom, where sleep often happens during the day, elevating cellular shades to blackout treatments can be necessary to maintain that darker interior. Hunter Douglas offers its LightLock® Blackout System for Duette® Cellular Shades that adds U-shaped tracks to the side of the treatment to block out light leaks and make blackout interiors for daytime sleeping.
Bedroom Window Covering Ideas: Roman Shades
Vignette® Roman Shades make a stylish statement in bedrooms and offer a range of room-darkening levels with fabric choices in sheer, light-filtering, or room-darkening textiles. While the fabric front offers custom style to suit a range of interior design aesthetics, the functionality of the textiles allows for tailoring to different household needs.
With the Duolite® System from Hunter Douglas added to Vignette® Roman Shades, we can see the difference between room darkening vs blackout Roman shades as the system adds a secondary, shade to the rear of the existing shade. The result is a bedroom treatment that can filter or block light for various interior lighting solutions.
Shop Bedroom Window Coverings near Pennsauken Township, New Jersey
Find the perfect shade of dark for your bedroom at SunBeam Window & Door Co.
Visit our Pennsauken location to shop room darkening vs. blackout shades from Hunter Douglas and see their latest operational and aesthetic upgrades for your New Jersey home.
Sunbeam Window & Door Co. is located in Pennsauken, New Jersey, and serves the window treatment needs of homeowners in the surrounding communities of Maple Shade, Cherry Hill, and Pennsauken, NJ.
Request a consultation today to get your bedroom ready for rest with a member of our team.