• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Windows and More

Windows and More

Visit our Showroom or Call Today!

715 East HWY.
42 Osage Beach, MO 65065
P: 573-348-5787

  • Home
  • Products
    • Awnings
    • Draperies and Valances
    • Drapery Hardware
    • Hunter Douglas Alustra® Collection
    • Hunter Douglas Blinds
    • Hunter Douglas Design Studio™ Roman Shades
    • Hunter Douglas Honeycombs
    • Hunter Douglas Shades
    • Hunter Douglas Sheers
    • Hunter Douglas Shutters
    • Porch Shades
    • Solar Screens and Shades
  • Services
    • Blind and Shade Repair
    • Blind Cleaning
    • Interior Design Consultation
    • Window Covering Measuring and Installation
    • Window Covering Motorization
  • Specials
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • FAQs
    • Our Showroom
  • Contact Us
  • Our Blog
    • Window Treatments
    • Hunter Douglas
    • Window Treatment Repair & Maintenace
    • Child Safe Window Coverings
    • Window Treatment Motorization
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Custom Drapery
    • Interior Decorating

The Differences Between Room Darkening and Blackout Shades

By Jerry Stewart

Luminette Privacy SheersThe amount of light in a room is important to our customers here at Windows & More serving the Lake Ozark area. After all, for bedrooms or media rooms, many people want no light to enter from the windows, where in other rooms, they might want room darkening instead. Only blackout will provide total darkness, so customers need to understand their goals for the room. Are you looking to reduce glare on your TV? Do you want to just filter the light, so you can still see out? Or do you need the light totally blocked out in the bedroom to sleep?

Hunter Douglas uses a scale of 1 to 5 to explain the opacity differences within their product line.

  1. Sheer – allows light to enter the room while reducing glare
  2. Semi-sheer (with view-through) – diffuses light with moderate privacy
  3. Semi-sheer (no view-through) – transmits filtered light with no view-through
  4. Semi-opaque – filters more light and blocks the view
  5. Opaque – blocks nearly all light with the highest degree of privacy

What is Blackout?

Duette Honeycomb ShadesBlackout means that no light will enter through the material. Look for a rating of 5. So, if you want to totally block out light, you might want to consider Duette®, Architella®, or Applause® Honeycomb shades in an opaque fabric. The silver metallic lining inside the honeycomb prevents light from passing through the fabric. However, if you mount the honeycomb shade inside the window, you may have light gaps. Either adding blackout drapery panels or mounting the shade on the outside of the window to eliminate the light gap can fix this.

What is Room-Darkening?

Look for a rating of 4 or higher for room-darkening benefits. The key here is the fabric, material type, and color. Sheer fabrics used in Silhouette® Shadings will soften and filter light, while semi-opaque and opaque fabrics found in Duette® Honeycomb Shades will darken a room, but do not necessarily completely eliminate light.

The best thing is to know your goals for the room. Room darkening might work perfectly fine, but when the need for total darkness arises, your best bet is a honeycomb shade in an opaque fabric.

Pirouette® Window Shadings the Lake Ozark MO Area

Windows & More proudly serves Lake Ozark, Osage Beach & Camden, Miller & Morgan counties, with a showroom in Osage Beach. Contact us for a window treatment consultation!

Filed Under: Hunter Douglas, Window Treatments Tagged With: blackout blinds, Hunter Douglas Lake Ozark, Room Darkening Shades, Sheer Shades

Primary Sidebar

Follow us

  • facebook
  • yelp
  • google
  • houzz

View Our Work

Heritance Shutters by Hunter Douglas Luminette Privacy Sheers Blinds - everwood_cordlock_livingroom_5
Luminette® Privacy Sheers
Everwood® Alternative Wood Blinds in the Living Room

Hunter Douglas Window Coverings – Sheer Window Treatments, Honeycomb Shades, Roman Shades, Wood & Faux Wood Blinds

We carry Hunter Douglas Silhouette® window shadings, Luminette® Privacy Sheers, Pirouette® Window Shadings, Vignette® Modern Roman Shades and more. Our extensive selection offers beauty, function and energy-efficiency in a variety of styles, materials, textures and colors. We also have Hunter Douglas Vignette® Modern Roman Shades, Skyline™ Gliding Window Panels, Designer Screen Shades, Brilliance® pleated shades.

Hunter Douglas Duette® and Applause® honeycomb shades offer options to complement any window. You’ll benefit with energy efficiency too, with our patented honeycomb construction that offers single, double and triple layer options. Duette® Architella offers the ultimate in energy savings.

From wood, faux wood, aluminum and fabric, we offer a wide selection of materials, styles, textures and colors for our horizontal and vertical blinds.

Hunter Douglas Plantation Shutters

Our are available in premium hardwood and poly-satin compounds. The former offers an enduring, custom-crafted, classic style, the latter a beautiful solution for windows exposed to high heat, humidity and other extreme climate conditions. Shop with us for Hunter Douglas Heritance® hardwood shutters, NewStyle® hybrid shutters and Palm Beach™ Polysatin shutters.

Custom Drapery, Valances, Swags, Curtains & Top Treatments

From a basic pinch pleat to a sophisticated top treatment, we can help you design the perfect finishing touch for your Hunter Douglas window coverings. We offer a full range of custom fabric window treatments including traditional draperies, swags, cornices and valances. Available in a variety of shapes and fabrics, top treatments and cornices add shaping and style to windows – and can conceal window treatment hardware too. From the most basic hardware and finishes to ultra-sophisticated, innovative materials and colors, we have the perfect drapery hardware to accent your fabric window treatment and complete your interior look.

Footer

Recent

  • Coverings for Irregular Shapes
  • Choosing Solera® Soft Window Shades
  • Dealing With Vertical Openings
  • A New Rebate Savings Event!
  • Update Your Home Decor on a Budget

About Windows & More

In 1996 Dave opened Windows and More and has been in business for 36 years. Windows and More opened its first location as a Hunter Douglas Dealer below Pistols Plus. The company is now located on Highway 42 and became a Gallery in September of 2004.

Find Windows & More Here:

Stop by our showroom to find out more about our products and services. Located at Hwy 42 Across from School of the Osage.

Copyright © 2023 Windows & More · 715 East HWY. · 42 Osage Beach · MO 65065 · P: 573-348-5787