Shade and Shield Your Home from UV Damage
Unless your home lives in the shade 100% of the time, the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays can be an ongoing threat for the life of your home. After all, UV damage comes in with natural sunlight, and that’s not going anywhere. And while nothing can be done about stopping the sun, we can protect our homes from the damage that prolonged UV exposure can cause.
The strategic implementation of window coverings can both shade and shield your home’s interior. Many different styles of window coverings can provide this protection, and our team at SunGard Window Fashions Peoria will be looking at five of the best, including sheer shades, cellular shades, solar shades, motorized shades, and awnings.
5 Different Window Coverings to Shade and Shield Your Home
- Designer Solar Shades: Solar shades diminish the damage UV rays can cause in your home by filtering it out using their exclusive screen mesh materials, available in 130 color choices and five different opacities. For environmentally conscious homeowners, Hunter Douglas solar shade window treatments are available with GreenScreen® Sea-Tex™ fabrics made from recycled maritime plastics.
- Sonnette® Roller Shades: Hunter Douglas Sonnette® Roller Shades are a hybrid design that uses the interior cellular construction of cellular shades on a roller shade frame to create a window treatment that shades and shields your home by improving the insulation. Windows can be a massive vulnerability to home efficiency and security; after all, that’s where the sunlight and UV are getting in, so by creating a more insulating layer of protection over windows, we can block more of the incoming sunlight and its negative attributes, negating future UV damage to your home decor and belongings.
- Silhouette® Sheer Shades: Hunter Douglas sheer shades use two translucent sheer panels that contain opaque vanes that simultaneously filter out UV and provides a range of interior lighting solutions. From soft natural light to room-darkening effects, Silhouette® Sheer Shades are designed to handle the many different aspects of natural sunlight with grace and style, since their fabric vanes are easily adjustable to suit a range of lighting situations.
- Motorized Shades: Automated operating systems, like PowerView® Automation from Hunter Douglas, can make UV protection more convenient and consistent. With multiple user interfaces that make controlling shades as easy as touching a button or giving a voice command, homeowners can easily use their window treatment to ward off unwanted sunlight and UV. Window shades with PowerView® Automation can also be set to a schedule timed to automatically close each day when sun penetration is most intense. This way, whether a homeowner is around or not, the home interior remains protected.
- Custom Window Awnings: For areas in the home where interior shades don’t work or where sun exposure is so intense that you need additional coverings for shade and shielding the home, awnings can provide a useful exterior solution. Awnings block sunlight and its UV component from ever reaching the main structure of your house, thus preventing UV damage from even having the chance to affect your home interior.
Shop Solar Shade Window Treatments near Peoria, Illinois
Protect your home from UV damage with new Hunter Douglas shades that shield you from harmful UV rays at SunGard Window Fashions, located in Peoria, Illinois. Let our team help you find the style best suited to your home from our collection of solar shades, roller shades, sheer shades, and more!
Our team is standing by and ready to serve homeowners in the greater Peoria area request a consultation online or give us a call at (309) 688-8750!