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.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Drapery Hardware
Choose from a wide selection of styles.
Fabrics
Choose from our large selection of fabric colors, patterns and textures.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Window Covering Design
We can help you create your dream interior.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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Hollard, MI
The Shade Shop offers custom window treatments from Hunter Douglas. Located in Grand Rapids, we are ecstatic to service Holland, Michigan.
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Bedroom
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Home Office
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Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
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Skylights
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Blackout
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The Many Benefits of Multi-Tiered Window Treatments
Functionality meets fashion in multi-tiered window treatments. With versatile designs and unique aesthetics, layered window shades can offer homeowners benefits far beyond what the individual coverings can provide-from better energy efficiency to one-of-a-kind, custom aesthetics.
Better Light Control
By using two different types of window coverings in a single multi-tiered window treatment, you can exponentially increase the range of light control afforded by those shades. The two treatments can work together to block light and create darkened interiors, or each can be used on its own for nuanced levels of light filtration.
Customized Aesthetic
Never worry that you'll see your multi-tiered window treatments at your neighbor's because layered window shades are customized to your personal tastes. Rather than being mass-produced, each layered window fashion is unique to the style and needs of individual homes. Additionally, the layers in multi-tiered window treatments add textural differences, visual depth, and a rich balance of aesthetic elements to the existing décor.
Enhanced Energy Efficiency
Since windows are one of the biggest vulnerabilities to a home's energy efficiency, covering them with multi-tiered window treatments is one of the easiest and most effective ways to insulate the otherwise vulnerable glass panes. Each treatment adds another layer of protection that helps to keep the heat in when it's cold outside and the cold in when it's hot outside.
Building Multi-Tiered Window Treatments
To build your custom-layered window shades, start with the base layer. Design-wise, you want a base window layer that lays flat, so it can easily maneuver under the top layer. You also want to use a treatment style that offers the most important features to your home. Features such as flexible light control or enhanced insulation make the completed treatment look fantastic and meet your household's individual functional needs.
Some of the most popular base layers in multi-tiered window treatments are shutters for their ability to provide ventilation and privacy, cellular shades for their insulating powers, and sheer or banded shades for their flexible light control.
For the second or top layer, drapery is a favored option because they add numerous benefits to the layered window shades in addition to a dynamic visual element. Drapes help insulate windows for better energy efficiency, block or absorb light for room-darkening effects, and with exclusive fabrics from Hunter Douglas®, create one-of-a-kind looks custom-made to harmonize with your home's interior design style.
The final touches for multi-tiered window treatments include accessories and optional upgrades. The hardware for your layered window shades can be a unifying element bringing together each layer with a coordinating feature. Additionally, for select Hunter Douglas® window coverings (including drapery, shutters, cellular shades, sheer shades, and banded shades), there is the added option to upgrade to motorized operation with PowerView® Automation for enhanced performance and convenient control.
Creating Multi-tiered Window Treatments
Learn more about the benefits of multi-tiered window treatments for your home and all the custom options available by contacting the design team at The Shade Shop. From their extensive Hunter Douglas collection, the team at The Shade Shop can help you create custom layered window shades to suit your household aesthetic and lifestyle.
Request a consultation or visit the showroom located near Grand Rapids, Michigan, today. The Shade Shop serves Holland, Grand Haven, Spring Lake, and Grand Rapids, MI.