Designer Banded Shades by Hunter Douglas: Style, Light Control, and Privacy
Sometimes called banded blinds or zebra shades, Designer Banded Shades by Hunter Douglas layer sheer and solid fabric bands to give you precise control over light and privacy in any room. The sheer bands filter incoming light into a soft, diffused glow, while the solid bands let you block out the sun when needed. The result is a versatile window treatment that allows you to view the outdoors easily, dim the lights for movie nights, and fill rooms with sunlight when the mood strikes.
What Makes Designer Banded Shades Different
Hunter Douglas Banded Shades come in light-filtering and light-dimming opacities, with a choice of medium or large band heights. The sheer and solid bands sit one in front of the other; aligning them opens the sheers to diffuse light, while offsetting them brings the solid bands together to block it. They roll up cleanly into a fabric-covered headrail when raised. Available in a wide range of colors, textures, and patterns, these shades allow plenty of customization.
Where Designer Banded Shades Work Best
Designer Banded Shades work well throughout the home, but they earn their keep in rooms where light conditions shift throughout the day. Living rooms and dining rooms are natural fits: you may want open, airy light in the morning and a dimmer, more private atmosphere by evening. The ability to shift between sheer and solid bands without raising or lowering the shade entirely makes that transition effortless. Designer Banded Shades are also ideal for bedrooms, where the light-dimming opacity delivers both privacy and on-demand room darkening.
An Upgrade Worth Considering: ClearView® Sheers
ClearView® sheers are an optional enhancement exclusive to Designer Banded Shades. Where standard light-filtering sheers diffuse the outside view and light, this feature incorporates a specialized black sheer that appears clear between the fabric bands, giving you a sharper view outside while still filtering sunlight and blocking UV exposure. Privacy works the same way as with standard sheers: offsetting the bands brings the solid fabric forward to close out the view. Only certain fabrics are available as ClearView® sheers, so be sure to talk with our team about your choices if this feature is a must-have for your home.
Designer Banded Shades at Bell's Ethan Allen Design Center
Whether you know them as banded blinds, zebra shades, or Designer Banded Shades, Bell's Ethan Allen Design Center carries the full Hunter Douglas line and can help you find the right fabric, opacity, and band height for every room in your home. Give us a call or request a consultation to get started.
Bell's Ethan Allen Design Center serves Newburgh, New York, and the surrounding area, including Fishkill, Warwick, Middletown, New Paltz, Wappingers Falls, Rhinebeck, Monroe, Tuxedo, Washingtonville, Poughkeepsie, Orange County, Dutchess County, and Ulster County, New York.