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.
Area rugs
Need to find areas rugs near you? Geneva’s Interiors has all your home decorating needs.
Custom Bedding
You can’t put a price on the value of a great night of sleep, and custom bedding can take your sleep from average to outstanding.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Fabrics
Choose from our large selection of fabric colors, patterns and textures.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
After-Hours & In-Home Consultations
Our schedule is flexible, and we can come to your home for a consultation.
Blind and Shade Repairs
We offer quick and professional repairs for your blinds and shades.
Upholstery
We offer re-upholstery services for all furniture styles.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
About Us
Geneva's Interiors is motivated to help with most any project, window coverings, carpets, counters, paint, accessorizing and interior design.
Our Bonney Lake, WA Store
We are located in Federal Way, Washington, and are proud to offer our services for Bonney Lake, Washington as well. The professionals of Geneva’s Interiors can help you along each step of your design journey.
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Bathroom
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Bedroom
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Home Office
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Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
See child-safe window coverings for baby nurseries and kids rooms
Angled Windows
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Arched Windows
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Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
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French Doors
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Sidelights
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
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Automated
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Blackout
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Using Hardwood Shutters in Layered Designs
The beauty of hardwood shutters is well, their natural beauty. The clean lines, premium craftsmanship, and sleek profile of wooden plantation shutters all help create an aura of polished arboreal beauty. In residential homes that chic style combined with the utilitarian functionality of the hardwood shutters to control light, privacy, and natural ventilation make this style of window treatment incredibly desirable. Adding to their desirability is the fact that hardwood shutters make stunning window treatments on their own or when used in layered window fashions. Hardwood shutters can pair with a variety of other window treatments from cornices to full drapery, which can all have marvelous results as long as your design is cognizant of what styles and treatments work best with hardwood shutters.
Tips for Using Hardwood Shutters in Layered Treatments
Keep the Look Symmetrical
Hardwood shutters have an incredibly precise and linear symmetry; in fact, that linear precision is a feature that hardwood shades are known and loved for. So, when pairing hardwood shutters with other window coverings it’s important to respect that symmetry by choosing treatments that can match it, otherwise the overall treatment will feel lopsided and off balance. For example, drapery paired with hardwood shutters work if the drapes are split in the middle and pulled evenly to the left and right side; drapery that opens from left to right and remain stacked only on one side when open won’t work as well with hardwood shutters.
Balance Design Elements
When using hardwood shutters with soft treatments you need to balance the symmetry of the window fashion but also the design aesthetics. Most hardwood shutters come in natural wood tones or solid neutral colors (like black and white), so they make great bases to play against fabric window shades with bold patterns, prints, or textures. The hard construction of shutters also plays well against the softness of drapery, sheer shades or Roman shades for balanced design elements within the layered treatment.
Proper Mounting
A key element to styling layered window treatments that include hardwood shutters is the way the second layer is mounted. The second layer should be installed well outside the border of the hardwood shutters to ensure the shutter is easily accessible and that the treatment has the widest range of mobility.
Popular Pairings for Hardwood Shutters
Simple Pairings
If increasing privacy isn’t a primary concern, a simple pairing of hardwood shutters and a valance or side panels creates a chic and graceful window fashion that keeps the arboreal beauty of hardwood shutters front and center.
Light-Blocking
To increase the light blocking abilities of layered treatments with hardwood blinds choose lined forms of fabric treatments for the second layer. Roman shades or full drapery complement the light blocking abilities of hardwood shutters especially when hung strategically wider than the shutters themselves to block light leaks around the edges of shutters.
Learn more about hardwood shutters and their usefulness in layered window treatments by contacting the design team at Geneva’s Interiors. Geneva’s Interiors carries the range of plantation style shutters from Hunter Douglas including Heritance® Hardwood Shutters. We are located in Federal Way, WA and are proud to serve the surrounding area including Tacoma, Kent, and Des Moines, WA. Request a consultation today.