Sheers & Shadings
Transform light and provide UV protection for your furniture and artwork with innovative, light-diffusing Hunter Douglas sheers and shadings.
Cellular Honeycomb Shades
Hunter Douglas' cellular honeycomb shades offer superior energy efficiency, helping to keep your home warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.
Roman Shades
Hunter Douglas Roman shades combine the soft look of fabric folds with the operating ease and convenience of a traditional shade, stacking smoothly and evenly when raised.
Roller & Solar Shades
Simple, classic and elegant, Hunter Douglas roller shades and solar screen shades offer a clean, contemporary look at the window.
Woven Woods
Hunter Douglas' Woven Wood shades add warmth and character to your space with materials that pay homage to unique textures found in nature.
Shutters
Hunter Douglas' shutters are available in long-lasting materials and elevated finishes and can be made to fit a variety of windows, including specialty shapes and sliding-glass doors.
Vertical Blinds
The ideal choice for sliding-glass doors or large windows, Hunter Douglas custom vertical blinds are designed in a range of materials, including vinyl, fabric and aluminum.
Wood & Metal Blinds
Rustic. Traditional. Classic. Hunter Douglas provides only the finest wood, faux wood and aluminum horizontal blinds, all available in numerous colors, textures and slat sizes.
Side Panels & Drapery
Complete your look with Hunter Douglas side panels and drapery. Choose from timeless and on-trend fabrics.
PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
New Hunter Douglas Products
Learn about new Hunter Douglas products and features.
Transform Your Home with Light
Innovative window treatment designs by Hunter Douglas transform the natural light in your home to create the perfect ambiance, whatever the moment.
Video Gallery
See Hunter Douglas videos and learn about the benefits of various types of window treatments.
The Hunter Douglas Right Choice Promise
As a Hunter Douglas Gallery dealer, we offer the Gallery-exclusive Hunter Douglas Right Choice Promise® to you: Try out your new window coverings in your home and exchange them if you are not completely satisfied.
Custom Bedding
We create one-of-a-kind custom bedding designs.
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.
Paint
We offer a wide selection of top-quality paint, primers and stains.
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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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.