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Our Favorite Room Darkening Shades

Warm sunshine brightens anyone’s day, but it can create excessive glare or wake you up too early. It also heats up houses, making them feel uncomfortably warm inside. That’s where the Rebarts Blinds and Shades Store design team comes in. Our experts help homeowners design custom room-darkening window shades that minimize brightness, improve their sleep, and protect their privacy.

A room darkening roller shade in a living room at Rebart's Blinds & Shades Store near Burlingame, California

Hunter Douglas offers several styles that minimize natural light entering a room. These aren’t blackout shades—they have a dimming effect that’s ideal for home offices, bedrooms, living rooms, and dining rooms. We’ve selected a few of our favorites worth your consideration.

Vignette® Roman Shades with Duolite®

Vignette® Roman Shades with Duolite® are sophisticated and versatile. The design is effective: Duolite® integrates a light-filtering front shade with a room-darkening back panel for added light level control.

Choose from a Rolling Style with a 4” full or 6” flat fold that rolls into the headrail; the Stacking Style has a 4” full fold and stacks under a low-profile headrail. You’ll also be impressed with the fabric, texture, and color selection that complements any decor style.

Duette® Cellular Shades with LightLock™

Duette® Cellular Shades have a honeycomb design that traps air for an insulating barrier that regulates room temperature. This style comes in a wide selection of fabrics, textures, and opacities. The LightLock™ room-darkening feature has side channels that block light at the edges, significantly reducing unwanted brightness. We recommend this for bedrooms, media rooms, or any space where natural light is a priority.

These shades also improve energy efficiency: Since the honeycomb construction traps air, these window treatments keep interiors cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Room darkening and energy savings in one window treatment—what more could you ask for?

Silhouette® Sheer Shades with Duolite®

Whoever thought that sheers could provide room-darkening capabilities? Hunter Douglas. The brand’s Silhouette® Sheer Shades have soft, adjustable S-shaped vanes inside two sheer fabrics for an open, airy feel; adjust the vanes to control light, UV rays, and privacy. Adding Duolite® turns this style into sophisticated, room darkening window shades.

Silhouette® Sheer Shades come in 150+ colors and fabric combinations, including various opacities. Ask us about the Silhouette® Halo™ feature, with more flexible vanes for even more light control.

Designer Roller Shades with Duolite®

Modern and streamlined, Hunter Douglas Designer Roller Shades have a single fabric panel. But they’re anything but simple; choose from 350 fabrics (including exclusive designs) and varying fabric opacities. They pair well with other window treatments like curtains, and we can easily enhance them with Duolite®.

Shop for Room Darkening Shades With Us

There are so many Hunter Douglas room darkening window shades to explore, but don’t worry. Our design team never rushes clients. Stop by one of our showrooms or reach out for more information. Contact us for a consultation in Burlingame, Los Altos, Menlo Park, San Carlos, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Los Gatos, Redwood City, Foster City, San Mateo, Saratoga, Belmont, Woodside, Redwood Shores, Millbrae, Aptos, Atherton, and Stanford, CA.