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.
Cornices
We offer window treatments for any business or commercial setting.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Drapery Hardware
Choose from a wide selection of styles.
Fabrics
You might think that The Drapery Shop is all about window treatments.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Consumer Financing by Wells Fargo
We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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Balancing Hard and Soft Shades near Vista, CA
One trick designers use to build visual interest when styling new window treatments is to balance different textural components within one bigger treatment scheme. Using both hard and soft shades together in a layered window fashion produces a treatment with textural dimension and depth. Additionally, homeowners benefit from the enhanced features of hard and soft shades working together to control external environmental factors and enhance interior design aesthetic. Here are some of our favorite pairings of hard and soft shades for different aesthetics and situations in the home.
For Classic Sophistication
Combine the clean, hard lines of interior shutters with the flowing fabrics of drapery, and you get window fashions with striking contrast that still work in perfect harmony. The drapes add movement and grace, and the shutters bring linearity, control, and grounding. This pairing of hard and soft shades works in bedrooms, dining rooms, and living rooms thanks to the many textile options for drapery and complementary neutral tones in shutters.
- Our favorite combination from Hunter Douglas: Heritance® Wood Shutters and Design Studio™ Drapery
For Love of the View
Is there a view from your home that you absolutely love? Maybe a big picture window that lets in light and overlooks a spectacular stretch of your surroundings? If you’re looking to dress a window such as this, the paring of hard blinds with soft side panels can create a framing window fashion that provides protection, privacy, and yet also maintains the view. This is thanks largely to the very open design of both side panels and blinds. Blinds offer view-through visibility and can both block light or provide privacy, and when needed they can pull open completely to provide unimpeded views. Side panels offer a soft framing element to balance the hard blinds and block any light leaks around the sides of your blinds when they are fully closed. And with hundreds of fabrics to choose from for side panels you can customize the look to match, coordinate with, or contrast existing décor.
- Our favorite combination from Hunter Douglas: Parkland® Wood Blinds and Design Studio™ Side Panels.
For A Clean Modern Look
Because Roman shades have a very sculpted look with rich fabric folds, they pair well with the controlled look of a custom cornice. Window toppers add a height dimension to the treatment and polish the final look by hiding any hardware. Work with our design team to create a custom cornice and accompanying Roman shade so the one-of-a-kind treatment will be tailored to your home’s unique style. And by utilizing advance operating systems for the Roman shades like PowerView® Automation or the Top-Down/Bottom-Up systems you can optimize light control without sacrificing the modern aesthetic.
Our favorite combination from Hunter Douglas: Vignette® Roman Shades and custom cornices.
Contact Us
Learn more about the dynamic looks you can get from combining hard and soft shades by contacting The Drapery Shop, located near Vista, California. Request a consultation online today. The Drapery Shop serves residents in and around Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Carmel Beach, Del Mar, Encinitas, Rancho Santa Fe, and Vista, CA.