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.
Interior Design Ideas
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See current and past decorating ideas from our 'Fresh Ideas' Newsletter.
Bathroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and moisture-resistance.
Bedroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and room darkening.
Home Office
See window covering solutions for light filtering and glare control.
Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
See window covering solutions for light filtering and UV protection.
Media Room
See room darkening window treatments for your media room.
Nursery & Kids Room
See child-safe window coverings for baby nurseries and kids rooms
Angled Windows
See blinds and shades for angled, sloped, and triangle-shaped windows.
Arched Windows
See blinds and shades for arched, half-circle or half-moon windows.
Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
See blinds and shades for bay, bow and corner windows.
French Doors
See shutters, blinds and shades for French Doors.
Sidelights
See blinds and shades for sidelight windows.
Sliding Glass Doors
See blinds and shades for patio and sliding-glass doors.
Skylights
See blinds and shades specifically suited for skylights.
Automated
See all options for automated blinds and shades.
Blackout
See our options for blinds and shades that best control light.
Energy Efficient
See blinds and shades that help save energy at the window.
Light Filtering
See blinds and shades for light filtering and UV protection.
Child and Pet-Friendly
See blinds and shades that are safer for children and pets.
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Drapery & Valances
There’s something about custom-made drapery and bespoke top treatments that can’t be replicated by drapes purchased at a big box retailer. The Drapery Shop specializes in creating one-of-a-kind drapery and valances using premium materials, including fabric from Hunter Douglas and top designers that will beautifully frame the windows in your home.
Define Your Style
Despite being a popular window covering, drapes don’t have to be boring, basic, or stuffy. In addition to enhancing the aesthetic appeal of your windows, drapery provides insulation, light control, and privacy. The right drapes also help to set the overall mood and tone of a space, whether it be open and airy, or cozy and intimate.
Formal rooms look fantastic with luxe fabrics like velvet that form a small puddle on the floor. Use drapes made of cotton or a cotton blend in a casual living room or den and have your drapery break just above the floor for a less formal feel. One of the most significant differences between curtains and drapes is the length of the panel. Opting for fabric that breaks at or just below the windowsill will be considered curtains rather than drapes.
The pleats and fullness of your drapery also lend your unique style to your windows. The standard fullness is 2.5x the width of your window, but you can choose from the standard two-finger pinch pleat, the European two-finger pinch pleat, or grommet top for your drapery. Why are drapes also so much wider than windows? We’re glad you asked. Drapery is made to be wider than windows, so it looks luxurious and elegant when pulled back, and allows you to have minimal stack back, which can interfere with your view of the outdoors.
Trying a Top Treatment
When you hear “valance”, do you automatically think of the droopy top treatments that one of your grandmothers had over her windows? Modern valances are available in a huge variety of styles and fabrics. While valances aren’t a requirement for window treatments that wow, we highly recommend you consider window top treatments for a few reasons.
- Valances enhance the style of your window coverings and can tie together various window treatments in the same room
- Top treatments are an attractive way to hide hardware, rods, or anything else at the top of your drapery that you want out of view.
- A wood valance can create a more structure around your window without sacrificing the soft, billowy fabric of drapes.
Privacy & Protection
Drapes may not offer much in the way of variable light control, but they certainly have light blockage down to a science. If you love the look of drapery but also want daytime privacy, try having two layers, with one of your drapes made of sheer fabric. Sheer fabrics obscure the view into your home from outside, but also allow sunlight to gently filter in. You can easily pair sheer drapery panels with panels made of thicker fabric to emulate two separate treatments on a single window. Close both sets completely for full privacy, open both for full sun, and open only the heavier fabric to enjoy a bit of privacy and natural light at the same time.
Your drapes will also help to keep your home’s interior items from being damaged by harmful UV rays. The same rays that burn your skin will also fade and discolor your furniture, floor and wall coverings, and other treasured items within your home. Try pairing linen drapes with a light-filtering liner in rooms where you spend time during the day, such as living or more formal sitting rooms.
Extra Insulation
Insulation is just as important in warm weather as it is in cool weather. Keeping unwanted hot air out will help maintain a comfortable temperature in your home without having to increase your energy usage. Hunter Douglas Design Studio™ drapes come lined with a light-filtering or room-darkening liner, both of which will provide some additional insulation. If you feel too cool inside, simply open your drapes fully to allow sunlight to provide natural warmth.
Contact Us
Our team here at The Drapery Shop is ready to help you create spectacular drapery and valances for your windows. Contact us today to schedule your design consultation. Our showroom is in Vista, CA, and we are happy to serve the surrounding areas of Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Carmel Beach, Del Mar, Encinitas, and Rancho Santa Fe, CA.
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