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Sheer Shades That Sculpt Light

Silhouette®, Pirouette®, and Luminette® sheer shadings soften light without losing your view. Each style filters glare while keeping rooms bright and comfortable.

Why Choose Shade №7

Designed Just For You

Transform your space with our custom-made window treatments.

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Consult With Our Experts

Contact us and an expert will help you to choose the perfect product for your home.
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Professional Measurements

After discussing all the details of your project, our professionals will measure your windows and provide you with a quote.
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Certified Hunter Douglas Installation

We provide a full-service solution that handles all aspects of installation.
The Details

Why Shades From Us

Shades are our namesake for a reason. Every one we sell is custom built, and most of what makes window shades feel premium happens in the spec and the install.
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Fabric-First Selection

Opacity chosen room by room, from glow-through sheers to true blackout shades for serious sleepers.
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Measured and Made

Every shade is built to a measured opening, so edges seal light instead of leaking it.
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PowerView Throughout

Motorization is available across the entire shade family, from one bedroom window to a whole glass wall.
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Showroom Proof

Working displays of every style, so you can operate the real thing before choosing.

Bring Your Vision to Light

You know how you want your home to feel. We know how to get it there. Book an in-home consultation and we'll walk your rooms together, window by window.

How a Project Works

[Stage 1] Talk It Through

Start in our showroom or book an in-home consultation. We listen first: how the room is used, what the light does, what's been bothering you.

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[Stage 2] Design and Decide

We narrow the options to what actually fits your windows, your style, and the way you live, with real samples in your hands.

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[Stage 3] Measure and Make

We measure every opening ourselves, then your treatments are custom built to those exact dimensions. No stock sizes, no almost-fits.

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[Stage 4] Install and Enjoy

Our installer hangs every piece, dials in the operation, and walks you through it. We don't leave until it works the way it should.

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[Stage 1] Talk It Through
[Stage 2] Design and Decide
[Stage 3] Measure and Make
[Stage 4] Install and Enjoy
Designer and homeowner talking through window covering options with sample binders in a sunlit dining room
Hands turning through a window covering sample book showing blind and shade swatches
Installer lifting a tool bag from his vehicle outside a home before a window treatment install
Installer on a step ladder drilling a mounting bracket above a window beside sheer horizontal shades
These are the products people point at in our showroom and ask what is that. Four Hunter Douglas lines, one idea: suspend fabric in light and let it glow.

The Sheer Shading Family

Silhouette® Window Shadings

The icon. Hunter Douglas Silhouette suspends soft fabric vanes between two sheer facings, so a closed shade still fills the room with diffused daylight while the view outside stays softly present. Tilt the vanes and you tune the light by degrees; close them and silhouette window treatments deliver real privacy without going dark. For ocean- and golf-facing rooms where the view is the point, a silhouette blind is usually the first thing we demonstrate, because no photo does the glow justice.

Pirouette® Window Shadings

Pirouette shades take the floating-vane idea and make it sculptural: soft horizontal vanes open into dimensional folds that project gently from a single sheer backing. The effect sits somewhere between a shade and drapery, with light raking across the curved fabric all afternoon. Pirouette window shadings suit living and dining rooms that want fabric presence at the window without full drapery, and they're a frequent companion to Silhouette in the same home.

Luminette® Privacy Sheers

For sliders and tall expanses, Hunter Douglas Luminette turns the concept vertical: sheer panels with soft vertical vanes that traverse like drapery and rotate for privacy. Luminette privacy sheers are the elegant answer for the glass wall that vertical blinds would cheapen, washing big openings in soft light by day and closing to genuine luminette sheers privacy by night. Paired with PowerView, an entire wall glides at a tap.

Nantucket™ Window Shadings

Nantucket™ delivers the core Silhouette experience, floating vanes, sheer glow, view-through softness, in a streamlined range that covers most rooms beautifully. It's how we bring the signature sheer shades look to whole-home projects and secondary spaces while keeping the light quality consistent throughout the house. Like its siblings, it's on working display in our Palm Coast showroom, where the products argue for themselves.

Choosing among the four lines is easier in person than on paper: Silhouette for horizontal windows where the glow is the point, Pirouette where the fabric should have sculptural presence, Luminette for sliders and verticals, Nantucket where the signature look needs to cover many rooms gracefully. All four hang working in our Palm Coast showroom, and most visitors know their answer within minutes of tilting the vanes themselves. Bring the room's dimensions and its problem, glare, privacy, a view worth keeping, and we'll match the line to the window before the coffee is finished.

FAQs

Your Questions, Answered

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FAQs

Your Questions, Answered

What are Hunter Douglas Silhouette shades?

Shades built from soft fabric vanes suspended between two sheer layers. Open, the vanes float and the shade glows with diffused daylight; tilted, they tune light and privacy by degrees. It's the signature Hunter Douglas product, and the one our showroom visitors most often stop at.

How long do Hunter Douglas Silhouette shades last?

These are buy-once products. The fabrics resist fading, the mechanisms are engineered for decades of daily use, and Hunter Douglas backs them with a limited lifetime warranty that we service locally as your authorized dealer. Most replacements we see are redecorations, not failures.

What's the difference between Silhouette shades and zebra (banded) shades?

Construction and feel. Zebra or banded shades alternate opaque and sheer horizontal stripes on a rolling loop; alignment of the bands sets the light. Silhouette suspends tiltable fabric vanes between true sheers, giving a softer, dimensional glow and finer control. Banded reads graphic and modern; Silhouette reads luminous.

Are Silhouette shades still in style?

Enduringly. Because the product is about light quality rather than a trend silhouette, it reads current in coastal, traditional, and modern rooms alike, and Hunter Douglas keeps refreshing fabrics and automation around the same beloved engineering. It remains our most-requested shade for view-facing rooms.

Can Silhouette shades be motorized?

Yes. PowerView automation raises, lowers, and tilts the vanes from an app, remote, or schedule, and silhouette blinds hunter douglas owners tend to call it the best upgrade in the house: whole rooms tune their own light through the day.