Woven Textures DouLite® Roller Shades
Dual Shades
Bringing natural light into your home can be beneficial to your mood and productivity. Too much light can be overwhelming, and sometimes you want to block it all out. With the dual shades feature, you can have your light and block it, too.
- Two shades on one headrail
- Front shade filters light
- Second shade blocks light
- Use shades independently, or both at once
One shade portion is designed to offer filtered light and views of the outdoors. The other shade portion is meant to block light and provide privacy. It’s called the Duolite system, and it can look different depending on the type of window shades you choose. Honeycomb shades, roller and solar shades, woven woods and sheer shades all have dual shade capabilities, and the results are the same–a beautiful atmosphere, made possible by the right adjustments of your dual shade system.
Dual Honeycomb Shades
Exclusive to Hunter Douglas honeycomb shades, two shades with two different fabric opacities are joined together. The top fabric portion is often sheer or light filtering, while the bottom fabric portion is room darkening or opaque. Choose to cover the entire window with one opacity, or make adjustments up or down, allowing both portions of fabric to cover a certain amount of the window for a balance of both light filtering and room darkening. This is often compared to the top down feature, allowing light into the room while privacy is protected.
Shades with a Blackout Roller Shade
This dual shade system is probably what most homeowners think of when they hear about two shades on one window. The front shade is a sheer or light filtering shade, while the second shade is a blackout roller shade. These two shades operate independent of one another, allowing complete light filtering, complete room darkening, or a balance of both. When the blackout roller is lowered in place, most homeowners also leave the front shade down, as a decorative shade option.
Woven Shade with Secondary Cellular Shade
The newest dual shade feature brings energy efficiency and room darkening to the beauty of woven wood shades. Once only available with a blackout liner, now woven shades can share the headrail with a cellular shade for incredible light control, as well as energy savings. The front shade is still beautiful and decorative–and it can be used on its own. But when you want complete light control, or if you need to regulate the temperature in your Halifax home, the secondary honeycomb shade can be lowered behind the woven shade.
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