Top alternatives for vertical blinds

While vertical blinds were once the most common way to cover sliding glass doors and large windows, they are no longer your only option. From vertical cellular shades to sheer weaves, sliding panels, and shutters, Hunter Douglas offers a variety of window coverings to meet your unique needs as well as your personal style.

Alternative solutions for vertical blinds

There are a few things you need to consider before you start buying vertical window coverings: How much space do you have around your door or window? Do you have a handle that might interfere with your window covering? Is energy efficiency important to you?

Also consider the type of vertical window covering that will best match the other blinds in your room.

Vertical cellular shades

Les stores cellulaires sont disponibles sous forme de couvre-fenêtre verticale et sont dotés d’un système d’utilisation qui leur permet de se déplacer d’un côté à l’autre. Vous pouvez utiliser un seul store pour toute une surface ou vous pouvez choisir un store à entassement divisé (chaque côté fonctionne indépendamment).

This particular style of blind offers superior energy efficiency. The honeycomb design traps air in distinct pockets, while adding an extra layer of insulation to the window.

Cellular shades help keep a room cooler in the summer by blocking intense rays; they also prevent heat loss in the winter, which helps keep a room warmer.

Their simple design adds a touch of modernity to a space. And with so many colours, textures, and patterns available in matching horizontal trims, it's easy to coordinate them with the other windows in a room.

Sheer vertical blinds

Featuring soft and sheer fabric coverings that beautifully diffuse natural light, attached to flexible and rotating fabric slats, sheer vertical blinds offer the functionality of vertical blinds combined with the ethereal beauty of drapery panels.

Due to their ability to diffuse natural light, transparent vertical blinds help protect wooden floors, furniture, and artwork from harmful UV rays while maintaining your view of the outdoors.

Choose transparent vertical blinds to enjoy the light when you want and privacy when you need it.

Sliding panel blinds

Made of flat fabric panels that slide on a track, the sliding panel blinds are an elegant and contemporary version of vertical blinds. When open, they stack tightly to maximize your view, and when closed, you can enjoy their beautiful texture and style.

Shutters

Compared to traditional vertical blinds, shutters provide a sense of warmth and richness. And they are an excellent choice for high-traffic areas—they are as durable as they are beautiful.

Given that there are blinds with horizontal slats and blinds with sunburst slats, window coverings can be adapted to nearly any opening, from angles to arches to hexagons. This allows for easy coordination with other window treatments in the same room.