Creating a nursery is one of the most enjoyable parts of preparing for a new baby. Parents carefully choose the crib, furniture, colors and finishing touches, but window treatments deserve just as much consideration. The right shades can create a comfortable sleep environment while providing privacy, light control and a polished look.
Hunter Douglas offers several window treatment options particularly well suited for nurseries and young children’s rooms.
Honeycomb Shades Create a Cozy Environment
Hunter Douglas Duette® Honeycomb Shades are an excellent choice for a baby’s room because they combine attractive design with practical benefits. Their distinctive cellular construction traps air at the window, adding an extra layer of insulation that can help keep a nursery more comfortable year round.
Duette shades also offer excellent light control, and for nurseries, that matters most at naptime. Select Duette collections are available with LightLock™ technology, which uses U-shaped side channels along the edges of the shade to block light from seeping in around the frame, creating a notably darker room than a standard shade. Duette’s cellular pockets also help absorb sound, another welcome benefit when a sleeping baby is nearby.
Sonnette® Shades Soften the Room
For parents who prefer a softer appearance, Hunter Douglas Sonnette® Cellular Roller Shades combine the clean simplicity of a roller shade with the insulating construction of a cellular shade.
Their gentle curves bring warmth and texture to a nursery without overwhelming the room. Sonnette shades are available in semi opaque and room darkening fabric opacities, so parents can choose the level of light control that suits the room, and the collection’s soft, neutral fabrics work particularly well with the calm palettes often chosen for today’s nurseries.
Vignette® Modern Roman Shades Add Elegance
Hunter Douglas Vignette® Modern Roman Shades offer another option for parents who want softness at the window. Their fabric folds provide the sophisticated appearance of a traditional Roman shade with a clean, contemporary design, available in a 4″ full fold or a 6″ flat fold.
Vignette shades are offered in sheer, light filtering and room darkening fabric opacities, and in numerous colors and textures, making them easy to coordinate with nursery furniture, bedding and wall colors.
Parents who want flexibility can also add the Duolite® system, which layers a sheer or light filtering fabric with a room darkening one on the same shade, so the room can shift from soft daytime light to a darker setting for naps with a single control.
The Importance of Room Darkening
Babies do not always sleep according to the sun. Afternoon naps, early bedtimes and bright summer evenings can make effective light control especially important.
Room darkening shades significantly reduce incoming light, helping parents create a darker, calmer setting when needed. For an even more complete blackout, Duette’s LightLock technology is specifically engineered to close the gaps where light typically sneaks in around a shade’s edges.
Safety is equally important. Hunter Douglas offers several cord free ways to operate a shade, including the LiteRise® system, which raises and lowers the shade with a simple push or pull and no cords at all. Hunter Douglas PowerView® Automation goes a step further, letting parents raise, lower or schedule shades by app, remote or voice command without approaching the window or disturbing a sleeping child.
The best nursery window treatment should complement the room while making everyday life a little easier. Whether choosing the energy efficient construction of Duette Honeycomb Shades, the soft simplicity of Sonnette Cellular Roller Shades or the elegant folds of Vignette Modern Roman Shades, parents have attractive options for creating a comfortable, restful space.
When a baby sleeps comfortably, there is always the possibility that Mom and Dad might get a little more sleep, too.
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