It’s a simple scientific fact:  heat moves toward cold and windows don’t insulate against air penetration as well as one might think. In colder months, up to 50 percent of a home’s heat goes right out the window, as well as a significant portion of your energy bills. In warmer months, solar heat passing through windows can greatly increase the temperature inside a home, causing air conditioners to work as much as two to three times harder and energy costs to rise as well.  Most people don’t know the amount of energy that is lost out the window. In fact, almost five percent of all energy consumed in the U.S. passes through the windows of residential homes.  Along with reducing heat loss at the window, select Hunter Douglas styles provide significant daylighting benefits, allowing you to use natural sunlight to illuminate your home, thus reducing the need for artificial lighting, which saves on electrical costs. We hope to educate consumers on the amount of energy that is lost at the window and the energy and cost savings available to them by installing the right window fashions. This is also a wonderful opportunity for you to help pave the way towards greener living.  Cheryl Carroll and Custom Window Treatments are making it easier for you to conserve energy, and money, while adding beauty to your home.

Foremost among the products that can significantly reduce energy costs while beautifying a home are Duette® Architella® honeycomb shades, which boast a patented honeycomb-within-a-honeycomb design that provides more air pockets than traditional honeycomb shades and dramatically increases R-values—the measure of a product’s ability to keep heat in and cold out. The higher the R-value, the better the product is at maintaining desired indoor temperatures. When properly installed, Duette Architella shades can actually reduce heat flow at the window by up to 50 percent and lower heating and cooling costs.  Duette Architella shades are ideal for patio and sliding glass doors, Duette honeycomb shades with the Vertiglide™ Duolite™ design option allows two different honeycomb fabrics to be used together for nuanced light control.

Vertically oriented Luminette® Privacy Sheers, Silhouette® window shadings, with the Signature S-Vane™,  and Pirouette® window shadings combines operable vanes with sheer fabric that allows natural light to be drawn deep into the room while still providing maximum UV protection.  Stop The Great Energy Giveaway is part of the new Hunter Douglas Hunter Green initiative designed to create awareness and action around conserving energy, supporting social programs that have a positive impact across the globe and promoting the superior energy-saving benefits that Hunter Douglas products offer.