April 04, 2012

Window Treatment Wednesday: Analyzing Texture Trends for Window Treatments

The current window treatment offerings include something for everyone. No matter what your style preferences are or how your home is decorated, Hirshfield’s Window Fashions offers options that will be a perfect fit.

If you’re struggling for ideas, adding a textural dimension to your window covering has a time-honored appeal. You can use a textured window treatment in a utilitarian fashion or step it up and let the window treatment be the focal point in a room.

Textured Shades

Woven wood shades have become a classic window treatment solution. The combination of natural woods, bamboo, and reeds creates a timeless treatment suitable for any style of home. An option for contemporary and traditional styles, woven woods offer natural beauty that complements almost any setting. What’s more, delicate and durable grass weave shades is another wonderful treatment possibility to consider.

Motorized Hunter Douglas Woven Woods from @athena.stefdesign on Instagram

Textured Blinds

Wood blinds, with either a stained or painted finish, offer yet another texture to a room. The smooth, more regimented lines feel right at home in both sleek contemporary and more laid-back cottage decor. They’re also exceptionally easy to maintain and can help prevent heat transfer—improving your home’s energy efficiency.

Fabric Options

The Hunter Douglas Silhouette offers more choices in texture with the Alustra Brio fabric fast becoming a favorite for clients. Drapery panels are another beautiful choice that can add texture to a room. Additionally, upgraded style and sound absorption are other potential added benefits of choosing fabric coverings for your windows.

Selecting the Right Option for Your Home

Make certain your window treatments inject the appropriate texture to balance a room. Too often, the texture is overlooked as a consideration, even though it can entirely alter the ambiance of a room.

For a hard, predominantly wood-filled space with few upholstered pieces, select soft, voluptuous curtain fabrics. In a carpeted room with plain drywall or plaster walls, consider wooden blinds or shades to inject the warmth of natural wood tones. Or you can create a mixture of textures in a single window treatment to provide textural richness and depth.

The Midwest’s Window Treatment Leader

At Hirshfield’s Window Fashions, our job is to channel our customers’ visions for their homes into window coverings that fit their needs perfectly. We’re a family-owned company with locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Iowa, and we have been serving homeowners throughout the Midwest since 1894. Our experience and commitment to excellence have helped us become the go-to choice for interior home fashions.

We offer a wide array of textured window coverings from respected manufacturers like Hunter Douglas, so we’re confident we can help you select the ideal option for your home. When you partner with Hirshfield’s, you can select from:

Natural woven shades made from several unique materials, including reeds, grasses, paper, jute, flax, bark, and bamboo
Hardwood blinds that are available in a variety of woods and tones and can improve your home’s thermal performance
All types of fabric shades, including cellular, roller, Roman, sheer, and transitional
Elegant drapes and curtains in just about any material imaginable

Schedule a Consultation

Contact Hirshfield’s Window Fashions today to learn more about the many different window treatment styles and textures we offer.

Guest post from Beth Zentis, Shop at Home Window Treatment Designer.

Customer Reviews

We’ve Served Countless Satisfied Customers Over Generations

I have come to rely on the staff at Hirshfield’s Design Resource for their fabulous customer service and variety of products. The service is always friendly, timely and professional.

As a designer, their advice on window treatments is forever appreciated, and they are always able to show me something new in the displays and samples. They provide quick and accurate estimates, measurements and suggestions when I am struggling with a budget. The final product and installation has been nothing but flawless on every project.

I truly value what they continue to bring to our design community!

Pamela Kilian

Simply Designed

Want to give a shout out to Madi. Madi took a pretty awful experience and made it right for us. We had ordered cordless blinds and over half of them did not work right or hang right. Madi helped us return all the blinds and reordered a new product for us which we are very happy with. Madi was persistent in helping us get the issues we experience resolved.

She is always so warm and friendly and definitely puts her customers first. Thanks Madi you are a gem! Also want to add that my overall experience with Hirshfield's in St. Cloud has been an excellent experience. They made things right and put their customers first!

Kim Kaluza

Greg is amazing! We have worked with him throughout the years on both existing homes and new builds and we could not be happier. One of the things I appreciate about Greg is that he gets us to really think about how we will use our space, not just now but in the future when the kids get older. This has honestly has saved us from making some pretty big design mistakes. Finding durable fabrics and pieces is important to us while we have a preschooler running around, yet on the other hand, our teens have a different use for the space.

He is able to make it all work together seamlessly by understanding the space and its function. He has a fresh and distinctive feel to his work and builds in a variety of styles. I HIGHLY recommend working with Greg out of the gate, you will not be sorry. I honestly don't know what we do without his help;)

Kim Strout

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