Aura
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
Sheer Shades
Learn more about Hunter Douglas custom window sheers, including our shadings and privacy sheers. Innovative, light-diffusing sheers. Your trusted source for window treatments.
Cellular Shades
Cellular honeycomb shades from Hunter Douglas. An energy-efficient design that traps air in distinct pockets to help keep your house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Roman Shades
Custom-made fabric Roman Shades by Hunter Douglas, combining the look of soft folds with the ease and convenience of a shade. Custom-crafted.
Roller Shades
The Hunter Douglas roller shades & solar screen shades collections offer excellent light control and a clean, stylish look in a range of fabrics and materials.
Woven Shades
For a warm, natural look our Hunter Douglas Woven Wood Shades collection of window treatments transforms sunlight into captivating design statements. Choose yours today.
Vertical Shades
Find the right custom vertical shades for any room in your home. Search our most popular window shades.
Wood Blinds
From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, wood blinds have been a favorite among homeowners for decades.
Metal Blinds
Find the perfect metal blinds for any room in your home. From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, metal blinds have been a favorite among homeowners.
Vertical Blinds
Discover Hunter Douglas customized vertical blinds featuring elegant styling and translucency in a large selection of colors, treatments, and textures. Lifetime guarantee.
Shutters
Hunter Douglas custom window shutters provide superior light control and privacy with classic styles, long-lasting finishes, and exceptional craftsmanship.
Drapery
Choose from timeless and on-trend fabrics, including lofty textures and alluring jacquards, artisanal embroideries and luminous sheers.
Light Enhancing
Enjoy the beauty of natural light and make any space more captivating, with the following light-enhancing shades.
Room Darkening
Want a darker room for better sleep or optimal movie binging? These shades and drapes help block light at the window.
Energy Efficient
Live comfortably and save energy with these shades. Designer to keep a room warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Door Coverings
Manage natural light and add privacy with these window treatments that work well for sliding-glass and patio doors.
Sound Absorption
Create a quieter, more relaxing room with these window treatments, which help absorb sound, reducing exterior noise.
Top-Down Bottom-Up
For privacy and natural light, position shades from the top, bottom or both. These shades have this feature available.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Drapery Hardware
Choose from a wide selection of styles.
Fabrics
Choose from our large selection of fabric colors, patterns and textures.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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Rebarts Interiors has been providing extraordinary window fashion products and expert design advice for over 30 years.
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Rebart's has been the Bay Area's premier source of window treatments and interior design for over 30 years.
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Our Los Altos store is conveniently located at 253 State Street, Los Altos, CA 94022 (9VHM+P7 Los Altos, California).
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When you’re decorating your home, you often consider wall colors, furniture, and even flooring before you decide on window treatments.
Our Menlo Park, CA Store
Our Menlo Park store is precisely placed at 865 Santa Cruz Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
Our Burlingame, CA Store
Rebart’s Interiors has 4 locations throughout The Bay area, including Burlingame, Los Altos, Menlo Park, and San Carlos.
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A Guide to Room Darkening Window Treatments
It’s no secret that lighting is the key to creating a great ambiance in any room in your home. Sometimes, this can be difficult to accomplish without help from the right lighting solutions as well as the right window treatments to give you full control of the natural light that enters your home. Whether you want to enjoy a cozy movie night in or simply block unwanted sunlight in your nursery during naptime, it’s important to understand how room-darkening window treatments work and which ones will best serve your needs. That’s where the experienced team at Rebarts can jump in to help!
What Are Room Darkening Window Treatments?
Room darkening window treatments are designed to reduce the amount of natural light entering a room. They’re distinctly different from blackout shades, as they don't completely block out light. Rather, they create a significantly dimmer atmosphere that can be further enhanced. This makes them perfect for spaces where you want reduced light, such as living rooms, bedrooms, or home offices.
At Rebarts, we offer the full Hunter Douglas window treatment line, which includes room darkening shades, blinds, and curtains from Carole Fabrics, giving you the flexibility as the homeowner to choose a style that complements your interior design while meeting your light control needs.
Room Darkening vs Blackout: What’s the Difference?
A common misconception is that room darkening and blackout window treatments are the same. While both types of treatments aim to control light, they offer different levels of light filtration.
Room Darkening
These treatments allow some light to filter through but reduce glare and the overall brightness of the room. They’re ideal for living rooms, nurseries, or bedrooms where you still want a touch of natural light.
Blackout
Blackout window treatments are designed to block out almost all light, providing near-total darkness. They’re often used in media rooms, bedrooms for people who need complete darkness to sleep, or nurseries where complete light blockage is necessary during nap time. If you're comparing room darkening vs blackout window treatments, your choice will depend on how much control you need over light.
Types of Room Darkening Window Treatments
There are several types of window treatments that can create a room darkening effect. Here are our top three choice for room darkening blinds & shades:
Duette® Cellular Shades
Duette® Cellular Shades are a fantastic room-darkening window shade option for both energy efficiency and light control. The unique honeycomb design of Duette® Cellular Shades traps air at the window, insulating your home while reducing glare. With over 150 fabric options with varying opacities, including room darkening options, Duette® Cellular Shades provide versatile light control. Transform these window treatments into blackout window treatments with the addition of LightLock™, a revolutionary feature that uses U-shaped side channels that overlap the shades, prevent light gaps, and create an unparallelled room darkening experience.
Silhouette® Sheer Shades
Silhouette® Sheer Shades are a unique window treatment option if you’re looking to add a modern, elegant visual touch to your room. Silhouette® Sheer Shades are made of soft, adjustable S-shaped vanes that float between two sheer panels, and they can be paired with a room darkening liner to create the perfect amount of light control. Choose from over 150 options and diverse opacities to customize the perfect shades for your room.
Vignette® Roman Shades
If you like to pair the look of classic farmhouse chic with modern operation systems, Vignette® Roman Shades are the perfect choice for you. Vignette® Roman Shades mimic the look of drapery will giving you superior energy efficiency. And, to top it all off, they make a great room darkening shade. With no exposed cords and the capability to integrate these Roman shades with PowerView® Automation, Vignette® Roman Shades make for a safe option for homes with pets and small children. There are over 25 fabric options to choose from, including room darkening options. Add an additional liner with Duolite® to further customize your lighting conditions.
Choose Rebarts Blinds & Shades Store for Room Darkening Shades & Blinds
If you’d like to speak with one of our window treatment professionals to learn more about room darkening window treatment options, feel free to request a consultation with Rebarts Blinds & Shades Store today or call us at (650) 348-1268. We look forward to hearing from you!
Rebarts has four convenient locations in Burlingame, Los Altos, Menlo Park, or San Carlos, CA, and we are happy to serve homeowners in any of the following areas: Burlingame, Los Altos, Menlo Park, San Carlos, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Los Gatos, Redwood City, Foster City, San Mateo, Saratoga, Belmont, Woodside, Redwood Shores, Millbrae, Aptos, Atherton, and Stanford, CA.