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.
Commercial Blinds & Shades
We offer window treatments for any business or commercial setting.
Cornices
We offer window treatments for any business or commercial setting.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Blind and Shade Repairs
We offer quick and professional repairs for your blinds and shades.
Consumer Financing by Wells Fargo
We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
Window Treatment Cleaning
At Advanced Window Fashions, we are always looking for new ways to serve you better.
About Us
Advanced Window Fashions has been serving the Charleston and surrounding inland and island communities for nearly 3 decades.
Our Team
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Testimonials
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View our portfolio gallery of blinds, vertical blinds, commercial work, motorization, outdoor shades and shutters, Roller shades and shutters, Roman shades, shutters, sheers and shadings, woven woods, and others.
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Bathroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and moisture-resistance.
Bedroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and room darkening.
Home Office
See window covering solutions for light filtering and glare control.
Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
See window covering solutions for light filtering and UV protection.
Media Room
See room darkening window treatments for your media room.
Nursery & Kids Room
See child-safe window coverings for baby nurseries and kids rooms
Angled Windows
See blinds and shades for angled, sloped, and triangle-shaped windows.
Arched Windows
See blinds and shades for arched, half-circle or half-moon windows.
Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
See blinds and shades for bay, bow and corner windows.
French Doors
See shutters, blinds and shades for French Doors.
Sidelights
See blinds and shades for sidelight windows.
Sliding Glass Doors
See blinds and shades for patio and sliding-glass doors.
Skylights
See blinds and shades specifically suited for skylights.
Automated
See all options for automated blinds and shades.
Blackout
See our options for blinds and shades that best control light.
Energy Efficient
See blinds and shades that help save energy at the window.
Light Filtering
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Child and Pet-Friendly
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Master the Art of Layered Window Fashions
Why choose just one window treatment when adding layered window fashions add interest and texture to a space? Since windows are a focal point in any room, you want their coverings to look fabulous. Layering your window treatments is also a unique way to increase the control over light and privacy in your space. Our team at Advanced Window Fashions can help you master the art of layered window fashions when you pair functional and fashionable Hunter Douglas window coverings to create a cohesive look.
A Solid Foundation
Pave the way to success with layered window fashions by deciding what functions are essential. Do you need room-darkening window coverings for a bedroom or light-filtering treatments that provide daytime privacy in a living room? Knowing this will make it much easier to narrow your choices when choosing your shades, drapes, or blinds.
Casting Roles
There are no hard and fast rules for combining window treatments, but our favorite technique is to have a star window treatment and then surround it with an upstanding supporting cast. Go for bold colors or exciting prints on custom drapes that allow you to express a more fashion-forward look and let the other window treatment focus on functions you prefer or that offer a more subtle style. This keeps the aesthetic interesting without feeling cluttered or chaotic. Layered window fashions are also an excellent way to add texture and create contrast within a space. The difference can be between the layers or the room and window treatments. There’s also always the option of using two muted layers to have windows that blend in with a room’s background.
Installation Is Important
Layered window fashions must be installed appropriately to look and perform their best. If your windows have the necessary depth, consider mounting your base layer shades or blinds inside the window frame for a clean, sleek aesthetic. The rule of thumb for custom drapery is to hang it “high and wide.” Install the hardware several inches above the window frame to make your windows look larger and ceilings taller. Extending the rod several inches beyond the sides of the frame gives your drapes a full, elegant appearance and lessens the impact of stack-back on your view of the outdoors.
Stay Consistent
The most beautiful spaces have a cohesive design throughout. You can keep a consistent look on your windows by using the same treatments within a space and the same layered style in other rooms. You can use subtle differences to create distinct zones in large, open spaces. You’ll keep the same window fashions but change the color or print.
Maintain the layered aesthetic without having identical windows by swapping out one shade or blinds for another. If you choose Roman shades and custom drapes in a room, consider roller shades paired with drapery in the adjacent room. Dark wood blinds in one room are a fantastic way to complement lighter wood blinds or shutters in the next.
Contact Us
If you’ve been searching for the best place to buy blinds and custom drapery in the Lowcountry, you found Advanced Window Fashions. We have been dressing windows near Charleston, SC for nearly three decades, and our work exemplifies our pride in every project. Ask us about adding custom drapery to your window treatments for an extra touch of sophisticated style.
Please stop by our showroom at 502 Wando Park Blvd, Unit 105, in Mount Pleasant, or request a consultation online.
Advanced Window Fashions is proud to serve Mount Pleasant, Charleston, Isle of Palms, Kiawah, Sullivan's Island, Seabrook Island, John's Island, James Island, Daniel Island, West Ashley, Awendaw, McClellanville, and Summerville, SC.