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.
Awnings
Save energy, reduce glare, and protect furniture from fading.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Fabrics
Ivan’s Blinds and More is not just your local Hunter Douglas window treatment source, but also your local fabric store.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
After-Hours & In-Home Consultations
Our schedule is flexible, and we can come to your home for a consultation.
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We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
Consumer Financing by Wells Fargo
We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
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We offer Video Design Consultations, using video conferencing tools such as FaceTime, Zoom, Skype, and Duo.
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Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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Blackout
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Shutters and Shades for West Facing Windows
On its journey across the sky each day, the sun unevenly impacts the rooms in our homes. This means that the most intense afternoon sun pours into your west-facing windows, which makes the rooms hotter than south- or east-facing rooms. Running your air conditioning or relying on fans causes your energy bills to rise. That’s why many homeowners seek more energy efficient solutions, like insulating window coverings.
At Ivan’s Blinds and More in La Quinta, California, we carry insulating window treatments, like shutters and cellular shades, to help prevent heat gain in west facing windows. Read on to learn some of our favorite options from Hunter Douglas to fit your westward windows and your interior design style.
Duette® Cellular Shades for West-Facing Windows
Cellular shades are made from fabric panels with a hidden layer of hollow honeycomb-shaped cells. These cells act as a layer of insulation at your window, keeping inside air in and outside air out. Plus, these hades block UV rays. These cellular panels press against the windows, acting like insulation, and trap the outside air.
This process can improve your home’s energy efficiency by preventing additional hot air from entering or escaping. The insulation also absorbs sound, making your home quieter. This makes them the perfect shades for west-facing windows.
Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades are available in over 150 of color and fabric choices, and in opacities ranging from semi-sheer to room-darkening. You can also add a dual shade or choose the convenient Top-Down/Bottom-Up System to maximize light control and your view.
For even more insulation, choose Duette® Architella® Cellular Shades, which offer a honeycomb-within-a-honeycomb design. Duette® with Architella® is made with a double layer of cells for an even more insulating power for spaces that require more protection.
Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Vinyl Shutters For West-Facing Windows
Shutters are another great window treatment option for reducing the UV rays and ambient heat that pours through your west windows. These interior window treatments are permanent fixtures built into a frame on top of the window, which means they fit snugly and can help reduce the air transfer and heat that could come through any tiny cracks and gaps. Additionally, shutters have thick louvers which act as a barrier between the sun and your home, effectively blocking UV rays and helping with temperature control. The louvers also block against outside noise and can provide complete privacy when you shut them.
One of the best options for west windows is Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Vinyl Shutters, made from a custom poly vinyl blend and reinforced with aluminum bracing and resin blocks. This makes them incredibly durable. They also resist heat and humidity damage, as well as mold and mildew growth, and the strong louvers won’t bend, bow, or break.
You can customize these by selecting:
- 3 classic neutral colors.
- The size of the louvers: 2.5, 3.5, or 4.5 inches.
- The operation system, including PowerView® Automation, which is usually not available on shutters.
Contact us for West-Facing Window Treatments near La Quinta, CA
Keep your home cooler with west-facing window treatments that block the strong afternoon sunlight. At Ivan’s Blinds and More near LaQuinta, California, we can pair you with insulating Hunter Douglas shutters and shades for west windows—and every other window in your home. We’ll work with you to customize your window treatments so they look good and complement your décor and style.
We also carry blinds, draperies, valances, awnings, and custom fabrics.
Call us at (760) 777-7670, fill out our contact form, or visit our showroom to request a consultation. We proudly serve the greater La Quinta, CA area, including the Coachella Valley, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Indio, and Rancho Mirage, CA.