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.
Window Covering Overview
We offer custom Hunter Douglas Blinds, Shades, Shutters, drapery & top treatments for your home or business.
Window Covering Motorization
We offer window covering motorization solutions for your home or business. Use the PowerView® App, Pebble® remote or your voice to operate the shades.
Wallpaper
Peerless has the largest selection of in stock wall-coverings and the largest library of special order wall-covering books in the tri-state area.
Drapery & Valances
Peerless Wallpaper and Blinds is here to help you find the perfect curtains and drapery for any room in your home.
Custom Bedding and Pillows
We offer everything from custom bedding, pillows, to headboard and upholstered benches and more.
Home Accessories
Completely change the look of any room with new home accessories. Peerless Wallpaper and Blinds can help you choose the perfect pieces to create a unique, beautiful home environment that reflects your own personal style.
Interior Design Consultations
Peerless Wallpaper & Blinds offers a design consultations for window covering, wallpaper, bedding and more. Visit our showroom today!
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
Upholstery Services
We offer upholstery services to bring your favorite piece of furniture back to life.
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Peerless Wallpaper and Blinds has been a Pittsburgh institution for nearly 100 years. Serving Pittsburgh, PA and the surrounding area, we are the one-stop source for all your interior design and home décor needs, including wallcoverings, custom window shades, shutters, draperies, curtains, and more.
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Peerless Wallpaper & Blinds refers its customers to the following quality lender for their financing.
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Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
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Arched Windows
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Blackout
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Investing in anything often involves one question: Is it worth it? If you have had your eye on blackout shades, you have probably wondered this exact question. You may have purchased blackout shades before, only to be disappointed. Or, maybe you are doing your research to make sure your initial purchase is the best one possible.
Any way you go about it, determining whether or not a potential investment is worth it can be a big challenge. But we can make that much easier for you, as when you shop from our selection of Hunter Douglas blackout shades, you can rest assured that you are always making a great investment. When you choose Hunter Douglas, there are many benefits that come with their blackout shades, and we discuss the top three so you can rest assured that you are making the best investment.
Benefit 1: Improved Sleep Quality
If you have woken up after eight hours of sleep and still feel groggy, you might not have achieved enough REM sleep. One main culprit causing this is trace amounts of light seeping through your shades. This can come from sunlight, moonlight, cars, street lamps, and bright signs. One of the benefits of blackout shades is that they help improve your sleep quality by blocking these trace amounts of light.
For example, Duette® Cellular Shades from Hunter Douglas are available with LightLock™, a feature that fits securely onto a window frame. From there, this system absorbs light from all intensities and angles, so your room enjoys near-darkness. You can also peruse several opacities to find your perfect levels of darkness.
Benefit 2: Increased Energy Efficiency
Of course, darkness isn’t the only thing blackout shades offer. Due to their darker opacity, blackout shades help reduce your home’s energy usage while keeping your home comfortable throughout the year.
Since these shades block sunlight, they can help reduce heat gain in the summer. Whether you are trying to reduce your air conditioning use or want your home to remain relatively cool while you are on vacation, one of the benefits of blackout shades is that they help keep your home cooler naturally. On the flip side, they help provide added insulation in the winter to keep your home nice and warm. This all works to decrease how much energy your home uses more overall, greatly increasing its energy efficiency.
Benefit 3: Customization
Many people believe that blackout shades don’t offer much customization and only come in dark, heavy fabrics. Fortunately, this couldn’t be further from the truth!
Vignette® Modern Roman Shades, Duette® Cellular Shades, and Silhouette® Sheer Shades all offer room-darkening and blackout capabilities, plus hundreds of fabric and color styles for you to choose from. No matter your style, you can achieve it with blackout shades from Hunter Douglas.
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As you can see, blackout shades have many benefits for your home. Whether you place them in your bedroom, guest bedroom, media room, or office, you will notice an immediate upgrade to your home in light control, energy efficiency, and style.
To learn more about the three benefits of blackout shades or to discuss the aforementioned options from Hunter Douglas in detail, be sure to contact us or visit our showroom at Peerless Wallpaper & Blinds!
Plus, check out our promotions page for unbeatable savings on Hunter Douglas products throughout the year. Peerless Wallpaper & Blinds is located in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, proudly serving Monroeville, Pittsburgh, and Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
