Alternative Wood Blinds

Outstanding durability. Classic good looks. Rich, alternative wood that stands up to humidity and the sun.

Features and Benefits

Light control and privacy – with a tilt of the slats

Complete view to the outside – without lifting the blind

Performance Plus^™ Protection—ensures no fading, discoloring, warping or bowing for the life of your blinds.

Available in 2″ and 2 1/2″ slat sizes

Enhanced safety lift system with no exposed cords

Brackets hold lowered blind securely in place

Wand tilts slats

Aluminum Blinds

2″ Aluminum blinds are a sleek, durable option for high-traffic spaces. They’re also moisture-resistant, making them ideal for kitchens and bathrooms.

Features and Benefits

Light control and privacy – with a tilt of the slats

Complete View to the Outdoors – without lifting the blind.

Available in a matte, glossy and metallic finishes

Complements many aesthetics, from modern to traditional

Enhanced safety lift system with no exposed cords

Brackets hold lowered blind securely in place

Wand tilts slats

Angled and Arched Windows

Covering angled and arched windows with blinds is challenging due to their non-standard shapes requiring custom solutions. Pre-made blinds typically don’t fit properly, and variations in angles and sizes, along with the orientation of the windows, can make finding the right fit and functionality difficult.  Depending on the situation, sometime leaving the top of the angle or arch open can be the right decision.

Arches

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Banded Shades

Modern, layered, sheer and solid fabrics. For a view when you want it and privacy when you need it. Banded shades create varying dimensions of light with the layered sheer and solid fabric bands.

Features and Benefits

Light control and privacy – by adjusting the bands

Fabrics are available in a variety of colors and textures.

Fabric Opacities—light filtering and light dimming.

Varying Band Height—medium or large

Choose from a variety of control options

Be Smart. Home Smart.

Motorized Shades for Smart Home Living

In window coverings, motorization simply means using a motor to operate the blinds or shades, typically controlled by a remote or wall switch. Automation, on the other hand, takes it a step further by adding programming and smart features, allowing the window coverings to adjust automatically based on schedules, sensors, or integration with other smart home devices. 

Automation allows you to set up schedules for your shades, so that shades automatically open and close exactly when you want them to, for everyday convenience.

Here’s a look at just some of the ways this can work for you:

1. Swap your alarm for a gentle wake-up by scheduling bedroom shades to open.
2. Schedule kitchen shades to open while you’re enjoying breakfast.
3. Schedule all shades throughout your house to close in the evening.
4. Enhance security by scheduling shades to move at set times, giving your home a lived-in look while you’re away.
5. In summer or warmer climates, schedule shades to close during the day to keep your house cooler.

Schedules are created and controlled using the manufactures customized app on your smart phone. Take a look below at the Hunter Douglas PowerView video that explains just how easy this process is!

Composite Shutters

The rich look of hardwood, with added strength. For hybrid shutters that can take wear and tear. These shutters combine the look of genuine wood with the durability of composite materials, making beautiful high quality shutters the perfect choice for any home.

Features and Benefits

Colours options include a selection of classic whites, as well as woodgrain finishes that replicate the look of genuine wood.

Louver Sizes—2 ½”, 3 ½” or 4 ½”.

Superior Craftsmanship—with dovetail construction to create strong panels for lasting value

When fully closed, shutters reduce heating and cooling costs to help save money at the window, block 99% of harmful UV rays to protect furniture and flooring and minimize outside noise for a more tranquil home.

Available in several tilt options for personalized light control and privacy

Cordless

Cordless lift systems on blinds and shades offer a safer and cleaner alternative to traditional corded options by eliminating hanging cords, which can pose a hazard to children and pets. These systems rely on a tension mechanism, either in the headrail or bottom rail, that allows you to raise and lower the blinds or shades by simply pushing up or pulling down the bottom rail.

This upgraded cordless version allows for effortless raising and lowering by simply pushing up or pulling down on the bottom rail,

Another cordless version requires a slight tug on the bottom hem bar to lift the shade. The operation of this style of lift system is not as exact as the one shown above.

Drapery Hardware

Drapery hardware, like curtain rods, rings, and finials, adds a touch of elegance and sophistication to window treatments, transforming them form purely functional to stylish design elements. It allows homeowners to express their personal style and create a cohesive look by coordinating the hardware with their overall decor. Additionally, drapery hardware can enhance the functionality of curtains, allowing for smooth operation and a tailored appearance. 

Energy Efficiency

Energy-efficient window coverings improve your home by enhancing insulation, regulating temperature, and reducing energy costs..They can keep your home cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, reducing reliance on heating and cooling systems and potentially saving you money on energy bills. 

Automated window coverings, like motorized blinds and shades, can significantly reduce energy costs by optimizing natural light and insulation, leading to lower heating and cooling bills. They achieve this by automatically adjusting to the sun’s position, blocking heat gain in the summer and retaining heat in the winter, reducing reliance on HVAC systems. 

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Fabric Inspiration!

Our showroom features a wide variety of fabric suppliers with so many beautiful fabrics you will wish you would have more windows to cover!

Check out the Maxwell Lookbook for the latest trends of summer 2025.

Maxwell Lookbook Summer 2025

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Garden Doors

Covering garden doors with blinds can be challenging due to their size, the need for functionality, and potential for damage.  When selecting a blind or shade, slim headrails and hold-down brackets are often chosen for garden door shades because they offer a sleek, streamlined look and prevent the shades from moving or making noise when the door is opened or closed. 

Shutters are also a good option for garden doors because they offer a blend of style, light control and privacy. They can enhance the aesthetic appeal of your garden doors and provide practical benefits like reducing heat transfer and blocking unwanted light

Garden Door options

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Gliding Panels

Sleek gliding panels. A contemporary feel. Creating a dramatic backdrop for short, tall or wide windows.

Features and Benefits

Fabric collection coordinates with roller shade and solar fabrics

Smooth Operation with a travelling wand or enjoy convenient control with automation via an app, remote or smart home system

Honeycomb Shades

Honeycomb shades provide superior energy efficiency, and are the most energy efficient shade style available. The unique construction of honeycomb shades traps air in distinct pockets, providing an added layer of insulation at the window—and keeping your house comfortable when temps dip, as well as when they heat up.

Features and Benefits

Superior energy efficiency, for year-round comfort

Pleat sizes – 3/4″ and 1 1/4″

Beautifully diffuses light, for inviting ambiance

Available in an extensive selection of fabrics and colors

Available for a range of specialty shapes, including bay windows and patio, sliding-glass and French doors

Choose from a variety of control options

Motorization

Motorized window coverings offer convenience, enhanced privacy and security, energy efficiency, and child safety, making them a popular choice for modern homes. They eliminate the need for cords, allowing for smooth and quiet operation, and can be easily controlled with a remote control or wall switch. Motorization is an excellent choice for windows that are difficult to reach because of their height or location.

Natural Shades

Handcrafted from wood, reeds, grasses and bamboo, Woven Wood Shades bring a touch of the outdoors, in. The artisanal, artistically woven woods infuse organic style and texture into a room.

Features and Benefits

Style Choices—Roman, Waterfall Roman, Recessed Roman and Vertical Drapery styles.

Durability—minimal stretching, bowing or breaking.

Child Safety—from our products designed to keep little ones safer.

Optional Enhancements –

Flexible Light Control and Improved Energy Efficiency—from an independent liner.

A Decorative Accent—with a valance and/or edge banding.

Opacity

Opacity refers to the amount of light that passes through a fabric. Sheer fabrics allow for the most light to enter a room, but they offer the least amount of privacy. On the other end of the spectrum, blackout fabrics block nearly all light from entering a room, and they provide the most privacy

People prioritize privacy from window coverings in the evening primarily for safety and security, as well as to improve sleep quality and maintain personal boundaries. At night, when interior lights are on, window coverings help prevent outsiders from seeing inside. The opacity of the fabric on your window will determine how much coverage you receive. Take a look at what various opacities look like from the outside into the home, in the photos below.

Room Darkening street view at night

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Openness Factor

The openness factor of blinds refers to the density of the weave in the fabric, typically expressed as a percentage. It indicates how much light and visibility is allowed through the blind. A lower openness percentage means a tighter weave, blocking more light and offering more privacy, while a higher percentage indicates a looser weave, allowing more light and visibility. 

1% Openness Factor

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1% Openness Factor

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Patio Doors

Covering patio doors with blinds can be challenging due to the large size and sliding mechanism of these doors, which can interfere with the operation of traditional blinds. Additionally, the placement of door handles and the desire to maintain unobstructed access to the door can further complicate the process. 

Vertical blinds are still a popular choice for sliding patio doors due to their functionality, ease of use and the ability to control light and privacy effectively. When custom ordering verticals, you can select from various stacking options.

Stacking-Centre-Split

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Polysatin (PVC) Shutters

Crafted to take the heat and humidity. The perfect addition for comfortable, unfussy living. These shutters can stand up to the intense sunlight and moisture of hot and humid climates.

Features and Benefits

Available in a white colour palette

UV Resistant – no warping, cracking, fading, chipping, peeling or discoloring.

Water Resistant – making them perfect for bathrooms or kitchens

Fire Retardant – suitable for both residential and commercial applications

Built to Last – interior aluminum bracing and resin blocks add superior strength.

Louver Sizes – 2 ½”, 3 ½” or 4 ½”.

Available in several tilt options for personalized light control and privacy

Power to your Shades

Motorization has become a popular choice for homeowners. Once you have decided to choose a motorized blind or shade, you will also need to determine what power source will be the best choice. Battery operated blinds are the most common, both standard or rechargeable batteries are available. Another option is a plug in low voltage transformer. Based on your window covering needs our designers can help determine which power source will work the best for your particular situation.

Homeowners in the building stage have a unique advantage to wire their homes for window coverings, allowing the blinds and shades to run off of low voltage wiring. Wiring the window coverings provides a reliable power supply. You’ll never have to worry about replacing batteries, as hardwired blinds draw power directly from your home’s electrical system. 

Superblinds is known for our expertise in wiring for window coverings. We work with well established brands such as Lutron and Hunter Douglas who provide quiet, top quality motorized products. We can guide you through the process and work with your electrician to the projects completion. Call us or visit our showroom for more information.

Battery-Wands

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Standard battery wands use lithium batteries. A more environmentally friendly option is a rechargeable battery wand. In both cases the battery wand is generally attached to the back of the shade headrail. If the window is accessible the wand can be easily removed to either replace the batteries or charge the wand when necessary. Choosing rechargeable batteries offer the additional options of continuous solar charging and the selection of an internal battery on some window covering products.

PowerWands

Power wands on window coverings offer a convenient, cordless way to control motorized blinds and shades. They typically feature buttons for up, down, and stop/favorite positions, and some can be programmed for incremental adjustments.  The wand sends a electronic signal to a motor within the shade or blind, causing it to move.

Privacy Sheers

Drapery-like sheers exude a soft glow. Distinctly designed to control light while creating privacy. Privacy Sheers combine sheers and blinds, for doors and large windows.

Features and Benefits

Light Control and Privacy—from rotating fabric vanes.

Beautiful Fabrics—luxurious, high-quality selection.

Vane Size—3 ½”.

UV Protection—provides a buffer between interiors and the sun.

Available with a travelling wand for manual control or enjoy convenient control with automation via an app, remote or smart home system.

Retractable Cords

A retractable cord lift system is a cordless operating system for window coverings that uses a retractable cord or wand. To operate, you pull down on the cord or wand to lower the shade and pull up to raise it. The cord remains a consistent length, and the system is considered safer for homes with children or pets. 

Roller Shades

Clean lines and a timeless aesthetic. A versatile design to complement any style.

Features and Benefits

Extensive Fabric Selection – from sheer to opaque fabrics.

Globally sourced – unique fabrics from around the world.

Variety of Styles – choose from textures, prints, patterns and more.

Choose from a variety of control options