Luminette Privacy Sheers – for a friendlier sun August 12, 2010

Luminette Privacy Sheers from Hunter Douglas are remarkable for their timeless beauty and infinite degrees of light control.  The sheer fabric lets the light in, and the soft fabric vanes keep the light out.  Radiant light, the beauty of classic sheers and the privacy of fabric draperies.  But there is more to Luminette sheers than meets the eye, and their functional benefits make them a preferred choice for today’s “green” consumer.

Luminette sheers protect your furniture from harmful UV rays.

Beyond their amazing appearance, Luminette sheers provide important energy-saving elements such as superior ultraviolet (UV) protection, which guards home furnishings; solar heat gain control, which saves energy; and daylighting, which brings light deep into a room and reduces electricity consumption.

UV Protection

Today’s larger windows can flood a home with sunlight.  While you might enjoy natural light, you don’t want the sun’s UV rays to fade or discolor furniture, carpets, artwork and other valuable possessions.  Some window coverings block UV rays when closed, but Luminette sheers, with 180 different degrees of light control, protect against UV damage when vanes are closed, rotated and fully opened.

Luminette sheers help to bring sunlight deeper into the room.

Solar Heat Gain

In the summer months, you want to keep out as much solar energy as possible, but in the cold of winter, you want solar energy to enter and warm the home.  Luminette Privacy Sheers can dramatically control solar heat gain.  This keeps the home cooler in summer, reducing cooling costs and energy usage.

A standard double-pane window has a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.76.  This means 76 percent of energy enters through a bare window and is reduced to 20 percent by Luminette sheers when vanes are closed.

Daylighting

Using natural light to illuminate home interiors is called daylighting, and when properly controlled, it can be an effective way to reduce electric light use and save energy.  The goals of daylighting are to diffuse incoming light for an even intensity and to bring light deeper into the room.

The sheer panels of Luminette Privacy Sheers effectively diffuse sunlight as it enters a room to soften glare, making harsh sunlight soft, transforming the look of a room and providing greater visual comfort.

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It’s Sheer Genius June 5, 2010

It's Sheer Genius!

By outfitting your windows now through August 15th, you can receive great rebates on select Hunter Douglas window shadings and sheers–all part of the “It’s Sheer Genius” sales event.  Direct sunlight can become a big problem for homeowners.  It can create too much contrast in a room; making the dark areas seem darker and the sunlit bright areas harsh and glaring.  By taking advantage of the intelligent design of Hunter Douglas window shadings and sheers, you can use simple daylighting to diffuse the amount of natural light that comes directly into your home.

The products offered during the “It’s Sheer Genius” sales event use the perfection of sheer fabrics and fabric vanes to offer the convenience of precise light control.  Giving you the ability to even out the intensity of incoming light by softening and diffusing it.  Drawing the sunlight deeper into each room, diminishing the lighting contrast, and delivering a beautiful inviting glow to create a stylish look for your home.  And as an added bonus, you will be providing excellent UV protection for your precious furnishings.

With Hunter Douglas shadings and sheers, there is no end to the possibilities in using light control to create the perfect setting.  From letting the bright cheerfulness of the outdoors in, to creating the privacy of a warm and cozy ambiance, Hunter Douglas window fashions create a class and elegance for setting the perfect mood.

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Window Fashions Designed with Safety in Mind October 20, 2009

As babies grow,  so does their curiosity with the world around them.  Window fashions with dangling pull cords can pose a hazard to children and pets.  Hunter Douglas offers several special features and operating systems, like the LiteRise cordless lifting system, that can make your homes both safer and more beautiful.  For a limited time, we are offering free LiteRise upgrade when you purchase select Hunter Douglas products.  No minimum or maximum purchase required!

Please visit our showroom for more details.

Child Friendly Upgrade

Green Your Home for The Holidays October 19, 2009

Creating a home with a festive and inviting ambience without breaking the bank is on every savvy homeowner’s agenda this season.  Hunter Douglas and De Anza Interior are offering The Season of Giving Promotion from September 25 to December 15, 2009, allowing you to save big on select window fashions that not only enhance your décor, but also help conserve energy to create a more inviting and comfortable setting for entertaining family and friends.  Rebates range from $25 to $600 per window on a wide variety of the most popular Hunter Douglas window fashions.

The Season of Giving Promotion

In addition, we offer the following tips for creating an environmentally friendly and welcoming holiday setting this season:

• While wrapping presents to go under the tree, save extra ribbon and use it to “gift wrap” throw pillows like packages to give your sofa a festive feel.  Adorn your walls with indoor wreaths made from scarves and a little boxwood to create a nice scent that brings you a taste of the outdoors while you stay warm inside.
• Use recyclable, colorful paper when wrapping presents to create an inviting atmosphere with a rich color palette for your living room.  After the presents are opened, either save the paper and ribbon to re-use next year or take all used paper to your local recycling center.
• To keep warm air in and cold air out and your energy bills in check, consider replacing your current window treatments with Duette® Architella® honeycomb shades.  With their highly energy-efficient honeycomb-within-a-honeycomb design, they can reduce heat loss at the window by up to 50%.  They also keep cool air in during summer months, making this a one-time investment in your home that delivers savings all year-round.  (Save $25 per shade during this promotion.)

Duette Architella Ultraglide

• Use fewer lights when decorating the tree and instead work with brightly colored, reflective ornaments to light up the room.  Plug in tree lights and nearby TVs, VCRs and appliances to a power strip that turns them all off with one easy click, therefore reducing energy costs for unused electronics.
• Although it might sound surprising, turn your heat down and your ceiling fan on.  Lowering your thermostat by just one degree can reduce costs by about 4%,  while a ceiling fan helps distribute the warm air across the room.  Hang mistletoe from the ceiling fan to add a romantic and cheerful holiday touch to the room.
• Consider Silhouette® window shadings featuring soft fabric vanes suspended between two sheer facings that gently diffuse incoming light to cast a warm glow across the room.  They can even block up to 88% of the sun’s harmful UV rays with the vanes open while still letting in light and maintaining a beautiful, soft-focus view of the outside.  (Save $75 per shade during this promotion.)

Silhouette Window Shadings

With these easy tips, you can create more stylish and comfortable surroundings for holiday entertaining while saving on energy costs and doing your part to protect the environment at the same time!

Welcome FLOR! May 16, 2009

Move over traditional rugs cause FLOR is here!!!

De Anza Interior is proud to introduce our newest product line – modular carpet tiles by FLOR!  We’re very excited with this newest edition to our collection of innovative products.

FLOR - Subtle Shift

Why do we love FLOR?  Because it’s modular.  Mix, match, mix and match?  It’s all up to you!  You can have one for every season, one for every mood.  Whatever suites you!  Because it’s green in so many ways – low VOC, recycled, recyclable, renewable, and the company behind it is working towards zero negative impact on earth.  Because it’s easy to install.  Because it’s easy to clean!  Kids? Dogs? Messy Spouse?  No worries at all with Flor!

Visit our showroom for your FLOR!

FLOR at De Anza Interior

Fabulous Savings are In! May 7, 2009

The Summer Window Fashions Sale is On and Savings are In!

Purchase your Hunter Douglas Window Shadings between May 5th and August 31st 2009 and you’ll be eligible for the following Mail-In Rebates:

$100 per Luminette Privacy Sheers

$100 per Skyline Gliding Window Panels

$50 per Silhouette Window Shadings

$40 per Pirouette Window Shadings

$60 per Vignette Modern Roman Shades ($30 Mail-In Rebate Plus $30 Instant Savings)

$40 per Duette Architella Honeycomb Shades ($20 Mail-In Rebate Plus $20 Instant Savings)

Offer valid 5/5/09-8/31/09.  Certain limitations and restrictions apply.  Please contact us for more details.