Duette® Honeycomb Shades
Energy-smart design. Year-round comfort. Duette Honeycomb Shades are engineered to trap air at the window, helping reduce heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer. These custom cellular shades combine insulation, light control, and innovative features to create a more comfortable, energy-efficient home. Explore advanced options for privacy, room darkening, specialty windows, and motorization, or browse all Hunter Douglas window shades to compare styles and find the right fit for your home.
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Features of Duette Honeycomb Shades
- Energy-Efficient Cellular Insulation
- Light Filtering & Room-Darkening Options
- Top-Down Bottom-Up Operation
- Duolite® Dual Shade Options
- LightLock® Room-Darkening System
- TrackGlide™ for Tilt-Turn Windows & Doors
- VertiGlide™ for Sliding Glass Doors
- PowerView® Automation
- Specialty Shape Coverage
Duette Honeycomb Shades offer one of the most versatile combinations of light control, insulation, privacy, specialty window coverage, and automated operation in the Hunter Douglas collection. With options designed for everything from bedrooms and large windows to sliding doors and specialty shapes, Duette shades can solve a wide range of window challenges throughout the home.
Order fabric samplesIdeal Applications for Duette Honeycomb Shades
Duette Honeycomb Shades are one of the most versatile window treatment collections, with options designed for everyday light control as well as challenging windows and doors. Their cellular construction provides energy-efficient insulation and can help absorb sound for a more comfortable interior, while advanced options offer room darkening, privacy, automation, and solutions for specialty windows and doors.
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What Makes Duette Honeycomb Shades Different?
Energy Efficiency & Insulation
Duette Honeycomb Shades are designed with cellular pockets that trap air between the window and your room, creating an insulating layer at the glass. This unique honeycomb construction helps reduce heat loss through windows during colder months and limits heat gain when temperatures rise, helping your home feel more comfortable throughout the year.
Available in a range of cell sizes, fabrics, and light-control options, Duette shades combine energy-efficient window insulation with beautiful design. They’re an especially smart choice for large expanses of glass, rooms affected by temperature changes, and homeowners looking to improve comfort without sacrificing natural light or style.
Advanced Light Control
Duolite® Dual Shades combine two fabrics in a single Duette shade, giving you greater flexibility throughout the day. Pair a light-filtering fabric with a room-darkening fabric to transition from softly filtered natural light to greater privacy and darkness—all at the same window. Explore how dual shades can provide multiple levels of light control in one streamlined design.
Top-Down Bottom-Up operation gives you another way to balance daylight and privacy. Lower the shade from the top to bring natural light into the room while keeping the lower portion of the window covered, or adjust the shade from the bottom as needed. Top down bottom up is an especially useful option for street-facing rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, and other spaces where you want natural light without leaving the entire window exposed.
LightLock® Room Darkening
For bedrooms, media rooms, and other spaces where greater darkness matters, Duette Honeycomb Shades are available with the LightLock® system. LightLock uses specially designed side channels that coordinate with the shade fabric to help reduce the light that can enter around the edges of the window—a common challenge with standard shades.
Combined with room-darkening Duette fabrics, the system creates a more complete room-darkening window treatment for spaces where controlling outside light is a priority. The insulating honeycomb construction also maintains the comfort and energy-efficiency benefits that distinguish Duette shades.
Specialty Windows & Doors
Duette Honeycomb Shades offer specialized solutions for windows and doors that can be difficult to cover with traditional shades, including specialty shapes, tilt-turn windows, French doors, sliding glass doors, and wide expanses of glass.
TrackGlide™ for Tilt-Turn Windows & Doors: The TrackGlide™ System keeps Duette shades positioned close to the glass along narrow side tracks, making it an innovative solution for tilt-turn windows, French doors, and other applications with limited clearance. The track adheres directly to the window or door frame without drilling, allowing the shade to move with the opening while providing flexible light control and privacy.
VertiGlide™ for Sliding Glass Doors: For wide openings and patio doors, VertiGlide™ extends the insulating benefits of Duette honeycomb shades to a vertical application. The shade moves horizontally across the opening and stacks neatly at the side when open, making it an excellent choice for sliding glass doors and other expansive openings.
Specialty Shape Coverage: Duette shades can also accommodate many uniquely shaped windows, including arches, angles, circles, and other specialty configurations. This makes the collection especially versatile for homes with architectural windows where maintaining a consistent window treatment style throughout the space can otherwise be challenging. Explore more window treatments for specialty shapes.
ClearView® Fabric for Natural Light & Views
ClearView® fabric offers a unique option for Duette Honeycomb Shades, allowing you to enjoy softly filtered natural light and a view to the outdoors while the shade is lowered. The sheer fabric helps reduce glare and soften incoming sunlight, creating a more comfortable connection between your interior and the view beyond.
Unlike a traditional sheer shade, Duette ClearView fabric maintains the collection’s distinctive honeycomb construction, combining view-through with the insulating cellular design of Duette shades. It’s an ideal choice for living spaces where preserving natural light and outdoor views is just as important as comfort at the window. Explore more window shades for natural light and views.
Duette Honeycomb Shades FAQ
What is the difference between honeycomb shades and cellular shades?
Honeycomb shades and cellular shades are two names for the same general style of window treatment. Duette Honeycomb Shades feature cellular pockets that trap air at the window, helping provide insulation while offering a wide range of options for light control, privacy, specialty windows, and automation.
Are Duette Honeycomb Shades energy efficient?
Yes. Duette shades are designed with honeycomb-shaped air pockets that create an insulating layer between the window and your room. This cellular construction can help reduce heat loss during colder months and heat gain during warmer months, improving year-round comfort at the window.
Can Duette shades provide both light filtering and room darkening?
Yes. Duette shades are available in different fabric opacities, and the Duolite® option combines two fabrics in one shade. This allows you to pair light-filtering and room-darkening fabrics for more flexible light control throughout the day.
Can Duette shades be opened from the top down?
Yes. Duette shades are available with Top-Down Bottom-Up operation, allowing you to lower the shade from the top to bring in natural light while keeping the lower portion of the window covered for privacy.
Are Duette shades available for sliding glass doors?
Yes. Duette shades are available with VertiGlide™, a vertical operating system designed for sliding glass doors and other wide openings. The cellular shade travels horizontally and stacks at the side when opened.
Can Duette shades cover tilt-turn or specialty windows?
Yes. Duette offers solutions for many unconventional windows. TrackGlide™ is designed for applications such as tilt-turn windows and French doors, while Duette can also accommodate a variety of specialty window shapes.
Can Duette Honeycomb Shades be motorized?
Yes. Most Duette configurations are available with PowerView® Automation, allowing shades to be controlled by remote, app, schedules, and compatible smart-home systems.
What is the difference between Duette and Sonnette® shades?
Both collections use cellular construction, but they operate and look different. Duette is a traditional pleated honeycomb shade with an extensive selection of operating systems, specialty applications, and light-control options. Sonnette® Cellular Roller Shades combine cellular construction with the clean appearance and operation of a roller shade.
