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Allergy Friendly Window Coverings from Hunter Douglas at Premier Blinds near Edmond, OK

No single window covering is perfect for everyone suffering from allergies. However, there are features you want to look for in allergy-friendly window coverings, and of course features you’ll want to avoid. By understanding the best features for allergy-friendly window coverings, you’ll be able to select and customize the perfect treatment for your home.

Woman Sneezing into a tissue with hardwood shutters behind her

Features That Make Window Coverings Bad for Allergies

Styles that Welcome Allergens

  • Materials: We can generally group all window treatments as either hard or soft. Soft treatments are fabric-based treatments like drapery or Roman shades; hard treatments include shutters and blinds constructed from sturdier materials. Soft treatments are generally worse for allergy sufferers because fabric absorbs pollutants more than hard treatments with more impenetrable materials.
  • Orientation: When the dust settles in a home, where does it fall? That’s easy on any and every horizontal surface, including window treatments. One feature that can make a window shade more or less allergy friendly is its orientation. Vertical treatments, like vertical blinds, offer less surface area for dust to collect on, resulting in less accumulation in your home and less need for cleaning, a win-win for allergy-friendly window treatments.

Styles that are Hard to Clean

  • High-Maintenance Routine: All window treatments require cleaning at some point regardless of design or material, but the care routine for treatments differs significantly. For example, shutters are much easier to clean than drapery because the former requires simple dusting while the latter may need to be removed and laundered. Considering your household routine, personal schedule, and the commitment required to keep some types of window treatments allergy-free, opting for easy-to-clean shades can make an efficient and logical choice.

Allergy Friendly Window Coverings from Hunter Douglas

Once you know the features you’re looking for in your new allergy-friendly window coverings, shopping becomes a matter of balancing your plan to create allergy-friendly indoor spaces with your home’s internal aesthetic, as many styles of Hunter Douglas window treatments work well in this manner and look stunning.

Interior Shutters

Interior plantation-style shutters are classified as a hard treatment with an easy-to-maintain cleaning routine, and some advanced faux-wood composites have even been designed to be stain, mold, and mildew resistant.

Vertical Blinds

Vertical blinds were designed to be easier to clean alternatives to horizontal blinds, and their orientation continues to bolster their usefulness as allergy-friendly window coverings.

Roller Shades

Roller shades make some of the most allergy-friendly window coverings of all the soft window treatments because their flat front is easy to dust or wipe down, and their streamlined design does not attract or absorb as much dust or pollutants as other fabric-based treatments.

Contact Us

Talk with the design team at Premier Blinds about designing allergy-friendly window covers for your home. The helpful team can walk you through all the features of Hunter Douglas shutters, blinds, and roller shades and help you customize the features that will make your treatments allergy-friendly and in line with your home’s internal décor. Premier Blinds is located near Edmond, Oklahoma, and serves the areas in and around Oklahoma City, Nichols Hills, and Edmond, OK. Request a consultation today.