When you’re building or renovating a home, you’re faced with countless decisions. At times, the amount of choice can feel overwhelming. Whether you’re selecting kitchen cabinetry, planning a built-in wardrobe or deciding on window coverings, each choice has a lasting impact on how your home looks, functions and feels. That’s why it’s worth taking the time to research your options carefully and invest in solutions you’ll be happy with for years to come.
More and more homeowners are turning to Luxaflex® Duette® Shades. As the original cellular blind, Duette® Shades feature a unique honeycomb-style structure that traps air within its cells to form an insulating barrier at the window. These clever air pockets help reduce heat transfer and can lower an average home’s heating costs by up to 43%¹.
While they’re widely recognised for their insulation benefits, Duette® Shades offer several other standout advantages too.
Recent testing shows that Duette® Shades can absorb sound energy within their insulated design, reducing exterior noise by up to 52%² while still allowing natural light into the room.
This can make a noticeable difference for people living in busy neighbourhoods, apartments or areas with significant street noise. Duette® Shades are also a great choice for rooms where sound control matters, such as media rooms and bedrooms.
Duette® Shades are highly adaptable, giving you the freedom to customise the look and function to suit your home.
They’re available in a wide selection of colours, fabrics and textures, and they pair beautifully with other Luxaflex® window coverings such as Luxaflex® Luminette® Privacy Sheers or Luxaflex Silhouette® Shadings to create a cohesive window styling scheme.
You can also choose from a range of installation options. Duette® Shades can be configured as top-down, bottom-up or a combination of both, allowing you to control privacy and light exactly the way you want.
For a luxury home build on Sydney’s northern beaches, Luxaflex® Duette® Architella® Shades with a top-down/bottom-up design were installed to provide flexible control over the intense coastal light in the main living spaces.
If you have wide openings such as sliding doors, the Vertiglide® system allows the shades to run vertically like an accordion, providing smooth coverage for large expanses of glass.
The Duo-Lite option also offers the benefit of combining both blockout and translucent fabrics in a single blind. A central bar allows you to raise or lower each fabric independently, giving you flexible control over privacy and light throughout the day.
Duette® Shades are compatible with a variety of operating systems including EasyRise, Ultraglide®, the cordless LiteRise system, hard-wired motorisation and the smart PowerView® automation system.
Duette® Shades can even be installed on skylights, including European-style Tilt-Turn window designs. The TrackGlide® System provides insulation, privacy and light control without limiting the full movement of the window. Its slim side tracks keep the shade in place whether the window is closed, tilted from the top or fully opened.
For rooms where maximum darkness is essential, Duette® LightLock Shades combine the classic Duette® design with the patented LightLock System to create an almost completely dark environment.
The system features a unique U-shaped side channel engineered to absorb, deflect and block incoming light. By preventing the light leakage that typically appears with reveal-mounted blockout shades, LightLock offers an excellent solution for bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms.
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1Savings are based on the installation of fully-recessed, reveal-mounted Duette Architella Shades with 20mm blockout fabric in an average home in Sydney, compared with the House Energy Rating standard of Holland Blinds from AccuRate, in that home. These calculations have been modelled by an independent third party. Savings will vary based on the window type and installation. ^ Based on information from NABERS (National Australian Built Environment Rating System). Visit www.nabers.com.au for more information.
2The scale for sound absorption is in a range from 0.00 to 1.00 where 1.00 means total, 100% total absorption of sound. The scale can be equated to percentages – for example a value of 0.35 would indicate approx. 35% sound absorption. Source: Hunter Douglas USA Reference Guide April 2010.
