Window Treatment Ideas & Tips: Kempler Design

Pirouette Shade By Hunter Douglas- Advice

The Pirouette Shade by Hunter Douglas is one of the most unique and beautiful window treatments on the market. It is able to provide beauty, practicality, functionality and a bit of jealousy from your friends. :) Pirouette Shade Bottom Panel There is one aspect of this shade that I want to go over with you […]

Hunter Douglas Powerview Motor Noise

The volume of motor noise in shading systems is important to some people. We’ve noticed that some clients want quiet motors and other clients don’t care about the motor noise at all. Please watch the video to see how the technology has improved over the years. The first motor you hear is the current one. […]

Voice Controlled Window Coverings For Reno Home

Voice Controlled Window Coverings are a new exciting way to operate your shades, blinds, shutters or curtains. This post and attached video will give you a nice demonstration of how it works. Most of the jobs that Kempler Design has done with our clientele has been done with the Amazon product, “Alexa”, but this client […]

Insulated Roller Shades (Sonnette) For A Reno Home

Sonnette Shades Roller shades are very popular in Reno and Tahoe, but sometimes people are concerned that they are losing insulation in their homes. Due to this desire to create even more hybrid window coverings, Hunter Douglas has created the Sonnette Shade. Please watch the video to see how it operates. As you were able […]

Split Stack Vertiglide For Slider Door In Reno

How To Select Sliding Door Window Coverings The main idea behind this posting is to talk about how the details are what make a slider door window covering work for you. The example given is of a 12 foot wide window in a Reno home. This choice may seem obvious, due to the way it […]

Hunter Douglas Powerview 16 Shade Power Supply

Power Supply By Hunter Douglas Today’s blog discusses hard wire options for Hunter Douglas Window Treatments. The entire PowerView collection is low voltage in its operation. So, we need to convert 110V power in your outlets to 18V power at the shades, blinds or shutters. The current offering from Hunter Douglas is the 16 Shade […]

Hunter Douglas Wood Blinds Lift Options- Simplelift

Lift Options For Hunter Douglas Wood Blinds When it comes to lift options for wood blinds, there are only a few choices with most companies. Hunter Douglas offers the standard Cordlock, the UltraGlide, The LiteRise and now SimpleLift. The following video and photo shows the SimpleLift in a picture and in action. Child Safety You […]

Hunter Douglas Luminette Stacking Widths

Luminette Stacking If you are purchasing any window coverings product, you need to be aware of how much room it will take up in its stacked position. Today’s example is the Hunter Douglas Luminette Shading. We’ve done other blogs on the Luminette in the past and so this blog and video only discuss the stacking […]

Rental Home Service In Tahoe For Window Coverings

Rental Home Service The little things make a huge difference. Let me tell you the story behind this video. We installed these shades for a client in Lake Tahoe who rents their home out to short term clientele. In order to keep the renters from damaging the shades, we suggested making a video of how […]

Motorized Shade Controls- 3 Options At Job At Lake Tahoe

Motorized Shade Controls Once you have power to your shades or blinds, you need to control them. This blog will talk about motorized shade controls. There are many ways to control them, but here and in the attached video, we will discuss three of them. Please watch the video that deals with motorized shade controls […]