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PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
Sheer Shades
Learn more about Hunter Douglas custom window sheers, including our shadings and privacy sheers. Innovative, light-diffusing sheers. Your trusted source for window treatments.
Cellular Shades
Cellular honeycomb shades from Hunter Douglas. An energy-efficient design that traps air in distinct pockets to help keep your house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Roman Shades
Custom-made fabric Roman Shades by Hunter Douglas, combining the look of soft folds with the ease and convenience of a shade. Custom-crafted.
Roller Shades
The Hunter Douglas roller shades & solar screen shades collections offer excellent light control and a clean, stylish look in a range of fabrics and materials.
Woven Shades
For a warm, natural look our Hunter Douglas Woven Wood Shades collection of window treatments transforms sunlight into captivating design statements. Choose yours today.
Vertical Shades
Find the right custom vertical shades for any room in your home. Search our most popular window shades.
Wood Blinds
From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, wood blinds have been a favorite among homeowners for decades.
Metal Blinds
Find the perfect metal blinds for any room in your home. From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, metal blinds have been a favorite among homeowners.
Vertical Blinds
Discover Hunter Douglas customized vertical blinds featuring elegant styling and translucency in a large selection of colors, treatments, and textures. Lifetime guarantee.
Shutters
Hunter Douglas custom window shutters provide superior light control and privacy with classic styles, long-lasting finishes, and exceptional craftsmanship.
Drapery
Choose from timeless and on-trend fabrics, including lofty textures and alluring jacquards, artisanal embroideries and luminous sheers.
Light Enhancing
Enjoy the beauty of natural light and make any space more captivating, with the following light-enhancing shades.
Room Darkening
Want a darker room for better sleep or optimal movie binging? These shades and drapes help block light at the window.
Energy Efficient
Live comfortably and save energy with these shades. Designer to keep a room warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Door Coverings
Manage natural light and add privacy with these window treatments that work well for sliding-glass and patio doors.
Sound Absorption
Create a quieter, more relaxing room with these window treatments, which help absorb sound, reducing exterior noise.
Top-Down Bottom-Up
For privacy and natural light, position shades from the top, bottom or both. These shades have this feature available.
After-Hours and In-Home Consultations
Our schedule is flexible, and we can come to your home for a consultation.
Consumer Financing by Wells Fargo
We offer financing options for our customers, subject to approved credit.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
About Us
The Mill Design Center was originally opened in 1987, by husband and wife team, Rick and Cindi Silverman, in an old, refurbished Mill in North Chelmsford, MA.
Acton, MA
At Mill Design & Blinds, we have over 30 years of experience decorating and treating your windows in every type of space.
Westford, MA
Welcome to Mill Design & Blinds, where we provide high-quality window treatments for every room in your home.
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Bathroom
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Bedroom
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Home Office
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Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
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Angled Windows
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Arched Windows
See blinds and shades for arched, half-circle or half-moon windows.
Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
See blinds and shades for bay, bow and corner windows.
French Doors
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Sidelights
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
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Automated
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Blackout
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Energy Efficient
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Elevate Your Home Office with Hunter Douglas Window Shades
Creating a functional and inspiring home office space is essential for productivity and focus. One often overlooked aspect is the role of window treatments. Windows are a focal point of any room, and the role they play in your home office is especially important. Being able to control the amount of light and privacy in your working space can make all the difference in your mood and output at work. Our experts at Mill Design & Blinds can help you explore how Hunter Douglas window treatments can elevate your home office to create an inspiring, work-centered space.
Enhancing Productivity and Focus
When working from home, it's crucial to create an environment that promotes good metal health and helps maintain focus while you’re working. Hunter Douglas window treatments offer several features that can contribute to an ideal home office setup.
One of the most crucial elements of your home office setup is the importance of light control. Glare from the sun can be distracting and strain your eyes, making it difficult to concentrate. With Hunter Douglas shades, you can effortlessly adjust the amount of natural light entering your workspace, ensuring optimal lighting conditions and minimizing glare.
Certain Hunter Douglas window treatments, such as our Duette® Cellular Shades or Silhouette® Sheer Shades, are designed to diffuse and soften incoming light. This helps create a pleasant, diffused illumination that reduces harsh shadows and provides a comfortable working environment.
Maintaining Privacy During the Workday
Maintaining privacy and confidentiality is crucial when working from home. Hunter Douglas window treatments offer excellent privacy options, allowing you to control the level of visibility into your workspace. If your home office is located on a ground floor or faces a busy street, consider Hunter Douglas blinds or shades with top-down/bottom-up functionality. This feature enables you to lower the top part of the window treatment while keeping the bottom part raised, providing privacy while still allowing natural light to enter your office.
For utmost privacy, we offer Hunter Douglas window treatments with room-darkening or blackout options. These are particularly beneficial if you frequently handle sensitive information or require a darkened space for presentations or video conferences. Two of our favorite window treatments for handling privacy in your home office are our Vignette® Roman Shades and our Duette® Cellular Shades. Both of these options are compatible with top-down/bottom-up systems, offer a wide range of color and fabric choices, and work double time to provide you with room darkening benefits and privacy (depending on the fabric and openness level you end up choosing). An added benefit of these shades is that they fit close to the window and help muffle any ambient noise from the outdoors—a great feature for those who often make calls for their work.
Hands-Free Control Options
We all have those days where trying to find time for anything is a difficulty, let alone adjusting the blinds or shades in our home office. That’s why we love recommending one of the best innovations Hunter Douglas offers: PowerView® Automation. With this operating system, you can adjust the window shades with the touch of a button on your Pebble® remote control, or even with voice commands if you opt to integrate it into your existing smart home system. You can even set up automatic scenes in the PowerView® app, which allows you to set your window treatments to adjust automatically throughout the day. You could set them to open when you start work and close at the end of the workday.
Contact Mill Design & Blinds for Your Home Office Upgrade
Hunter Douglas window treatments from Mill Design & Blinds offer a multitude of benefits that can transform your home office into a productive, inspiring, and efficient workspace. From enhancing productivity and focus to providing privacy, aesthetic appeal, and energy efficiency, these window treatments are a valuable addition to any home office setup.
Contact us to get started elevating your work-from-home experience—we offer complimentary consultations to get you started stress-free. More questions for us? Feel free to call (617) 939-3924 or email robert@milldandb.com to get in touch or schedule an appointment. We proudly serve Westford, Acton, Concord, Lexington, Carlisle, Groton, Boxborough, and surrounding towns of Middlesex County, MA.