Window Treatments Safe for Kids and Pets

The safety of our customers is a top priority at Value Blind & Heirloom Draperies. As a locally owned company for over 14 years, we’ve helped customers from throughout the Washington DC metro area select safe and stylish window treatments.

Since 1995, the window treatment industry has been focused on reducing the threat of injury to children posed by looped window treatments. Converting to newer window treatments or retrofitting your old ones is critically important to the safety of the young children and even pets in your home.  Keeping safety top-of-mind, we carry the very latest in child-safe window treatments from Hunter Douglas. From cordless manual and motorized operating systems, retractable lift cords, cord tensioners and wand controls, we offer a wide array of innovative lifting system options for enhanced child and pet safety as well as especially easy operation.

Child-Safe Window Treatments from Hunter Douglas – Washington DC

As a Hunter Douglas window fashions dealer, we carry a wide variety of stylish window treatments designed with safety in mind. With our extensive selection of contemporary styles, you’re sure to find the perfect choice for every room in your home. One of our most popular products with a focus on child safety is our Vignette® Modern Roman Shades. Constructed without rear cords, these stylish and versatile window shades offer safe operation and a aesthetically pleasing design.

Here are some other child-safe Hunter Douglas window fashions products:

• Skyline® Gliding Window Panels
• Silhouette® Window Shadings
• Provenance® Woven Wood Shades
• Pirouette® Window Shadings
• Duette® Honeycomb Shades
• Country Woods® Wood Blinds
• Chalet Woods® Wood Blinds
• Brilliance® Pleated Shades
• Applause® Honeycomb Shades
• Natural Elements™ Blinds
• Nantucket™ Window Shadings
• Modern Precious Metals® Aluminum Blinds
• Luminette® Privacy Sheers
• EverWood® Collection

How to Ensure Safe Window Treatments

If you don’t plan on purchasing new window treatments, take these steps to make sure the ones you have don’t pose a threat to children and pets:

• Replace all window treatments with cords, including window blinds, corded shades and corded draperies manufactured before 2001. More recently produced window coverings include safety features such as loop control, cordless operation, wand pull, and motorization that don’t require cords.
• Be particularly conscious of the window coverings in children’s bedrooms and play areas. Even with safe window coverings, move all cribs, beds, furniture and toys that be climbed on away from windows, preferably to another wall
• Keep all window pull cords and inner lift cords away from out of the reach of children. Keep tassel pull cords short, and make sure continuous-loop cords are permanently anchored to the floor or wall. Ensure that cord stops are properly installed and adjusted to limit movement of inner lift cords.
• When horizontal blinds or shades are lowered, ensure cords are locked into position.
• Use safety features such as cord cleats and tensioning devices to improve the safety of your window treatments.

 Safety Resources from Hunter Douglas

For additional information and repair kits for older Hunter Douglas window covering products, please visit The Window Covering Safety Council website. Also, look through our child safety brochure  for more information about the innovative operating system options available on individual Hunter Douglas product collections.

Value Blind & Heirloom Draperies is a locally owned business serving the Washington DC metro area and Northern Virginia for 14 years. Visit our Hunter Douglas Gallery showroom in Ashburn and see hundreds of window fashion samples and functional displays of child-safe window treatments. We offer full-service interior design services including color consultation, room layout, and complete lines of blinds, shades, shutters, custom window treatments, custom rugs, wall coverings, bedding, pillows, and furniture. Contact us today!