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.
Commercial Blinds & Shades
We offer window treatments for any business or commercial setting.
Cornices
We offer window treatments for any business or commercial setting.
Custom Bedding
We create one-of-a-kind custom bedding designs.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Drapery Hardware
Choose from a wide selection of styles.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Outdoor Solar Shades
Make your outdoor spaces more comfortable with our outdoor solar shades.
After-Hours & In-Home Consultations
Our schedule is flexible, and we can come to your home for a consultation.
Free Estimates
Get a free estimate for your next decorating project.
Motorized Covering Expertise
We offer expert motorization services for your window coverings.
Upholstery
We offer re-upholstery services for all furniture styles.
About Us
At North County Blind Company, we take window fashions seriously. We can provide treatments that capture the sun's warmth and add architectural interest to your home.
Encinitas, CA
At North County Blinds, we have been serving our valued customers since 1985. Our commitment to exceptional products from Hunter Douglas, expert design consultations, and in-home installations has made us a trusted name in Encinitas, California.
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Nursery & Kids Room
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The Ideal Window Treatments for Coastal Living
When customizing your windows to the needs of a Southern California home, we do it best here at North County Blinds. We have all the best window treatment solutions for coastal living, including showcasing the best window treatments for climates that require specific needs for your windows to protect your interior. Southern California, and especially Encinitas and the greater San Diego, CA, area, are no strangers to intense heat. Without the right window treatment, your interior can face UV damage, skyrocket utility bills, and cause the window covering to fade and warp over time. Let us help you prevent these outcomes and more when you opt for top-of-the-line Hunter Douglas custom window treatments.
Choosing Window Treatments That Resist Sun Damage
Coastal living means a lot of things: beautiful outdoor views, a beach lifestyle, and a plethora of sunshine. With over 70 miles of coastline, the greater Encinitas and San Diego area is blessed with our fair share of all these wonderful attributes.
The way we like to think about it, you’d never want to spend an entire day at the beach without protecting your skin from sunblock, so why expose your interior to the same kind of UV damage? Window treatments are one of the most effective forms of protecting your home’s interior from harmful sun damage. Check out some of our favorite window treatments that protect your home’s interior without sacrificing the gorgeous outdoor views that make Southern California home.
Sheer Shadings
These types of window treatments are a hybrid of a blind and a shade. They’re made of fabric vanes that resemble the classic look of a blind that can be tilted open and closed as you wish, but with many more added benefits. A layer of elegant sheer encases the vanes on sheer shadings in particular. These window treatments are a fantastic way to protect your interior from UV damage without sacrificing outdoor views.
You might wonder how a sheer window treatment could provide UV protection - fret not! One of our best-selling sheer shadings, Hunter Douglas Silhouette® Window Shadings, showcases S-shaped fabric vanes that appear to float between two sheer panels. Depending on your choice of fabric for your home’s Silhouette shadings, this window treatment can filter up to 88% of the sun’s harmful UV rays.
Solar Shades
Consider Hunter Douglas Designer Screen Shades if you’re a fan of more traditional-looking window treatments. These window coverings are explicitly designed with UV protection in mind and are available in a wide range of opacities and openness factors (openness factor determines how tightly a fabric is woven - the lower the openness factor, the tighter the material, the better the UV protection, but this will reduce outdoor visibility).
Designer Screen Shades can block up to 99% of the sun’s harmful rays and range in openness factor levels from 0% to 14%.
We highly recommend Designer Screen Shades for sun-filled spaces like patios and sunrooms, but they’re ideal for any living space with a large influx of daytime sun.
Contact Us
We’d love to give you all our best recommendations for window treatments to help you live your best Southern California life. We carry the entire Hunter Douglas product line to create custom-made window treatments to meet your exact needs and specifications installed by a team with nearly 40 years of experience. Please stop by our showroom in Encinitas, CA, or request your consultation online today! We proudly serve Encinitas, San Diego, Carlsbad, Oceanside, and San Marcos, CA.