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The Complete Room-by-Room Window Treatments Cheat Sheet for Dover Homes

The complete guide to window coverings for each and every room in your Dover house is finally here! Sunburst Shutters Delaware offers our suggestions for the best kinds of window coverings for each room in your house. We take into account light control, style, budget, energy efficiency, privacy, resistance to humidity, resilience, and more to find your perfect choice.

Explore this guide and learn which window treatments you should go with, with links to in-depth recommendations and stunning photos of window treatments for any area of your home.

Dover Living Room Window Treatments

Living room window treatments

Top Considerations: Style, energy efficiency, custom shapes, durability
Window Treatment Recommendations: Plantation shutters, barn doors shutters, shades

Living rooms often have the biggest windows in your home, and it’s the place where you’ll entertain friends and family. That makes the living room a great place to splurge on window treatments that show off your fashion sense and offer you complete control of the room’s comfort. Two of the most ideal window treatments for frequently trafficked rooms are sliding barn doors and plantation shutters.

Plantation shutters carry a classic style and are extremely resilient to wear while offering the greatest amount of control over light and temperature, meeting all the living room needs. On the same note, barn door shutters can give a classic, rustic quality to your living room, while giving you fantastic control of the light that enters your space.

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Dover Dining Room Window Treatments

Dining room window treatments

Top Considerations: Light control, style
Window Treatment Recommendations: Plantation shutters, reclaimed wood shutters, barn doors shutters, shades, blinds

Your house’s dining room may be a formal room you use only occasionally, or as your daily family meal place. Either way, you want a window treatment that can give you light control and accentuate your home design and furniture to make your dining room a comfortable area.

Barn door shutters can add a nostalgic, almost romantic style to your dining room - in addition to giving you extensive control over the level of privacy and light you want. Plantation shutters have a traditional flair but are also adaptable enough to complement more modern home design. Shades, though they give you less temperature control, still give you some light control to manage the mood of your dining room, in addition to being available in an extensive selection of colors and styles to pair with any décor.

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Dover Kitchen Window Treatments

Kitchen Window Treatments

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Top Considerations: Style, ease of cleaning, resistance to humidity and water
Window Treatment Recommendations: Polywood plantation shutters, faux wood blinds

A lot goes on in your kitchen, from cooking meals to showing off to guests and beyond. Because of the many purposes of your kitchen, you’ll want a window treatment that’s both versatile and strong enough to stand up to whatever happens in the room.

Polywood plantation shutters satisfy these needs perfectly. Not only do shutters’ neutral tones pair with almost any style choice, but they’re also extremely moisture-resistant and easy to clean as well. Faux wood blinds, while less resilient and attractive than shutters, do give you the moisture resistance that you need for any kitchen window treatment

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Bedroom Window Treatments

Top Considerations: Privacy, style, light control, energy efficiency
Window Treatment Recommendations:  Plantation shutters, blinds, shades

The first priority for your bedroom will likely be how easy it is to adjust the light and temperature to make it easy to sleep. No window covering can match the level of control you have with plantation shutters, not to mention their unparalleled ability to give complete privacy and their stellar looks that pair seamlessly with any décor.

Pull-down shades are also a popular bedroom choice, giving you that necessary privacy as well as a warm look – although they tend to dampen light rather than block it out completely like shutters. Shades are also available in a huge variety of colors and styles, making it easy to pick one that coordinates with your bedroom’s color scheme.

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Dover Bathroom Window Treatments

Bathroom Window Treatments

Top Considerations: Privacy, ability to handle humidity and wetness, resilience
Window Treatment Recommendations: Polywood plantation shutters, faux wood blinds

When you’re selecting window coverings for bathrooms, your two most important considerations are privacy and resistance to water. Both faux wood blinds and Polywood plantation shutters repel moisture and humidity and in addition offer fantastic privacy control due to their ability to adjust easily. Shutters though, have the added advantage of being highly customizable, meaning they can be made to fit angled or arched windows.

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Dover Family Room Window Treatments

Family Room Window Treatments

Top Considerations: Style, light control, energy efficiency, resilience
Window Treatment Recommendations:  Plantation shutters, sliding barn door shutters, blinds, shades

Your family room is the place to relax and spend time together with your family. It’s also one of the rooms guests will often see more often than others, so your top considerations should be style and light control.

Plantation shutters give style to your family room, and give you great temperature control and insulation to keep your space comfortable. Upscale sliding barn door shutters can be a distinct centerpiece to your family room if you want to wow your guests.

Blinds and shades can also be great choices due to being available in a vast variety of colors and styles, making it easy to match with your room - though they don’t allow for the same degree of light or temperature control as shutters.

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Dover Basement Window Treatments

Basement window treatments

Top Considerations: Light control, energy efficiency, handling moisture
Window Treatment Recommendations:  Plantation shutters, blinds

Every basement is different. They vary in layout, size, how far underground they are, and more. Because of these differences, the best window covering for each basement can differ.

Overall, you should look for window treatments that will fit the unique shape and size of your basement windows, while being able to let in the maximum amount of light. Polywood plantation shutters have both of these qualities, while also handling humidity that can be a problem in some basements.

For a different option, blinds are also a great choice for basements in Dover. Both aluminum and faux wood blinds give you resistance to humidity, while also fitting the most typical basement window shapes and easily coordinating with your existing decor.

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Dover Home Office Window Treatments

Home Office Window Treatments
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Top Considerations: Style, light control, energy efficiency, resilience
Window Treatment Recommendations:  Plantation shutters, shades

Decorating with the right window treatments in your home office can help contribute to a productive space that will allow you to focus on your work. Plantation shutters provide the best control of sound, light, and temperature, ensuring that you can focus on your work in a comfortable environment.

If noise canceling and energy efficiency aren’t a concern, shades are a more budget-friendly option that can help fill your space with muted light, making it more calm and easier to concentrate on your work relative to having no window covering.

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Dover Sunroom Window Treatments

Sunroom window treatments

Top Considerations: Fashion, light control, energy efficiency, resilience
Window Treatment Recommendations:  Plantation shutters, window film, shades

Sunrooms get a lot of light and are an ideal spot to lounge or host guests - as long as you can adjust the amount of light and heat that come in. Plantation shutters can be breathtaking against all the glass and are also great at keeping your room at an ideal temperature with their easy louver adjustability.

Combining window film with another window covering can boost your room’s protection from heat and harmful UV light – so you won’t have to worry about the possibility of your carpet, furniture, or family photos or artwork being damaged by light exposure. Shades can add a softer aesthetic that you can tailor to your house, but be aware that their UV protection won’t be as powerful as other options.

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Dover Laundry Room Window Treatments

Laundry room window treatments

Top Considerations: Budget, light control, energy efficiency, humidity resistance
Window Treatment Recommendations: Blinds, shades

Whether we want to admit it or not, we spend a lot of hours in our laundry room over time. To make those chores a little more bearable, make the laundry room a little cozier with window treatments that will make the room comfortable, but don’t neglect the fact that laundry rooms can generate humidity and you may need to keep drying clothes from UV light.

Blinds are a fantastic choice for Dover laundry rooms since they’re less expensive and easy to adjust, making light control a snap. Faux wood blinds tend to be preferable to real wood because they resist moisture. Shades are also a window treatment to consider, adding a soft, muted style to your laundry room. Bear in mind though that shades for the most part aren’t very moisture resistant, if you typically use the room for steaming or ironing clothes.

Don’t fret the laundry room anymore!