Rethink your window treatments: New technology, softer styles offer updated approaches

This piece is sponsored by Montgomery’s.

In Jodie Fabian’s world, spring and summer days tend to bring in customers with a common need.

“They generally are looking for ways to block the glare of the sun but preserve a beautiful view to the outside,” she said. “And there are ways to accomplish this with materials that allow for both light control and visibility.”

Fabian would know. She’s the window treatments manager at Montgomery’s, where years of experience — combined with new technology — are helping customers rethink what window treatments can do.

The Sioux Falls store on West 41st Street recently unveiled a newly expanded showroom, giving customers a more hands-on way to explore everything from automated shades and shutters to layered drapery designs and modern light-filtering treatments.

“Our new displays are sharp, gorgeous and modern. It’s just a really nice, clean look,” Fabian said.

“We’re still hearing from customers who didn’t realize Montgomery’s offers window treatments — shades, blinds, drapery — and now with the expansion, it’s front and center.”

Montgomery’s offers window treatments from multiple vendors such as Hunter Douglas, Alta, Graber, Lafayette and Western Windows. These vendors offer more than 30 types of custom products ranging from roller shades and shutters to drapery and motorized systems.

“When it comes to Hunter Douglas, they have so many types of treatments,” Fabian said. “You can get roller shades that raise and lower, or you have a silhouette, which is like a sheer soft wood blind that will tilt to adjust for light.”

For larger spaces such as patio doors and sliders, she said customers increasingly are drawn to modern vertical treatments that combine function with a softer look.

“If you have a vertical treatment, think of it as a sheer drapery and vertical blind all in one,” Fabian said. “It’s a gorgeous treatment to go over a slider that can open and close and have…

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