Here’s the thing: you want natural light in your home, but neighbors, delivery people, and pedestrians can see straight inside when the shades are up. But closing them completely means sitting in darkness or keeping the lights on all day long.

At Jackie & Bill's Drapery & Interiors, we offer custom window treatments made to fit your windows and your needs. We offer flexible styles that welcome light in—while maintaining your need for privacy.

Top-Down/Bottom-Up design is one style that puts you in control of how much light comes into your home and who can or can’t see into it.

How Top-Down/Bottom-Up Cellular Shades Work

Standard shades pull up from the windowsill, so you have only two choices: covered windows or exposed bottom views. Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades with the Top-Down/Bottom-Up option are more flexible because they offer two separate controls that work independently. The top rail lowers while the bottom rail remains stationary or opens up, creating a flexible coverage for light and privacy where you need it most.

If you can’t imagine how that looks, picture this. In the bathroom, you can lower the bottom section and keep the top section open to let in sunlight. When working in your office, open your shades to filter light. You can adjust the shades' position throughout the day as the sun shifts.

Hunter Douglas Duette® Top-Down/Bottom-Up Cellular Shades

The Top-Down/Bottom-Up feature is only one advantage of Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades. This style forms an air barrier when lowered, creating energy-efficient insulation; these same pockets muffle sound, so your rooms feel quieter and more peaceful.

We can show you semi-opaque, opaque, and room-darkening styles of these cellular window shades. 

• Semi-opaque fabrics give you more coverage without making the room feel dark.
• Room-darkening options block even more light and are perfect for media rooms or bedrooms where you need them most.
• With the LightLock™ feature, Duette® Cellular Shades come with a system of U-shaped side channels to block light even further and minimize light gaps in a low-profile footprint that disappears into your window frame.

The Best Rooms For Top-Down/Bottom-Up Cellular Shades

Street-facing living rooms benefit enormously from coverage at the bottom and light on top.

Let’s not forget that ground-floor bedrooms that need nighttime privacy with daytime flexibility. Close both sections completely for sleeping, then adjust in the morning to let light stream through.

Jackie and Bill's Drapery & Interiors Has the Top Window Treatments You Want

Privacy problems vanish with the right window treatments, so why wait?

At Jackie and Bill's Drapery & Interiors, we offer the complete line of Hunter Douglas window treatments, as well as beddings, drapery, and luxury fabric brands from our design workroom. Our team of experts is standing by to craft, customize, and install your selections with friendly service Wichita has trusted for years.

Visit our showroom in Wichita or contact us for a consultation. We serve the surrounding areas, including Andover, Cheney, Derby, Goddard, Hutchinson, Maize, Augusta, Bel Aire, and Newton, Kansas.