At Blind Magic, we often get asked about the latest trends in window coverings. This is an important question because what’s trending is often what looks best in new home builds and renovations.
For 2024, we’ve compiled a comprehensive guide to the most popular types of blinds our buyers are choosing, focusing on styles rather than specific patterns and colors. This blog post will explore the top 10 styles we recommend for their style, longevity, comfort, and popularity.
Before diving into the top styles for 2024, let’s quickly revisit one of the biggest trends from the past years, which we expect to continue:
Trending Home Office Window Coverings
Form follows function when it comes to blinds, and many of our customers who invested in new blinds over the last year were specifically looking for the best blinds for a home office.
So, what makes a blind the best for a home office? It depends on the room’s specific challenges, considering that “office” is a broad term. For many, it might be the corner of the lounge, a kitchen table in front of patio doors, or finally utilizing a conservatory as a workspace.
The right blind for a home office can address several challenges, including:
- Screen glare: Dimming or light-filtering blinds are effective solutions.
- Excessive Zoom usage: Blackout blinds, or alternatively, taking a break from the internet can help.
- Cold Canadian winters: Thermally insulating blackout blinds can help keep the warmth in, saving on heating bills.
- Summer heat: Thermally insulating blackout blinds combined with a fan can prevent the room from becoming an oven.
- Privacy concerns: Privacy blinds or adjustable slats and louvers, such as real wood or faux wood blinds, can block nosy neighbors without blocking the sun.
Taking these challenges into account, the types of blinds trending in 2024 are those that address these specific needs. While not every buyer is purchasing blinds for a home office, the popularity of certain styles reflects the continued growth of remote work.
So, what types of blinds are in style? Our top picks for 2024, listed in order of popularity, are as follows:
Top 10 Trending Window Coverings List 2024
1) Automated Blinds & Shades
Smart homes are becoming more and more popular as the years go on, and PowerView Automation is the window treatment solution to this growing trend. With PowerView you are able to completely automate your blinds on a schedule that best suits your needs.
Motorized Blinds and Shades also offer a cordless treatment to your windows making them safer for pets and children, as well as extended longevity due to cords and strings being outlawed in May of 2022 in Canada.
During the summer, scheduling your motorized shades to close at midday keeps your home from overheating. In the wintertime, scheduling them to open during the day will invite natural sunlight to warm your home. With PowerView Automation motorized window treatments, there’s less need for air conditioning and heating and more opportunity for energy savings.
2) LightLock™ Complete Room Darkening Shades
The Duette® LightLock™ system is a revolutionary design that provides darkening effects without the use of curtains. It absorbs all light from every angle leaving rooms nearly invisible to viewers on either side!
LightLock™ is only available on Honeycomb Cellular shades are one of the most energy efficient window coverings you can buy. They use a series of cell pockets to trap air around your windows, keeping your rooms cozier in the winter and cooler in the summer. Meaning that you will not only get the best in room darkening, but the best in energy efficiency!
3) Roller Shades
If you ask the average Canadian to name or think of a type of blind, they will more than likely picture a Roller Shade. A stylish alternative to blinds, easy-to-operate roller shades look and work best mounted inside the window frame. Similar to blinds, roller shades are often accompanied by a second window treatment like curtains for aesthetic purposes and extra light control. Roller shades are also a good choice for windows with extra-thick molding, as they allow you to treat the window without covering the architectural detail.
In 2021, roller blinds in duolite and blackout fabrics really came into their own; for bedrooms to keep the sun out, for home office Zoom-ers, and for the laid-off/in-between jobbers, to keep the afternoon sun from ruining your gaming.
Graphic patterned prints, fluid, natural watercolour effects, dramatic blooms, and both neutrals and rich, bold colours all scored well on the design front.
4) Roman Shades
Among today’s most popular window treatments, Roman Shades offer stylish texture. luxury, and add natural warmth to your window design. They’re easy to operate, look great when paired with drapes and come in a variety of weaves depending on the amount of light control you need.
Roman blind designs that are popular in 2022 include sweeping, organic lines, and petite, ditsy florals rather than the larger, bolder floral prints we saw a lot of in 2019 and earlier. People also love block prints, and exotic, nature-inspired designs for Roman blinds in 2022.
Popular Roman blind colours this year include deep, earth tones, and vitally, the integration of textures within the fabric to provide depth and intrigue; such as rustic warps and wefts, the resurgence of plush, tactile, glamorous velvets, and other materials that virtually demand to be touched (but only after you’ve washed your hands, please and thank you!).
5) Cellular Shades
Cellular shades are simply designed to add a pop of classic style and loads of function to your window. Many cellular shade varieties come in a honeycomb design that filters light and insulates, resulting in lower home energy costs.
Cellular blinds look just like pleated shades and are made up of two different material pieces. Excellent insulation is the main reason why they are incredibly famous and one of the hottest window blinds trends in 2022. These shades trap the air inside and guard against both heat and cold.
Installing cellular shades is a great way to keep your home warm in the winter and cool in the summer, which in turn helps homeowners save huge on their light bills. That’s another reason why cellular shades are gaining traction.
These shades are available in different cell sizes to fit the needs of different windows. Cellular shades feature light-diffusing capabilities. Blackout shades can darken the room entirely. On the other hand, light-filtering shades will fill the room with a warm and soft glow. At the same time, darker-colored or double-cell shades can block more light.
Apart from their advanced mechanism, cellular blinds are popular because of their clean and contained look, which will help you find the right fit that goes perfectly well with your décor.
6) Silhouette Shades
Every year we notice an uptick in Silhouette Shades. This style is constantly growing because of how timeless the shadings style is. They have a modern look that improved upon the classic blinds look with sheers in between the vanes. This sheer can be customized to be more opaque or clear/see-through as you see fit for your needs.
Effortlessly manage light and privacy at the same time. Silhouette® Window Shadings have unique S-shaped vanes that float between two sheer panels to beautifully diffuse the light into your room and, when the vanes are tilted, lets you block the outside world’s view into your home.
7) Banded Shades (Zebra Shades)
Being one of the best-selling style choices of 2019, 2020 and 2021, Designer Banded Shades is a style that is not going away. Combining the styles of a Roller Shade and a Sheer Shade in one. Create varying dimensions of light with a single banded shade. Shift the solid bands of our Designer Banded Shades to overlap for extreme privacy or align the solid bands for a natural diffusion of illumination. This sheer and solid combination of fabric bands in one allows the shade to transition seamlessly from open to closed, providing a modern solution for view-through, light control and privacy.
Beautiful Fabric Collection—Designer Banded Shades come in three different band heights; numerous colors, textures and geometric patterns; and both light-filtering and room-darkening opacities.
Top Treatment—A fabric-wrapped header in a square design creates a sleek top treatment. Select one of eight custom hardware colors.
Cover Large Windows—Smooth, precise operation makes larger shades easy to raise. Designer Banded Shades are perfect for big windows that need to be covered.
8) Luminette Privacy Sheers
Have light when you want it and privacy when you need it. Luminette Sheers offer an amazing style with functionality that will last forever. Combine this style with PowerView for the ultimate in Vertical Blinds technology. If you would like to see these sheers in person and in action, visit our gallery to try them out! These vanes can rotate up to 180°, giving you precise light control and privacy. Luminette sheers are the perfect choice for wide expanses of glass, sliding doors, and other vertical applications.
Concealed Hardware—When your sheers are closed, our SofTrak™ hardware system is concealed by the fabric for a polished look. This proprietary system makes operation easy and reliable.
Sheer Fabrics & Textures—Luminette sheers are available in a wide variety of fabrics, textures, and colors. A room-darkening option is also available in all selections.
Accents by the Yard™—All Luminette fabrics are available in cut yardage, so you can coordinate fabrics and create decorative accents like pillows and duvets.
9) Faux Wood Blinds
Faux Wood Blinds, or Everwood Alternative Wood Blinds, offer the look of wood blinds with the resilience of modern materials. Enjoy the rich appearance of hardwood with none of the usual upkeep. EverWood Alternative Wood Blinds have classic good looks that will withstand humid weather and sun exposure. They resist fading, yellowing, warping, and bowing—making them a dream option for bathrooms and sunrooms alike. Choose from a large selection of colors and realistic finishes, plus decorative upgrades.
Variable Light Control & View-Through—EverWood blinds provide view-through without having to be raised. Rotate the slats to manage incoming light and privacy.
Stylish Colors & Realistic Textures—The EverWood collection is available in an assortment of colors, including whites, neutrals and grays, and has the most realistic stain-like finishes in the industry.
Decorative Tapes—Accent your décor with decorative tapes that come in many colors and patterns.
Room Darkening—Our de-Light™ feature eliminates cord holes and reduces light leaks, blocking 50% more light than a traditional wood blind construction.
Made to Last—EverWood blinds are guaranteed not to fade, yellow, warp or bow—perfect for humid bathrooms or rooms with full sun.
10) Palm Beach Shutters
last and certainly not least, Palm Beach Polysatin Shutters bring the signature look of plantation shutters with a durable UV-resistant Polysatin material. This material prevents warping, cracking, fading, chipping, and peeling even when exposed to intense sunlight and moisture.
Palm Beach Promise™—We offer a lifetime guarantee that your Palm Beach shutters will never warp, crack, fade, chip, peel or discolor.
Water Resistant—The unique Polysatin compound is resistant to moisture and mildew, so Palm Beach shutters work very well in damp or humid spaces.
DuraLux™ Finish—This special treatment creates the look of a finely painted shutter with a matte finish on all of our Palm Beach shutters Polysatin colors.
Built to Last—Interior aluminum bracing and resin blocks add superior strength.
Motorization—Palm Beach shutters with PowerView® Automation are the only motorized shutter on the market, perfect for hands-free louver operation. An exclusive override feature also allows for manual operation; simply move the louvers by hand without worrying about damaging the motor.
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