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Top tips for keeping your home insulated

Written by Yvonne Keal

Product Management specialist

Written: 20/11/2013

Updated: 05/12/2024

When the winter chill sets in, there’s nothing quite like snuggling up in a cosy and inviting home. To keep your home warm, you need it to be well insulated. Good window dressings play a huge part in this.  

In this guide, we talk through our thermal solutions and recommendations to help keep the space comfortably warm. 

duette charcoal pleated blinds on french doors in living room

First line of defence

There is a smart and innovative product in our Pleated blinds range. It’s called a Thermashade™ blind. It features two special layers of fabric which together form a honeycomb shape. This honeycomb pocket traps air and creates a barrier between your warm room and the cold window to keep the heat in. 

Thermashade™ Pleated blinds, also known as Thermal blinds, are suitable for all rooms in the house but are particularly effective in conservatories and garden rooms, which get very cold in the winter months. Heating these spaces is costly, but Thermashade™ blinds will help keep the heat in your living space for longer. They’re flexible too. Thermashade™ blinds can be fitted into Perfect Fit frames to give a neat, streamlined finish.  

You could also consider a Transition™ blind which is made of two different fabrics, giving you two blinds in one.

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cley donkey roman blind with collette vixen fringing in a grey living room with an orange sofa and cactii

Keep the cold at the window

Once you’ve sufficiently heated up the room, it’s important to retain the heat. Windows are a significant source of heat loss in the home, due to radiation and air leakage. It’s important to build your defences against this with good window dressings. 

A great solution is thermal blinds, which are specifically designed to control temperature. Our Duette® and ThermaShade™ blinds help to reduce heat loss by 55%, due to their honeycomb cells which trap air at the window. 

Ideally, your blinds shouldn’t have any gaps around them if you want to preserve heat in the room. This is just a small design error which can have a huge impact.  

Get it right the first time with professionally installed made-to-measure blinds. This will help to ensure that heat loss is minimal, and your space is kept warm and snuggly. 

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White shutters in a living room with a sofa facing away from the windows. A potted plant and bookshelf on the right hand side.

Curtains for a serene space

Shutters are an excellent way to insulate windows and improve energy efficiency in your home. With a wooden barrier at your window, shutting them on cold evenings will keep chills out and the warmth in. In fact, it has been shown that when closed, shutters can reduce heat loss through a window by more than 50%. 

Shutters are flexible too, giving you the option to keep the frames closed and keep the draughts at bay, but still allowing light in by positioning the slats (louvres) to suit you. 

Improving your window dressings can make a big impact on your heating bills and your carbon emissions.  Help save money, help save the planet, it’s a win-win.

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Layer up

Another great way to manage heat loss is to layer curtains over blinds or shutters. You’ll not only benefit from the additional insulation, but it creates a luxurious and refined look to your space.  

A style tip that will not only insulate your room but help with privacy and light control is to pair sheer blinds with curtains. You could also try out blackout blinds with thermal curtains in a bedroom to minimise light levels and create a restful environment for sleep. 

Blend different textures, colours, patterns and plains for a finish that’s as cosy as it is stylish. 

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Top tip from a Hillarys advisor

Mark, Hillary advisor
Shutters are a flexible choice, giving you the option to keep the frames closed and draughts at bay, but still allowing light in by positioning the louvres to suit you.
Mark, Hillary advisor

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Thermal Curtains

Our thermal curtains offer solutions to help keep your home warm in the winter and cool in the summer.