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Alustra® Collection
For when you like the simplicity of a roller or Roman shade but want the fabric and hardware to feel more considered. Woven Textures Roller, Woven Textures Roman and Architectural Roller bring a more tactile textile to the window without adding drapery.
Discount Best Blinds and Shutters brings Alustra fabric and hardware samples to Santa Rosa and Sonoma County homes so you can judge weave, sheen, opacity and metal finish in the room itself. We measure the opening, review mounting depth and talk through manual or PowerView operation before the shade is ordered.
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Alustra® Collection for Sonoma County Homes
The difference is not the name on the headrail. Alustra is built around specialty textiles and coordinated hardware, so the fabric becomes a more visible part of the room: globally sourced, natural-inspired materials curated with textile designer Lori Weitzner, plus metallic finish options outside the standard roller palette. Woven Textures Roller gives a flatter, streamlined profile, Woven Textures Roman gives you visible folds, and Architectural Roller is the most structured of the three. That range is what makes Alustra useful when the window covering has to coordinate closely with cabinetry, flooring or metal finishes already in the space.
The Architectural Roller suits rooms where a conventional roller would read as too casual: contoured battens and a front-rolling configuration hold a more controlled fabric plane, and coordinated metal hardware finishes the top and bottom of the treatment. It stays visually quiet, but the details are deliberate. Woven Textures runs the other way, from open light-filtering weaves through to denser materials with stronger privacy, and choosing between the roller and Roman version is mostly a question of how much texture you want when the shade is down. Where nighttime coverage matters, dual-shade configurations pair a decorative face fabric with a separate room-darkening layer.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Alustra is a premium Hunter Douglas family built around specialty fabrics and more refined hardware. The collection here covers Woven Textures Roller, Woven Textures Roman and Architectural Roller. It is worth considering when you want the clean function of a shade but care more than usual about weave, finish and how the hardware relates to the room.
A standard roller shade prioritizes a simple fabric panel and straightforward operation. The Alustra Architectural Roller adds a more engineered fabric presentation, coordinated metal hardware and detailing meant to keep the treatment looking structured. The difference shows most in contemporary rooms where the shade stays highly visible and ordinary brackets or an exposed roll would look unfinished.
Yes, compatible Alustra configurations pair with Hunter Douglas PowerView for app, remote, voice and scheduled operation. It is most useful on large windows, grouped shades or openings that are awkward to reach. We confirm compatibility, the power approach and what you expect from the controls for the exact configuration before ordering.
It depends which Alustra product and size you choose; PowerView, LiteRise, UltraGlide, SoftTouch and EasyRise are among the systems available. Rather than pick an operating system in isolation, we look at how often the shade gets adjusted, whether cords or wands are wanted, how accessible the window is and whether the house already runs automation.