What To Consider When Choosing Office Window Treatments

If you work from home and want to create a professional environment in your home office, you may want to consider installing commercial window shades. Similarly, investing in commercial window shades may be wise if you own or manage a business that operates outside of your home.

Whether you work from home or elsewhere, your window treatments can greatly influence your work environment. For this reason, it's important for you to pick your window treatments carefully.

Temperature

Have you ever sat next to a window on a chilly day only to find yourself shivering? If so, you probably lowered the blind and/or closed the curtain to keep the warmth and cold outside. Clearly, your window treatments have the ability to influence the temperature in your work area. As a result, they can also impact your heating and cooling costs.

Noise

When you stop and think about what interrupts your workflow most often, noise may come to mind. While you can't eliminate every noise, you can minimize the external noise that disrupts your productivity with commercial window shades. If your office doesn't have a view of the outdoors yet is often interrupted by noise, you can use commercial window shades to create noise barriers between your office and neighboring workspaces.

Lighting

Managing the lighting in your work area is key to maintaining your productivity and setting the appropriate mood during meetings. If too much natural light enters your office, it can create a glare that can impair your ability to see your computer screen. Similarly, too much natural light may force meeting attendees to squint, or if it hits them directly in the face, the light may make them cover their eyes.

With commercial window shades, you can prevent these things from happening; you'll be able to control the amount of natural light that seeps into your office and the time of day it enters.

Privacy and Eliminating Distractions

Whether you work from home or another location, there will likely be times when you need some privacy in your workspace and other instances when you'll need to eliminate distractions. Commercial window shades enable you to create a private spot out of your office and block out the sight of things that may distract you at critical moments.

Order Commercial Window Shades from Proctor Drapery

Michael Proctor has created and installed custom window treatments in St. Louis-area homes and businesses and has been his life's work for over 50 years. Proctor and his talented team offer a variety of great-looking, fully functional commercial window shades ideal for home offices and workspaces outside of the home.

With our one-of-a-kind mobile showroom, you won't even need to leave your office to find high-quality, durable window treatments for your office. Get in touch with Proctor Drapery to schedule a meeting with Michael Proctor now.