A client of ours contacted us after she went to get her three-year-old son and found he had been playing with the cords on the blinds. He had been spinning into it and had gotten it wrapped around his neck! She entered the room just as he was falling and no one was hurt, but recognizing the urgent need for child safe window coverings in her Colorado Springs home, she called us right away.

Window lifting systems actually kill one child and an unknown number of household pets every month and with that in mind, Hunter Douglas committed itself decades ago to making child-safe lifting systems. Since the entry level “cord lock” system, in which the user pulls a loose cord to move the window covering, is common and dangerous, Hunter Douglas makes all of its window coverings with innovative lifting systems that eliminate the danger and look neater too.

Child Safe Window Coverings

• Literise and Simplelift: These two sleek systems raise and lower shades with no cords. You simply push the window treatment up and pull it down.
• Motorization: Motorized window treatments are controlled with a switch or through your mobile devices. They can even be programmed to open and close at specific times.
• Vertiglide: This clean-looking system for side-to-side window treatments slides left-to-right and back again with a push or pull.
• Wand Control and Ultraglide: A wand controls vertical window treatments without a cord or a combination wand/cord system keeps the cord taut and out of reach of children and pets.
• Shutters: Shutters can be opened and closed without cords and they transform the look of a room too.

Cord tensioners and cleats that attach to the wall are also available. Properly installed and used, these systems bind up the cord and keep it secured in a way that makes it less accessible. The old corded systems can be retrofitted with a free kit from www.WindowCoverings.org or replaced altogether with an updated window treatment.

Are your window coverings a safety hazard? If you have small children or pets, take a look at your blinds, shades or drapes. Do they have loose cords? Contact us to replace them with a cordless product and keep your Colorado Springs home safe.