Custom Window Treatments in Greenwood, Indiana
Blinds, shades, shutters and motorized systems measured in your Greenwood home. Free in home measure, a written quote, and every deduction and light gap explained before anything is fabricated.
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Quick answer for Greenwood: custom window treatments are measured in the home, built to those measurements, and installed a few weeks later. Here's what people usually want to know before booking that first measure.
- Services: faux wood blinds, wood blinds, vertical blinds, aluminum mini blinds
- Service area: Greenwood, Johnson County, IN and surrounding areas For anything already installed, service visits are quick because we're working with parts. For new custom orders, expect a measure, then a few weeks of fabrication, then an install appointment we book once the product has been inspected.
- Insured and bonded
- Serving Greenwood, IN since 2008
Schedule Your Free In-Home Measure
The measure is three widths and three heights at every opening, at top, middle and bottom, plus a diagonal check wherever the house has moved. Across the 1940 to 1979 quarter of Greenwood, a quarter inch to a half inch of out of square in a single opening is normal rather than a defect. We also read mounting depth at the stop, because the 3.25 inch nominal jamb common in post-1990 construction handles a 2 inch blind and struggles with a deep cassette. Those readings decide the mount before any fabric gets picked.
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Greenwood is two measuring problems sharing one mailing address. The 2000 to 2019 stock is 39.8 percent of the city's 27,721 units, and the 2000s alone put up 6,587 houses with standard vinyl frames, a 3.25 inch nominal jamb and a flat stop that takes a 2 inch blind cleanly and fights a deep headrail. Then there's the 25.1 percent built 1940 to 1979, 6,944 ranch and split level units on Johnson County clay, where a quarter inch to a half inch of out of square across one opening is ordinary and a later vinyl unit set inside the original frame has already eaten the mounting depth. Same city, same afternoon, two different answers about whether your shade goes inside the opening or on the trim. We settle that with a tape before anything is ordered.
Splitting a project by room is completely reasonable and we price it that way. What changes is dye lot risk on fabrics and availability risk on discontinued lines. If you're doing the Greenwood main floor now and upstairs in the spring, we'll note the exact product, color and lot on your file. It improves the odds. It doesn't guarantee a match, and we won't claim it does.
We disclose the annoying things before you pay, not after. Inside mounted shades leave a light gap at each side. Blackout fabric doesn't make a blackout room by itself. Motorized shades run on batteries that need replacing about once a year. Woven woods let light through without a liner. None of that stops people from buying. It stops people from feeling cheated, which is a better outcome for everyone in Greenwood.
Built in the Last Few Years?
Many of our Greenwood customers moved into a house built by one of these companies. Builder blinds are usually stock sizes trimmed to fit, so if yours came with the house and never ran right, that is why. We measure the openings as built rather than off the plan.
Named for identification only. Greenwood Window Treatments is an independent company and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting as a representative of any homebuilder listed.
What Matters at the Window in Greenwood
What our crew has learned working in Greenwood homes.
About Greenwood Homes
Greenwood's median house dates to 1999. Build era shares on the parcel record run pre-1940 1.9%, 1940-1979 25.1%, 1980-1999 31.4%, 2000-2019 39.8%, 2020+ 2.0%. Median home value is $276,100. Mixed and era dependent. Post-1990 vinyl new construction windows typically present a 3.25 in nominal jamb with a flat stop, which is adequate for inside mount 2 in blinds and most cellular shades but tight for large headrail products. two story traditional with brick or stone water table and vinyl or cement board above; 1970s-1980s ranch and tri level; 1990s-2000s production two story with vaulted or two story great room; single story ranch villa and patio home (a significant Greenwood product type, often in age targeted or. Typical opening count: Roughly 16-24 openings for the dominant 1,800-2,600 sq ft two story stock built 1990-2009, and 10-16 for the 1970s ranch stock.
Where We Work in Greenwood
We cover homeowners across Greenwood near Greenwood Park Mall, Old City Park, Craig Park, Freedom Park, University Park, Greenwood Amphitheater.
Surrounding Areas We Serve
Our crew also covers Center Grove, Greenwood Residential Historic District, Carefree, Eagle Trace, Willow Lakes, Sheffield Park, Foxberry Trace, Innisbrooke, Brentwood, Fairview Heights.
Recent Weather Patterns
Central Indiana sits in IECC climate zone 5A, which means a real cooling load and a real heating load on the same window. NOAA's 1991-2020 normals for Indianapolis put the July average high at 85.2F, the January average high at 36.1F and the January average low at 20.9F, with the muggy season running May 25 to September 22. Mature canopy in the Old Town historic district and in the 1960s-1980s Center Grove plats such as Carefree and Brentwood, where 40-55 years of growth now shades front elevations.
What Our Crew Sees in Greenwood
Half round and quarter round transoms over front elevation windows, palladian assemblies in the gable of 1995-2007 elevations, two story great room glass walls, bay windows in dining rooms of 1980s-1990s plans, and sliding patio doors on nearly all rear elevations. Active new construction includes Cherry Tree Walk (Arbor Homes), Worthsville Road corridor rezonings.
Who Actually Turns Up in Greenwood
The same people measure, order and install. Customers name them in reviews, which is the point: you are not getting a subcontractor you have never heard of.
What We Are Running in Greenwood Right Now
Both offers apply to work quoted and ordered while they are posted here. Ask about them at the in-home measure and we will put the discount on the written quote before you decide anything.
$500 Off Your First Exterior Screen, Plus a Free Motorization Upgrade
Take $500 off your first exterior screen and we will add the motorization upgrade at no charge. Exterior screens stop solar heat outside the glass, which is the only place you can stop it before it is already in the room, and a motor is the difference between using one and forgetting it.
Applies to a first exterior screen. Ask at the measure so the discount is on the written quote before you order. Motorized product runs on batteries that need replacing, about a year on Hunter Douglas PowerView.
Ask about this offerFree Motorization Upgrade on Select Interior Shades
Pick from the qualifying interior shade lines and the motorization upgrade is free. It is worth most on the openings you would otherwise leave alone: tall great room glass, anything above a stair, and the west windows nobody remembers to close by four.
Select interior shade lines only. We will tell you at the measure which of your openings qualify. Batteries are a real running cost and are not included.
Ask about this offerPayment Options That Work for You
We partner with established lenders so Greenwood Window Treatments clients can spread the cost of a major window treatment project into manageable payments. Ask your project lead about current options.
Start the work now and begin paying later. On a whole-house order this is how people phase a large job without phasing the install.
- Payments deferred for a promotional period
- Rate and period set by the lender
- Quoted price held for the order
Divide the project cost into equal monthly payments across a fixed promotional period, so the budget is predictable from day one.
- Equal monthly payments
- Fixed promotional period
- Simple, predictable budgeting
Spread a larger window treatment project across a longer term with fixed equal payments, for homeowners who want the lowest monthly amount.
- Extended terms available
- Fixed equal payments
- Suited to larger window treatment projects
Financing is arranged through third party lenders and is subject to credit approval. Rates, terms, and promotional periods are set by the lender and disclosed to you in writing before you sign. Ask your project lead which programs are open right now.
Window Treatment Services in Greenwood
From one room to a whole house, Greenwood Window Treatments measures every opening, orders it custom, and installs it with the same crew that took the measurements.
Faux Wood Blinds in Greenwood
Custom faux wood runs about two to five weeks from order to install, and nothing about that is worth rushing. Whites vary between production runs, so if you're doing part of the Greenwood house now and part later, expect a visible difference between the two batches.
Learn moreWood Blinds in Greenwood
A wood headrail needs depth inside the opening to sit flush, and older Greenwood trim doesn't always offer it. When the depth isn't there, an outside mount on a bracket looks deliberate. A headrail hanging proud of shallow trim never does.
Learn moreVertical Blinds in Greenwood
Verticals are what you'll use when the opening gets genuinely wide. A long run of glass in a Greenwood great room takes a single track with a center split, so neither half travels the whole span and the stack lands where the wall can carry it.
Learn moreAluminum Mini Blinds in Greenwood
Motorizing a mini blind is technically possible and almost never worth the money, since the product costs less than the motor. If a Greenwood window really is out of reach, we'd rather put a motorized roller shade there and leave aluminum for the windows you can touch.
Learn moreRoller Shades in Greenwood
A motorized roller is the easiest automation in the house, and the batteries are the part nobody's quoting. Hunter Douglas states about a year on PowerView. Multiply that across a Greenwood great room and decide now whether hardwired power is worth planning around.
Learn moreSolar Shades in Greenwood
Interior screens stop some solar heat, and they stop it after it's already through the glass. That's the physical limit. For a Greenwood room that genuinely overheats in July, an exterior shade outside the glass does more, and we'd rather say so than oversell the interior one.
Learn moreCellular Shades in Greenwood
Light filtering cellular fabric glows: the room gets diffuse daylight and no view at all. Blackout cellular blocks light through the fabric and doesn't touch what gets around it, so a truly dark Greenwood bedroom still needs side channels or an outside mount over the opening.
Learn moreZebra Shades in Greenwood
Zebra fabrics turn over in the catalogs faster than most, and openness naming isn't consistent between makers. If a second Greenwood window in the same room is even a possibility, buy both now. Matching a discontinued band pattern later isn't something we can promise.
Learn moreRoman Shades in Greenwood
Motorized Romans work well because the lift is slow and controlled, which is kinder to the folds than a hand pull. Batteries run about a year on Hunter Douglas PowerView, and a heavy interlined shade on a tall Greenwood window won't be the one that goes longest.
Learn moreWoven Wood Shades in Greenwood
Against a fabric roller, a woven wood brings texture and an irregular, warm light. Against a wood blind, it softens a room instead of striping it. What it gives up to both is privacy, unless you add the liner, and that's the whole Greenwood tradeoff.
Learn moreBlackout Shades in Greenwood
Backings age. A blackout fabric that spends a decade against hot Greenwood glass can stiffen and eventually craze, and the first sign is usually pinholes of light where there weren't any before. That's a fabric replacement rather than a repair, and it's years out.
Learn morePlantation Shutters in Greenwood
Greenwood Window Treatments is insured and bonded, and shutters are exactly the kind of job Indiana's IC 24-5-11 was written for: a written contract with scope and price on residential work over $150. Your Greenwood order names the frame style and the louver size.
Learn moreCafe Shutters in Greenwood
Half the panel height isn't half the price, because the frame and the hardware cost much the same either way. Nationally, interior shutters run about $175 to $800 per window and a Greenwood cafe order lands lower in that range without being cheap.
Learn moreMotorized Shades in Greenwood
Motorizing every opening in a house is the most common overspend we see. Put motors on the glass that's hard to get to or on a bank you'd otherwise operate one at a time, and leave the rest of the Greenwood house on cordless lift.
Learn moreCustom Drapery in Greenwood
Stationary panels are decoration. If you actually want to close them at night, that's a traverse rod or a rings-and-baton setup, and the hardware costs more while needing a deeper return. We ask which one a Greenwood room needs before pricing anything.
Learn moreValances & Top Treatments in Greenwood
Swags and cascades are not automatically dated, but they're specific. They belong on tall formal Greenwood rooms with deep trim and real ceiling height, and they look wrong on a builder opening with narrow casing. We'll tell you which one you've got.
Learn moreExterior Solar Shades in Greenwood
If a Greenwood wall has nothing solid to mount to and nothing overhead to protect the roll, an exterior shade is the wrong product. Interior solar shades or an awning on a freestanding frame will serve you better, and we'd rather redirect you than sell it anyway.
Learn moreRetractable Awnings in Greenwood
Awnings work best on high sun. At midday in July an awning over a Greenwood south wall throws real shade, and by five in the afternoon the sun's low enough to come in under the front bar, which is where a drop valance or a side screen earns its keep.
Learn moreCommercial Window Treatments in Greenwood
Maintenance is a line item worth planning. Fabric shades in a Greenwood building need periodic cleaning by a defined method, hardware needs occasional adjustment, and a documented spec means the next facilities manager can order a matching unit and doesn't start a new product search.
Learn moreSkylight Shades in Greenwood
If a Greenwood house is still under construction, run power to the skylight before the ceiling closes, because you won't get that chance again. A hardwired overhead motor removes the battery question permanently, and the cost of that wire during a build is nothing compared to opening a finished ceiling later.
Learn moreSliding Glass Door Blinds in Greenwood
On door glass the openness factor question gets sharper, because you're looking through this opening more than any other. Three percent keeps a usable Greenwood backyard view while cutting most of the glare, and one percent trades that view for the darkest afternoon in the room.
Learn morePanel Track Blinds in Greenwood
An outside-mounted track leaves a gap at the top where light passes above the panels. Adding a fascia or setting the track tight to the ceiling closes it, and it's worth doing, and on a Greenwood bedroom that detail is the difference between a dark room and a bright line at dawn.
Learn moreSheer Shades in Greenwood
Pairing these with stationary drapery panels is the standard move for a formal Greenwood room, and it isn't only about looks. The shade does all the work and the panels frame the window, which also solves the night privacy problem if the panels are made to actually close.
Learn morePleated Shades in Greenwood
Arched and angled openings take pleated fabric well because the folds can be built to a template. A Greenwood house with a half round above a window can get a stationary pleated fan that fills the shape, though it won't operate and we'll say so before you order.
Learn moreBamboo Shades in Greenwood
The bottom rail on a woven shade is usually a wrapped hembar that keeps the weave hanging straight. It's also the part that takes every knock, so on a Greenwood door or a high traffic window we'd rather spec a sturdier rail than the lightest option available.
Learn moreDual Shades in Greenwood
These suit rooms where the light changes through the day and you'd rather have one control for it. A Greenwood living room facing east gets a harsh morning and a soft afternoon, and a dual shade handles both without you swapping between two treatments on the same window.
Learn moreTop-Down Bottom-Up Shades in Greenwood
The whole product is really about sill height and sightlines. On a Greenwood street where the sidewalk sits close and the windows start low, the bottom rail lands right at standing eye level from outside, and that's the number we work from rather than a fraction of the window.
Learn moreCordless Blinds in Greenwood
There's no cord to restring, which removes the single most common blind repair from the picture entirely. What's left is the tilt mechanism and the lift cassette, both replaceable while the blind stays on the wall, so a Greenwood service call rarely means reordering the whole treatment.
Learn moreHardwood Shutters in Greenwood
Muggy season here runs from about the twenty-fifth of May into late September, and interior air swings along with it. Hardwood panels take on a little width in that stretch and give it back in winter, and that's why a Greenwood shutter gets fitted with clearance rather than jammed tight into its frame.
Learn moreComposite Shutters in Greenwood
Composite handles the arch and the angle better than you'd expect. A stable core holds a curved frame without seasonal movement, so a Greenwood transom or a sunburst opening can be shuttered permanently as a fixed panel with operable louvers below it.
Learn moreSmart Home Shade Integration in Greenwood
Scenes beat schedules for most Greenwood families. A single morning scene that lifts the kitchen and the family room while leaving bedrooms alone gets used every day, where a rigid timer gets overridden by week two. We'll set scenes with you in the house, not from a spreadsheet.
Learn moreBlind Repair & Restring in Greenwood
Older cord safety kits are worth removing, not repairing. Cleats, tie-downs, wall hooks and tension devices only work when someone uses them every single day. If a Greenwood household has small children, converting the lift or changing the treatment is the durable answer, and we'll say that plainly.
Learn moreShutter Repair in Greenwood
Sometimes the answer is no. A set with rotted bottom rails, missing louvers, a snapped tilt rod and a frame that's come away from a settled Greenwood opening isn't a repair, it's a replacement wearing a repair's clothes. We'll say that on the first visit and price the alternative honestly.
Learn moreMotorization Retrofit in Greenwood
Retrofits don't fix fit. If a Greenwood shade was built too narrow and leaks light down both edges, adding a motor gives you a light gap that opens on command. We'll tell you when the right answer is a new shade rather than a motor inside an old one.
Learn moreOutdoor Patio Shades in Greenwood
Anchoring is structural work. Brackets go into framing or a solid post, never into trim alone, and where a Greenwood porch has a wrapped column we'll open enough of it to find something real. A shade that pulls out in year two was mounted into whatever happened to be closest.
Learn moreOffice Window Treatments in Greenwood
Cleaning has to be somebody's job. Office shades collect dust along the hembar and the cassette, and a documented method plus an annual pass keeps a Greenwood installation looking deliberate. Fabric that gets scrubbed with the wrong thing is the most common avoidable damage we see.
Learn moreHealthcare Window Treatments in Greenwood
Patient rooms want daylight and control, and they don't want them at the same hour. A dual system with a light-filtering layer and a darkening layer lets a Greenwood room have an outward view during the day and a genuinely dark space at night, without asking staff to compromise on either one.
Learn moreMultifamily Window Treatments in Greenwood
Common areas run on a different spec than units. A Greenwood clubhouse, fitness room or leasing office is a public space with ADA reach range requirements for operable parts, and it usually wants a better fabric than what's behind an apartment door.
Learn more
Local Expertise, Real Results
An inside mount still leaves light down the sides: Lutron publishes 3/4 inch per side on its Roller 20/64, and the factory takes 1/16 inch per side off your width before the fabric is cut. You should hear both numbers from us at the measure, not discover them at 7 a.m. in an east facing bedroom.
Greenwood Window Treatments works throughout Greenwood on custom window coverings, and a good share of the work is second-round: fixing what got ordered online at the wrong size or specified for the wrong room. There's no judgement in that. Custom product is easy to get wrong from a distance, and Johnson County houses rarely measure the way the plans say they should.
A good share of the work we do at a Greenwood address isn't in Greenwood. Every subdivision we've checked west of US 31 in ZIPs 46142 and 46143 comes back township WHITE RIVER and school district CENTER GROVE COM in Johnson County parcel records. That's unincorporated Center Grove: no mayor, no council, no municipal line, and residents there say Center Grove even when the envelope says Greenwood. Three school corporations split these addresses, Greenwood Community, Center Grove and Clark-Pleasant, and the boundaries ignore the city limits entirely. None of that changes a tape measure. It changes how we find you and what we expect to see when we walk in, because the house on Chancery Boulevard and the house on Brewer Street are not the same job.
We're insured and insured. Indiana issues no statewide license for this trade, and Indianapolis has no window treatment category either, so anybody claiming a state license for blinds and shades is describing something that doesn't exist. What does exist is the Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act, IC 24-5-11, which requires a written contract with a real scope, real dates and a total price on residential work over $150. Almost every Greenwood order clears that number, so you get the document. On it you'll find the finished width and finished height for each opening, the factory deduction we applied, the mount we chose and the reason for it, and the dye lot, because the 16 to 24 opening houses out here get done in phases far more often than they get done at once.
Our Promise
Every opening gets three widths, three heights and a written mounting depth before anyone talks price. You'll hear the light gap number for the mount you choose at the measure, not after install day. Lead time is 2 to 5 weeks and we won't dress that up. The dye lot goes on your paperwork so a later phase still matches.
Why Greenwood Homeowners Trust the Tape, Not the App
Serving Greenwood and Johnson County with quality materials, thorough inspections, and transparent pricing.
The 1999 median hides a split
Greenwood's median year built is 1999, which sounds like one kind of house and isn't. Behind that median sit 517 units from before 1940, 6,944 built 1940 to 1979, 8,695 built 1980 to 1999 and 11,021 built 2000 to 2019. We measure to the era in front of us. A 1974 split level in Carefree gets three widths, three heights and a diagonal check. A 2006 two story off Stones Crossing Road gets three widths anyway, because wide great room assemblies drift even when the house is square.
We quote the plat, not the city
Carefree is 704 parcels across at least 18 recorded sections, from CAREFREE 2ND SEC to CAREFREE 18TH SEC PART 2, so a house on Easy Street and a house on Nevermind Way can be a decade apart. Innisbrooke is about 120 lots where seven of nine streets are the subdivision name with a different suffix. Woodland Streams is only 98 parcels but platted across six sections plus a replat. Those are different quoting problems, and the name on the sign tells us which one.
Depth is the Greenwood constraint
Post-1990 construction here typically gives a 3.25 inch nominal jamb with a flat stop. That's fine for a 2 inch blind or most cellular shades and tight for a large headrail or a cassette. The 1960s to 1980s houses that took a later vinyl unit inside the original frame lose depth at that unit and often can't hold an inside mount without a spacer. The pre-1940 Old Town stock is the opposite: deep plaster or wood lined returns, generous but never uniform. We read depth at every opening and write it down.
No covenant we haven't read
No recorded covenant was obtainable for Carefree, Sheffield Park, Foxberry Trace, Innisbrooke, Brentwood, Fairview Heights or Woodland Streams, and we found no verifiable recorded rule anywhere in Greenwood governing street facing window covering color or reflective backings. Plenty of associations do have one. If yours does, hand us the page and we'll design to it, usually with a white or off white street side behind whatever you picked for the room. What we won't do is invent a rule to sell you a liner.
Real Jobs. Real Results.
Photos from recent window treatment projects completed by the crew that measured them across Greenwood and Johnson County. Every project is documented with photos and a written closeout package.
A Greenwood Project in Plain Order
Four steps, and none of them start with a catalog. Greenwood's stock is mixed enough that the tape has to run first: a 1972 ranch on Fairview Road and a 2019 two story on Stones Crossing Road are both Center Grove addresses and they need different answers at the opening. After you approve the order, fabrication runs 2 to 5 weeks. That's a factory schedule, not a delay, and nothing in this trade is an emergency.
In your openings, not ours
We come to the house and measure every opening you want covered: three widths, three heights, mounting depth at the stop, and a diagonal where Johnson County clay has had 40 to 70 years to work on the frame. Nothing gets ordered off a plan sheet or a builder's window schedule. If a room has a bay, a transom or a wide great room assembly, that gets drawn rather than described.
Mount, openness and roll direction
Inside or outside mount is a depth decision, and we'll tell you the light gap either way. Openness factor comes next, 1, 3, 5 or 10 percent depending on how much view you want to keep against the glare. Roll direction matters too: reverse roll pulls the fabric closer to the glass but doesn't work with a fascia. Shades over 120 inches tall, or past a 4 to 1 height to width ratio, get larger light gaps than the standard figure.
Written contract, then fabrication
IC 24-5-11 requires a written contract on residential work over $150, and your order will carry finished sizes per opening, the factory deduction, the mount, the product line and the dye lot. Then it goes to the factory. Custom fabrication is 2 to 5 weeks, which is why a Cherry Tree Walk closing date and an install date are two separate dates on your calendar.
Brackets, level and travel limits
Install day is bracket layout, level, and operation checked at every unit. Wide great room shades in the post-1995 Center Grove plats get a center support bracket so the roller tube doesn't deflect and hang the hembar crooked. Motorized units get travel limits set and paired to the remote before we leave. Cord operated units get the chain tensioner fastened to the wall, which is what keeps a loose loop from being a hazard.
What we see most often on Greenwood window treatments
Greenwood homeowners typically call us about these scenarios.
Hardwood Shutters Cupping In A Bathroom
Timber louvers in a room with a shower running twice a day through a muggy central Indiana summer will move, and once they have cupped they don't come back. It's the most expensive avoidable mistake in this product. Composite in wet rooms and hardwood everywhere else is the specification that lasts.
The Tilt Wand Turns And Nothing Happens
The little gearbox that drives the slats has stripped, usually because somebody forced it past its stop. On most blind lines it's a stocked part and a short visit. The failure is common enough that being able to name it on the phone means we arrive with the right component instead of diagnosing and returning.
The Neighbors Can See Straight In
A front room close to the pavement, or a kitchen facing a driveway ten feet away, and the household has been living with the lights off in the evening. What they usually want is daytime privacy without losing the light, which points at a top-down bottom-up cellular or café height shutters rather than covering the whole opening.
Drapery Left Short By New Flooring
The floor got raised by an inch and now the panels hang above it looking like a mistake. Hemming to the finished floor height isn't something you can fix after the fact without recutting. It is a timing problem, and it's the reason we ask about renovation plans before measuring.
Two Shades That No Longer Match
A pair was ordered eighteen months apart and in daylight the newer one reads slightly cooler than the old. That's a dye lot, not a mistake, and it's why we tell Greenwood customers which rooms should be ordered together if they're phasing a house. Once it has happened, the honest options are to accept it or to redo the pair.
Great Room Glass Nobody Can Reach
Two stories of window above a fireplace, blazing in the afternoon and freezing at night, and no realistic way to operate a manual shade. Households live with it bare for years. Motorized shades on that wall aren't a luxury, they're the only version of the product that will actually get used.
Five Stages, In This Order
Custom window treatments are made to your openings, so the order matters more than it does in most trades. This is how every Greenwood job runs.
Free In-Home Measure
Every opening gets three widths, three heights and a diagonal square check, because houses settle and an opening that is out of square is the difference between a shade that runs true and one that binds. Mounting depth gets read at the jamb. It all goes on paper before any product conversation starts.
Product and Fabric, In Your Own Light
Samples get looked at in the room they are going in, not under showroom lighting. This is where openness factor, inside versus outside mount, roll direction and material get decided, and where we tell you the light gap you are going to live with.
Written Scope and Contract
Opening by opening, with the mount type, the light gap, the operation and the total price in writing. Indiana requires a written contract on residential work over $150 under IC 24-5-11, and we would write one anyway.
Custom Fabrication
Your sizes go to the workroom. Two to five weeks is typical depending on product and finish, longer on specialty shapes and motorized configurations. You get the real date at the measure rather than a range.
Install and Walkthrough
Brackets anchored for the substrate they are going into, everything checked level and square, motor travel limits set and scenes built with you standing there. Then we show you how it all works and take the packaging with us.
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What Greenwood Clients Ask About Motorization
Straight answers to the questions Greenwood homeowners ask most.
Indiana Weather Affects Window Treatments Year Round
Indiana sees some of the most varied weather in the country. Greenwood homeowners live in IECC climate zone 5A, which carries a real cooling load in summer and a real heating load in winter. July averages a high near 85F, January averages a high near 36F with lows near 21F, and the muggy season runs from late May into late September. That is why the same window can be the hottest room in the house in July and the coldest in January.
36.1F outside, one cell of air
A January average high of 36.1F and an average low of 20.9F is a real heating load, not a mild winter. Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory testing found cellular shades saved up to 20 percent of heating energy and up to 15 percent of total heating and cooling energy against a bare window. That's the product doing two jobs in a city where July averages 85.2F. It is a percentage against a bare window, and we won't convert it into a dollar figure for you.
The new plats have no shade yet
The 2000s and newer sections toward Worthsville Road and Stones Crossing Road were farmland, and their street trees are years from covering anything. Those houses take low angle sun on the front and rear elevations through the whole year, which is a different problem from the shaded 1970s streets in Carefree. Solar screen at 3 or 5 percent openness on the exposed elevations, cellular where the heating load matters most, and we'll walk the house at the hour that actually bothers you.
Open water and open fairway
Willow Lakes runs 127 parcels named for water, Shoreline Drive, Marina Court, Harbor Court, Water Way Drive, and lots that back the water have nothing to interrupt the western and southern sun. Hickory Stick does the same thing with a golf course behind the Raintree, Stoney Pointe and Heatherwood villages. Reflected light off water or open turf hits glass from below as well as above, so openness factor matters more on those lots than it does two streets inland.
UV is 40 to 60 percent
NFRC attributes roughly 40 to 60 percent of fading damage to ultraviolet light. The rest is visible light and heat, which is why no window covering prevents fading and anyone promising that is overselling. What a solar screen or a lined drapery does is slow it. In the Old Town houses off Madison Avenue, where original interior woodwork is often the reason people bought the place, slowing it is worth doing deliberately rather than by accident.
Choosing the Right Treatment for Greenwood Rooms
An honest breakdown of the three we specify most often, and when each one is the right answer.
The one product in this trade with measured energy numbers behind it. Trapped air in the cells does the work, and DOE and ORNL testing found cellular shades saved up to 20 percent on heating energy and up to 15 percent on total heating and cooling against a bare window. In a Greenwood house that matters in January and again in July, which is unusual for one product. Single cell suits most rooms, double cell where the glass is large or the room runs cold. Top-down bottom-up gets you daylight and privacy at the same time.
What you reach for when the complaint is afternoon sun. Solar fabrics come in stated openness factors, and that number is the whole decision: a lower openness cuts more glare and more of the view, a higher one keeps the view and cuts less. On a west or south Greenwood window this is usually the honest answer rather than blackout, because blackout kills the room. Cassette or fascia hides the roll, and roll direction gets decided at the measure so the fabric does not foul a crank or a lock.
The one that stays with the house. Shutters are a finish rather than a covering, and they do not get replaced every few years. In Greenwood the material choice is technical rather than a matter of taste: composite and poly in bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms and sunrooms, because a four month humid season followed by a dry heated winter will move real hardwood, and hardwood only where the room stays conditioned. Louver size, frame style and divider rail get decided standing at your window.
See What Each Fabric Does To The Light
Pick a fabric below and the window updates. It's a drawing rather than a photograph, so read it as a rough guide to what each family does in a Greenwood room, and to what it doesn't do.
Openness factor is a measured fabric spec, so you can compare it line to line. The category names are not measured. One maker's room darkening can behave like another maker's light filtering, which is why the sample books come to the measure and get opened in the room they're going in, at the hour that room has the problem.
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