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PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
Sheer Shades
Learn more about Hunter Douglas custom window sheers, including our shadings and privacy sheers. Innovative, light-diffusing sheers. Your trusted source for window treatments.
Cellular Shades
Cellular honeycomb shades from Hunter Douglas. An energy-efficient design that traps air in distinct pockets to help keep your house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Roman Shades
Custom-made fabric Roman Shades by Hunter Douglas, combining the look of soft folds with the ease and convenience of a shade. Custom-crafted.
Roller Shades
The Hunter Douglas roller shades & solar screen shades collections offer excellent light control and a clean, stylish look in a range of fabrics and materials.
Woven Shades
For a warm, natural look our Hunter Douglas Woven Wood Shades collection of window treatments transforms sunlight into captivating design statements. Choose yours today.
Vertical Shades
Find the right custom vertical shades for any room in your home. Search our most popular window shades.
Wood Blinds
From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, wood blinds have been a favorite among homeowners for decades.
Metal Blinds
Find the perfect metal blinds for any room in your home. From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, metal blinds have been a favorite among homeowners.
Vertical Blinds
Discover Hunter Douglas customized vertical blinds featuring elegant styling and translucency in a large selection of colors, treatments, and textures. Lifetime guarantee.
Shutters
Hunter Douglas custom window shutters provide superior light control and privacy with classic styles, long-lasting finishes, and exceptional craftsmanship.
Drapery
Choose from timeless and on-trend fabrics, including lofty textures and alluring jacquards, artisanal embroideries and luminous sheers.
Light Enhancing
Enjoy the beauty of natural light and make any space more captivating, with the following light-enhancing shades.
Room Darkening
Want a darker room for better sleep or optimal movie binging? These shades and drapes help block light at the window.
Energy Efficient
Live comfortably and save energy with these shades. Designer to keep a room warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Door Coverings
Manage natural light and add privacy with these window treatments that work well for sliding-glass and patio doors.
Sound Absorption
Create a quieter, more relaxing room with these window treatments, which help absorb sound, reducing exterior noise.
Top-Down Bottom-Up
For privacy and natural light, position shades from the top, bottom or both. These shades have this feature available.
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Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
About Us
Benchmark Shutters & Shades is a family owned, locally operated business specializing in interior window coverings for your home or business.
Raleigh, NC
For almost two decades, Benchmark Shutters & Shades has brought exceptional window treatments to homes across Raleigh, NC, and the surrounding communities.
Durham, NC
We all come to a point with our homes when we decide that the window treatments need to be updated.
Chapel Hill, NC
At Benchmark Shutters & Shades, we can’t wait to help you transform your home by upgrading your window treatments.
Apex, NC
Since 2005, Benchmark Shutters & Shades has brought superior window treatments to homes and businesses throughout central North Carolina.
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Kitchen
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Living Room
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Media Room
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Nursery & Kids Room
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Angled Windows
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Arched Windows
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Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
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French Doors
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Sidelights
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Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
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Automated
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Blackout
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Energy Efficient
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PowerView® Automation, Motorization, Smart Home Integration
Four Reasons You’ll Love PowerView® Automation from Hunter Douglas
No matter how much you love your window treatments, if you have a lot of windows in your home or are just perpetually short on time, it can be a pain to go around and adjust them all properly multiple times a day. You might default to leaving them open or closed, denying yourself the advantages of controlling your light level throughout the day.
Hunter Douglas has a solution: PowerView® Automation. This industry-leading motorization system with scheduling capabilities and smart home integration can save you a lot of time and energy that is better spent elsewhere. At Benchmark Shutters and Shades, we love PowerView® so much that we’ve rounded up our top four reasons why we think you’ll love it, too:
1. Increases Your Home’s Energy Efficiency
Uncovered windows are a significant source of heat loss and gain for your home. Leaving them open in the summer and during peak sunshine hours decreases the efficiency of your air conditioning unit, and leaving them uncovered in the winter leaches away heat, so your heating unit has to work harder, as well. By adding PowerView® Automation, you can create an automated schedule so that your window blinds and shades are closed during the hottest and coldest parts of the day. Keep your air at the temperature you want it.
2. Improves Your Home Security
View-through is an advantage for enjoying beautiful scenery or keeping track of kids while they play in the yard, but that same open window becomes a liability when you’re not home. Allowing burglars the opportunity to see your possessions and the layout of your home can be dangerous, which is why adding PowerView® to your Hunter Douglas window fashions can help. Just push a button when you leave the house to close all your window treatments at the same time, ensuring that your home is kept safe even when you’re in a hurry to leave.
3. Easy to Use
The best part of PowerView® Automation is that it is effortless to use. The Pebble® Remote handles all your window adjustments at the push of a button. Set scenes and adjust your window shades using the PowerView® App, so you don’t even have to search for the remote – it even works when you’re far from home, thanks to the Remote Connect™ feature! Schedule your preferred adjustments so they’ll happen on time every day, and you’ll never have to worry about leaving your window curtains open again.
4. Integrates with Your Favorite Systems
Not only is PowerView® Automation easy to use, but it also integrates with all your favorite smart home systems for maximum convenience. Pair it with Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant, and easily schedule your window treatments. Or call out a command as you exit your house, and your smart home will do the rest.
Ready to Add PowerView® to Your Home?
Let Benchmark Shutters & Shades help you get started! Call (919) 363-3284 or request a consultation online. We proudly serve all of Central North Carolina, including Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, Apex, and the surrounding area.