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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
Since 2005, Benchmark Shutters & Shades Incorporated has been the place to get stunning interior window treatments near Raleigh, North Carolina.
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
At Benchmark Shutters & Shades, we provide the best Hunter Douglas custom blinds, shades, shutters, and drapery on the market alongside generation 3 of their motorized window coverings, PowerView® Automation.
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Bedroom
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Home Office
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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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Blackout
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Light Filtering
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Why You May Need Motorized Window Treatments near Apex, NC
At Benchmark Shutters & Shades, we know that motorization for your next set of window coverings offers an incredible range of tangible and practical benefits. For homeowners of all kinds, from enhanced safety to money saving efficiencies, systems like PowerView® Automation upgrade window shades throughout your entire home and create new opportunities for you to fall in love with these improvements. Check out our list of reasons you may want to upgrade to motorized window treatments below.
4 Reasons to Upgrade to Motorized Window Treatments
1. For Child Safety
Out of the long list of reasons to consider motorized window treatments over standard window treatments, one of the most important is that they are much safer for small children and pets. A child can become entangled in or strangled by the loose hanging cords from standard window treatments. In the interest of safety, motorized window treatments are, by their design, cordless - and therefore more child-safe. So, for households with young children, upgrading to motorized shades adds another layer of protection for those we hold most dear.
2. To Improve Energy Efficiency
Motorized window treatments can help you regulate the use of your window coverings to optimize efficiency. Featuring programmable options that regulate window treatment use on an hourly basis, motorized window coverings will help you save time, money, and energy by proactively controlling the amount of light and heat that is allowed to enter your home. This regulation allows you to keep your home at a temperature that is comfortable for you. And with the automated scheduling available with systems like PowerView®, homeowners can enjoy all the monetary benefits of better energy efficiency without the additional daily work of opening, adjusting, and closing window shades. This is why motorized window treatments are so practical - because the programmable options optimize window treatment use on an hourly and ongoing basis.
3. To Grant Access to All Windows
Unlike standard window treatments, motorized window treatments don’t require a hands-on approach for control. Instead, systems like PowerView® have a choice of advanced user interfaces such as our handheld Pebble® remote, a wall-mounted control panel, or online PowerView® app. With control at your fingertips, it’s no longer difficult to open or close window shades even on hard-to-reach windows. Homeowners can also control motorized window treatments throughout their home from a single point for centralized access and convenient control, or through a smart home device like Amazon’s Alexa.
4. For Additional Security and Privacy
Keep your home and valuables secure with motorized window treatments. Fully installed, motorization improves the safety and security of your home while heightening your sense of comfort. Programmable shades can close automatically in the evenings, so your home is private when you are readying yourself for bed. You never have to worry that you left your home open and exposed because systems like PowerView® have control options. Use the online PowerView® app that permits homeowners access even when away from home. And when on vacation or travelling, motorized shades can maintain the appearance of occupation to protect your home by deterring those with unscrupulous intentions.
Contact Us
Learn more about the many reasons you may want to upgrade to motorized window treatments by contacting Benchmark Shutters & Shades. Serving the areas of Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex, North Carolina, Benchmark Shutters & Shades can help you find your next set of Hunter Douglas motorized shades; request a consultation now.