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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.
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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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Best Blinds and Shades for Kids' Rooms
When it comes to kids, there's a lot. A lot of new needs, a lot of specific requirements, and a lot of products out there catering to the younger generation. And while the abundance of child-specific products affords many benefits to family households, the number of options can be overwhelming for new parents or parents inundated with too much information.
Our experts put together three tips for parents shopping for new kids' window treatments to make the process easy and ensure you end up with a treatment that's safe, efficient, and elevates the environment of your children's rooms.
3 Tips for Choosing Kid's Window Treatments
1. Start With Safety
With kids, safety begets comfort, and comfort allows for enjoyment; that's true at any age and with any household item that kids come in contact with, including window coverings. After all, how can you relax when your child is not in a safe environment?
So, if you're dressing rooms meant for kids or in households that have young children present, start with the needed safety features, then choose treatments that have those features and match your home's interior aesthetic. When it comes to kids' window treatments, the key safety feature to look for is cordless operation. Hanging lines pose a strangulation hazard to young children, so cord-free is the way to go for children's rooms.
Interior shutters are inherently cordless, using a tilt bar for operation, and many other styles of window coverings can be made cordless by upgrading to motorized operating systems such as PowerView® Automation.
2. Look for a Wide Spectrum of Light Control
Children use their rooms for various activities throughout the day that require a range of interior lighting. They may need bright light for morning playtime or blackout darkness for an afternoon nap - after all, there's nothing worse than a grumpy kid.
Accordingly, successful kid's window treatments will allow homeowners to create a range of lighting options in their children's rooms. Duolite® is an innovative operating system that combines two shades, one light-filtering, and one room-darkening, into a single window treatment. This more than doubles the lighting options your kid's window treatments can provide for the ever-changing needs of young lives. Duolite is compatible with styles of Roman shades, roller shades, cellular shades, and sheer shades.
3. Control the 3 Primary Environmental Factors for Good Sleep
To create an ideal sleeping chamber, which all kids need, you'll want to control three primary environmental factors: temperature, sound, and light. Most of us sleep best in an environment that's dark, quiet, and kept at a consistent temperature between 60-67 degrees Fahrenheit.
Duette® Cellular Shades are renowned for their insulating power that helps to block drafts and energy loss for more comfortable and consistent interior temperature. Their cellular design is also good at absorbing sound for quieter interiors, and they are available with Duolite or PowerView for additional child-safe features.
Find the Best Kids' Window Treatments Today
Get expert tips on setting up safe and stylish children's rooms from the knowledgeable and helpful team at Benchmark Shutters & Shades. Explore all your options for kids' window treatments from Hunter Douglas by requesting a consultation today. Benchmark Shutters & Shades is proud to serve the communities of Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex, North Carolina.