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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.
Products
Motorized Window CoveringsMotorized Window Coverings
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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See current and past decorating ideas from our 'Fresh Ideas' Newsletter.
Bathroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and moisture-resistance.
Bedroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and room darkening.
Home Office
See window covering solutions for light filtering and glare control.
Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
See window covering solutions for light filtering and UV protection.
Media Room
See room darkening window treatments for your media room.
Nursery & Kids Room
See child-safe window coverings for baby nurseries and kids rooms
Angled Windows
See blinds and shades for angled, sloped, and triangle-shaped windows.
Arched Windows
See blinds and shades for arched, half-circle or half-moon windows.
Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
See blinds and shades for bay, bow and corner windows.
French Doors
See shutters, blinds and shades for French Doors.
Sidelights
See blinds and shades for sidelight windows.
Sliding Glass Doors
See blinds and shades for patio and sliding-glass doors.
Skylights
See blinds and shades specifically suited for skylights.
Automated
See all options for automated blinds and shades.
Blackout
See our options for blinds and shades that best control light.
Energy Efficient
See blinds and shades that help save energy at the window.
Light Filtering
See blinds and shades for light filtering and UV protection.
Child and Pet-Friendly
See blinds and shades that are safer for children and pets.
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Best Coverings for Kitchen Windows
Is it time to update your kitchen window shades? As something you’ll be looking at every day and using just as often, it serves you to take time during the shopping and design process to fully understand your options to ensure you’re making the best choice possible. That’s what our Benchmark Shutters & Shades team is here to help you do. Explore the possibilities for kitchen shades from Hunter Douglas, from kitchen window blinds to insulating cellular shades to UV-resistant shutters, so that you’re confident when the time comes to make that choice.
Blinds for Kitchen Windows
We love blinds for kitchen windows because the flexibility of the treatment is perfect for the wide range of activities that occur in a kitchen. Kitchen window blinds can abide whether you need light to cook breakfast or privacy for a midnight snack. In addition to light control and privacy, EverWood® Alternative Wood Blinds are some of the best blinds for kitchen windows. They also elevate kitchen style with the classic look of rich hardwood and resist humidity and UV damage from direct sunlight.
Cordless Treatments
Kitchens can sometimes feel chaotic with so many things going on at all times of the day. Balance the busyness by simplifying the look of kitchen shades by going cordless. You can achieve this cleaner and more child-safe aesthetic for many Hunter Douglas window treatment styles by upgrading to PowerView® Automation. PowerView® is a motorized system that negates the need for hanging lines or rods on compatible models of cellular shades, sheer shades, shutters, and kitchen window blinds.
Cellular Shades
Duette® Cellular Shades provide insulation, sound reduction, and light control when you use them as kitchen window shades. This trifecta of environmental control attributes makes it easy for cellular shades to respond to the wide range of lighting needs in a kitchen. The shades are also compatible with a range of specialty window and door shapes, including skylights, arches, angles, trapezoids, hexagons, circles/ovals, bay windows, cut-out windows, sidelights, French doors, and sliding glass doors which you can find as part of kitchen spaces.
Sheer Shades
Light-loving sheer shades are in many North Carolina kitchens as their intertwined use of translucent and opaque materials gives homeowners a wide range of light control. Sheer shades can create lighting effects from full brightness to soft illumination, room darkening, and blackout darkness with applications for both doors and windows.
Shutters
From the collection of Hunter Douglas plantation shutters, we like Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Vinyl Shutters for the kitchen because of their built-in resistance to moisture and UV. Like kitchen window blinds, shutters use a slatted design to meet various interior lighting demands and provide ventilation and privacy as needed.
Hunter Douglas Blinds Near Apex, North Carolina
Explore the benefits of blinds, motorized shades, cellular shades, sheer shades, or shutters for your kitchen with the Benchmark Shutters & Shades team today. Request a consultation to start the process. Benchmark Shutters & Shades serves Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex, North Carolina.