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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
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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Bathroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and moisture-resistance.
Bedroom
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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
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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
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Light Filtering
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Child and Pet-Friendly
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Choosing Window Coverings for Coastal Décor
Coastal style is the perfect way to bring the beach home. It’s streamlined, breezy, and relaxed, with a few touches of seaside charm and practicality thrown in for good measure. Coastal décor sticks to a light color palette rooted on hues of white and beige with blues and greens used as accent colors. Natural materials and natural light are also key pieces of coastal style to emulate the sunniness and natural serenity of summer beach outings.
Abundant natural sunlight also helps to maintain the light and airy feel of contemporary coastal style. When choosing window coverings for your beach-inspired décor, look for treatments that use natural materials like woven woods, stay within the coastal color palette, and allow for plentiful but controlled natural sunlight.
Wood Shades
Wood shades meld seamlessly into coastal style, especially when kept in lighter colors. Raw materials not only help build the earthy feel of coastal design, but they also add textural details and natural charm to décor. When choosing window coverings for coastal style, explore both soft and hard wood treatments to find a style the fits the unique beach theme in your home.
White Shades
White makes an idyllic color for window treatments in beach-inspired décor. As the lightest of the neutral tones, white keeps the aesthetic feeling light and fresh, creating a bright backdrop for interior design.
- Shutters: Modern interior shutters come in a range of colors including several shades of white and natural wood tones that homeowners can explore when choosing window coverings to harmonize with their coastal tastes.
- Drapery: Fabric choices for custom drapes number in the hundreds and include not only white fabrics, white patterns, and beach-inspired prints but also a range of textile opacities to capitalize on both light and color.
Light-Loving Shades
Choosing window coverings to optimize natural light means looking for a treatment that can both allow light and block it to make a room usable around the clock. While coastal design calls for bright natural light, one’s privacy needs will require some protection against open windows.
- Sheer Shades: Innovative sheer shades from Hunter Douglas use sheer and opaque materials to create a soft, shutter like design that can both open up to allow ample natural light or close to block it completely with both horizontal and vertical applications.
- Shutters: The tilting louvers on plantation style shutters give homeowners the ability to easily control how much or how little natural sunlight enters balancing the décor aesthetic’s need for natural light and homeowners’ need for privacy and light control.
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Transform the style of your home into a seaside retreat by choosing window coverings in tune with today’s trends in coastal design. Find style advice and the latest Hunter Douglas treatments at Benchmark Shutters & Shades.
Benchmark Shutters & Shades serves the Low Country, including Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex, North Carolina. Request a consultation for help choosing window coverings for your home.