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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.
Interior Design Ideas
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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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Easy to Clean Window Shades with Modern Style
What makes window treatments easy to clean? When we break it down, cleaning requires two things of us – our labor and our time. It takes effort to clean, our physical labor to dust, scrub, wipe, or otherwise clean a surface. And it takes time to clean, time that most homeowners would rather spend in other ways.
Therefore, when we look at what makes easy-to-clean window shades, it comes down to what styles of shades require the least effort and time to clean. After all, there is no such thing as a window shade that never needs cleaning, only those that require minimal labor and time. So consider what you’re willing to pay in the future, your time or your labor when looking at different types of easy-to-clean window shades.
Vertical Orientation vs. Horizontal Elements
Vertically orientated window treatments usually require less cleaning regularly than their horizontal counterparts. Due to having fewer places for dust to rest with vertical fronts, less accumulation of dust and debris means less need for cleaning – a time-saving benefit of vertical blinds over Venetian blinds.
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Cleaned in Place vs. Removed for Deep Cleans
Some window treatments can be cleaned in place as they hang over a window, while others need to be taken down for proper deep cleaning. Treatments that don’t need to be removed to be cleaned save a homeowner both time and effort, which is why plantation-style shutters are generally thought of as an easier window treatment to clean than, for example, drapery.
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Dusting vs. Scrubbing
One of the easiest cleaning chores is dusting; it doesn’t require water, power, or special cleansers. Ergo, window shades that can be kept clean with dusting require the least labor from homeowners. Since they are made of hard materials, blinds and shutters need only routine dusting to stay clean; even wet messes can often be wiped away.
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Flat Front vs. Folded Fabrics
Roller shades have a vertically inclined profile, flat-fabric front, and streamlined design, which makes them the most easy-to-clean window shades among fabric-based treatments. Imagine the effort it takes to get into all the nooks and crannies of Roman shades with their sculpted folds of fabric and how much time could be saved not having to do that.
Hunter Douglas® Roller Blinds
Keep It Clean With Benchmark Shutters & Shades
Let the team at Benchmark Shutters & Shades help you find easy-to-clean window shades that match your home’s aesthetic. From roller shades and shutters to Venetian and vertical blinds, you’ll find it all in the Hunter Douglas collection at Benchmark Shutters & Shades, so request a consultation today. Benchmark Shutters & Shades serves homeowners in the Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex areas of North Carolina.