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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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The Benefits of Wood Blinds
One of our favorite elements in interior design is wood for features such as wooden floors, blinds, wood furnishings, or decorative wooden details. Wood has a natural beauty and versatility unparalleled by other elements, and its innate strength promises your interiors will be around for years of use and enjoyment. There are many benefits of using wood for your home’s interior, including:
Charismatic Aesthetic
Natural wood has an innate beauty it expresses in different facets of interior design, from furnishings and wall art to flooring and wooden blinds for windows. As a versatile element, you can use it to root décor or design a focal piece. You can also use it to construct purely aesthetic decor pieces and items of incredible functional importance. But no matter how you choose to use it, wooden decor brings indoors both the aesthetic serenity of the great outdoors and the soothing effect nature has on most people. In raw or finished forms, wood's innate beauty shines through to elevate interior design in personalized ways for every household.
Inherently Durable
Wood is a naturally strong, durable, long-lasting material, so people prefer it as a building material for so many items in our lives, from wooden blinds for windows to homes and businesses. It's no surprise that homeowners often invest in natural wood features for functional décor, like window coverings, because those items will last for years, even under heavy use. So, when looking for quality items for your home, you should be looking for genuine wood pieces to capitalize on their inborn durability and longevity.
Naturally Impermeable
Wood is a hard substance, impenetrable to many environmental elements that homeowners often look to control within their private spaces. This includes controlling light (including natural sunlight) and noise. For example, wood blinds are great at blocking natural sunlight and its harmful UV rays from entering the home, preventing costly and sometimes irreversible sun damage. They can also muffle exterior sound by absorbing or deflecting sound waves. When used as the base layer in multi-tiered window treatments with full drapery, you can enhance the capabilities of wood even further.
Options for Wooden Window Treatments
If you're looking for a way to include more wooden elements in your home décor, consider these options for wood window treatments:
- Wood Blinds: A classic treatment that allows for an incredible range of light control with the ability to tilt its slats or raise entirely with a range of natural finishes.
Our choice for wood blinds from Hunter Douglas: Parkland® Wood Blinds
- Woven Wood Shades: Wood shades are a modern take on traditional wood design that uses the material in a striking new way. Weave a pliable textile from organic components, including woods, grasses, and bamboo; woven wood shades offer a softer option than classic window shutters or wooden blinds.
Our choice for woven wood shades from Hunter Douglas: Provenance® Woven Wood Shades
- Wood Shutters: Interior wood shutters have an air of sophistication with clean, sharp lines and view-through visibility options that allow light control, ventilation, and privacy.
Our choice for wood shutters from Hunter Douglas: Heritance® Hardwood Shutters
Benchmark Shutters & Shades Can Help You Today
Let the Benchmark Shutters & Shades team show you how wooden window treatments can benefit your home, from environmental control to that welcoming style innate to wooden décor. Benchmark Shutters & Shades carries the full line of Hunter Douglas products, including wood blinds, woven wood shades, and hardwood shutters. Request a consultation today. Benchmark Shutters & Shades serves communities in central North Carolina, including Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex, North Carolina.