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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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Vertical Blinds for Modern North Carolina Homes
When it comes to covering wide expanses of glass in your home, vertical blinds will most likely come to mind. Crafted to easily cover sliding glass doors, wide windows, and more, vertical blinds are a reliable window treatment. But are they a modern window treatment?
With the help of the team at Benchmark Shutters & Shades, we explore the modern options for vertical blinds and alternative vertical treatments from Hunter Douglas with contemporary aesthetics and the latest in design features.
Where Can You Use Vertical Blinds?
Thanks to design innovations by the team at Hunter Douglas, modern vertical blinds have applications beyond their inventors’ initial intent. By working with the Benchmark Shutters & Shades design team, homeowners can customize modern blinds for the unique spaces in their home.
- Doors: There are modern vertical blinds and shades from Hunter Douglas that fit on doors of all kinds, including patio doors, sliding glass doors, and French doors.
- Broad or Tall Windows: Vertical treatments are also practical for large, expansive glass features in a home.
- Room Dividers: Several of the vertical options from Hunter Douglas can also be fashioned into room dividers with a seamless side-to-side motion.
Modern Vertical Blind Options
- Luminette® Sheer Panels: Classic vertical blinds get a makeover in this vertical treatment that features modern translucent, sheer materials to the traditionally hard design. Sheer materials add a light-filtering quality to vertical blinds to enhance privacy and expand the interior lighting spectrum.
- Applications: Patio doors, sliding glass doors, and sidelights.
- Skyline® Panel-Track Blinds: These window treatments are a complete reimagination of vertical blinds. Instead of hard, vertical vanes that are hung from a top header, panel track blinds use fabric-based panels that traverse side-to-side on a built-in track system. While the horizontal movement remains the same as classic vertical blinds, the aesthetic style is decidedly more contemporary with hundreds of modern textiles to choose from in the Hunter Douglas fabric library.
- Applications: Patio doors, sliding glass doors, large expanses of vertical or horizontal glass, and room dividers.
Vertical Blind Alternative Options
- Duette® Cellular Shades with Vertiglide™: Did you know that this coveted cellular shade from Hunter Douglas can be fabricated for horizontal or vertical applications? This is thanks to the multitude of compatible operating styles, including Vertiglide for door coverings, Skylift™ for skylights, and PowerView® Automation for motorized shades.
- Applications: Patio doors, sliding glass doors, French doors, skylights, sidelights, cut-out shapes, bay windows, and specialty shapes (circles, ovals, hexagons, trapezoids, angles, and arches)
Contact Us Today
At Benchmark Shutters & Shades, homeowners can explore all the modern options for vertical window treatments by Hunter Douglas. With the help of our expert team at Benchmark Shutters & Shades, you can sort through all the options to find and customize the best set of vertical blinds for your home.
Request a consultation today to get started!
Benchmark Shutters & Shades serves homeowners in Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex, North Carolina.