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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
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Bedroom
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Home Office
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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
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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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Decorate Your Patio Space with These 3 Ideas!
Is it time to update the decor for your enclosed patio? If your patio needs some love and a little transformation to turn it into the enclosed patio you imagine spending your time on, our team is here for you. Let our design experts from Benchmark Shutters & Shades help update your enclosed patio with decorating tips and the latest models of patio window treatments from Hunter Douglas.
Create Comfortable Seating Areas
For most North Carolina homeowners, decorating or re-decorating an enclosed patio is based on wanting to create more livable areas of the home. It's rare to spend time somewhere there's no place to sit. Invest in creating comfortable seating areas on your enclosed patio, whether that means a deep, wide couch to hold all the kids or a cozy reading nook for one. Imagine how you'd like to spend your time on your patio and then choose appropriate seating options.
Enliven with Greenery
Live plants can have a revitalizing effect on the decor of your enclosed patio. Plants breathe a literal breath of fresh air into the space and make another visual connection to the great outdoors in your enclosed patio, furthering the patio's open and spacious ambiance. The key to successfully using greenery as decor for your enclosed patio is to vary the type of plants used and their heights from floor to ceiling. This could mean using hanging plants, floor pots, and table vases; changing how your plants occupy the space can create layers of greenery, adding depth and visual interest.
Upgrade Window Shades for Better Environmental Control
Patios are naturally more open areas and are more exposed to sunlight. While we love the beauty of natural light and its effectiveness in opening interior spaces, unfettered access to your enclosed patio can have negative results. UV in sunlight can damage household items, and the solar heat that sunlight brings can quickly heat an enclosed patio to the point it's unbearable to occupy. Elevating your patio window treatments will, in turn, elevate the patio environment as they can offer light control and aesthetic appeal. Hunter Douglas offers several modern styles of patio window treatments that help homeowners transform the internal environment of their enclosed patio by offering advanced light control, among other features.
Our Top 3 Picks for Hunter Douglas Patio Window Treatments
- Designer Solar Shades: These shades help sun-soaked rooms like enclosed patios. They have five fabric opacities for an open but protected look.
- Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Vinyl Shutters: Elevate the decor for your enclosed patio with the sophisticated look of vinyl plantation shutters, now engineered with built-in UV resistance.
- Luminette® Sheer Panels: Our choice for vertical patio window treatments that combine the privacy and UV protection of sheer shades with the light-blocking precision of vertical blinds.
Patio Window Treatments near Apex, North Carolina
If this is the year you will update your patio, our Benchmark Shutters & Shades team stands ready to help. Get design ideas from our style team and shop the latest patio window treatments from Hunter Douglas with the help of an expert at your side. Benchmark Shutters & Shades serves those in Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex, North Carolina. Request a consultation today!