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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
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Skylights
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Automated
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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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Kitchen Window Treatments and Interior Design
In the kitchen, style buts right up against functionality as the needs of the space can be demanding. That's why, when discussing kitchen interior design, it's essential to cover functional items like kitchen window treatments and more decorative elements. This can also include addressing some of the common design challenges in a kitchen with recommendations from our team at Benchmark Shades & Shutters for Hunter Douglas treatments that can meet the challenge functionally and stylistically.
Grease and Grime
Kitchens are meccas of a mess thanks to cooking and the accumulation of discards from a busy daily life. After all, for many North Carolina homes, the kitchen truly is the heart of the home. Choosing easy-to-clean kitchen interior design elements, including window treatments, makes sense to keep this room looking good and operating efficiently with as little additional elbow grease as possible. Plantation shutters are an excellent option for kitchens as they are easy to wipe clean and impenetrable to many staining elements. Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Vinyl Shutters from Hunter Douglas have the added bonus of being both moisture and UV-resistant.
Heat Resistant
A kitchen's environment is already charged with heating elements, and when the stove or oven is running, there's enough heat to deal with without adding incoming solar heat or other environmental elements. Heat-resistant window coverings like Duette® Cellular Shades were designed to act as an insulating layer over windows to keep exterior elements out so they can't cause chaos in your kitchen. And thanks to the extreme installation flexibility of Duette® Cellular Shades, you can trust whether you have windows of doors in your kitchen, you'll be able to customize Hunter Douglas cellular shades to suit your needs.
Day and Night Usage
Kitchens are one room in the home that gets visitors day and night and can host an array of different activities. Consequently, it can significantly benefit North Carolina homeowners to invest in window treatments for the kitchen that can create a broad spectrum of interior illumination solutions. The Hunter Douglas Duolite® system can increase the light control abilities of select Roman shades, cellular shades, roller shades, or sheer shades by adding a second, light-blocking shade to the treatment for window fashions that can filter light for warm interior illuminations or block light for blackout darkness. Duolite® is available on Vignette® Roman Shades, Duette® Cellular Shades, Designer Roller Shades, and Silhouette® Sheer Shades.
Disconnected Style
Coordinating the kitchen's style with the rest of the home is important to create a unified aesthetic throughout. Window treatments for kitchens can be a powerful tool for harmonizing design, as they can carry color, style, and design into multiple rooms of the home and entrench that style into the very bones of your home's interior design.
Window Treatments for the Kitchen near Apex, North Carolina
At Benchmark Shutters & Shades, we're ready to help you elevate your kitchen with interior design advice and the latest Hunter Douglas window treatments for the kitchen.
Request a consultation to discuss your household needs with our team today. Benchmark Shutter & Shades serves Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex, North Carolina residents.