Custom Blinds and Shades in Sheridan, Indiana
Blinds, shades, shutters and drapery measured in your Sheridan home and built to your openings. Free in home measure, a written quote, and the fit explained in plain language before you order.
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Quick answer for Sheridan: custom window treatments are measured in the home, built to those measurements, and installed a few weeks later. Here's what people usually want to know before booking that first measure.
- Services: faux wood blinds, wood blinds, vertical blinds, aluminum mini blinds
- Service area: Sheridan, Hamilton County, IN and surrounding areas For a new order, plan on a measure appointment, then two to five weeks of fabrication, then an install visit. For a broken tilt gear or a dead battery, it's usually a single short visit and no waiting.
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- Serving Sheridan, IN since 2008
Schedule Your Free In-Home Measure
We measure in your house, at your openings, with the current treatments left hanging where they are. Three widths and three heights per opening, because a Sheridan opening rarely gives the same number twice. Diagonals get checked. Mounting depth gets logged, and that single figure settles inside or outside mount well ahead of any conversation about fabric. On a parcel the county dates to 1900 those readings argue with one another. In Center Place, built 2023 to 2025, they agree. Both houses get the same number of readings taken.
I agree to be contacted by Sheridan Window Treatments regarding my inquiry.
Sheridan's housing stock is a barbell, and that shape decides everything about a window covering order here. 33.1 percent of the town predates 1940. 42.2 percent went up in 2000 or later. Just 8.0 percent, 116 units, came out of the whole of 1980 through 1999. The practical version is that a house on the original Higbee plat has real wood jambs, applied casing and counterweight pockets that quietly eat the depth an inside mount needs, while a Maple Run house four minutes away has a drywall return with no trim at all to land a bracket on. Hamilton County parcel records date one Sheridan parcel to 1830 and 168 to 2020 or later. Same ZIP code, 46069. Not the same measuring job. We bring a tape rather than a size chart.
Every fabric fades. Ultraviolet accounts for roughly 40 to 60 percent of fading damage according to NFRC, with visible light and heat doing the rest. A solar shade or a lined drapery slows that down for your floors and furniture. It doesn't stop it. We say that plainly at every Sheridan measure because the alternative is a customer who feels lied to in year four.
Where a customer has an association with rules about street-facing color, we ask before you pick. Plenty of Sheridan neighborhoods require a uniform white or off-white liner on anything visible from the road. It's an easy thing to comply with and an expensive thing to discover after the order has been cut. Bring us the guidelines and we'll specify inside them.
Built in the Last Few Years?
Many of our Sheridan customers moved into a house built by one of these companies. Builder blinds are usually stock sizes trimmed to fit, so if yours came with the house and never ran right, that is why. We measure the openings as built rather than off the plan.
Named for identification only. Sheridan Window Treatments is an independent company and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting as a representative of any homebuilder listed.
What Matters at the Window in Sheridan
What our crew has learned working in Sheridan homes.
About Sheridan Homes
Sheridan's median house dates to 1981. Build era shares on the parcel record run pre-1940 33.1%, 1940-1979 16.7%, 1980-1999 8.0%, 2000-2019 36.6%, 2020+ 5.6%. The sharpest split of any town in this batch. 33.1% of the stock is pre-1940 with real wood jambs, applied casing and sash weight pockets, much of it also carrying storm sash that eats the remaining depth. 42.2% is 2000 or newer with drywall returns, no casing at all, and clean generous depth. Only 8.0% sits in the 1980-1999 middle. 1866-1900 frame vernacular and gable front town houses on the original Higbee plat; 1880-1939 Italianate and Romanesque Revival commercial blocks on Main Street; Craftsman bungalow, 1905-1925; 1950s minimal traditional and small ranch; 2000s and 2010s two story production traditional (Maple Run,. Typical opening count: A gas boom frame house on the original plat runs 14-22 openings with no two alike; a Craftsman bungalow 12-18; a 1950s ranch 10-14; a Maple Run two story 16-24 at a median 2,000 square feet.
Where We Work in Sheridan
We cover homeowners across Sheridan near Sheridan Public Library (1912, Carnegie funded), H.J. Thistlethwaite Building (1886, opera house and lodge room), American State Bank building (1914), George Boxley Cabin (NRHP 2005), Davenport-Bradfield House (NRHP 1985), Biddle Memorial Park.
Surrounding Areas We Serve
Our crew also covers Original Town and the Higbee Plats, Sheridan Downtown Commercial Historic District, Maple Run, Gardens at Maple Run, Sheridan Estates, Center Place, Thistlethwaite Additions, Pearson and White & Morris Additions, Atwater.
Recent Weather Patterns
Central Indiana sits in IECC climate zone 5A, which means a real cooling load and a real heating load on the same window. NOAA's 1991-2020 normals for Indianapolis put the July average high at 85.2F, the January average high at 36.1F and the January average low at 20.9F, with the muggy season running May 25 to September 22. Barbell, like the housing. The original Higbee plat and the Thistlethwaite additions carry street trees planted with houses the county dates from the 1860s onward - a canopy well over a century old, on a cardinal grid where the tree line runs straight down the street.
What Our Crew Sees in Sheridan
Two eras, two vocabularies, almost nothing between them. The pre-1940 third of the town has tall narrow double hungs with high heads, door transoms, and segmental and round arched masonry heads on the Italianate and Romanesque Revival commercial blocks on Main Street. Active new construction includes Center Place (inside town limits), Maple Run (still delivering as of 2025), Atwater (Sheridan address, Westfield corporate limits).
Who Actually Turns Up in Sheridan
The same people measure, order and install. Customers name them in reviews, which is the point: you are not getting a subcontractor you have never heard of.
What We Are Running in Sheridan Right Now
Both offers apply to work quoted and ordered while they are posted here. Ask about them at the in-home measure and we will put the discount on the written quote before you decide anything.
$500 Off Your First Exterior Screen, Plus a Free Motorization Upgrade
Take $500 off your first exterior screen and we will add the motorization upgrade at no charge. Exterior screens stop solar heat outside the glass, which is the only place you can stop it before it is already in the room, and a motor is the difference between using one and forgetting it.
Applies to a first exterior screen. Ask at the measure so the discount is on the written quote before you order. Motorized product runs on batteries that need replacing, about a year on Hunter Douglas PowerView.
Ask about this offerFree Motorization Upgrade on Select Interior Shades
Pick from the qualifying interior shade lines and the motorization upgrade is free. It is worth most on the openings you would otherwise leave alone: tall great room glass, anything above a stair, and the west windows nobody remembers to close by four.
Select interior shade lines only. We will tell you at the measure which of your openings qualify. Batteries are a real running cost and are not included.
Ask about this offerPayment Options That Work for You
We partner with established lenders so Sheridan Window Treatments clients can spread the cost of a major window treatment project into manageable payments. Ask your project lead about current options.
Start the work now and begin paying later. On a whole-house order this is how people phase a large job without phasing the install.
- Payments deferred for a promotional period
- Rate and period set by the lender
- Quoted price held for the order
Divide the project cost into equal monthly payments across a fixed promotional period, so the budget is predictable from day one.
- Equal monthly payments
- Fixed promotional period
- Simple, predictable budgeting
Spread a larger window treatment project across a longer term with fixed equal payments, for homeowners who want the lowest monthly amount.
- Extended terms available
- Fixed equal payments
- Suited to larger window treatment projects
Financing is arranged through third party lenders and is subject to credit approval. Rates, terms, and promotional periods are set by the lender and disclosed to you in writing before you sign. Ask your project lead which programs are open right now.
Every Window Treatment Service We Offer in Sheridan
From one room to a whole house, Sheridan Window Treatments measures every opening, orders it custom, and installs it with the same crew that took the measurements.
Faux Wood Blinds in Sheridan
Motorizing faux wood is possible and usually unnecessary. Heavy slats make a motor work harder, and battery life on motorized product is roughly a year by Hunter Douglas's own PowerView figure. On a reachable Sheridan window, a wand costs nothing to own and doesn't need charging.
Learn moreWood Blinds in Sheridan
Settled Sheridan houses move, and the header is rarely the same height at both ends. We hang brackets to the frame and level to the glass line, because a blind that's level to a sloping header will look crooked in every photograph you take of that room.
Learn moreVertical Blinds in Sheridan
Every vertical stacks somewhere, and the stack is thick. Pushed to one side it eats a foot or more of your Sheridan opening, so we decide at the measure whether it draws to one side or splits in the center, based on which way you're actually walking through the door.
Learn moreAluminum Mini Blinds in Sheridan
Aluminum comes in whites plus a range of colors a wood product can't do. A painted finish holds up under sun for years, though it isn't immune, and the blind slows the fading of what's behind it in a Sheridan room without ever stopping it.
Learn moreRoller Shades in Sheridan
Fabric color changes what the room looks like at four in the afternoon. A dark face gives a crisper view out and a dimmer room. A light face bounces more heat outside and more glare inside. Either one slows fading on a Sheridan floor, and neither one's going to stop it.
Learn moreSolar Shades in Sheridan
Screen fabric gets discontinued more often than you'd expect, and openness levels get renumbered between manufacturers. If a Sheridan room might get a second shade someday, order the fabric now or accept that the pair won't read as a matched set.
Learn moreCellular Shades in Sheridan
If you love the view, don't put light filtering cellular on that window. The fabric is designed to diffuse, which means it erases the yard. A Sheridan room with something worth seeing wants a solar screen or a roller you can raise clear of the glass.
Learn moreZebra Shades in Sheridan
Against a plain roller you gain a second setting and give up simplicity. Against a sheer shade you gain a sharper look at a lower price. In a Sheridan front room that gets used all day, that second setting's what people end up valuing most.
Learn moreRoman Shades in Sheridan
Wide Romans get heavy and they get hard to keep even. Past a certain span we'll recommend two shades side by side on a Sheridan opening rather than one that fights its own weight, and we'll match the fold lines so the pair reads as one treatment.
Learn moreWoven Wood Shades in Sheridan
Inside mount shows the trim and the natural edge of the weave, and it leaves a gap at each side that light finds. Outside mount over the Sheridan opening covers that gap and makes the shade look larger, which suits the material's texture anyway.
Learn moreBlackout Shades in Sheridan
A nursery's the room where cord safety stops being theoretical. Cordless lift or a motor removes the hazard, and inner-cord non-compliance is a substantial product hazard under 16 CFR 1120.3. What we hang in Sheridan homes conforms to ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2022.
Learn morePlantation Shutters in Sheridan
Shutter panels swing, so they need somewhere to go. A wide Sheridan window gets more panels, and more panels stacked open cover more glass at the edges. Bifold hardware helps. Deciding the panel count is really deciding how much view you're keeping.
Learn moreCafe Shutters in Sheridan
Street-facing front rooms and ground floor baths are where these belong. A Sheridan house sitting close to the sidewalk gets privacy at eye level and doesn't give up the light that a full-height shutter would have taken.
Learn moreMotorized Shades in Sheridan
Power is a separate decision from fabric, and it drives what you'll live with. Replaceable cells cost least up front. A rechargeable wand means a ladder twice a year, and a hardwired run needs an electrician booked before anything gets ordered for Sheridan.
Learn moreCustom Drapery in Sheridan
Motorized traverse hardware is the right call on a run you'd otherwise walk to twice a day, or on panels behind a sofa in a Sheridan family room. The track carries the weight, the motor pulls it, and battery service is a real line item you should hear about first.
Learn moreValances & Top Treatments in Sheridan
Where you mount the treatment decides how tall the room feels. Setting the board near the ceiling instead of on the trim carries the eye up and makes a Sheridan window read taller than it is, and that trick doesn't cost anything except a little extra fabric.
Learn moreExterior Solar Shades in Sheridan
Anchoring is the whole job, and it's not negotiable. Brackets go into structure, never into trim alone, and on a Sheridan porch that means locating solid wood behind the finish before a single hole gets drilled. A shade pulling free at one end takes the trim with it.
Learn moreRetractable Awnings in Sheridan
Sun does what sun does. NFRC attributes 40 to 60 percent of fading to UV, and an awning slows what reaches the Sheridan furniture behind the glass while its own fabric takes the full dose. Solution-dyed acrylic holds up longest, but it isn't permanent either.
Learn moreCommercial Window Treatments in Sheridan
A mock-up settles arguments cheaply. One opening finished with the proposed fabric, hardware and control lets a Sheridan facilities manager and the design team see the real thing under the building's own light, which costs far less than discovering a fabric choice was wrong across two hundred openings.
Learn moreSkylight Shades in Sheridan
Gravity's working against every overhead shade. Fabric wants to sag away from the glass, so these run in tensioned side channels that hold it flat, and a Sheridan skylight shade without that tension will belly within a season and look wrong from the floor.
Learn moreSliding Glass Door Blinds in Sheridan
Motorizing a patio door treatment is more useful than motorizing a window, because a wide stack takes real effort and you'll feel it daily. A Sheridan slider on a motor also stops the treatment from being shoved aside by hand, which is what usually breaks the carriers.
Learn morePanel Track Blinds in Sheridan
Panel weight affects how the track feels in your hand. A woven natural panel is heavier than a solar mesh and needs a track rated for it, so a Sheridan order pairs the fabric with hardware that carries it rather than treating the two as choices that don't affect each other.
Learn moreSheer Shades in Sheridan
Vane scale changes the whole look. A small vane reads fine and quiet on a modest Sheridan window, and a large one reads bold and architectural on a tall opening, so we'll hold samples at the actual glass rather than deciding from a fold-out card.
Learn morePleated Shades in Sheridan
Outside mount solves problems that inside mount creates, and it isn't a compromise. Mounting above and beyond the opening on a Sheridan window kills the edge gaps, hides out-of-square trim and gives a shallow opening somewhere to put the headrail, at the cost of a slightly larger treatment.
Learn moreBamboo Shades in Sheridan
Every woven weave passes light, and there's no exception to that. A bamboo shade alone gives you texture and a warm glow, and it hides far less than people assume, so a Sheridan bedroom or a street-facing bath needs a privacy or blackout liner sewn in behind the weave.
Learn moreDual Shades in Sheridan
Band alignment drifts. Repeated cycling on a Sheridan window can leave the bands slightly out of register over time, and the fix is usually a simple reset rather than a repair, but it's worth knowing that this product asks for that occasionally and a plain roller doesn't.
Learn moreTop-Down Bottom-Up Shades in Sheridan
The whole product is really about sill height and sightlines. On a Sheridan street where the sidewalk sits close and the windows start low, the bottom rail lands right at standing eye level from outside, and that's the number we work from rather than a fraction of the window.
Learn moreCordless Blinds in Sheridan
Cordless is the standard lift on most current lines, so it isn't usually what drives your number. Width, slat material, opening count and finish all are. Nationally custom blinds run $250 to $2,600 per window against $60 to $600 for stock sizes, and Sheridan orders sit inside that published spread.
Learn moreHardwood Shutters in Sheridan
Shutters are unforgiving about square. A panel is rigid, so a Sheridan opening out of square by three eighths of an inch shows a wedge of daylight at one corner. We'll check both diagonals at the measure and choose a frame that hides the discrepancy instead of pretending the opening is true.
Learn moreComposite Shutters in Sheridan
The alternative worth pricing is a faux wood blind. It shrugs off a humid Sheridan bathroom the same way and costs a fraction as much, and it stacks up out of the way when you want the whole opening. What you're giving up is the fitted look and the fact that shutters stay put.
Learn moreSmart Home Shade Integration in Sheridan
Travel limits are the part people don't think about. Every motor has to learn where the top and bottom stops are, and a shade that was re-hung, re-tubed or moved needs those limits reset. We check limits on every Sheridan shade as part of pairing, not as a callback later.
Learn moreBlind Repair & Restring in Sheridan
Bring us the whole set if the house was done at once. Blinds installed together age together, and pulling four tired Sheridan treatments at the same time gets them all back on the wall in one trip instead of spreading the same work across a season of calls you didn't plan for.
Learn moreShutter Repair in Sheridan
Sun does its work on shutters too, and NFRC attributes 40 to 60 percent of fading damage to ultraviolet. A south-facing Sheridan panel lightens over the years while the one on the north wall doesn't, so a repair that involves refinishing usually means doing the room, not the window.
Learn moreMotorization Retrofit in Sheridan
Retrofit only works when the existing hardware cooperates. A roller shade with the right tube diameter takes a motor cleanly, while plenty of cellular and Roman headrails were never built to accept one. We inspect what's actually on the wall in your Sheridan house before quoting anything.
Learn moreOutdoor Patio Shades in Sheridan
Retract them for winter. The fabric and hardware tolerate cold, but ice loading on a deployed shade is a genuine hazard, and Sheridan overnight lows near 21F in January mean freeze and thaw cycles at every fastener. Rolled up in a cassette, the system waits out the season and doesn't suffer.
Learn moreOffice Window Treatments in Sheridan
Winter glare is worse than summer glare and almost nobody plans for it. A January sun sits low enough to come straight down a Sheridan floor plate through south and west glass, at an angle no overhang stops, and that's exactly when a solar shade earns its keep.
Learn moreHealthcare Window Treatments in Sheridan
Closeout documentation is what the next facilities manager inherits. A Sheridan project should end with an opening schedule, the fabric and hardware named per room, control locations and the approved submittal package, so a replacement five years out is an order and isn't an investigation.
Learn moreMultifamily Window Treatments in Sheridan
Multifamily work isn't governed by the Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act, which applies to residential homeowners. A Sheridan property runs on a contract or purchase order with a written scope, and since Indiana licenses nobody in this trade, insurance and bonding are what actually stand behind the work.
Learn more
Local Expertise, Real Results
On a Sheridan house the county dates to 1900, a three point measure isn't paperwork. It's how you find out whether the opening runs wider at the sill than at the head, and therefore whether one inside mounted headrail can cover it honestly instead of showing daylight down one side.
Everything Sheridan Window Treatments sells in Sheridan is fabricated after the order, which means we can't hide behind stock. If the finished width is wrong, the shade is wrong, and it can't be uncut. That reality shapes how we work across Hamilton County: slow at the measure, careful with the paperwork, quick on the install day itself because everything has already been decided.
Our whole trade is custom window treatments, and Sheridan is 3,205 people on 2.14 square miles at the crossing of State Road 38 and State Road 47, roughly 30 miles north northwest of downtown Indianapolis. Sheridan calls itself The Countryside of Hamilton County, and the numbers back the claim: 1,379 households, 897 of them owner occupied, in the smallest incorporated place in the county that also holds Carmel and Fishers. Working here means changing regime street by street instead of gradually, which is why we don't run a standard product list at anybody. Indiana issues no statewide license for this trade. Nobody in Hamilton County holds one, us included, so we say insured and insured and leave it there. The Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act, IC 24-5-11, requires a written contract on residential work over $150, and every custom order clears that.
Sheridan carries more history per resident than towns ten times the size, and it's all sitting in the openings. Egbert Higbee platted the place as Millwood in April 1866. It became Sheridan when the post office opened on 30 January 1871, and the 1888 natural gas discovery made it the second largest town in the county by 1900, ahead of both Carmel and Fishers. That boom paid for the 1886 H.J. Thistlethwaite Building with its opera house and lodge room, the 1912 Carnegie library and the 1914 American State Bank building, which is how a town this size ends up with a National Register commercial district of 38 contributing buildings listed on 20 September 2007. Indiana Landmarks is blunt about what that listing does to a private owner spending private money. Nothing.
Our Promise
Every opening gets its finished width, finished height, mount type and mounting depth onto paper before you sign. And when an opening on the Higbee plat runs out of square far enough that an inside mount will leak daylight down one side, we say so at the measure and put the outside mount number right beside it. You decide which one you want.
What Sets Our Sheridan Installs Apart
Serving Sheridan and Hamilton County with quality materials, thorough inspections, and transparent pricing.
Two eras, two mounting regimes
Sheridan built 477 units before 1940 and 607 since 2000, with only 116 across the whole of 1980 through 1999. The old third has real wood jambs, applied casing and counterweight pockets that cut usable inside mount depth, often with an exterior storm panel taking more. The new 42 percent has drywall returns, no applied casing anywhere, and clean generous depth. Those want opposite answers, and they're often one street apart. Mounting depth goes into the schedule for every single opening, since that figure picks the mount long before anybody picks a fabric.
We name the light gap first
Every inside mount leaves daylight at the sides. Lutron publishes 3/4 inch per side on the Roller 20/64 and a standard factory deduction of 1/16 inch per side, and anything past 120 inches tall or a 4 to 1 height to width ratio gets a larger gap. In a north facing room nobody notices. The Higbee plat is a true cardinal grid of numbered streets crossing Georgia, Ohio and Adams, so about a quarter of those houses put their front rooms into full west sun. That's where side channels and outside mounts earn their price.
Sizes in writing before fabrication
The Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act, IC 24-5-11, requires a written contract with a detailed scope, dates and a total price on residential work over $150. Every custom order is over $150. Ours carries a line per opening: finished width, finished height, mount type, roll direction where it matters, and the factory deduction we used. Fabrication takes 2 to 5 weeks once you approve those sizes, and nothing in this trade is an emergency. If a number can't survive being typed onto a contract, it was never a real number.
We say what we couldn't source
Sheridan is below the 5,000-population threshold at which the Census publishes a median owner occupied home value, so that figure doesn't exist for this town and we won't invent one. We also found no recorded rule on street facing coverings, awnings or exterior shades for Maple Run, Gardens at Maple Run, Sheridan Estates or Center Place, and no confirmed architectural review committee at any of them. If your closing packet has a covenant we haven't seen, bring it to the measure. Anything about your house we can't source, we go and measure ourselves.
Real Jobs. Real Results.
Photos from recent window treatment projects completed by the crew that measured them across Sheridan and Hamilton County. Every project is documented with photos and a written closeout package.
Our Four Steps in Sheridan Homes
Four steps, this order, no shortcuts on offer. Sheridan is 2.14 square miles at the crossing of State Road 38 and State Road 47, so the drive has never been the constraint here. Fabrication is. Custom orders run 2 to 5 weeks from the day you approve finished sizes, and that clock doesn't start until the numbers are written down and you've signed off on them. We'd rather remeasure than reorder.
In home measure and square check
Nothing comes down. We work around your existing treatments, taking three widths and three heights at every opening, diagonals for square, and mounting depth logged one opening at a time. On the Higbee plat, where the county dates parcels to the 1860s and one to 1830, we expect those readings to fight each other. In Center Place we expect agreement. Both houses get the identical number of readings taken and written down.
Written sizes before any order
Before an order leaves, you see finished width and finished height per opening, the mount type, the factory deduction we used, and the light gap to expect at each side. IC 24-5-11 requires a written contract over $150, and this is what fills ours. Read it. A wrong size spotted at your kitchen table costs nothing at all. The same size spotted after fabrication costs you the shade.
Order and 2 to 5 weeks
Fabrication takes 2 to 5 weeks once sizes are approved. Phasing a 16 to 24 opening Maple Run two story across two budget years is where dye lots bite: one batch of fabric and another batch twelve months on will not always read alike in one room under one light. Anything on a single Sheridan wall that has to match goes onto a single order, even when half of it waits in a closet.
Install and set travel limits
Brackets go up, center support brackets on the wide units, then every shade gets leveled and cycled top to bottom before we pack out. Motors have their travel limits set and get paired to whichever remote or hub you'll actually pick up. The cartons leave with us. If a headrail stands proud of the applied casing on an Ohio Street house, or a light gap looks worse in daylight than it did in the schedule, tell us that day.
What we see most often on Sheridan window treatments
Sheridan homeowners typically call us about these scenarios.
A Shade That Blocks The Window Opening
The treatment went in without anybody checking whether the window still needs to open, and now a room that used to get fresh air in October does not. It's a mount and clearance problem. We open every window at the measure specifically so this doesn't happen. Fixing it afterwards usually means a different mount and a row of filled holes.
Sun Damage On The South Side
A hardwood floor with a pale patch where the rug sits, a leather sofa going lighter on one arm, a piano the owner is worried about. Ultraviolet is only 40 to 60 percent of the cause so nothing hanging in the opening prevents it, but a solar shade or a lined drapery slows it noticeably on the openings that matter.
A Shade Hung On Drywall Alone
It came down, probably in year two, with the anchors still in the bracket and a hole in the wall where the fixing pulled through. Brackets belong in studs, headers or anchors rated for the load. This is an install failure rather than a product failure, and it's entirely preventable.
A Sunroom That Is Unusable In July
Glass on three sides and a July average high near 85.2F means the room hits an unpleasant temperature by early afternoon and stays there. Interior shades help. The bigger change is stopping the sun outside on the worst elevation, and that's a conversation most people have never had. Treating the interior alone in that room often disappoints people who spent real money.
A New Build With Every Opening Bare
Moving into a new Sheridan home with sheets taped over the bedroom windows is a rite of passage. The instinct is to do the whole house at once. Usually the better plan is the bedrooms and the west-facing living space first, then the rest in a second phase once you know how you actually use the rooms.
Great Room Glass Nobody Can Reach
Two stories of window above a fireplace, blazing in the afternoon and freezing at night, and no realistic way to operate a manual shade. Households live with it bare for years. Motorized shades on that wall aren't a luxury, they're the only version of the product that will actually get used.
Five Stages, In This Order
Custom window treatments are made to your openings, so the order matters more than it does in most trades. This is how every Sheridan job runs.
Free In-Home Measure
Every opening gets three widths, three heights and a diagonal square check, because houses settle and an opening that is out of square is the difference between a shade that runs true and one that binds. Mounting depth gets read at the jamb. It all goes on paper before any product conversation starts.
Product and Fabric, In Your Own Light
Samples get looked at in the room they are going in, not under showroom lighting. This is where openness factor, inside versus outside mount, roll direction and material get decided, and where we tell you the light gap you are going to live with.
Written Scope and Contract
Opening by opening, with the mount type, the light gap, the operation and the total price in writing. Indiana requires a written contract on residential work over $150 under IC 24-5-11, and we would write one anyway.
Custom Fabrication
Your sizes go to the workroom. Two to five weeks is typical depending on product and finish, longer on specialty shapes and motorized configurations. You get the real date at the measure rather than a range.
Install and Walkthrough
Brackets anchored for the substrate they are going into, everything checked level and square, motor travel limits set and scenes built with you standing there. Then we show you how it all works and take the packaging with us.
Why We Keep Getting Called in Sheridan
4.8 stars across 497+ Google reviews for The Window Valet, who runs this service.
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"Handy is absolutely wonderful! He came right in and went to work. He did a wonderful job installing our zebra shades! They are stunning. I also appreciate his knowledge about them, he knows his stuff and explained them well."
"Justin was very helpful! Super friendly and got me taken care of right away! Highly recommend! Will definitely be using him for future projects!"
"I had a wonderful experience working with The Window Valet to select and install window treatments for our new construction home. Erica, our sales consultant, was incredibly helpful in providing an overview of the vast selection of window treatments offered, making tasteful recommendations for various spaces throughout our home, and advocating for us to offer the most competitive pricing possible so we could stay within budget. Handy, our installer, was a pleasure to work with and the perfect balance of quick and meticulous."
Questions About Light Gaps in Sheridan
Straight answers to the questions Sheridan homeowners ask most.
Indiana Weather Affects Window Treatments Year Round
Indiana sees some of the most varied weather in the country. Sheridan homeowners live in IECC climate zone 5A, which carries a real cooling load in summer and a real heating load in winter. July averages a high near 85F, January averages a high near 36F with lows near 21F, and the muggy season runs from late May into late September. That is why the same window can be the hottest room in the house in July and the coldest in January.
Zone 5A cuts both ways
Sheridan pays a cooling bill and a heating bill. The NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals put the July average high at 85.2F and the January average low at 20.9F, so anything that only answers summer solves half your problem. Cellular shades are the honest reply. DOE and Oak Ridge testing measured as much as 20 percent of heating energy saved, and 15 percent across heating and cooling together, against a bare window. We won't convert that into a dollar figure, because nobody credible can.
Bare sky over the new plats
The county records 168 built parcels inside the Sheridan corporate limit dated 2020 or later, 41 of them in Center Place. Those sit on farm ground with no canopy above them, so full afternoon sun hits the west glass. That's the argument for a solar shade with a stated openness factor, 1, 3, 5 or 10 percent, and it's where fade becomes the live worry. NFRC attributes 40 to 60 percent of fading damage to UV. A shade slows that down. It never ends it.
A century of canopy downtown
Two minutes away the condition reverses. Street trees on the Higbee plat and the Thistlethwaite additions were planted with houses the county dates from the 1860s, which is well over a hundred years of growth over the same glass. Those rooms start out dark. The 1 or 3 percent openness fabric that reads well on a bare Center Place lot will make a 1900s front parlor feel shut in, so light filtering usually wins in the historic core and room darkening gets kept for the bedrooms.
May 25 to September 22
That muggy stretch on the NOAA normals is four months in which a hardwood slat hanging over a kitchen sink is a bad bet. Wood moves. It cups and it twists, and no manufacturer calls that a defect. Faux wood holds flat, and composite shutters do the same at larger scale. Sheridan's 477 pre-1940 houses are exactly where the temptation lives, because the applied casing on that stock is already wood and people reasonably want the blind to match it.
Choosing the Right Treatment for Sheridan Rooms
An honest breakdown of the three we specify most often, and when each one is the right answer.
The one product in this trade with measured energy numbers behind it. Trapped air in the cells does the work, and DOE and ORNL testing found cellular shades saved up to 20 percent on heating energy and up to 15 percent on total heating and cooling against a bare window. In a Sheridan house that matters in January and again in July, which is unusual for one product. Single cell suits most rooms, double cell where the glass is large or the room runs cold. Top-down bottom-up gets you daylight and privacy at the same time.
What you reach for when the complaint is afternoon sun. Solar fabrics come in stated openness factors, and that number is the whole decision: a lower openness cuts more glare and more of the view, a higher one keeps the view and cuts less. On a west or south Sheridan window this is usually the honest answer rather than blackout, because blackout kills the room. Cassette or fascia hides the roll, and roll direction gets decided at the measure so the fabric does not foul a crank or a lock.
The one that stays with the house. Shutters are a finish rather than a covering, and they do not get replaced every few years. In Sheridan the material choice is technical rather than a matter of taste: composite and poly in bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms and sunrooms, because a four month humid season followed by a dry heated winter will move real hardwood, and hardwood only where the room stays conditioned. Louver size, frame style and divider rail get decided standing at your window.
See What Each Fabric Does To The Light
Pick a fabric below and the window updates. It's a drawing rather than a photograph, so read it as a rough guide to what each family does in a Sheridan room, and to what it doesn't do.
Openness factor is a measured fabric spec, so you can compare it line to line. The category names are not measured. One maker's room darkening can behave like another maker's light filtering, which is why the sample books come to the measure and get opened in the room they're going in, at the hour that room has the problem.
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Window Treatment Systems Compared in Sheridan
Quick reference for the products we specify most often in these homes. Pricing reflects typical Sheridan installations.
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Free in home measure anywhere in 46069, from the parcel the county dates to 1830 on the original plat to whatever D.R. Horton finished at Center Place last month. We write the sizes down and hand them to you whether you order or not.