Custom Window Treatments in Lebanon, Indiana
Blinds, shades, shutters and drapery measured in your Lebanon home. Most of this town has finished settling, which means the openings need checking for square before a single number goes on an order.
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If you're new to buying window treatments in Lebanon, start here. The answers below cover measuring, mount types, product choices by room, motorization, warranty structure and the lead time you should plan around.
- Services: faux wood blinds, wood blinds, vertical blinds, aluminum mini blinds
- Service area: Lebanon, Boone County, IN and surrounding areas The measure gets scheduled quickly. The build does not, because your fabric or shutter panel is cut to your numbers after you order. Two to five weeks is normal. Service calls skip that step entirely.
- Insured and bonded
- Serving Lebanon, IN since 2008
Schedule Your Free In-Home Measure
The in home measure is where the job is actually decided. We take three widths and three heights at every opening, run a square check on the diagonal, and record the usable mounting depth, because in a city where 43.1 percent of the stock dates from 1940 to 1979 that depth is the number most likely to change the answer. We also look at what surrounds the opening: operating hardware, a deep sill, trim that's been built up over the years. You leave with a written quote carrying finished sizes.
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Lebanon has the oldest housing stock of any small city in Boone County, and that's the whole story at the window. 4,528 of the 7,548 units in town, 60.0 percent, predate 1980. The single largest decade is the 1970s at 1,699 units, 22.5 percent of everything in the city, and then the 1980s produced only 190 units across ten full years. So the base case here isn't a drywall return with generous depth. It's a 1970s aluminum horizontal slider frame with almost no flat surface to land a headrail on, or a 1950s frame with a narrow jamb, or a split level running two different sill heights inside one house. Add the 1,275 pre-1940 houses on the streets radiating off the courthouse square, where head and sill genuinely differ, and you have a town where nothing should be ordered off a size chart.
Specialty shapes are where the measure gets interesting. Arches, angles, trapezoids over a stairwell, circles. Most of them can be templated, and most of them end up as a fixed shutter or a stationary panel because a curved opening can't track a moving shade. We'll tell you at the measure whether the shape you have in Lebanon is operable or decorative, since that's usually the deciding factor.
If a shade fails early we deal with the manufacturer, not you. That means we file the claim, we ship the part or the unit, and we come back to install it. What we won't do is tell a Lebanon customer that a legitimate defect is normal wear. The line between those two is usually clear, and where it isn't we'll say we're not certain rather than guess in our own favor.
Built in the Last Few Years?
Many of our Lebanon 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. Lebanon 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 Lebanon
What our crew has learned working in Lebanon homes.
About Lebanon Homes
Lebanon's median house dates to 1976. Build era shares on the parcel record run pre-1940 16.9%, 1940-1979 43.1%, 1980-1999 20.4%, 2000-2019 17.9%, 2020+ 1.7%. Median home value is $195,600. Three regimes and the middle one dominates. 16.9% is pre-1940 with real wood jambs, applied casing and sash weight pockets. 43.1% is 1940-1979, which is where the hard cases live: 1950s frame with narrow jambs, and 1960s-70s aluminum slider frames that leave very little flat surface for an inside mount. Only 40.0% is 1980 or newer with drywall returns and generous depth. Classical Revival civic architecture on the courthouse square; late nineteenth century Victorian, including the 1893 Cragun House; 1920s-1960s Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Mediterranean Revival in Ulen; Cape Cod and minimal traditional, 1940s-1950s; 1960s-70s ranch, tri level and split level.
Where We Work in Lebanon
We cover homeowners across Lebanon near Boone County Courthouse (NRHP 1986, 1909-1911), Cragun House (1893), Oak Hill Cemetery (NRHP), Ulen Country Club, Memorial Park (40 acres), Abner Longley Park.
Surrounding Areas We Serve
Our crew also covers Downtown Lebanon and the Courthouse Square, Ulen, Elmwood, Chadwick, Cedar Ridge, Maple Street Collection, Angilee Gardens, Corbett Towns, Daniels Crossing.
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. Better established than any other town in this batch, because Lebanon's stock is older. 1,275 units predate 1940 and 4,528 - 60.0% - predate 1980, so the residential streets radiating from the courthouse square carry canopy between forty five and a hundred and thirty years old.
What Our Crew Sees in Lebanon
Lebanon's dominant era is 1940-1979, which is the era with the least specialty glass of any: a wide front picture window on the 1950s Cape Cods and minimal traditionals, aluminum horizontal sliders through the 1960s and 1970s, and half height lower level openings on the split levels. Active new construction includes Cedar Ridge, Maple Street Collection, Angilee Gardens, Corbett Towns.
Who Actually Turns Up in Lebanon
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 Lebanon 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
Your Lebanon Window Treatments project lead will walk you through every financing option during the assessment. Terms in writing, no pressure, no surprise charges.
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.
The Full Lebanon Window Treatment Menu
From one room to a whole house, Lebanon Window Treatments measures every opening, orders it custom, and installs it with the same crew that took the measurements.
Faux Wood Blinds in Lebanon
Faux wood blinds run a PVC or composite core instead of milled hardwood, so the slat doesn't cup or bow when a Lebanon bathroom runs steamy twice a day. The tradeoff is weight: a composite slat is heavier than basswood, and that weight limits how wide one blind can reasonably go.
Learn moreWood Blinds in Lebanon
Settled Lebanon 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 Lebanon
Span drives the price. A vertical is priced by the number of vanes and the length of track, so a wide Lebanon opening costs more than a standard window even when you've chosen the cheapest vinyl. Nationally, custom treatments run about $250 to $2,600 per window.
Learn moreAluminum Mini Blinds in Lebanon
Even a small order gets a written contract. Indiana's Home Improvement Contract Act at IC 24-5-11 covers residential work over $150, and Lebanon Window Treatments is insured and bonded. Your Lebanon quote lists every opening and finish beside a total that doesn't move later.
Learn moreRoller Shades in Lebanon
Figure two to five weeks from approval. Fabric comes off dye lots and a lot changes between runs, so a second shade ordered next year for the same Lebanon room will be close and it won't be identical. Order the room together and this never comes up.
Learn moreSolar Shades in Lebanon
West and southwest Lebanon rooms are where these earn their keep. A late afternoon sun that makes a television unwatchable isn't a heat problem, it's a glare problem, and screen fabric handles glare without turning the room into a cave.
Learn moreCellular Shades in Lebanon
A pleated shade looks similar from a distance and costs less, because it's one flat layer with no air pocket. That pocket is the entire reason cellular exists. On a Lebanon window that never gets cold, the pleated version is honestly the smarter buy.
Learn moreZebra Shades in Lebanon
A zebra shade is one fabric with alternating sheer and solid bands wrapped around a tube. Roll it a few inches and the bands line up for a view, or offset them and the solids overlap for privacy. That's one shade doing two jobs on a Lebanon window.
Learn moreRoman Shades in Lebanon
You can't wash a Roman shade. Vacuum it gently and blot a spot, then accept that a fabric treatment in a Lebanon kitchen will eventually smell like the kitchen. Fabric choice is where you manage that, and cleaning technique isn't.
Learn moreWoven Wood Shades in Lebanon
Natural fiber takes on moisture, and central Indiana stays muggy from late May into late September. A woven wood in a Lebanon sunroom expands slightly through the summer and settles back in winter. Sized correctly it doesn't bind, which is why we size for the movement.
Learn moreBlackout Shades in Lebanon
For blackout we measure the wall, not just the opening. An outside mount needs overlap on every side and room above for the roll, and in a Lebanon bedroom with trim running tight to a corner that overlap's the constraint the whole design works around.
Learn morePlantation Shutters in Lebanon
Shutters come in an engineered composite with a wrapped finish or in milled hardwood. Composite ignores humidity and it's the heavier of the two. Hardwood is lighter and takes a stain, and it needs a Lebanon room that holds a steady temperature all year. That choice happens before anything else.
Learn moreCafe Shutters in Lebanon
The frame gets shimmed square in an opening that's settled, and then the panels get hung and adjusted until they close evenly against each other. On a Lebanon half-height installation that closure line sits at eye level, so it gets the attention it deserves.
Learn moreMotorized Shades in Lebanon
The motor will outlast the app. Hardware in this category gets its platform support changed every few years, so we favor open protocols over anything that only talks to one manufacturer's cloud, and we'll tell Lebanon clients what happens if that service ever goes away.
Learn moreCustom Drapery in Lebanon
A print has to line up across panels, and on a wide Lebanon window that means the workroom matching the repeat at every seam. It costs yardage. Skipping it is how you end up with a pattern that jumps a half inch at the joint and can't be unseen.
Learn moreValances & Top Treatments in Lebanon
Proportion is what separates a good top treatment from a heavy one. Roughly a fifth to a sixth of the total window height is the working range, and a Lebanon room with eight foot ceilings can't carry the depth that looks correct in a two story entry.
Learn moreExterior Solar Shades in Lebanon
The first thing to fail on an exterior shade is usually the habit, and it isn't the hardware. A Lebanon homeowner who leaves it down through a windy week will bend something, so we set the automation and walk through the manual override with you at handover.
Learn moreRetractable Awnings in Lebanon
Automation here isn't about convenience. A wind sensor retracts a Lebanon awning while you're at work, which is precisely when the damage would otherwise happen, and a sun sensor extends it before the patio heats up. Skipping the wind sensor is the false economy in this category.
Learn moreCommercial Window Treatments in Lebanon
Lead time scales with quantity. Custom fabrication runs two to five weeks at typical residential volume, and a large Lebanon order occupies production longer than that, so a realistic construction schedule builds the shade package in as a long-lead item rather than a finish detail nobody's tracking.
Learn moreSkylight Shades in Lebanon
Install day for overhead work looks different. A Lebanon stairwell skylight may need a ladder that won't stand on the treads, so access gets solved at the measure and the crew brings what the room actually requires instead of improvising at the top of the stairs.
Learn moreSliding Glass Door Blinds in Lebanon
If you're covering two doors in the same Lebanon house, order them together. Fabric and vinyl both run in dye lots, and matching a second slider a year later is the most common way people end up with two treatments that don't quite agree in daylight.
Learn morePanel Track Blinds in Lebanon
Panels read modern, which is a compliment in some Lebanon rooms and a mismatch in others. Against deep traditional casing and heavy trim they can look imported from a different house, so we'd rather discuss that honestly than deliver a treatment that fights the room.
Learn moreSheer Shades in Lebanon
This is a delicate product in an honest sense. A cat that climbs or a dog that noses at the bottom rail will damage the sheer facing, and it can't be patched, so a Lebanon household with either one is usually better served by something tougher.
Learn morePleated Shades in Lebanon
Arched and angled openings take pleated fabric well because the folds can be built to a template. A Lebanon house with a half round above a window can get a stationary pleated fan that fills the shape, though it won't operate and we'll say so before you order.
Learn moreBamboo Shades in Lebanon
Winter is the harder season for these. A heated Lebanon house in January runs dry, and dry air shrinks natural reed, which is how a fine split appears in a slat that was fine in August. It's the material behaving normally, and a mid-weight weave handles it better than a fine one.
Learn moreDual Shades in Lebanon
Roll direction matters more here than on a plain roller, because the band alignment depends on which way the fabric comes off the tube. A reverse roll brings the fabric closer to the Lebanon glass and tightens the light gap, but it isn't compatible with a fascia.
Learn moreTop-Down Bottom-Up Shades in Lebanon
The compromise is structural: the top rail has to sit somewhere. Fully open, both rails stack together and still occupy the top of a Lebanon window, so you never get the completely clear opening a plain bottom-up shade gives you. That's the tradeoff, and it's worth knowing first.
Learn moreCordless Blinds in Lebanon
Indiana issues no license for this trade, so the paperwork is what protects you. The Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act, IC 24-5-11, requires a written contract naming scope, dates, price and product detail on residential work over $150. Every Lebanon order we take is written that way, and we're insured and bonded.
Learn moreHardwood Shutters in Lebanon
There's no cord anywhere on a shutter. No loop, no ladder string, nothing that falls within a child's reach, which puts the entire 16 CFR 1120.3 inner-cord question outside the conversation. For a Lebanon nursery or a stair landing that fact alone often decides it.
Learn moreComposite Shutters in Lebanon
A divider rail lets the bottom half stay shut while the top opens, which is how most Lebanon street-facing rooms want to live. It also adds a horizontal line across the glass. On a short window we'll usually talk you out of one, and on a tall one we'll usually talk you into it.
Learn moreSmart Home Shade Integration in Lebanon
The motors usually outlive the platform. A quality tube motor keeps running for many years while the app controlling it goes through three redesigns and possibly one discontinuation, and that's why a Lebanon install that keeps a local remote paired ages far better than a cloud-only setup.
Learn moreBlind Repair & Restring in Lebanon
A cord lock is a small mechanism with a pin and a spring inside the headrail. When it stops grabbing, the blind slides down on its own, which is annoying rather than fatal. It's a bench-level part swap on most Lebanon blinds, and it comes off the headrail without disturbing the mount.
Learn moreShutter Repair in Lebanon
There's no cord anywhere on a shutter, so nothing about a repair changes the safety picture in a child's room. That's a genuine advantage of the category and one reason a Lebanon family with young kids often repairs an old set rather than moving to a corded treatment.
Learn moreMotorization Retrofit in Lebanon
Removing the cord is a safety outcome, not a marketing line. Inner-cord non-compliance is a substantial product hazard under 16 CFR 1120.3, and a retrofit that takes the lift cord off a Lebanon child's bedroom shade addresses the real thing rather than adding a tie-down nobody uses.
Learn moreOutdoor Patio Shades in Lebanon
Fabric color changes what you'll see. A dark mesh cuts glare hardest and keeps the view crisp, while a light mesh bounces more heat but hazes the yard and can glow when the sun hits it directly. Most Lebanon porches end up dark on the view side and lighter elsewhere.
Learn moreOffice Window Treatments in Lebanon
Video calls made backlighting everyone's problem. A person sitting against a bright Lebanon window reads as a silhouette on camera, and a solar shade at the right openness fixes it without turning the office into a cave. It's the most common request we hear now.
Learn moreHealthcare Window Treatments in Lebanon
Waiting areas take abuse. Shades there get operated by people who don't work in the building, so metal hardware, a protected chain, a wipeable cassette and a fabric that hides handling all outlast a specification chosen on appearance in a Lebanon lobby that sees hundreds of people weekly.
Learn moreMultifamily Window Treatments in Lebanon
Multifamily works when the spec repeats. One treatment per floor plan, one bracket standard, one hardware color and one fabric across a Lebanon community means a maintenance tech can swap a damaged unit from stock instead of opening a special order and matching a color that doesn't quite line up.
Learn more
Local Expertise, Real Results
An inside mount on a 1970s aluminum slider frame lives or dies on usable flat depth, not on fabric choice. We measure that number before anything else, because it's the one thing that can't be corrected after the order ships.
What Lebanon Window Treatments sells in Lebanon is a fitted product and the judgement to specify it correctly. Anyone can pick a color off a card. Knowing that a woven wood needs a liner, that hardwood moves in a bathroom, and that an inside mounted blackout still leaks at the edges is the part worth paying for in Boone County.
We work Lebanon the way its housing forces us to, which is three separate measuring regimes inside one city of 15.52 square miles. 16.9 percent of the units are pre-1940, with real wood jambs, applied casing and old counterweight pockets in the wall. 43.1 percent is 1940 to 1979, and that middle block is where the hard openings live. Only 40.0 percent is 1980 or newer with drywall returns and depth you can rely on. So we don't quote from a floor plan or a phone call. We come to the house, take width and height at three points each, check square on the diagonal, and write down the usable mounting depth at every single opening. Residential work over $150 gets a written contract with a detailed scope, dates and a total price, which is what the Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act, IC 24-5-11, requires.
The citywide numbers hide most of what's actually here. Lebanon's ACS median home value is $195,600, which is 0.67 times the Indianapolis metro median of $291,400, on a median household income of $65,154. Then Elmwood lists at $850,000 to $1,500,000, between 4.3 and 7.7 times that median value, on golf course frontage. And three national builders are selling at the same time: Fischer Homes at Cedar Ridge, D.R. Horton at Angilee Gardens between $374,900 and $429,900, and Lennar at Corbett Towns. That means a stock shade job on a rental and a forty opening custom drapery job both sit inside ZIP 46052. We price both from the same national ranges, we say which openings are the expensive ones, and we'll tell you when the cheaper product is the right answer.
Our Promise
We'll measure every opening in your Lebanon house, tell you which ones can't take an inside mount before you pick a fabric, and hand you the finished widths and heights in writing. If an opening is out of square enough to show at the top of the shade, you'll hear about it at the measure and not on install day.
What Lebanon Clients Get That a Boxed Order Misses
Serving Lebanon and Boone County with quality materials, thorough inspections, and transparent pricing.
Three point measure, every opening
4,528 of Lebanon's 7,548 housing units predate 1980, so measuring once across the middle and calling it done would be wrong roughly six times out of ten here. Width gets read at the head, across the middle and down at the sill; height gets read at both edges and up the middle; then the diagonal gets checked for square. In the 1,275 pre-1940 houses off North Meridian Street and East Washington Street we go further and assume nothing repeats between openings, because in a house finished one room at a time it usually doesn't.
We name the light gap first
An inside mount always leaves daylight down both sides, and the published figures are not small: 3/4 inch per side on the Lutron Roller 20/64, on top of a 1/16 inch per side factory deduction, with anything past 120 inches of height gapping wider still. In a Lebanon split level, the lower level opening often sits high on the wall right above a bed, which is exactly where that shows. Rooms that genuinely have to go dark get told before the order, and priced with a side channel or a light blocking pocket.
Shallow depth is the local problem
Lebanon put up 1,699 units in the 1970s, 22.5 percent of the entire city, and those aluminum horizontal slider frames leave very little flat surface for a headrail. The 1950s frames are not much kinder. We record usable depth at each opening and then pick product to fit what's there: a low profile headrail, a shallow projection bracket, or an outside mount on the trim where the inside simply won't take one. That call belongs at the measure, never at the install.
Insured and insured, and in writing
There is no such thing as a state license for this trade in Indiana, so a contractor waving one at you in Boone County is waving nothing. We're insured and insured instead, which is the claim that can actually be checked. Residential work above $150 goes on paper under the Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act: what's being done, when, and for how much. The warranty paperwork you get is the manufacturer's own document rather than a number we picked, and fabrication takes 2 to 5 weeks once the order is approved.
Real Jobs. Real Results.
Photos from recent window treatment projects completed by the crew that measured them across Lebanon and Boone County. Every project is documented with photos and a written closeout package.
What You Do, and What We Do, in Lebanon
Nothing here has to happen tonight, and we won't pretend it does. Approve an order and the factory takes 2 to 5 weeks on it, four openings in a Corbett Towns townhome or thirty in a Ulen period revival house alike. What we do care about is sequence: measure before selection, selection before the order goes in, and one person carrying the numbers the whole way so nothing gets transcribed twice.
The measure comes first
We come to the house, take three widths and three heights at every opening, check square on the diagonal and record usable mounting depth. In Lebanon that last number does the most work, because 43.1 percent of the stock is 1940 to 1979 with shallow jambs and 16.9 percent is pre-1940 where head and sill genuinely differ. You'll know at the measure which openings take an inside mount and which ones don't.
Selection and written quote
Samples go up in your own daylight rather than under showroom lighting, which matters in a Ulen house with deep reveals and again in a Cedar Ridge great room with none. Then you get a written quote carrying finished width and finished height per opening with the factory deduction already applied. Anything above $150 goes on a written contract under the Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act, with the scope spelled out, the dates set and the total stated.
Fabrication, two to five weeks
Custom means it gets made to your numbers, so allow 2 to 5 weeks. Order everything you want in one dye lot while you're there. Do the front of the house now and the back next spring and the fabric can arrive from a different run, reading slightly different through the same wall in identical light. That's the most common regret in this trade and it is entirely avoidable.
Install, level, set limits
Brackets go up, center support brackets get added wherever the width demands one, every unit gets leveled, and the operation gets run end to end before we leave. Motorized units get their travel limits set and their remote or hub paired on site. Then we point at the batteries, because Hunter Douglas puts PowerView life at roughly one year: twenty motorized openings means twenty annual chores. Packaging goes out with us.
What we see most often on Lebanon window treatments
Lebanon homeowners typically call us about these scenarios.
A New Build With Every Opening Bare
Moving into a new Lebanon 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.
A Stain Along The Hembar
On a cold Lebanon morning, indoor moisture settles on the glass and an inside mounted shade sitting tight against it wicks that up. Over a few winters it leaves a visible line across the hembar. It's a mounting and fabric question, and it's entirely preventable if somebody raises it before the order.
A Nursery That Became A Bedroom
The blackout that suited a baby now blocks the light a nine year old wants for reading. Rooms change function and the treatment can usually keep up by adding a top-down feature or a second layer rather than starting over. It is a small job that people delay for years.
Glare On A Home Office Monitor
Since a lot of Lebanon work happens at a desk at home, the afternoon sun landing across a screen has become a common reason to call. The answer is usually a darker solar shade at a lower openness rather than a room darkening fabric, because you want to keep working with the shade down rather than sitting in a cave.
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.
Storefront Glare On The Square
A shop or an office facing the afternoon sun on the Lebanon square, with merchandise fading in the display and staff squinting at screens. Commercial fabrics with a flame rating and hardware that survives constant use are a different specification from a living room, and getting a residential product sold into that space means replacing it far too soon.
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 Lebanon 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.
Reviews Written a Year Later in Lebanon
4.8 stars across 497+ Google reviews for The Window Valet, who runs this service.
"Whole process went very smooth. Salesperson Justin was very knowledgeable and nice. Installer Leo was quick and efficient. Everyone was very professional and helpful. Price was about what we expected. Products seem well made so far and work as expected. Installers Handy and Eric even came back out after we had internet to set that up and show us how to use the app."
"This is the second home we have used Window Valet. Owner Josh is a trusted, honest businessman and ensures customer satisfaction. His staff is very professional, pleasant and you can depend on an answer to any question. Salesperson Erica was very helpful and knowledgeable of their product and our needs. Installer Handy, very knowledgeable of product and ensures you fully understand use of product. He was very respectful of our home, removed shoes, thoroughly cleaned up after installation."
"Justin was very thorough in explaining the options that would work for my unusually large sliding glass doors. He was patient and really listened and answered all my questions. So professional from start to finish!"
"Tre was awesome. The day he was scheduled to install was the day we were moving and he worked methodically through the house and was a real pro with programming and teaching and left no mess behind. It has been a month since the install, 11 windows, 5 motorized, and we love them. No issues. My advice to everyone: good shades and service require precise measurements and time to manufacture. If you go this route, start the process 8 to 12 weeks ahead of the time you want installation."
Questions About Fabric and Fit in Lebanon
Straight answers to the questions Lebanon homeowners ask most.
Indiana Weather Affects Window Treatments Year Round
Indiana sees some of the most varied weather in the country. Lebanon 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.
The square has a west face
Lebanon has a true four sided courthouse square around the 1909-1911 Boone County Courthouse, so one full commercial face takes direct west sun onto its storefront glass every afternoon and the face opposite it never does. No Lebanon subdivision splits that cleanly. With the Downtown DORA District programming street level trade on those blocks, exterior shade and retractable awnings become a live commercial question there, at a national installed range of $1,000 to $6,000.
Open fairway, low angle sun
Ulen and Elmwood are both golf course settings, which creates one specific condition: a rear or side elevation facing open mown ground with no fence line and no neighboring structure to break low angle sun. Solar shades are the usual answer and openness factor is the dial. One percent holds back the most glare and gives up the view. Ten percent keeps the fairway readable and gives back some glare. Most people settle at 3 or 5 percent.
Cellular shades work both seasons
The measured figures come from DOE and Oak Ridge National Laboratory: against a bare window, cellular shades saved up to 20 percent of heating energy, and up to 15 percent of total heating and cooling energy. Zone 5A collects on both. Across the 3,253 Lebanon units dating from 1940 to 1979, where openings run wide and glass area is generous for the era, a cellular is often the one product that earns its price. Ask us to restate that in dollars and we'll decline, because no honest conversion exists.
Humidity moves hardwood
Between May 25 and September 22 the air here stays muggy, and hardwood registers every week of it. In a 1950s Lebanon Cape Cod, where the bath is small and the kitchen window sits directly over the sink, hardwood slats can cup and the tilt goes uneven across the ladder string. Composite shutters and faux wood blinds hold their shape in those rooms. Save hardwood for dry front rooms, which in a Ulen Colonial Revival house is exactly where you want it anyway.
Choosing the Right Treatment for Lebanon 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 Lebanon 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 Lebanon 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 Lebanon 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 Lebanon 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 Lebanon
Quick reference for the products we specify most often in these homes. Pricing reflects typical Lebanon installations.
Typical Lebanon market ranges as of 2026. The plus sign on upper numbers means your project may exceed the listed maximum based on inspection findings. Get a written scope and quote at no cost.
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