Houston Window Coverings

No window installation would be complete without a window covering. Finding the right window coverings for your home can be fun and challenging, and play an integral role in your interior decorating scheme. Blinds, curtains, shades, and drapes are the most common window coverings. For a high-performance window covering, interior shutters can offer their own kind of protection against tropical storms.

Houston Window Blinds
One of the biggest reasons window blinds are so popular is they're both a functional window covering (effectively controlling the amount of light that enters your home) and a beautiful way to decorate your window opening. While a no-nonsense horizontal window blind with a pull string works for many applications, window blinds have a ton of options to offer. Wood window blinds can be absolutely stunning and stained to create any wooden color and texture to match your interior decorating scheme. Alternately, your window blinds can be vinyl, metal, laminate, or upholstered.

Most homeowners know about vertical blinds, but finding exactly the right window hardware for your blinds is crucial to the success of your window covering. If you're installing blinds on a French door window, for example, you'll want to make sure you have the hardware to keep your blinds from banging on the door every time it's opened or closed.

Houston Window Curtains
Window curtains are soft, beautiful, and can block out sunlight better than nearly any other window covering. This makes them great for bedrooms, especially for late-risers who have east-facing bedroom windows. Window curtains also have a tremendous amount of versatility. Sheer curtains will add a decorative touch and sense of style to any room in your home. Customized window curtains are great for kids' rooms, where sports-themes and other pop culture icons abound. One of the few drawbacks to window curtains is that they tend to be bulkier and collect dust, which will require periodic maintenance.

Houston Window Shades and Drapes
Window shades and drapes are great window coverings for what they are. Window shades can offer high-performance and customized control of sunlight. Some window shades, for example, can block UV radiation while still permitting a good amount of sunlight to illuminate your home. Besides the obvious benefits of such control, reducing your carpet's exposure to direct sunlight will probably prolong its lifetime.

Drapes are easy to install and maintain, and can do wonders for the appearance of your window opening. Often these two window coverings are used in conjunction with one another to create a fabulous overall window dressing.

Cost of Houston Window Coverings
While the average total cost of a Houston window covering project is around $750, your project will probably be significantly cheaper than this if you're focusing on one window and significantly more expensive if you're making over all the windows in your home. Figure somewhere between $100-$600 per window covering (depending on your taste). There's a good chance, though, that a Houston window professional will offer you some kind of discount for multiple-window installations. Our data also suggests that there's not a significant difference between the cost of an average window blind installation and the average window curtain installation.

Project Length of Houston Window Covering Installations
The biggest mistake you can make is to seek out a manufacturer or brand name to find your window covering and, then, as an afterthought, inquire about installation. Talking to a Houston window covering installation professional first will allow you to hear an unbiased opinion about your home windows and make the best decision for the best price.

In fact, here's what one Galveston homeowner told us about his window covering project: "Stay away from the department store professionals. This professional was able to complete the necessary work required and the cost was less than half that of a bid submitted by a department store professional. When you are informed, you are less likely to be talked into something you don't want or need."