Custom Shutters, Shades & Blinds in Boise, ID

Window coverings built for Boise homes

From the North End’s historic bungalows to the newer builds going up in Harris Ranch and along the Boise Bench, our team measures, quotes, and installs every job. Boise’s mix of century-old homes and custom new construction means every window is a little different, which is exactly the kind of job we do best.

What we install in Boise

The North End is a different trade than the rest of the valley.

The North End went up between the 1890s and the 1950s — brick and sandstone, bungalows and Tudors, Queen Annes along Harrison Boulevard. Harrison was listed on the National Register in 1980 and made a local historic district in 1989, and most of the North End now sits inside a Boise historic preservation district.

Practically, that means three things. The openings are rarely square after a century of settling, so every one gets measured individually and no two in the same house are assumed to match. The jambs are often shallow or trimmed in a way that rules out a standard inside mount. And because what shows from the street matters in a historic district, we pay attention to how a covering reads from the sidewalk, not just from the sofa.

It is slower work and it is the work we like. A kit-era double-hung with original trim deserves better than something cut to a stock size.

The Bench, the Highlands and the post-war ranches.

Boise pushed north into the foothills after the war — Boise Heights in 1953, The Highlands in 1955 — and out across the Bench through the HP and Micron years in the seventies and eighties. These are ranch homes with modest, consistent openings and, very often, the original aluminum or early vinyl windows still in place.

The usual job here is replacing whatever has been on the window since the eighties. Horizontal blinds that have yellowed, or nothing at all in the rooms nobody uses. Faux wood blinds and cellular shades both do well in these houses, and cellular earns its keep in winter on a single-pane window that is never going to be replaced.

Foothills and Southeast Boise: the view is the whole point.

Newer foothills and Southeast Boise homes were built around their views, which means tall glass, a lot of it, and usually facing the wrong direction for comfort. Covering a view window is a balancing act — you bought the window for a reason.

Solar shades are usually the answer. They cut heat and glare and keep the view, which a blackout or a shutter cannot do. Top-down/bottom-up gives you privacy at eye level with daylight above it. And on a window twelve or fifteen feet up, motorization is not a luxury — it is the only way anyone will ever actually use it.

Southeast Boise is being rebuilt around a chip factory, right now

Micron has been a Boise employer since the seventies, which is how most of us still picture it. That picture is badly out of date. Micron is headquartered here, and it is in the middle of a roughly $50 billion buildout in southeast Boise.

Two fabrication plants are under construction at the southeast Boise site, each a project on the order of $25 billion. Construction of the first was due to finish in 2026, with the first chips expected in 2027. Micron estimates the investment adds about 17,000 jobs across Idaho, including roughly 3,500 direct hires. And in August 2026 the company announced a further $10 billion research campus in Boise, with groundbreaking expected in 2027 and the site not yet chosen.

Whatever else that is, for our trade it means one thing: thousands of households arriving in this city over a handful of years, most of them buying or building on this side of town.

The other draw on that same corner is the water. Lucky Peak sits just up Highway 21 — 2,820 surface acres holding 307,000 acre-feet, created when the Army Corps of Engineers finished Lucky Peak Dam in 1955. It is deep rather than wide, which is why it holds so much water for its footprint, and it is the closest big water to downtown. Jobs on one side of the highway and a reservoir on the other is most of the reason southeast Boise keeps filling up.

What a relocation job actually looks like

This is the part of Boise work that is genuinely different from anywhere else we go, and it has nothing to do with the houses.

A large share of these buyers are moving from out of state, and many of them close on a house they have barely stood in. They are managing it from somewhere else, they want the windows done before the furniture arrives, and they are covering a whole house at once rather than a room at a time.

Three things matter when that is the job. We cannot measure before closing — not accurately, and not with the builder's trim still going in. Order to install runs four to eight weeks, so the measuring appointment wants to happen as close to possession as you can manage, not after you have moved in and discovered which rooms you cannot live in. And a whole house at once is a budget and sequence conversation, not just a product one: we are happy to stage it, starting with the rooms where privacy or heat is an actual problem, and we will say so rather than quoting everything and hoping.

One more, for the fab itself: a chip plant runs around the clock. If someone in the house is on a rotating shift and sleeping through the afternoon, say so when we measure — that one bedroom needs a blackout fabric fitted to kill the light at the edges, and it changes the recommendation in that room and nowhere else.