Orchard-country acreage, a house in town, or a brand-new build on the northeast side — we come out to Emmett, and the in-home estimate is free. We answer the phone and we do the measuring ourselves.
That is worth stating first, because it explains everything else on this page.
Emmett is the seat of Gem County, population 7,647, sitting in its own valley on the Payette River about forty minutes from Boise over Freezeout Hill. It is quieter. There is more room. The traffic is somebody else’s problem.
People do not end up in Emmett by accident — they choose it, and they choose it for the pace. That shapes what they want at the window: rooms that feel settled and finished rather than showroom-styled, and a company willing to drive out rather than one that treats the county line as the edge of the world.
The State Highway 16 corridor is under construction, and when it is finished it will run as a divided expressway from Emmett’s end of the valley down to Interstate 84.
What that means in practice: Emmett, Middleton and Star stop being "out there." The Idaho Transportation Department says the corridor is on track to open in 2027, with interchanges at SH-44, US-20/26, Ustick and Franklin, and the big system interchange at I-84 already going up — girders and flyover ramps are in place.
We mention it on a window-coverings page for one honest reason: it is going to bring houses. A corridor like that pulls new construction along it, and new construction means a lot of bare windows in Gem County over the next few years. We would rather be the company that was already driving out here than the one that shows up when the subdivisions do.
Highway schedules move. ITD’s date is 2027; nobody should plan around a month.
Emmett started as a ferry crossing. Nathaniel Martin built the ferry over the Payette, and the place was called Martinsville, then Emmettville, then finally Emmett. It was platted in 1883, incorporated in 1900, and the railroad arrived in March 1902.
Then it became fruit country. Packers sold the valley as the "Gem of Plenty," and the orchards are still the first thing you see driving in.
What the orchards became, besides fruit, is a festival. The Emmett Cherry Festival ran its 91st year recently, and an organizer put the crowd at "about 50,000 people now." A town of 7,647 hosting fifty thousand visitors is not a small-town event — it is one of the longest-running community festivals in Idaho, and it says something about the place that has nothing to do with blinds and everything to do with why people live there.
East of town, the Black Canyon diversion dam — built in the early 1920s — holds back Black Canyon Reservoir. That is the water everybody goes to in July: water skiing, wakeboarding, boats on the water all summer. For a valley people move to for the quiet, there is a surprising amount going on out there on a Saturday.
For the record, the local economy took a real hit when the Boise Cascade plant closed in 2001. The valley rebuilt around farming, the county seat, and increasingly around people who work elsewhere and live here on purpose.
Made in the USA as standard. Imported shutters are also available if you’d like a second price option.
Including zebra shades, honeycomb shades, and Roman shades — cordless options available for kids and pets.
Wood, faux wood, and aluminum options fitted to your exact windows.
For patios and covered porches.
Emmett’s housing runs in two directions at once.
The older half is in-town houses and farm and orchard properties, some of them a century old. What we find in them: aluminum window frames, a lot of original older windows, and some genuinely old wood blinds. Aluminum conducts heat straight through, so those frames are cold to the touch in February and usually the first place condensation shows — an insulating covering does real work on a window like that. And older houses have settled, so the openings are rarely square and almost never standard. That is exactly why we measure every window ourselves instead of working from a plan or a photograph.
The newer half is going up on the northeast side of town, and it is a different job entirely — larger windows, taller great-room glass, sliding patio doors, and nothing yet hanging anywhere. New-home builders active in Emmett include CBH Homes, Agile Homes and Renegade Homes, and we fit custom window coverings to any of their floor plans. We have installed blinds for CBH Homes homeowners.
One approach does not serve both of those houses, and we do not pretend otherwise.
Out in the towns beyond the valley the work runs mostly to faux wood blinds, roller shades and Roman shades, and Emmett is no exception. Exterior sun shades suit a covered porch or a west-facing patio, which in this valley in July is not a luxury.
Faux wood takes heat and dry air without the warping real wood can show. Roller shades in a solar fabric cut glare and heat without closing the room off — useful when what is out the window is an orchard or the river rather than a neighbor’s siding. Roman shades soften a room. Cellular shades trap air in their pockets, the same principle a double-pane window uses, which matters on a cold valley morning.
Shutters look beautiful in an Emmett home, century-old farmhouse or brand-new build, and choosing them is a matter of personal style — not of what kind of house you own.
We have worked in Emmett, and we make the drive gladly.
Troy and Angela answer the phone. The two of us do the measuring ourselves — not a measuring service, not an app, not an estimate off photographs. Our team measures, quotes and installs every job, and you deal with the same two people from the first call to the last bracket.
The driving is not something we put up with. It is how we have built relationships with the people we work for. Going the extra mile is the job.
And there is never a charge for the estimate. Not in Emmett, not anywhere else we go.
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Between us, thirty years in the Treasure Valley — and the two of us measure every window in Emmett ourselves, every time. We’re not a franchise, and Angela can build a plantation shutter start to finish.
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Tell us which rooms you’re covering and we’ll bring samples, measure, and put a real number in front of you. Free, and no pressure. Prefer to talk? Call or text 208.755.8583.
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From an orchard-country property to a home in town, we’ll come out to Emmett for your free estimate.
