River view, foothill view, or a farmhouse in town — we drive out to Marsing, and the in-home estimate is free. We answer the phone and we do the measuring ourselves.
Lizard Butte rises straight up out of the ground above Marsing, off Sunnyslope Road, with a large white cross on the summit. It is a historic site on the Oregon Trail — wagons came past it.
And every Easter since 1938, people have climbed it before dawn.
Ray and Marion Stafford of Marsing proposed the butte as the site after attending a sunrise service elsewhere. An association was formed that February, and the first service was held on 17 April 1938 — about a thousand people came. A wooden cross was raised for it. Vandals burned that cross roughly two years later, so it was rebuilt in reinforced concrete, and that is the cross you can see from the highway today. The service has run for close to ninety years.
Most small towns have a water tower. Marsing has a landmark that was a landmark before Idaho was a state, and a tradition older than almost anybody now living in the county.
It is also the reason the light here does something particular, which matters more at a window than it sounds. A butte on one side and the river on the other means reflected light: off rock in the afternoon, off water in the morning. Reflected light reaches parts of a room that direct sun never touches, and it is a real cause of fading in places people do not expect it — the back of a sofa, the underside of a sill, a ceiling.
Marsing sits at 2,267 feet directly on the Snake River, which forms the boundary with Canyon County. It is in Owyhee County, and it is the way most people enter it: State Highway 55 runs in from Nampa and US-95 is two miles west.
The population is 1,229, up from 1,031 in 2010 and just 643 in 1950 — nearly doubled in seventy years, which is steady, unspectacular, real growth rather than a boom.
Two things people here will tell you: it is a gateway to the Owyhees, and the sunsets over the river are the reason a lot of the newer houses point the way they do. The former NFL player Shea McClellin is from Marsing, which a town of this size is entitled to mention.
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.
A great many houses here were built or remodeled specifically to look at the river or the Owyhee foothills. Which creates the problem we spend most of our time solving in towns like this one:
You want the view and you do not want the glare, the heat or the fading. Those usually pull against each other. A covering heavy enough to stop an August afternoon also stops you seeing what you bought the house for.
What actually resolves it:
Solar roller shades. A woven fabric with an open weave — it cuts a large share of the heat and glare while you can still see through it. The view stays; the squint goes.
Top-down/bottom-up cellular shades. You lower the top instead of raising the bottom, so you keep the sky and the horizon and still have privacy at eye level. On a house visible from a road, that is the difference between living with the blinds shut and not.
Motorized shades. Not a gadget on a tall window. Great-room glass over a river view is often simply out of reach, and a motor is how it gets used daily instead of left alone.
And on the other side of the year, a cellular shade traps air in its pockets — the same principle a double-pane window uses — which is what you want when a big wall of glass is the coldest surface in the house on a January night.
Not every house here is a view house. Plenty are farmhouses and in-town houses with decades on them, and what we expect in those is what we find throughout these towns: aluminum window frames, a lot of original older windows, and some genuinely old wood blinds.
Aluminum frames behave like the outdoors. Metal moves heat, so those frames read cold under your hand all winter and collect the first condensation in the house. A covering that insulates is worth more on one of them than on a new window.
The openings will not be square. Houses settle over decades, and a blind cut to a stock size leaves a line of daylight down one side of an opening that has moved since. Measuring each window on its own is the only real fix, and that is why the measuring is ours to do rather than something lifted off a plan or a photograph.
Old wood blinds seldom survive this valley’s sun. Bowed slats, brittle cords — by then the decision is simply about what replaces them.
New construction in Marsing is mostly custom and one-off rather than subdivision, and we work directly with homeowners and their builders on those.
The work in these towns runs mostly to faux wood blinds, roller shades and Roman shades, with cellular shades for winter and exterior sun shades for a deck facing the river.
Faux wood handles heat and dry air without the warping real wood can show. Roller shades in a solar fabric are the workhorse on a view window. Roman shades soften a room full of hard light and hard surfaces.
Shutters look beautiful in a Marsing home, old or new, and choosing them is a matter of personal style — not of what kind of house you own. On a view window they offer something no shade does: louvers you can tilt to bounce the afternoon at the ceiling rather than into your eyes, with the glass still clear below.
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 Marsing, 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 Marsing ourselves, every time. We’re not a franchise, and Angela can build a plantation shutter start to finish.
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River view or in-town home, we’ll help you find the right fit.
