Farmhouse, acreage or a new custom build — we drive out to Parma and the in-home estimate is free. We answer the phone and we do the measuring ourselves.
Start here, because it tells you what kind of place this is.
Idaho has three operating drive-in movie theaters left. One of them is the Parma Motor-Vu, and the city describes it in its own words as "one of the few open-air drive-in theaters still operating in Idaho." It runs seasonally.
A town of 2,096 people that keeps a drive-in alive is not a town that is merely near things. It is a town people choose. That shows up in the housing, and it shows up in what people want their houses to feel like.
Parma sits in the far west of Canyon County, near where the Boise River empties into the Snake. The Snake is the state line there, with Nyssa, Oregon just across the water.
That geography is the reason the town exists and the reason people stay.
The river is recreation. Boating on the Snake is a real part of life here, and so is duck hunting — the river bottoms and the irrigated ground around them are good waterfowl country. The Parma Rod and Gun Club runs a sharpshooting contest each summer that the city says draws competitors from around the country.
And the river is history. Old Fort Boise Park holds a replica of the 1834 trading post that stood near the mouth of the Boise River on the Oregon Trail, with a museum — an old schoolroom, a cabin, relics, antique farm equipment — and statues including one of Marie Dorion. Fort tours run Friday through Sunday afternoons, June through August. Every June the town holds Old Fort Boise Days: parade, Lions Club breakfast, carnival, pageant, art exhibits and a vintage car show.
Parma is also the fourth-largest city in Canyon County and the largest in the county’s rural western portion — the center of gravity out here, not an outpost of somewhere else.
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.
Here is the number that should decide what goes on a Parma window.
The record high is 110°F, set on 12–13 July 2002. The record low is −35°F, set on Christmas Day 1924.
That is a 145-degree spread on the same panes of glass.
No normal year touches either extreme, but the shape of the climate is the point: genuinely hot, dry, bright summers and genuinely cold winters, in open country with few trees to break either one.
What that means in July. With wide-open fields and no shade, a west-facing room takes the full afternoon with nothing in the way. Rooms like that run hot by late afternoon and the floors and furniture in them fade faster than anywhere else in the house. A solar roller shade cuts the heat and glare while leaving the view of the fields; an exterior sun shade on a patio stops the heat before it ever reaches the glass.
What that means in January. Glass has almost no insulating value compared to the wall around it, so it is where the heat leaves. A cellular shade traps air in its pockets — the same principle a double-pane window uses — and that trapped air is the insulation.
A window covering out here is working on your power bill twice a year, in opposite directions. That is a more honest reason to buy one than fashion.
Parma’s housing is long-held farmhouses and newer homes on acreage, and new construction here is mostly custom and one-off rather than subdivision. We work directly with homeowners and their builders on those.
In the older houses we expect what we find throughout these towns: aluminum window frames, a lot of original older windows, and some genuinely old wood blinds.
An aluminum frame is effectively a heat pipe. Metal carries the outside temperature straight into the room, which is why those frames bite when you touch them in February and why they are where the house first sweats. That is the window where an insulating covering pays for itself soonest.
A settled house has no square openings left. Out here they settle on ground that rises and falls with the irrigation season, so what measured true the year it was built does not measure true now. There is no way to hang a covering well in an opening like that without measuring the opening — which is the part we do ourselves, never from a plan, a photo, or figures somebody else took.
And the wood blinds already hanging are usually finished. A century of open-country sun bows slats and makes cords brittle.
The work in these towns runs mostly to faux wood blinds, roller shades and Roman shades, plus cellular shades for the winter side of the problem and exterior sun shades for a west-facing porch, which in Parma in July is not a luxury item.
Faux wood takes heat and dry air without the warping real wood can show — a real consideration in a house that sees 100 degrees and single digits in the same year. Roller shades in a solar fabric cut glare without taking away the view across the fields. Roman shades bring some softness to a room with a lot of hard light in it.
Shutters look beautiful in a Parma home, century-old farmhouse or brand-new custom build, and choosing them is a matter of personal style — not of what kind of house you own.
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 a photograph. 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 Parma, 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 Parma ourselves, every time. We’re not a franchise, and Angela can build a plantation shutter start to finish.
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