Custom Shutters, Shades & Blinds in Star, ID

Window coverings built for Star homes

Star is one of the fastest-growing small cities in the Treasure Valley, with dozens of new subdivisions underway. Our team measures, quotes, and installs every job, whether it’s a new-construction home or one that’s been there for years.

What we install in Star

Almost everything here is new, and that makes it simple.

Star has gone from a farm town to one of the fastest-growing places in the Treasure Valley, with more than thirty subdivisions in some stage of building.

Practically everything is post-2000, and a lot of it is post-2020. That means square openings, deep jambs, consistent sizes, and vinyl or black-framed windows that take an inside mount cleanly. Measuring and installing in a new Star home is about as straightforward as this trade gets.

The builder’s blinds are not the finish line.

Most new homes here arrive with basic white faux-wood blinds on some windows and nothing on others — usually nothing on the great room, which is the window that actually needed something. The first July explains why.

If you are in a new build, there is no need to do the whole house at once. Most people start with the great room and the primary bedroom, live with it a season, and finish the rest later. We would rather do it that way with you than sell you twenty-two windows on move-in week.

Country lots, big glass, and no neighbors.

Star homes tend to sit on more ground than their Meridian equivalents, often with real views west and north. That changes the privacy math — on a half-acre lot with nobody overlooking you, the job is heat and glare, not privacy. Solar shades and cellular shades handle that. Save the heavier treatments for the bedrooms.

And if your neighbors have the same floor plan, odds are good we have already built for it.

The highway that is about to change what living in Star costs you

The State Highway 16 corridor is under construction, and when it is finished it will run as a divided expressway down to Interstate 84, with interchanges at SH-44, US-20/26, Ustick and Franklin. The Idaho Transportation Department says it is on track to open in 2027; the I-84 system interchange already has its girders and flyover ramps up.

For Star that is the single biggest thing on the horizon. A corridor like that shortens the commute and pulls new construction along it — and new construction means a great many bare windows over the next few years.

Highway schedules move. 2027 is ITD’s date, not a promise.

The schools tell the same story. Star sits in the Middleton district, whose elementary schools have been running as high as 150 percent of capacity. That is why Freedom Elementary broke ground here in September 2026, due to open in fall 2028 — a $19 million school built to relieve overcrowding. Nobody builds one of those for a town that is standing still.

What a brand-new Star house actually needs

The subdivisions going in share a window set that older houses simply do not have.

Great-room glass two stories tall. Beautiful, and out of reach. That is the most common reason a Star homeowner asks about motorization, and it is a better reason than convenience.

Sliding patio doors. A door is not a window: it opens dozens of times a day and needs a covering that stacks clear of the traffic path. The wrong product there irritates you daily.

West-facing rooms with nothing on the horizon. Open country, low July sun, no mature trees in the way — that room runs hot into the evening and its floors fade first. A solar roller shade or a cellular shade is the answer, not a color choice.

And a whole house of bare windows at once. That is a sequence conversation as much as a product one. We are glad to do a house in stages, starting with the rooms where privacy or heat is an actual problem, and we will say so rather than quoting everything and hoping.