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Compare Options in Your Home
Review samples beside your flooring, paint, furnishings, and natural light. Discuss privacy, glare, views, room use, and how you want each treatment to operate.
Blinds, Shades, Shutters, Drapery and Motorization
Custom Window Treatments in Boulder, Colorado
Howard's Draperies helps homeowners in Boulder, Colorado choose custom blinds, shades, shutters, drapery, motorized window coverings, and other made-to-fit treatments for privacy, daylight, glare, views, and everyday comfort.
An in-home consultation lets you compare materials, colors, opacities, operating systems, and installation details beside the windows they need to fit. The goal is not simply to pick a product. It is to find the right combination of appearance, function, and operation for each room.
Custom window treatments since 1976
Window Treatments Designed Around Your Home
A treatment that works well in a bright living room may not be the best choice for a bedroom, bath, office, or wide glass door. Howard's Draperies starts with the room, the window, and the way you want to use the space, then narrows the product options.
1976Established
3Step Process
HDHunter Douglas
Blinds, shades, drapery, shutters, exterior shades
How to Compare Blinds, Shades, Shutters, and Drapery
Begin with the result you need most, then compare the products that can deliver it. A single room may need view preservation during the day, privacy at night, glare management at a screen, or a softer decorative layer.
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Custom Blinds
Blinds provide adjustable slat control for privacy and daylight. Compare real wood, alternative wood, soft fabric, vertical, and panel-style options based on exposure, humidity, window scale, and the look you want.
View products 02Custom Shades
Shades offer a wide range of fabric and construction choices, including roller, screen, cellular, Roman, woven, sheer, layered, and large-opening styles. Opacity, view, privacy, and room-darkening performance depend on the selected material and configuration.
View products 03Custom Drapery
Custom drapery, window top treatments, cornices, fabrics, and hardware can soften a room, frame a view, or add another layer of privacy and light control. Fabric, lining, fullness, stack, and hardware should be planned together.
View products 04Custom Shutters
Shutters add architectural structure with adjustable louvers, custom frames, and material choices for different rooms. Frame depth, louver clearance, humidity, finish, and expected light gaps should all be reviewed before ordering.
View products 05Motorized Window Coverings
Motorized window coverings can make tall, wide, hard-to-reach, or frequently adjusted windows easier to manage. Howard's Draperies also offers exterior shades and commercial blinds and shades, with product and installation details selected for the opening and application.
View products 06Exterior Shades
Exterior shades for patios, decks, and sun-facing windows, selected around exposure, mounting, glare, view, and operation.
View products 07Drapery Hardware
Decorative and functional drapery hardware selected to complement custom fabrics, window scale, and room finishes.
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Fabric, shade, shutter, and hardware details selected for Boulder, Colorado homes.
Product details and architectural fit
Window Treatment Guidance for Boulder, Colorado Homes
Howard's Draperies serves Boulder, Colorado and nearby communities with in-home product guidance, measurement, and installation. Start with the windows that create the biggest privacy, glare, view, or operation challenge, then decide whether one room or a coordinated group of rooms should be addressed first.
Motorized privacy and light control
Boulder, Colorado in-home consultation
Consultation to installation
From In-Home Consultation to Professional Installation
Custom window treatments perform best when product selection, measurement, and installation are treated as one connected process.
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Measure the Details That Affect Fit
Accurate measurements should account for mounting depth, trim, handles, window shape, panel movement, stack, charging access, and other details that can affect fit or operation.
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Complete the Installation
Professional installation helps align the treatment, hardware, controls, and operating clearances with the final measured plan. Product-specific care and operation can then be reviewed in the room.
Window treatment installation
Motorized window coverings
Motorized Shades for Everyday Convenience
Motorized shades can simplify light and privacy control across tall, hard-to-reach, wide, or frequently adjusted windows. Howard's helps you choose the treatment first, then confirms which motor, control, power, and automation options are available for that exact configuration.
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In-home consultation
Find the Right Window Treatments for Your Boulder, Colorado Home
Start with an in-home consultation to compare products, materials, operating options, and installation details beside the windows they need to fit.
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Planning your project
Guidance for Boulder, Colorado homeowners
Start with the rooms where privacy, glare, views, or daily operation matter most. Different windows can call for different treatment types.
Plan by Room and Priority
Project ScopeReview fabric, wood, alternative wood, shutter, and hardware samples beside your flooring, paint, furnishings, and natural light.
Compare Materials at Home
MaterialsDiscuss daytime view, nighttime privacy, glare, room-darkening expectations, and edge light before selecting a product or fabric.
Set Light and Privacy Goals
Light ControlCompare manual and compatible motorized options based on window access, frequency of use, controls, power, and the selected configuration.
Choose How Treatments Operate
OperationAccount for trim, handles, mounting depth, panel movement, stack, floor clearance, charging access, and nearby furnishings.
Measure Fit and Clearance
MeasurementReview hardware, mounting conditions, operating clearances, and professional installation requirements as part of the final plan.
Confirm Installation Details
Installation