Custom Blinds & Shades in Knightdale, NC

Knightdale Station is the anchor development, a master-planned community named for the town history as a railroad stop and built around a 76-acre municipal park. The homes there are current construction with a strong front-porch, neo-traditional design language, and many of them put a window directly onto that porch. Porch roofs cut the direct sun, so glare is not the issue in those rooms. Privacy is, because people walk past six feet away. Top-down bottom-up cellular is the right answer there more often than not: daylight over the top, a solid screen at eye level.

The older stock along Hodge Road and the streets closest to the original town center includes a number of true farmhouse-era homes. Tall windows, wide casing, and in some cases nine-foot ceilings on the main floor. Long drops are where cheap hardware announces itself. A chain lift on a 90-inch shade will bind inside two years. We put a heavier-duty clutch on anything in that range rather than running the standard component.

The newer builds pushing east along 64 toward Wendell are production homes with a common feature worth planning for: a two-story family room with a stacked window arrangement, a large lower unit and a fixed transom above. The transom is what people skip at first and call about later, usually in August. If you are treating that room at all, treat it as one system so the fabric matches. Ordering the top unit two years later almost never matches the dye lot.