Custom Blinds for Homes in Rehoboth, MA

Old Windows, Open Country

Rehoboth’s older houses were built with small windows set deep into thick walls, and that is the starting point for custom blinds in Rehoboth, MA. The antique colonials and farmhouses along Winthrop Street and the main roads through town sit on large lots, often with wide sills you could set a lamp on and frames that have moved a little over two centuries of seasons. No ready-made blind is sized for them.

The other half of the picture is the land around the house. Many of these homes sit in open fields or beside farmland with no near neighbours, so the windows look out on nothing but sky and pasture. That changes the job a blind does. It is less about screening the house next door and more about managing broad, open light, and about privacy after dark, when a lit room can be seen from a long way off. The newer colonial subdivisions off Bay State Road are different again, with regular windows and closer neighbours.

• Wood, faux wood, aluminium and vertical blinds
• Each window measured in your home, sill and reveal included
• Fitted by our own team from the Swansea store

Materials and Controls to Choose From

Wood

A real wood slat with natural grain. It sits comfortably in an antique room alongside wide pine floors and painted panelling.

Faux wood

The look of painted wood in a slat that copes with moisture. Right for kitchens, mudrooms and bathrooms, old house or new.

Aluminium

A slim slat with a small stack, which keeps more of a small antique window clear when the blind is raised.

Vertical

Vanes on a single track for sliders and wide glass, common in the family rooms and additions of the newer colonials.

Tilt and lift

You choose how each blind raises and how its slats tilt, and which side the controls sit on, so every window is easy to work.

Mounted to suit the frame

Inside the deep reveal where the depth allows, or on the trim where it does not. We measure each opening to decide.

Custom Blinds in Rehoboth, MA for Light and Privacy

A blind in an open setting has two jobs that pull in different directions. By day, you want the view across the fields and as much of the daylight as the small old windows can bring in. At night, you want the room closed off, because a lamp-lit window in a dark landscape is visible from the road and from far across the land.

Horizontal blinds handle that well. Raised, a blind with a slim stack leaves almost the whole window open. Lowered with the slats tilted, it softens the light without shutting out the day. Closed, it gives full privacy in the evening. All three settings are a quick turn of the wand or pull of the cord.

Broad light from every side

A farmhouse on an open lot often gets sun from three or four directions in the course of a day, with nothing around it to cast shade. A kitchen facing east can be flooded with low morning sun; a sitting room facing west takes the full afternoon. In summer, that light brings heat into rooms that were never built with it in mind.

We plan each side of the house for the light it gets. On the sunniest windows, a wood or faux wood slat blocks more light when closed than a thin metal one, and tilting the slats upward sends the light to the ceiling instead of across the floor. On the shadier side, a lighter colour and a slat that tilts fully open keep the room as bright as possible. A home office benefits from slats angled to keep glare off a screen.

Small, deep-set antique windows

The windows in Rehoboth’s antique colonials and farmhouses are small by modern standards, often six-over-six sash in a frame set deep into the wall, with a wide sill inside. That depth is a gift for an inside mount: the blind fits within the reveal, the sill stays usable and the old trim remains on show.

The catch with old frames is that they are rarely square. Over many years, a frame can lean or taper, so the top of the opening may measure differently from the bottom. We measure at several points across each window and size the blind to fit the narrowest, so it raises and lowers freely without catching. Where a frame is badly out of true, an outside mount on the trim can hide the difference.

Because the windows are small, the stack matters. When a blind is raised, its slats gather at the top of the window. On a short antique sash, a deep stack can cover a fair share of the glass. A slimmer slat, in aluminium or a narrow wood, stacks smaller and keeps the most daylight coming in. Wood remains a natural choice for these rooms, and a stain close to the floorboards or the beams ties the blind into the house.

Wide sills and what sits on them

A wide sill is one of the pleasures of an old house, and people use them: plants, a row of books, a display of old glass. An inside-mounted blind needs to clear whatever lives on the sill, or it will rest on top of it when lowered. We ask about this on the visit, and if you want to keep using the sill, we can set the blind to stop just above it or mount it so it hangs in front.

Older houses can also have shutters, storm windows or interior panels already in place. We check how a blind will sit alongside them, so the new blind and the old features work together.

The newer colonials off Bay State Road

The colonial subdivisions off Bay State Road are a different kind of house to fit. Windows are larger and more regular, rooms are bigger, and the houses sit closer together than the farms along the old roads. Privacy from the neighbours becomes part of the brief, especially in rooms facing the house next door.

Here, custom blinds in Rehoboth, MA tend to follow the room. Wood in the living and dining rooms, faux wood in the kitchen and bathrooms, and a vertical blind on the slider to the deck. A matching colour on every front window keeps the house looking even from the street. Family rooms in these homes often have a wide window or a pair of windows, and the headrails are set to the same height so they read as one.

What Happens After You Call

Ordering is simple, and nobody leaves you guessing about where things stand: we stay in touch from the first conversation to the last blind.

1. Ask for a free quote, through the call button or the form, and give us a rough idea of the house: antique, newer colonial, or a bit of both.
2. One of our specialists comes out and takes the measurements room by room, several per window on an old frame, with a note of every sill, storm window and latch.
3. Samples come with us, so you can hold each slat up in your own light. If you would rather browse, the Swansea showroom has them all.
4. A written quote follows, window by window.
5. Once you say yes, the blinds are made from those measurements.
6. Installation day: our team hangs every blind, runs each one up and down, and leaves you knowing how the controls work.
7. Should anything need a second look later on, ring the store that did the work.

Choosing slat size and colour for an older house

In an antique room, the blind should feel as if it belongs. A narrower slat looks in proportion with small panes of glass, and a stained wood that matches the floor or the beams sits quietly in the room. In a farmhouse kitchen painted in a soft colour, a white or off-white faux wood blends with the trim. In the newer colonials, a wider slat gives a more open view between the slats on larger windows.

Light colours make the most of small windows. Darker tones look rich in a dining room or study, but they absorb more of the light that does come in, so we suggest them where a room has light to spare. The easiest way to decide is to hold samples up at the window itself, in the light that room gets.

Upstairs under the eaves

The second floor of an antique farmhouse or a cape-style colonial often tucks under the roof. Bedrooms there have low knee walls, sloping ceilings and small windows set into the gable ends or into dormers, sometimes just a pair of windows for the whole room. Those windows are the only daylight the room gets, and in summer the sun on the roof makes the space warm.

A blind for one of these rooms has to fit a small, deep opening and keep as much glass clear as possible when raised. A compact headrail and a slim slat leave the window open in the day. Closed at night, the slats keep the room dark, which helps on a summer morning when the sun is up early over the fields. In the hottest rooms, closing the blinds on the sunny gable through the afternoon keeps some of the heat out.

Dormers bring a tight space on each side of the window, so we keep the controls short and on the side you can reach. On the gable windows, where the floor may slope or a bed sits close by, we place the controls where they will not tangle with the furniture.

How the house looks from the road

An antique house on a big lot is seen from a distance, often across a lawn or a field, and its windows read as a pattern on the front of the building. When the blinds behind them are mismatched, some white, some wood, some raised and some half down, the pattern breaks. That is why we usually suggest choosing custom blinds in Rehoboth, MA for the front of the house as one decision: the same colour, the same slat and the same mounting on every window that faces the road.

Behind that front, each room can still have what suits it. A front bathroom can take faux wood while the parlour next to it has real wood, and from the road they look like one choice as long as the colour matches. Many antique houses have painted trim in a strong colour or a classic white, and a white or soft neutral blind sits well behind both.

The same thinking helps on the newer colonials, where the front windows are larger and closer to the street. A tidy, even set of blinds across the front gives the house a finished look from the first day.

Mudrooms, back halls and additions

Many Rehoboth houses have grown over the years, with a mudroom, a back hall, a sunroom or a family room added to the original house. Those additions often have newer windows of a different size from the old house next to them, sometimes in the same room. We measure each one on its own terms, then match the colour and slat across the room so the old and new windows look like a set.

A mudroom or back entry is a working space, with boots, wet coats and dogs coming in from the yard, so faux wood is the practical choice there. It handles damp and wipes clean.

Blinds alongside other treatments

A blind can do the light and privacy work while drapes in front bring colour and softness, and in a formal front room of an antique colonial that pairing often looks right. Window Works makes drapes and fabric decor as well as blinds, so the two can be planned together. For a deep-set window where you want softer light, a shade may suit better, and in a farmhouse kitchen shutters are worth a look. We will tell you honestly which treatment suits each window. You can see every service for the town on our window treatments for Rehoboth homes page, our vertical blinds in Rehoboth page covers sliders and wide glass, and the whole range is on our custom blinds page.

Care, and blinds you already have

Blinds ask very little. Run a soft duster along the slats when they look dull, which in a house beside open fields may be more often than in town. Faux wood and metal slats take a wipe with a damp cloth when the kitchen or mudroom calls for it; real wood prefers to stay dry. For a worn cord, a loose wand or a sticking headrail on an older blind, see our blind and shade repair in Rehoboth page.

Who You Are Dealing With

Since 1988, Window Works has been run by one family out of Swansea, and the second generation has the store today. That is over 37 years of fitting old houses and new ones throughout the SouthCoast and over the line into the Rhode Island East Bay.

• Window treatment specialists with long experience, rather than a sales desk
• We come to the house to measure, and our own installers do the fitting
• A plan for your house in particular, crooked frames and all
• Regular contact from us from the start until everything is finished
• Warranties offered on the products we supply

See and Handle the Samples

Before you order custom blinds in Rehoboth, MA, it can help to stand in front of the real thing. In our Swansea showroom, wood hangs next to faux wood and aluminium, so you can compare the weight, work the tilt and lift, and judge each colour by daylight. Norman blinds are on display there too.

A snapshot of the room on your phone and any rough window sizes you have taken give our team plenty to work with.

Visit the showroom

Let’s Talk About Your Windows

Whenever the time suits you, the next move is a free quote. Press the call button and talk to us in Swansea about a measuring visit to your home or about installation, or leave your details on the form for us to come back to you. Prefer to browse first? Directions to the showroom are on the contact page. Our Google rating stands at 5.0.