Motorized Blinds and Shades in Taunton, MA

High Ceilings, Tall Windows

Downtown Taunton was built tall. The Victorians and triple-deckers around the Green and through Weir Village have high ceilings, and their windows run up to match: narrow, long and topped well above where most arms can reach. Motorized blinds in Taunton, MA bring the top of those windows within reach of a button, so a shade that once needed a step stool or a long pole can be raised and lowered from a remote or a switch by the door.

The rest of the city asks for something different. Across East Taunton, mid-century ranches have lower ceilings and broad living room windows, and off Bay Street the larger newer colonials bring two-storey entries and big family rooms. Each type has its own windows that suit a motor, and on the measuring visit we pick them out one by one.

• Remote, wall switch, or one of each
• Long drops for tall downtown windows
• Sized at the house and hung by our installers

What Taunton Windows Ask of a Motor

Tall Victorian sash

Long, slim windows in high-ceilinged parlours, where the top of a shade sits far above your reach.

Triple-decker bedrooms

Rooms on a busy street where privacy matters at night and a shade by the bed is easiest from a remote.

East Taunton picture windows

Broad ranch windows, where a single wide shade is heavy to haul up by hand.

Bay Street entries

Two-storey halls and stair windows in newer colonials, run from a switch at the bottom of the stairs.

Handheld remote

Keep it on the desk, the arm of the sofa or the nightstand and adjust the light without standing up.

Wall switch

Mounted beside the doorway, so a room’s shades move as you walk in or head out.

Motorized Blinds in Taunton, MA, House by House

Taunton’s housing falls into three broad groups, and each one changes how we plan motorized blinds in Taunton, MA homes. Below we take the downtown Victorians and triple-deckers first, then the East Taunton ranches, then the colonials off Bay Street, and finish with how an order runs.

Victorians near the Green

A Victorian near the Green tends to have the tallest windows in the city. The parlour and dining room windows may start near the floor and finish close to a ceiling far above head height, and the trim around them is often deep and decorated. With a hand-operated shade, the lift cord on a window like that is long, and raising the shade fully takes a lot of pulling. Many end up parked halfway, which blocks the top of the window where the best light comes in.

A powered shade solves both problems. It travels the full height of the window evenly, stops exactly where you set it, and there is no long cord hanging down the trim. Raised fully, it tucks up under the head casing and leaves the whole window clear. In a room with several tall windows side by side, the effect of bringing them all to the same height is calm and orderly, something that is very hard to achieve by hand.

The decorated trim deserves care. Where there is depth inside the frame, we fit the shade within it so the casing stays fully on show. Where there is not, the headrail sits above the casing and is sized to its width, so the proportions of the window are kept.

Triple-deckers through Weir Village

The triple-deckers in Weir Village and around downtown are built on narrow lots, close to the street and close to each other. Each floor is its own home, usually with tall windows at the front and back and a long hallway between. Privacy is a constant consideration: the front rooms look straight onto the street, and the side windows often face a neighbour’s wall a short way across.

Powered shades help in two places. The front bedroom or living room, where the shades need closing every evening as the lights go on, is easier when you can do it from a chair. And the back rooms, where the sun comes in through tall windows over a narrow yard, can be shaded in the afternoon without a round trip to each window. On any floor, we keep the installation tidy and fitted neatly to the existing frames.

Tall windows in a triple-decker also tend to sit behind radiators. Reaching across a hot radiator in winter to work a cord is unpleasant, and the bottom rail of a shade can rest on the radiator top. We note every radiator on the measuring visit and set each shade to stop clear of it.

Ranches across East Taunton

East Taunton’s mid-century ranches are lower and simpler. Ceilings are standard height, so reach is rarely the issue. Width is. The front living room usually has a broad picture window, and a single shade made to cover it is heavy to lift. The long cord hangs untidily beside it, and on a window that faces the street, the shade is lowered and raised every day.

A motor takes the weight out of that daily routine. The shade rises level from end to end and comes down square, and the window has no cord at all. Where the window is too wide for one shade, we make two or three that line up top and bottom, with the motorized ones and any hand-operated ones in the same fabric.

Ranch kitchens often have a window over the sink, behind a counter. That is another small but useful place for a powered shade, especially on a window that takes the evening sun.

Ranches are also where a household is most likely to start small. One powered shade on the picture window, matched to hand-operated shades in the bedrooms, is a modest order that changes how the main room feels every day. Because East Taunton ranches tend to share a similar layout, the front window, the kitchen window and the slider at the back are the three places we look at first.

Colonials off Bay Street

The larger newer colonials off Bay Street have the high windows of a different era: a two-storey entry hall with a window far above the door, a window on the stair landing, and sometimes a tall arched or half-round window over the main one. Those top windows are very often left bare, simply because nobody can reach them. The result is a hall that overheats on a sunny afternoon and a stairway that is lit up for the street to see at night.

Powering a shade on those windows means they can finally be dressed. A switch at the foot of the stairs, or at the top, lets you close the landing window on the way to bed. In the family room at the back, a long run of windows facing the yard can be shaded in the afternoon from the sofa, which keeps the glare off the television and the sun off the floors.

These colonials often have a big kitchen open to the family room, with a window over the sink and a slider to the deck. Keeping the fabric the same across the whole open space, and setting every powered shade to stop at one line, makes the back of the house read as a single room. Where a half-round or arched window sits above a main window, we look at it separately: some shapes suit a shade of their own, others are better left clear while the rectangular window below does the work.

Stair halls in the older houses

Many of the Victorians near the Green have a long staircase rising through the middle of the house, lit by a tall window on the landing. In the triple-deckers, the stairs run up the side or the back of the building, again with tall windows along the way. Those stair windows are the hardest of all to reach by hand: the landing is narrow, the window is high above the treads, and leaning out over the stairs to work a cord is not something anyone should do.

A powered shade on a stair window can be run from a switch on the landing itself, or at the bottom of the flight. It means the stairway can have privacy at night and some relief from the sun in summer, without the risk of stretching over a drop. It is one of the clearest cases in the city where a motor is more than a convenience.

Late sun on tall windows

A tall window lets in a lot of sun, and in summer, the rooms behind the west-facing ones can get uncomfortably warm by late afternoon. High ceilings help, but direct sun across a parlour floor still fades rugs and heats the room. The answer is simply to lower the shades before the sun arrives, which is the habit a tall, heavy shade on a long cord makes hard to keep. With motorized blinds in Taunton, MA houses, that becomes a press of a button at the right moment, so the room stays comfortable and the furnishings near the glass are protected. A light filtering fabric keeps the room usable while the shades are down.

Long drops and what they need

A tall window means a long shade, and a long shade needs the right fit. We measure the height carefully at more than one point, since old downtown frames are rarely perfectly square, and check the space above the glass where the headrail goes. On a very tall window, the shade’s weight and the way its fabric hangs both matter, so we talk through fabric choice with that in mind. A fabric that hangs flat and true over a long drop looks better in a high-ceilinged room than one that ripples.

Remote, switch or both

Pick the control to suit how the room is used. In a parlour or a living room where you sit for the evening, a handheld remote makes sense: it stays beside your chair, and the tall windows can be adjusted as the light changes. In a hallway, an entry or a stair landing, a switch on the wall is quicker, because it sits right where you walk past. Bedrooms often have one of each, so the shades can be closed from bed or from the doorway.

We ask how you use each room before suggesting a control, and we keep the number of controls sensible.

How We Handle a Taunton Order

From the first conversation to the day the shades are running, we stay in contact with you, and the order follows a clear path.

1. Booking comes first: the call button or the form sets up your free quote and tells us about the windows that are out of reach.
2. Our specialist measures every window in your home, checks each frame at more than one height and notes radiators, trim and the room above the glass.
3. We agree on the windows to power and the control for each room.
4. Fabric and colour are chosen next, ideally at the Swansea showroom, where long samples can be held up to the light.
5. The quote that follows lists each window and which are motorized.
6. Each shade is made to the measurements taken at the house.
7. Installation finishes with the stopping points set and a run-through of every remote and switch.

Choosing what goes on the window

A powered shade is still a window treatment first, so the fabric gets the attention it deserves. On a tall parlour window, a light filtering fabric keeps a high-ceilinged room bright by day while giving privacy from the street. In a bedroom, a room darkening fabric lets you sleep past early sunrise. In the ranches, a simple, clean fabric suits the plainer architecture. We help you choose, then add the motor to the windows that need it. Our cellular shades in Taunton page shows one range of fabrics to consider, and the window treatments for Taunton homes page lists everything we make for the city.

Cords out of the way

A powered shade has no lift cord. On a tall downtown window that would otherwise carry a very long one, that tidies the whole wall, and it removes a dangling loop from the reach of small children and pets. Our guide to cordless blinds and child safety covers the safety side in full.

Mixing powered and hand shades

Few Taunton houses need every window motorized. In a Victorian, the tall front windows might be powered while the smaller back bedrooms keep ordinary controls. In a colonial, the entry and landing might be powered and the rest left by hand. When the fabric, colour and lowered height match, nobody looking in from the street can tell which is which. If you add more powered shades later, we match them to the ones already hanging. The main motorized blinds page goes through powered styles in general.

Keeping them in order

Powered shades need little looking after. Dust the fabric lightly from time to time, and wipe only materials made to be wiped. Keep radiator tops, sills and the floor under each shade clear, so nothing stops it. Run a seldom-used shade, such as one on a high landing, fully up and down now and again so you catch any unevenness early. If a shade stops behaving, ring the store with the room and what it is doing.

Why Window Works

Window Works is a family store in Swansea, open since 1988 and now in its second generation. Its team has spent over 37 years fitting window treatments across the SouthCoast and the Rhode Island East Bay, Taunton among the towns it covers.

• Window treatment specialists, experienced with tall and older windows
• Every window measured at your house, and every shade installed by our team
• Warranties offered on what we sell
• In touch with you at each stage until the job is complete
• A showroom where long samples and controls can be tried in person

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Book Your Quote in Taunton

Start with a free quote. The call button puts you through to the Swansea store, where you can ask about motorized blinds in Taunton, MA, arrange measuring in your home and hear how installation works, or send the form and we will answer. If you would rather see the long samples and try the controls before anything is measured, the showroom is open to visit, and directions are on the contact page. Google reviewers give Window Works a 5.0 rating.