How much did you pay for all the shades/blinds/shutter/drapery in your house?

[Anonymous]

How much did you pay for ALL of the shades/blinds/shutter/drapery in your entire house? I need help budgeting, please give me some ball park numbers and the type of shades you used.

Let's say you have a brand new 5000 sqft house with lots of big windows, what price range is reasonable to cover up all the windows with some roller shades, some honeycomb shades, some shutters, and some draperies? I am just looking for a price range from low end to high end.

TIA!!

[Anonymous]

Easily $20-30K, when you combine shades/blinds, drapes for the rooms with custom drapes, and curtains/rods for other rooms. Its an enormous expense that you don't factor in when building a house. We paid about $800-1000 per window where we have the nicest blinds and about $500 per window for the "regular" ones, that's in the living room, dining room, master bedroom, etc. (Windows in other bedrooms luckily are a smaller/standard size and they have $50 honeycombs from Home Depot, but we still had to buy curtains, rods, etc. to go over them which probably totaled another $1000).

Start with honeycombs on the biggest/north-facing windows and honeycombs or blackouts in the bedrooms and west/south windows--they will make the biggest difference in comfort and energy costs right away. Then do curtains and drapes as you decorate.

[Anonymous]

$25K if you want shades and drapes, easily. More if you want expensive fabric, etc.

[Anonymous]

Not enough, apparently. Our honeycomb shades from Lowes look beautiful, but the mechanism to raise and lower them broke down on several of them within the first year. Should have gone with Hunter Douglas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Easily $20-30K, when you combine shades/blinds, drapes for the rooms with custom drapes, and curtains/rods for other rooms. Its an enormous expense that you don't factor in when building a house. We paid about $800-1000 per window where we have the nicest blinds and about $500 per window for the "regular" ones, that's in the living room, dining room, master bedroom, etc. (Windows in other bedrooms luckily are a smaller/standard size and they have $50 honeycombs from Home Depot, but we still had to buy curtains, rods, etc. to go over them which probably totaled another $1000).

Start with honeycombs on the biggest/north-facing windows and honeycombs or blackouts in the bedrooms and west/south windows--they will make the biggest difference in comfort and energy costs right away. Then do curtains and drapes as you decorate.

Thank you for replying! I like blinds, but DH doesn't want to use blinds at all, he wants shades (motorized), and draperies. I am worried that the price will be super high. I just want to know a ball park number so I can budget for it and not be shocked when I receive the invoice. Apparently vendors don't give out quotes? (too much work for them?!), which is why I am here asking strangers LOL.

[Anonymous]

OP here, without knowing how much it cost, and if money is no issue, we would like Hunter Douglas Motorized roller shades and duo roller shades, their double layered honeycomb shades in some rooms, and custom draperies in several rooms.

Has anyone done a similar selection? What's the total amount you spent?

[Anonymous]

If I had to ballpark I would say $1000/window. That assumes some beautiful drapes in the living and dining rooms, inexpensive shades in the extra rooms, and something in between for guest rooms.

I think what often happens is people buy these huge new houses and they don’t budget for decorating and they want window treatments right away, so they meet with some vendor and get like, gray honeycomb shades in every window.

If you’re building the house, wire every window for automation. Even if you don’t end up automating every window, it’s cheap to add wiring before you close up and prohibitively expensive/messy later. Although the batteries are fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, without knowing how much it cost, and if money is no issue, we would like Hunter Douglas Motorized roller shades and duo roller shades, their double layered honeycomb shades in some rooms, and custom draperies in several rooms.

Has anyone done a similar selection? What's the total amount you spent?

Budget $1000/window for the shades and $2k/ for the drapes, but that can go up quickly depending on the fabric.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I had to ballpark I would say $1000/window. That assumes some beautiful drapes in the living and dining rooms, inexpensive shades in the extra rooms, and something in between for guest rooms.

I think what often happens is people buy these huge new houses and they don’t budget for decorating and they want window treatments right away, so they meet with some vendor and get like, gray honeycomb shades in every window.

If you’re building the house, wire every window for automation. Even if you don’t end up automating every window, it’s cheap to add wiring before you close up and prohibitively expensive/messy later. Although the batteries are fine.

OP again, thank you, those are good points, we would like to hard wire them. We did (kind of) budget for window treatment, I'm on this forum a lot and have heard the horror stories of paying 20k for window treatments in one room (although I'm not sure that's possible), but now I am start looking at various options for different windows, I feel like I can't decide without knowing the cost, and a couple of vendors I called won't give me any straight answer - I mean I understand though, the cost will depend on the size of the window, fabric, etc.

What I really want to know is: those who've done whole house window treatment, how much did it cost? And what kinds of product did you select, with or without motorization?

[Anonymous]

At Ethan Allen, there was a (not very big window) with woven texture shades with 2 panels of curtains, I asked them how much would that particular window cost, and they told me it's about 3k. Yikes. For one window.

[Anonymous]

Go to something like blinds. com for the shades. (There are others, too.) You can put in exact measurements, get fabric selections. We did this and the blinds were great. I then felt better about spending the money for beautiful drapery, which definitely run in the 1000s.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like you're thinking of something very different, but for another perspective: We spent between $50-120 per window from places like blinds.com (measured and installed ourselves). So with 12 windows in our DC row house, that was roughly $1000.

I think you'll get a better sense by counting windows, then multiplying by cost per window. Others are going to have different number of windows and different costs per window.

[Anonymous]

I did three day blinds and it was about $16k for 15-20 windows, most are run by a motor.

[Anonymous]

If you are going to get drapery on some of your windows, check the orientation and sun exposure if they don’t have UV protection. My curtains started discoloring after 5 years (eastern exposure).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I had to ballpark I would say $1000/window. That assumes some beautiful drapes in the living and dining rooms, inexpensive shades in the extra rooms, and something in between for guest rooms.

I think what often happens is people buy these huge new houses and they don’t budget for decorating and they want window treatments right away, so they meet with some vendor and get like, gray honeycomb shades in every window.

If you’re building the house, wire every window for automation. Even if you don’t end up automating every window, it’s cheap to add wiring before you close up and prohibitively expensive/messy later. Although the batteries are fine.

OP again, thank you, those are good points, we would like to hard wire them. We did (kind of) budget for window treatment, I'm on this forum a lot and have heard the horror stories of paying 20k for window treatments in one room (although I'm not sure that's possible), but now I am start looking at various options for different windows, I feel like I can't decide without knowing the cost, and a couple of vendors I called won't give me any straight answer - I mean I understand though, the cost will depend on the size of the window, fabric, etc.

What I really want to know is: those who've done whole house window treatment, how much did it cost? And what kinds of product did you select, with or without motorization?

It’s very possible to spend $20k in a room, let’s say 3 large windows requiring 4 widths of fabric for pleated drapes, with 9ft ceilings so 12 yards per window, that’s 12 yards per window. So $550 per yard including the lining, interlining, hardware and labor.