Window Blinds Kanata: Motorized, Zebra and Roller Shades from Kanata North to Glen Cairn

West-End Window Know-How

How We Get to the West End Fast

Our Nepean showroom sits about 15 minutes away via Highway 417, so a measure out here is a short run for our team. We block out west-end appointments two days a week and keep a measurer on that side of the city on those days, which is why most bookings get a visit within 2 business days of the first call.

Install trucks leave Nepean early, take the 417 past the Canadian Tire Centre exit and are usually on your driveway by 8:30. For Kanata North Technology Park offices and home offices off March Road, we book installs outside meeting hours when you ask. Two-storey windows get the tall ladder kit and a two-person crew, so nobody is balancing on a kitchen chair.

Great Rooms and Teron-Era Homes We Know Well

Kanata Lakes and Kanata North are full of 2000s and 2010s executive homes with two-storey great rooms, transom windows and big south or west glass. Those are the windows where motorized shades earn their keep: a 16-foot-high window is not something you want to reach with a wand twice a day. We spec Hunter Douglas PowerView or hardwired Lutron Serena there and tie them into schedules so the shades drop before the afternoon sun hits the TV.

Bill Teron's planned community started with its first street, Tiffany Crescent, in 1964, and Beaverbrook and Katimavik-Hazeldean still have plenty of 1970s and 1980s split-levels with original aluminum sliders and dated vertical blinds. Those windows are often slightly out of square after 40-plus winters, so we measure all three widths (top, middle, bottom) and order to the smallest. Glen Cairn has a mix of both, plus a lot of young families who want everything cordless.

Our recent Lutron Serena residence here ran $12,500 for the main floor and took 4 weeks from measure to install, wired into the existing lighting scenes so the shades close at 6pm without anyone touching a button.

Afternoon Sun, January Cold and Your Blind Choice

West-facing Kanata Lakes windows take some of the hardest afternoon sun in the city because there is little tree cover in the newer phases, and July highs average 27°C. A 3% or 5% openness solar roller cuts the glare on screens while keeping the view of the pond or the street.

In January the same glass is a cold sink. A lot of clients here pair rollers in the living space with double-cell cellular shades in bedrooms, so they get glare control in summer and a warmer room on -25°C mornings.