Southlake, TX Plantation Shutters, Motorized Shades & Custom Window Treatments
Window Treatments Sized For Southlake's Largest Floor Plans
From Carillon and Vaquero to the established estates off Carroll Avenue, Durrell measures, builds, and installs every plantation shutter, motorized shade, cellular shade, and exterior solar screen in Southlake personally. No subcontractors at the door, no scripts at the kitchen table, no handoff between the quote and the install day.
- In-Home Southlake Consultation
- Built For Southlake's Largest Floor Plans
- Owner-Operated by Durrell, Quote to Install
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Four Treatments For Southlake's Big Floor Plans
Southlake floor plans run larger than the rest of the Mid-Cities by a wide margin. A 1990s Carillon estate with a great room aimed at the western pasture. A 2024 Vaquero custom build with twenty-five foot foyer glass and a wall of windows in the primary suite. An Estates of Stone Creek two-story with a transom over a double front door. An older Carroll Avenue traditional with bay windows on three sides of the breakfast room. The four treatments below are what Durrell quotes most often on a Southlake consultation, and each one tracks back to a specific feature of how Southlake homes are built.
Motorized Shades for the Two-Story Foyer and Great-Room Walls of Glass
Most Southlake estates were drawn around a two-story foyer window and a great-room wall of glass that nobody operates with a wand. Carillon, Vaquero, and the Estates of Stone Creek plans all have variations on this. Motorized shades drop on a schedule, lift by remote, or run off a phrase to Alexa, Google Home, or HomeKit. Durrell pairs them to whatever smart-home hub you already have running and tests every motor on install day before he packs up.
Plantation Shutters For The Front-Of-House Rooms That Matter
Southlake buyers know what a real shutter looks like, and the realtors working Carillon, Vaquero, and the established Carroll Avenue estates will tell you the front-of-house rooms sell the house. Builder-grade two-inch faux blinds in the formal dining or the front study of a million-dollar Southlake estate knock perceived value off the listing before the buyer makes it past the foyer. Custom plantation shutters get sized to the actual frame, painted to match the trim, and read like the house has been finished, not flipped.
Cellular Shades For The Estate-Sized HVAC Load
Sixty to ninety windows on a 5,000-plus square foot footprint is a lot of glass for the AC to keep up with by August. Cellular shades pocket air against the glass and slow the radiant load before it crosses the thermostat. The HVAC stops short-cycling, the upstairs media room stops running hotter than the kitchen, and the August bill stops climbing every week. Durrell sizes each cell to your actual opening so the seal works the way the manufacturer engineered it.
Exterior Solar Screens For The Pool Deck and Outdoor Kitchen
Most Southlake estate lots run a third of an acre to a full acre, and that means a real backyard with a real pool deck, an outdoor kitchen, and usually a covered patio aimed west. Heavy-gauge exterior solar shades stop the heat at the screen, before it bakes the limestone and the stone fireplace. The view of the yard stays. The pool deck stays usable from June through September.
Meet Durrell
Durrell Glick owns and runs the DFW side of Love Is Blinds Texas. He handles every quote, every measure, and every install across Southlake himself. He has walked Carillon and Vaquero estates, Estates of Stone Creek customs, established Carroll Avenue traditionals, and new construction in the smaller infill subdivisions tucked between them. The consultation is Durrell at your kitchen table, not a salesperson with an iPad. The install is the same person who took the measurement. If a motor needs reprogrammed two months later, Durrell is the phone number you call.
Working All The Southlake Communities, Carillon to Vaquero
Southlake is not one neighborhood. The wall of glass in a Carillon estate, the formal dining of a Vaquero custom, the bay window on a 1990s Carroll Avenue traditional, and the breakfast-room slider on a newer Estates of Stone Creek two-story all get different answers. Durrell has measured each of those this season. He knows which Carillon plans have the cathedral foyer that needs a custom-shaped insert, which Vaquero HOAs have approved fabric colors for the lake-facing side, and which Carroll Avenue homes still have the original casement-pair sashes nobody else wants to bid.
Laser-Measured To The Sixteenth. Installed By The Same Hands.
Southlake estates have a lot of openings. A typical Carillon plan can carry sixty to ninety windows by the time you count the foyer, the great room, the upstairs media, and the back-of-house bedrooms. Any half-inch error multiplied across that many openings turns the order into a three-trip install. Durrell catches the variance during the measure, writes the order to match what is on the wall, and the result is one install day rather than re-cuts coming back from the manufacturer two weeks later.
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Built For Southlake's Estate Floor Plans, From Motorized To Faux Wood
The lineup runs in the order Durrell tends to recommend it for Southlake estate homes: motorized first because the foyer and great room rooms call for it, then plantation and real wood for the formal front-of-house rooms, then exterior shades for the pool decks, and the rest. Swipe through.
Motorized Window Treatments
The default Southlake answer for two-story foyer windows and great-room walls of glass. Pairs to Alexa, Google Home, and Apple HomeKit on install day.
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Plantation Shutters
Custom built to the exact opening. Front-of-house finish for Carillon, Vaquero, and Carroll Avenue estates. Carries a resale bump every Southlake realtor notices on the photos.
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Real Wood Blinds
Hardwood for the formal dining and the front study. Stained to match the crown molding and beamed ceilings already in the build.
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Exterior Patio Shades
Built for the big west-facing Southlake pool decks and outdoor kitchens. Block the heat at the screen before the limestone cooks.
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Honeycomb & Cellular Shades
Trapped air at the glass means the AC stops short-cycling. The math on an estate-sized footprint with a lot of glass adds up fast.
ExploreRoller Shades
Sheer linens for breakfast nooks, full blackout for the east-facing primary suite. Clean lines, no cords, motorized option available.
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Woven Wood Shades
Bamboo, rattan, and natural-grass weaves. Pairs with the warmer, more relaxed sunrooms and screened porches across Southlake.
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Dual Shades
Two-layer fabric. Sheer daylight by day, complete privacy at night, one continuous pull. Good fit for a great room with a pool view.
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Panel Track Shades
Sliding fabric panels for the breakfast-room slider or the back-patio door, without the clatter of vertical blinds when the AC kicks on in August.
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Faux Wood Blinds
Composite that looks like real hardwood without the price. Practical pick for back-of-house bedrooms, laundry rooms, and the bathrooms.
ExploreThree Southlake Estates That Come Through The Door Every Week
A 1996 Carillon estate with original builder-grade two-inch faux still on the front-of-house windows and a great-room glass wall facing west. A 2024 Vaquero custom on a half-acre lot with a smart panel pre-wired at the kitchen island and a cathedral foyer that needs a custom-shaped shutter. An older Carroll Avenue traditional with a bay window in the breakfast room and a pool deck baking by 4 p.m. Three different houses, three different orders, all the same Southlake week.
Carillon & The Original Carroll Avenue Estates: Original Owners Finally Upgrading
The 1990s Carillon estates and the older traditionals along Carroll Avenue are full of original owners who never replaced the builder-grade blinds. Thirty years of foundation settle moves a frame a quarter inch. The trim has been painted three times. Stock blinds from a warehouse store leave a half-inch gap on every front-of-house window. Durrell measures to what is actually on the wall, builds the order to match, and installs without disturbing the trim that has been there since the kids were in elementary school.
Vaquero & New Carillon Phase Customs: Ordered Before The Movers Arrive
Closing on a Vaquero custom or a new Carillon phase build? Durrell coordinates with your builder so the treatments are ordered and ready before the keys change hands. Move-in day there is already privacy in the bedrooms, blackout in the nursery, and motorization paired to whatever smart-home setup you brought with you. No three-month wait while a custom shade ships from a warehouse two states over and the foyer glass sits covered with brown paper through your first family Thanksgiving.
The Southlake Bill, Estate-Size
An estate-size footprint with sixty to ninety windows is a different math problem than a 2,200-square-foot ranch. The HVAC has to keep up with a lot of glass, much of it west-facing, much of it carrying late-afternoon load through the great room and the primary suite. Cellular shades on the west-facing rooms, plantation shutters in the front of the house, and exterior solar screens on the pool deck pay back in the first full summer for most Southlake estates. The AC stops short-cycling. The hardwoods stop fading. The western primary stops running hotter than the kitchen.
What Southlake Realtors Notice In The Listing Photos
Southlake resale moves at a particular price point and the realtors who know the market will tell you the windows tell the buyer something before the kitchen does. A Carillon estate with custom plantation shutters in the formal dining photographs differently than the identical floor plan three doors down running builder-grade two-inch faux. A Vaquero custom with motorized shades on the cathedral foyer catches every relocation buyer at the first showing. A Carroll Avenue traditional with cellular shades on the east-facing primary closes faster because the morning listing photos do not show a glaring sunrise burning out the bedroom wall. Durrell walks through the room-by-room math on the consultation, but the resale pattern is the same across every Southlake estate community.
How A Southlake Estate Job Moves From Phone Call To Install Day
Three steps. One owner-operator. One phone number. The person who answers the call writes the quote and hangs the product. No measure tech handing the order off to a stranger who shows up on install day.
The In-Home Walk-Through
Durrell drives out at the time you booked with the full sample case and the catalog. You walk every room together. He asks how the estate actually lives, which rooms host the guests at Christmas, which side of the house gets baked by 4 p.m., which kid's room is the one that always gets blackout. The recommendation gets built around that, not the highest-margin product on page seven.
The Laser Measure & the Written Quote
Every opening laser-measured to the sixteenth. The cathedral foyer in a Carillon estate, the bay window in a Carroll Avenue traditional, the breakfast-room slider in an Estates of Stone Creek two-story. The quote is itemized line by line on the kitchen table before Durrell leaves. Nothing buried in a vague "installation" line. No deposit pressure if you want to sit on it for a week.
The Install Day
Two to four weeks after deposit, Durrell is back in the driveway with the install kit. Everything goes up the same visit. He programs the motors, pairs them to your Alexa or HomeKit, walks you through how each piece operates, and hauls the cardboard out before he leaves. You get photos of the finished install on your phone that evening.
Window Treatment F.A.Q.'s for Southlake, TX
All three, the same week. Durrell quotes Carillon and Vaquero customs in the morning and established Carroll Avenue traditionals in the afternoon. The new-build estates and the original Southlake homes are two different conversations, but the consultation process is identical.
Yes, and on a Southlake estate the math is meaningful. Sixty to ninety windows on a 5,000-plus square foot footprint runs a lot of summer load. Cellular shades on the west-facing rooms plus exterior solar screens over the pool deck and outdoor kitchen take real dollars off the August and September bill. Most Southlake homeowners see the difference in the first full billing cycle after install.
Durrell personally covers Southlake, Westlake, Trophy Club, Roanoke, Colleyville, Keller, Grapevine, Hurst, Bedford, Fort Worth, Arlington, Denton, Argyle, Northlake, Granbury, Weatherford, and Gainesville, plus the smaller towns and enclaves in between across Tarrant, Denton, Parker, Hood, and Cooke counties. Same free in-home consultation, same single-installer install. The wider Love Is Blinds Texas network has additional owner-operators across the rest of the state.
Yes. Carillon, Vaquero, and several of the smaller gated communities require approved exterior-facing fabric or backing colors to keep the facade consistent. Durrell knows the standards the major Southlake HOAs ask for and orders to match. The exterior-facing side gets the approved color, the interior side gets whatever works in your room.
Yes, every odd shape. The cathedral foyer in a Carillon estate, the bay window in a Carroll Avenue breakfast room, the transom over an Estates of Stone Creek front door, the half-window flanking the stair on a 1990s Vaquero custom. Every order is custom-built, so the shape itself is not the constraint. The measurement is what has to be exact, and that is the part Durrell handles in person.
Two to four weeks from the consultation in most cases. Custom plantation shutters sit on the longer end because they are built to your specific opening, and a sixty-to-ninety-opening estate order takes longer to assemble than a 2,500 square foot ranch. Durrell puts the timeline in the quote before any deposit.
About an hour to ninety minutes on an estate, mostly conversation. Durrell walks the rooms with you, takes measurements, shows samples, and writes the itemized quote. If you want to think it over, you think it over. There is no follow-up sales-call schedule, no "today only" pricing, and no deposit asked for until you say go.
Yes. The motorized blinds, shades, and shutters integrate with Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, and most of the major smart-home hubs. Durrell pairs every motor on install day and tests against your specific setup, including the Control4 and Crestron systems common in Southlake estates, before he packs the toolbox.
Areas We Serve
We personally serve Southlake and the surrounding DFW communities with free in-home consultations and custom installation. Love Is Blinds also has a wider network of locations across Texas.
Southlake & The DFW Territory
Every consultation and installation across these DFW communities is handled by Durrell personally.
- Argyle, TX
- Arlington, TX
- Bedford, TX
- Boyd, TX
- Colleyville, TX
- Coppell, TX
- Denton, TX
- Euless, TX
- Flower Mound, TX
- Fort Worth, TX
- Gainesville, TX
- Granbury, TX
- Grand Prairie, TX
- Grapevine, TX
- Haltom City, TX
- Highland Park, TX
- Hurst, TX
- Irving, TX
- Justin, TX
- Keller, TX
- Kerens, TX
- Las Colinas, TX
- Lewisville, TX
- North Richland Hills, TX
- Northlake, TX
- Paradise, TX
- Richland Hills, TX
- Roanoke, TX
- Southlake, TX
- Trophy Club, TX
- Weatherford, TX
- Westlake, TX
Also Across Texas
Love Is Blinds serves additional communities through our broader Texas network.