Custom Window Treatments in Green

Green is about 13 miles south of our Akron workroom, roughly twenty minutes. Roller shades, day-night blackout shades, motorized shades, custom drapery and painted wood cornices, cut and sewn on Frank Blvd and installed by our own crew.

Getting to you from the workroom

Green is about 13 miles from 50 Frank Blvd, Akron, OH 44313 — roughly a 20-minute drive south, traffic allowing. Summit County. There is one workroom and a designer who drives; nothing about your job is handed to a territory owner or a subcontractor.

Farmland into subdivisions, and what that left behind

Green has an unusual municipal history for this area, and it shows in the houses. Organised as a township in 1809, it stayed one for most of two centuries: the balance of Green Township was incorporated as a village on 1 January 1991 and declared a city on 5 April 1992.

The building happened long before the paperwork. From the 1950s, as demand for housing rose, farmers here began selling their land to developers for residential subdivisions, and the population followed: 5,083 in 1950, 9,521 by 1960, 13,473 by 1970, 17,625 by 1980. Green's housing stock is overwhelmingly mid-to-late-twentieth-century subdivision building.

What that means at the window

Broadly good news. Openings from that era are usually square, usually a standard size, and set in frames with a header behind the drywall you can actually fix into — so an inside mount is more often the right answer than it is a few miles north in Akron's century stock, and the question moves from “will it fit” to “how much light comes past the edges”.

The two details we watch for are reveal depth, which decides whether a cassette can go inside the opening or has to sit outside it, and the sliding patio door, which is the defining detail of a mid-century ranch and the one most often covered badly. Wide spans and patio walls.

The older buildings are still here

Two of them are on the National Register of Historic Places, both physically in Green: the Levi J. Hartong House and Farm on Mt. Pleasant Road, listed in October 2007, and the East Liberty School, District No. 11 on South Arlington Street, listed in July 2017. A township that was farmland into the 1950s still has the farmhouses.

Those are different jobs entirely from a 1970s ranch — deep reveals, tall sash, original casing worth keeping uncovered — and they are measured accordingly.

If your property is designated

Green has a Historic Preservation Commission, established to preserve the elements that reflect the city's cultural, social, economic, political and architectural heritage. It is a separate body from the Planning & Zoning Commission and the Design Review Board.

Its certificate-of-appropriateness process is built around the outside of a building: painting, additions, demolition, relocation, and the alteration or removal of architecturally significant features including windows, doors, trim and moulding — with elevations required from the front, sides and rear. An interior-mounted shade is not an elevation. If your property is designated and any part of the job touches the outside, ask the Commission first; that determination is theirs.

What a custom shade actually changes here

The same three things, wherever the house is. It fits the opening you have rather than the nearest stocked width, which is what decides how much light comes past the edges. The opacity is chosen against the orientation of the room rather than off a chart — a west-facing room and a north-facing one want different cloth. And the header is chosen for what the room needs at the top of the window, which is the part that decides whether a bedroom actually goes dark.

All three are decided in the room, at the window, with the tape out. That is why we drive to Green rather than sell from a counter, and it is the whole reason the consultation is a visit rather than a phone call.

What we make for Green homes

Book a consultation in Green

Twenty minutes south, and an easy area for us to schedule. A designer comes to you with fabric, measures every opening, designs the treatment with you and writes the quote before leaving. There is no charge and no obligation.