McLean, Virginia · 22101 · 22102 · Langley to the Palisades
Custom Window Treatments in McLean — Because Nothing Here Is Standard
McLean builds one-offs — and one-off houses reject off-the-shelf everything. Every treatment we install is templated to your openings, engineered to your light, and finished by our own team, ten minutes from our Vienna showroom.
How Custom Actually Works
"Custom" gets stapled onto a lot of products that come off a shelf and get trimmed. Here's what the word means when we use it:
Fabrics change character between a showroom and a Langley living room at 4 PM — so the deciding happens at your windows, samples in hand, whole house in one visit.
Custom builds settle into custom dimensions. We measure each opening individually — including the ones the architect made interesting — and the measurements are ours to stand behind.
Hunter Douglas, Graber, or Norman manufactures to your exact specs — nothing cut down, nothing "close enough," fabric and finish chosen per room.
Our own team mounts, levels, and tunes every piece — the measurer and installer answering to each other is why the fit is guaranteed instead of hoped for.
Factory warranties honored by the company that installed them — year-six adjustments come back to the same hands.
Three Kinds of Custom
Fit is the entry requirement. The interesting decisions in McLean happen in light and motion:
Custom Fit
Made to the Opening
The baseline every window gets: treatments built to templated dimensions, mounted to sit like millwork.
- Inside mounts that read built-in
- Shutters squared to unsquare openings
- Specialty shapes — arches and angles included
Custom Light
Engineered per Room
Opacity chosen the way lighting designers choose bulbs — room by room, exposure by exposure.
- Silhouette® sheers that sculpt, not block
- Solar screens tuned to glare and art protection
- True-dark blackout systems where sleep rules
Custom Motion
Scenes & Schedules
PowerView® and motorized banks that run the house's light without anyone home to run it.
- Sunrise and sunset scenes, room by room
- Schedules that keep the house looking lived-in
- Two-story glass with zero ladder maintenance
Most McLean projects order all three layers at once — fitted everywhere, light-engineered in the living spaces, motion where the glass is ambitious. One consultation specs the set.
Custom Needs Factory Partners — Ours Are the Best Three
Custom is only as good as who builds it: we're an authorized Hunter Douglas dealer — Alustra®, Silhouette®, PowerView®, the specialty programs — with Graber where volume rooms meet value and Norman building shutter panels like furniture. All three, one dealer, ten minutes from McLean.
McLean, Precisely
What separates true custom from the big-box "custom" counter?
Cut-down stock is stock with a haircut. True custom is manufactured to your opening from the start — headrail, fabric width, and operating hardware all built to the eighth-inch template we take, which is why an inside mount from us sits like millwork and a trimmed blind sits like a compromise. The word matters less than the method; ask any vendor which one they do.
We travel — a lot. Can the shades keep the house looking lived-in?
That's a scheduling feature, not a special request: PowerView® scenes run morning-open and evening-close whether anyone's home or not, room by room, on the calendar you set. In a town where half the neighborhood travels professionally, it's among the most-requested specs we write.
We're mid-construction on a new build — when should we call you in?
Before drywall, ideally: motorized banks love planned power, and a fifteen-minute conversation with your builder about wiring at the headers saves battery changes for the life of the house. Fabric decisions can wait for finished rooms — the infrastructure conversation shouldn't.
Our Franklin Park mid-century is mostly glass walls and clerestories — what belongs on it?
Restraint, mostly: minimal-profile rollers and sheer shadings that vanish into the architecture when open, mounted so the hardware defers to the lines. Mid-century houses punish visual clutter; the right treatment reads like it was in the original drawings.
We're in the Tysons-side towers of 22102 — same service?
Same team, vertical version: wide tower glass on duals and solar layers, building freight and desk logistics handled once you name the address, and motorization recommended anywhere the glass outnumbers the reachable wands.
Measured to the Eighth, Quoted to the Penny
Tell us about the house — the glass walls, the arches, the foyer bank the builder was proud of. One visit templates every opening, samples audition in your rooms' own light, and the quote is exact before we leave.
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Free in-home consultation anywhere in McLean — Langley, Chesterbrook, Franklin Park, and the towers — every opening templated in one visit.