Window Treatment Cost Guide for McCordsville, IN
Pricing ranges, what actually drives them, and what a written quote covers for McCordsville homeowners.
McCordsville's median house dates to 2009. The job here is usually a 2,200 to 3,200 square foot two-story production house running 18 to 28 openings once you count the basement egress and the stair or foyer glass. Ranch and villa product runs 10 to 16, and a house in the old village plat runs 12 to 20 with the basement windows included. What moves the number isn't the count so much as the foyer glass and whether the front windows carry arched transoms.
- Faux Wood Blinds: $55-$300+ per window
- Wood Blinds: $70-$400+ per window
- Vertical Blinds: $60-$350+ per opening
- Aluminum Mini Blinds: $25-$140+ per window
- Roller Shades: $70-$450+ per window
- Solar Shades: $80-$520+ per window
- Cellular Shades: $70-$350+ per window
- Zebra Shades: $95-$400+ per window
- Roman Shades: $120-$600+ per window
- Woven Wood Shades: $110-$500+ per window
- Blackout Shades: $90-$550+ per window
- Plantation Shutters: $175-$800+ per window
- Cafe Shutters: $150-$550+ per window
- Motorized Shades: $300-$1,500+ per window installed
- Custom Drapery: $300-$4,000+ per window
- Valances & Top Treatments: $120-$700+ per window
- Exterior Solar Shades: $600-$3,500+ per opening
- Retractable Awnings: $1,000-$6,000+ installed
- Commercial Window Treatments: $12-$45 per square foot installed
- Skylight Shades: $300-$1,200+ per opening
- Sliding Glass Door Blinds: $250-$1,400+ per opening
- Panel Track Blinds: $200-$900+ per opening
- Sheer Shades: $180-$900+ per window
- Pleated Shades: $70-$350+ per window
- Bamboo Shades: $120-$600+ per window
- Dual Shades: $150-$800+ per window
- Top-Down Bottom-Up Shades: $150-$750+ per window
- Cordless Blinds: $70-$400+ per window
- Hardwood Shutters: $250-$900+ per window
- Composite Shutters: $175-$700+ per window
- Smart Home Shade Integration: $150-$600+ per hub or bridge
- Blind Repair & Restring: $45-$250+ per unit
- Shutter Repair: $60-$300+ per panel
- Motorization Retrofit: $200-$800+ per shade
- Outdoor Patio Shades: $400-$2,500+ per opening
- Office Window Treatments: Quoted per project
- Healthcare Window Treatments: Quoted per project
- Multifamily Window Treatments: Quoted per unit at volume
- Window treatments repair (most jobs): Restrings, cord lock swaps, clutch and chain tensioner work, bracket resets and travel limit resets almost always land under the $250 per window floor of the national custom range, which is the usual call on the 1990s and 2000s McCordsville stock. We quote per unit once we've seen the mechanism, because a continuous cord loop clutch and a cordless lift spring are different repairs with different parts.
- Free in-home measure and written quote
Typical Window Treatments Costs in McCordsville
Pricing ranges below reflect typical McCordsville market installations per window installed. Final quote depends on how many openings you are covering, their sizes, the product tier, whether any are out of square or a specialty shape, and whether you motorize.
Pricing is per window installed in the McCordsville market as of 2026. The plus sign on upper numbers means your project may exceed the listed maximum based on inspection findings.
Factors That Affect Window Treatments Cost in McCordsville
Two houses with the same number of windows can price very differently. Here is what actually moves the number.
How Many Openings, and How Big
The opening count is the largest single driver, and opening size is close behind, because headrail length and fabric yardage do not scale in a straight line. After that it is the product tier: faux wood blinds and basic roller shades sit at the bottom, cellular and solar fabrics in the middle, shutters and drapery at the top. Specialty shapes such as arches, angles, bays and sliding door widths cost more than their square footage suggests, because they are fabricated one at a time.
Opening Squareness and Depth
Openings that are out of square, casing too shallow to take an inside mount, plaster or masonry needing different anchors, and specialty shapes all add labor. That is what the three-point measure and the diagonal check are for, and it is why we would rather find it before you order than on install day. Hidden damage on aging window treatments is common and is scoped separately.
Access and Logistics
High openings, two-story great rooms, transoms and anything needing a lift cost more to install. Hardwired motorization adds licensed electrical time on top, which is why battery motors run roughly $100 to $300 a window less than hardwired.
Warranty Target
Warranty terms come from the manufacturer of the product installed and vary by brand and line. Many custom interior products carry limited lifetime coverage on the mechanism with shorter terms on fabric, motors and batteries. Motor and battery coverage is almost always shorter, so ask for the written warranty on the specific product quoted.
See What Each Fabric Does To The Light
Fabric choice moves the number about as much as size does, and it moves how the room feels a lot more. Pick one below and the window updates.
Openness factor is a measured fabric spec, so you can compare it line to line. The category names are not measured. One maker's room darkening can behave like another maker's light filtering, which is why the sample books come to the measure and get opened in the room they're going in, at the hour that room has the problem.
What Happens Between the Quote and the Install in McCordsville
There is no claim and no adjuster in this trade. Window treatments are a planned purchase, so the money questions are different: what the deposit is, how long fabrication takes, and what is actually written down before anything gets ordered. Custom product generally runs two to five weeks from order to install depending on the product line and the finish, and longer on specialty shapes, motorized configurations and commercial submittals. If you are working toward a holiday, a move-in date or a listing, tell us the date at the measure and we will work backwards from it rather than quoting you a range.
Indiana has no statewide license for this trade, but the Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act at IC 24-5-11 does apply to residential work over $150, which is essentially every job we do. That means a written contract with your name and property address, our details, a reasonably detailed description of the work, start and completion dates, and the total price. McCordsville Window Treatments writes the light gap, the mount type, the roll direction and the battery expectation into that scope too, because those are the four things people find out too late.
What Moves the Number on a McCordsville House
Drywall returns with no casing
About 62.7% of McCordsville went up between 2000 and 2019, with another 13.3% since 2020, and that stock is vinyl or vinyl-clad windows set into drywall returns, with no applied casing anywhere on them. Inside-mount depth is normally fine. The trouble is everything else. There is nothing to screw a bracket into outside the jamb, and the return edge chips if you force it, so any outside mount needs a mounting board put up first. That is an added part and added labor on every opening that needs one.
Counting the basement egress
The 18 to 28 range on the dominant two-story already includes the basement egress and the stair or foyer glass, and those are exactly what people leave out when they estimate from memory. Egress wells sit high on the wall and run wide and short. A finished basement gets covered, an unfinished one usually waits, but either way the openings belong in the count from the start, because that is the difference between a 20-opening scope and a 26-opening one.
Arches before 2015, rectangles after
Front-facing windows in the 2000 to 2015 stock often carry a half-round or elliptical transom above them, and those price as templated custom units that never operate. Post-2018 elevations mostly dropped the arch for a stacked rectangular transom over a wider fixed unit, which is a plain rectangle and much easier to cover. Hampton Walk and The Townes at Hampton Walk are current construction and read the newer way. The sections that filled in through the 2000s are where the arches are.
Original McCordsville and the villas
Two counts sit outside the dominant one. A house in the original 1865 village plat runs 12 to 20 openings once the basement windows are counted, and those older openings have real casing with sizes that do not repeat. The single-story ranch and villa product in the newer age-targeted sections runs 10 to 16, all reachable from the floor and mostly repeating. Those are different orders from the production two-story, and per opening they do not compare.
Three McCordsville houses, scoped
Say 24, with the foyer glass and two basement egress wells in that number. Bedrooms and baths take cordless stock or near-stock product, $60 to $600 per window on national figures. The foyer stack is the line that moves, because reaching it means a pole or a motor, and a battery motor comes in about $100 to $300 per window under hardwired. Skipping the foyer for now is a legitimate way to hold the scope down.
One floor, every opening reachable, and the bedroom sizes repeat. This is the smallest whole-house scope in town and the fastest to order. Drywall returns take an inside mount, so most of it stays at the stock end of the range. If the villa has a slider out to a patio, that is the widest opening in the plan and the one worth putting money into, since it gets used daily.
Rooms taking low afternoon sun are where a solar screen or a dual roller earns the difference in price. Solar shades cut glare without giving up the view out, and they slow fabric fade on the furniture rather than stopping it. Pair them with a room-darkening layer in bedrooms on the same elevation. The rest of the house scopes like any other production two-story here.
McCordsville houses can look alike from the street and still not scope alike. Two plans in one section can sit six openings apart once the basement and the foyer are counted. Get the count on paper before comparing numbers, because here the count is most of the number.
What Matters at the Window in McCordsville
What our crew has learned working in McCordsville homes.
About McCordsville Homes
McCordsville's median house dates to 2009. Build era shares on the parcel record run pre-1940 7.9%, 1940-1979 6.6%, 1980-1999 9.6%, 2000-2019 62.7%, 2020+ 13.3%. Median home value is $345,400. Two thirds of the stock is 2000 or newer, which in central Indiana production building means vinyl or vinyl clad windows set in drywall return openings with no applied casing at all. Inside mount depth is usually adequate but the return edge is fragile and there is nothing to screw a bracket into outside the jamb. two story production traditional; modern farmhouse; Craftsman influenced elevations with gable brackets and shake accents; brick and vinyl transitional; single story ranch and villa product in the newer age targeted sections; attached townhome Typical opening count: 18-28 openings for the dominant 2,200-3,200 sq ft two story production house, counting basement egress and the stair/foyer glass; 10-16 for the ranch and villa product; 12-20 for a house in the 1865 village plat once basement sash are.
Where We Work in McCordsville
We cover homeowners across McCordsville near Geist Reservoir, McCord Square town center, Hancock Wellness Center, Mt. Comfort Road Trail, McCordsville Sports Park, Town Hall Community Park.
Surrounding Areas We Serve
Our crew also covers Original McCordsville, McCord Square, Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East, Villages at Brookside, Deer Crossing and Springs at Deer Crossing, Gateway Crossing, Hampton Walk and The Townes at Hampton Walk, Highland Springs, Emerald Springs, Geist Woods Estates.
Recent Weather Patterns
Central Indiana sits in IECC climate zone 5A, which means a real cooling load and a real heating load on the same window. NOAA's 1991-2020 normals for Indianapolis put the July average high at 85.2F, the January average high at 36.1F and the January average low at 20.9F, with the muggy season running May 25 to September 22. Almost none of consequence. Two thirds of the town's housing was built after 2000 on cleared Vernon Township farm ground, and 13.3% is 2020 or newer, so street trees in most subdivisions are fifteen years old at best and give no useful summer shading to a first floor window.
What Our Crew Sees in McCordsville
Two story foyer glass and half round or elliptical transoms over front facing windows are common in the 2000-2015 stock. Post-2018 product tends to swap the arch for a stacked rectangular transom and a wider fixed unit. Bay and box windows appear in the 1990s sections. Active new construction includes Hampton Walk, The Townes at Hampton Walk, McCord Square (apartments delivered, townhouses and roughly 500-600 single family homes planned).
Who Actually Turns Up in McCordsville
The same people measure, order and install. Customers name them in reviews, which is the point: you are not getting a subcontractor you have never heard of.
What We Are Running in McCordsville Right Now
Both offers apply to work quoted and ordered while they are posted here. Ask about them at the in-home measure and we will put the discount on the written quote before you decide anything.
$500 Off Your First Exterior Screen, Plus a Free Motorization Upgrade
Take $500 off your first exterior screen and we will add the motorization upgrade at no charge. Exterior screens stop solar heat outside the glass, which is the only place you can stop it before it is already in the room, and a motor is the difference between using one and forgetting it.
Applies to a first exterior screen. Ask at the measure so the discount is on the written quote before you order. Motorized product runs on batteries that need replacing, about a year on Hunter Douglas PowerView.
Ask about this offerFree Motorization Upgrade on Select Interior Shades
Pick from the qualifying interior shade lines and the motorization upgrade is free. It is worth most on the openings you would otherwise leave alone: tall great room glass, anything above a stair, and the west windows nobody remembers to close by four.
Select interior shade lines only. We will tell you at the measure which of your openings qualify. Batteries are a real running cost and are not included.
Ask about this offerPayment Options That Work for You
A window covering project is worth doing right the first time. Financing options through McCordsville Window Treatments lender partners help you pay over time instead of cutting scope or delaying the work.
Start the work now and begin paying later. On a whole-house order this is how people phase a large job without phasing the install.
- Payments deferred for a promotional period
- Rate and period set by the lender
- Quoted price held for the order
Divide the project cost into equal monthly payments across a fixed promotional period, so the budget is predictable from day one.
- Equal monthly payments
- Fixed promotional period
- Simple, predictable budgeting
Spread a larger window treatment project across a longer term with fixed equal payments, for homeowners who want the lowest monthly amount.
- Extended terms available
- Fixed equal payments
- Suited to larger window treatment projects
Financing is arranged through third party lenders and is subject to credit approval. Rates, terms, and promotional periods are set by the lender and disclosed to you in writing before you sign. Ask your project lead which programs are open right now.
Window Treatment Cost FAQ for McCordsville
Cost-related questions we hear most often from McCordsville homeowners, designers, and property managers.
Book a Free In-Home Measure
We will measure every opening, show you fabric in your own light, and put the scope and the lead time in writing before anything is ordered. No obligation. We reply to McCordsville enquiries during business hours.