Moving Into a New Home? Nobody Warns You About the Window Coverings

Buying a home is one of the best days you'll have. Whether it's your first place or the one you've been working toward for twenty years, that walkthrough with the keys in your hand is hard to beat.

And then you have to actually move.

Packing every dish you own. Praying the boxes marked FRAGILE survive the truck. Scheduling internet, TV, water, gas, and electric — each one with its own hold music, its own four-hour arrival window, and its own version of "we'll have someone out between 8 and 12." You take a day off work. Nobody shows. You call back and start over.

By the time you're standing in your new living room at nine at night surrounded by boxes, the last thing you want is one more thing to handle.

Here's the one most people don't see coming.

Your new home's windows are completely bare

New construction: not a blind, not a rod

If you bought new construction, there's nothing on the windows. Not a blind, not a shade, not a curtain rod. Every window in the house is a clear pane of glass, and that includes your bedroom, your bathroom, and whatever room you were planning to collapse in.

Resale: window treatments stay with the house

Resale comes with a different problem. Window treatments are built to fit specific windows and mounted to the wall, so they stay with the house — which means you inherit whatever the last owner chose. Sometimes that's fine. Often it's twelve-year-old blinds, sun-faded on the south side, with a wand missing and a couple of slats that won't close all the way.

Either way, you end up doing what everyone does — a run to the big box store for a pile of paper temporary shades, and an evening you don't have spent sticking them up crooked.

How long do custom window treatments take?

Custom window treatments are not something you take home the same day. They're built to the measurements of your specific windows, which is exactly why they fit and look the way they do.

Custom shades: about four weeks

Most custom shades run about four weeks from the day you place the order to the day we install them.

Shutters and custom drapery: up to eight weeks

Shutters and custom drapery can take up to eight weeks. They're a bigger build, and the extra time goes into the product.

Those are real timelines, and we'd rather you hear them from us at the kitchen table than discover them three weeks in. But it does leave you with a gap — a month or more of bare glass in the rooms where you want it least.

We cover your windows for free while you wait

When you order with us, we bring temporary shades and put them up ourselves, at no charge, in the rooms that matter most: bedrooms, bathrooms, and your main living spaces.

No store run. No standing on a chair with a box of adhesive strips at the end of a long day. You get privacy the same week you move in, and when your real treatments arrive, we pull the temps down and haul them off.

It's a small thing. It also happens to be the small thing people thank us for the most.

What else you get when you order from Luxe Window Works

Clear communication and timelines we hit

You'll know when your order is placed, when it ships, and when we're arriving — and "arriving" means a real appointment window, not a vague half-day where you rearrange your life around a maybe. If something slips on the manufacturer's end, you hear it from us first, not after you've already wondered.

Honest pricing, quoted once

We don't inflate a list price so we can advertise 40% off it later. You get one straight number for what the product actually costs, quoted the same way for every customer, and it's among the most competitive in North Idaho. If you're comparing quotes, bring us the other one — we'd rather earn it in daylight than win on a gimmick.

Installation guaranteed for as long as you're in the home

If a cord stops working, a bracket pulls loose from the wall, a headrail sags, or anything about the way we installed it stops performing the way it should — call us. We come back out and fix it. No charge, no argument, no expiration date on the paperwork.

Why a local shop runs it this way

We're a local business in Post Falls, working across North Idaho. We don't have a national call center or a franchise script. Almost every job we get comes from someone telling a neighbor, a sister, or a coworker that we were easy to deal with.

That only works if we're actually easy to deal with. So the whole operation is built around it — showing up when we say, covering your windows in the meantime, standing behind the install years later.

You've got a hundred things to sort out in a new house. This one can be off your list.

If you're building or buying new, our guide to window coverings for new construction walks through how to phase a whole house and what to budget.

Ready when you are

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