Old Town · Loma Vista · Harlan Ranch
Blinds, Shutters & Shades in Clovis, CA
Two very different housing stocks in one city
Clovis is really two jobs wearing one name. North and east of Shaw you have twenty years of tract building — Harlan Ranch, Loma Vista, the Lockes — where the windows are big, square, modern and mostly pointed west. Then there is the older core around Old Town, where the houses are half a century older and nothing is a size you can buy off a shelf.
The newer side is a specification problem. Builder blinds go up in every house on the street, they are thin, they yellow, and they were never measured for the room that actually cooks at four in the afternoon. Replacing them with shutters or a proper insulating shade is the single most common call we get out of north Clovis.
The older side is a measuring problem. Original openings, settled frames, the occasional arch, and trim worth matching rather than covering. Those get built to the opening the same way we would treat a house in central Fresno.
We take the measurements and hang them ourselves. The fit is our problem, not yours.
What matters on windows in Clovis
Builder-blind replacement
The thin white slats every tract house ships with, swapped for something that survives a Valley summer.
West-facing tract windows
Large modern panes pointed at the worst sun of the day. Shutters and cellular do the real work.
Old Town originals
Older openings measured and built to, not trimmed down from a stock width.
One crew, both jobs
The people who measure are the people who install, on either side of Shaw.
Why Clovis splits so cleanly down the middle
In the newer tracts the builder fitted the cheapest covering that would pass a walkthrough. That is not a criticism, it is just what production building is: the blinds are a line item, not a decision. Which means the first owner inherits thin vinyl slats on a west elevation carrying more glass than the whole front of an older house.
What fixes that is not a nicer version of the same thing. It is either a shutter, which holds light back and reads as part of the house, or a cellular shade, which puts an insulating pocket of air directly against the glass. On the tall entry and stairwell windows that these plans love, motorising it is usually the difference between a covering that gets used and one that gets left open all summer.
Around Old Town the calculation flips. There the house has character worth keeping, the trim is often original, and the right answer is frequently real wood stained to match rather than anything modern. We measure every opening, because a 1940s Clovis window is not a standard size and pretending otherwise is how you end up with a bar of afternoon sun down one edge.
What we get called about in Clovis
- ·Builder blinds that have yellowed or snapped
- ·Two-storey entry and stairwell windows
- ·West-facing great rooms in the newer tracts
- ·Original openings around Old Town
- ·Patio slider screens that have jumped the track
What we fit most in Clovis
Plantation Shutters
Fitted joinery built to the opening, arches and angles included.
See plantation shutters →Faux Wood Blinds
The Valley default. Wipes clean and will not cup or twist through a run of 100° afternoons.
See faux wood blinds →Motorized Blinds & Shades
For the glass nobody can reach — closed on a schedule, before the room loads up.
See motorized blinds & shades →Cellular Shades
A trapped pocket of air right at the glass, where the air conditioning is losing the fight.
See cellular shades →Clovis questions, answered straight
Do you cover all of Clovis?
All of it — Old Town, Harlan Ranch, Loma Vista, the Shaw and Herndon corridors, out to the county line. There is no trip charge anywhere in Clovis and the in-home estimate is free.
We just bought a new build. Are the builder blinds worth keeping?
Usually on the rooms nobody uses, and rarely on the west side of the house. They are thin, they yellow, and they were chosen to pass a walkthrough rather than to survive a Fresno July. Most people replace the living areas first and leave the spare rooms for later, which is a perfectly sensible way to do it.
Our Old Town house has odd-sized windows. Is that a problem?
It is the normal case in that part of Clovis, not a problem. Everything is cut to the measurements we take on site, so an opening being non-standard or slightly out of square is something we build around rather than something you have to solve first.
How long does it take?
Blinds and shades are quicker than shutters, which are made to your exact openings. We give you a realistic window at the estimate rather than an optimistic one, and screen repair can usually happen on the same visit.
Free in-home estimate anywhere in Clovis
Open 7 days, 7 AM–8 PM. We measure, we build to the opening, and we hang it ourselves.