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Questions from homeowners in this corner of Cicero. Association rules on street-facing color, mounting depth in older trim, and which products suit the window sizes that dominate here.

  • Services: faux wood blinds, wood blinds, vertical blinds, aluminum mini blinds
  • Service area: Cicero Shores, Cicero, IN and surrounding areas
  • We book measures without much delay. What you can't compress is the fabrication window, which runs two to five weeks depending on the product and the finish. Painted shutter finishes sit at the longer end.
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About Cicero Shores

Local Window Treatment Experience in Cicero Shores

The words Cicero Shores tell you almost nothing about a window, and that's the most useful thing to know before you take a quote. One street here can carry a 1971 lake cottage, a 1994 two story and a 2022 rebuild. That's three window systems, three jamb depths and three squareness assumptions under a single plat name. A 950 square foot cottage runs roughly 7 to 12 openings. A 3,500 to 6,400 square foot rebuild runs 35 to 60, with large water facing assemblies doing most of the work. We establish the house's construction year before anyone talks product, because every downstream decision swings on it.</p><p style="font-size:16px;color:#4a5a6a;line-height:1.75;margin:16px 0 0">The second question is where the glass points. Cicero sits on the north east shore of Morse Reservoir, which puts about 1,500 acres of open water south and west of the town, and a waterfront living space has no tree line in front of it by definition. You get low direct sun from mid afternoon plus a reflected component off the water surface, landing on the elevation that carries the most glass. Back lots in Cicero Shores behave completely differently, like ordinary 1970s suburban lots under fifty years of canopy. We don't assume which one you have, and the county record doesn't verify orientation lot by lot either.

We have served Cicero Shores homeowners through the full range of window treatment needs, from inspections and repairs to full replacements. Whatever the system, our Cicero crew approaches every project with clear communication and respect for your property.

The Housing Here

Cicero Shores housing: 523 homes across forty construction years

The county records 523 Cicero Shores parcels with residential floor area, the largest single plat in Cicero, and the year built column reads 1967, then 1971 through 1998 almost continuously, then 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022. Nothing else in this five town file spans that many separate building years under one name. Architecture follows the years exactly: 1960s and 70s lake cottage and ranch at the start, 1980s and 90s two story traditional through the middle, then custom rebuild and modern lake house from 2000 on. No production builder program was identified for the plat, which fits the record. It was built lot by lot across five decades.

The story mix runs against the reputation. 324 of the 523 parcels are recorded at 1.0 story and only 154 at 2.0, so Cicero Shores is 62 percent single story, a lake cottage neighborhood by origin rather than an estate one. Floor area runs 950 to 6,438 square feet, a 6.8 times spread inside one name, and gross assessed values run $46,900 to $1,278,600 with the middle of the distinct value distribution sitting near $292,000. Lots are 0.17 to 1.50 deeded acres, densest between 0.25 and 0.50. Those four spreads are the reason a per window figure quoted off the subdivision name is a guess dressed up as a price.

Built
1967 to 2022. Forty distinct construction years recorded under one plat name, including 1971 through 1998 almost continuously and then 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022.
Homes
523 parcels with recorded residential floor area, the largest single plat in Cicero. 324 recorded at one story, 154 at two.
Typical size
950 to 6,438 sq ft of recorded residential floor area, a 6.8 times spread. Lots 0.17 to 1.50 deeded acres, densest between 0.25 and 0.50 ac.
Styles
1960s and 70s lake cottage and ranch, 1980s and 90s two story traditional, 2000s to 2020s custom rebuild and modern lake house
What It Means For Your Windows

Three different jobs on one Cicero Shores street

Count first, because the count moves by a factor of five inside this plat. A 1970s cottage at 950 to 1,500 square feet sits near 7 to 12 openings. A 1990s two story at 2,200 to 3,000 sits near 20 to 28. A 2015 to 2022 rebuild at 3,500 to 6,400 runs 35 to 60, with stacking door walls, oversized transoms and corner glass on the water elevation. Depth moves the same way. The 1970s houses have shallow jambs, often on openings that were reworked inside the original frame at some point, the 1990s houses have returns wrapped into the opening with no applied casing, and the rebuilds have clean modern jambs. The plat name genuinely tells you nothing about the opening.

Squareness spans 3 to 58 years of settling in the same subdivision, so we three point every opening without exception and expect real deviation on the 1971 to 1985 cottages, where a hard treatment built to the smallest reading will show a taper against the trim. Exposure is the other split. A waterfront living room takes glare with no canopy at all, while a back lot on Edgewater behaves like any 1970s ranch under mature trees. Screened porches and three season rooms are common on the lakefront lots in every era here, and glass on three sides changes the answer again, because there's no blank wall left to hide a stack against.

Establish the year, then the product

Forty construction years under one name means the first question at the measure is when this house was built, not which fabric you like. A 1971 cottage and a 2022 rebuild on the same street get different mounts, different deductions and different hardware. We pull the recorded year, check the jamb in each room, then talk product. Anyone quoting Cicero Shores off the name alone is pricing a house they haven't stood in.

Reflected light on the water elevation

Open water throws a second light source at the glass from below the horizon line, so a fabric that handles direct sun on an inland elevation can still wash out here. On main basin frontage we specify a 3 percent openness solar fabric rather than 5. We also say plainly that NFRC attributes 40 to 60 percent of fading damage to UV, so a shade slows fade on your floors rather than stopping it.

Reverse roll against a fascia

On a Cicero Shores water facing opening people want the fabric as close to the glass as it will go, which pushes toward a reverse roll. A reverse roll isn't compatible with a fascia, so the choice between a tighter roll and a clean front edge gets made before the order, not on install day. On a wide door wall assembly that same decision moves where the mounting bracket and any center support bracket land.

The 1/16 inch deduction on a cottage jamb

Lutron publishes a standard factory deduction of 1/16 inch per side, and on the 1967 to 1985 cottages that deduction lands on an opening which already isn't square. Add the 3/4 inch per side light gap Lutron publishes for an inside mount Roller 20/64 and a bedroom on Bay View Dr reads brighter at six in the morning than anybody expected. An outside mount or side channels close it.

What We Specify Here

What we specify in Cicero Shores, by era and by elevation

There isn't one Cicero Shores package, and a quote that offers one hasn't asked what year the house is. The 1967 to 1985 cottage core wants products that forgive a shallow, settled opening and tolerate lake humidity through the muggy season, which NOAA puts from 25 May to 22 September. The 1990s two stories want stack managed on taller openings. The 2015 to 2022 rebuilds want solar control and automation on assemblies nobody is reaching by hand. National pricing runs $60 to $600 per window on stock shades against $250 to $2,600 on custom, and $300 to $1,500 per window installed on motorized. Custom fabrication is 2 to 5 weeks, and we're insured and insured.

Solar shades, 3 percent openness

The water elevation is why this product exists in Cicero. A 3 percent fabric cuts glare and slows fade while keeping the reservoir visible, which is the entire point of the room. At 5 percent you keep more view and lose more control, and against 1,500 acres of open water with a reflected component underneath it, that trade usually goes the wrong way. Fade is reduced here, not eliminated.

Faux wood blinds

On the 1967 to 1985 cottage core, faux wood handles what real wood won't: humidity off the reservoir, a three season room that swings forty degrees, and a bath squeezed into a 1,100 square foot floor plan. It also takes an outside mount cleanly where a 1970s jamb has no depth left. Slat width drives stack at the header, so on a short cottage opening we usually step down to a 2 inch slat.

Motorized roller shades

On a 2015 to 2022 rebuild with 35 to 60 openings and stacking door walls, hand operating the water elevation twice a day stops happening by about week three. A sun sensor or an astronomical timer drops the shades before the room loads rather than after. Disclose the cost nobody mentions: Hunter Douglas states PowerView battery life is about one year, so budget a battery change or ask about hardwiring.

Woven wood shades

The back lot streets carry fifty years of canopy the water lots never had, and a woven wood works with that filtered light instead of fighting it. It also sits well against the 1970s wood trim still in a lot of these cottages. Two honest limits. An unlined weave gives almost no privacy after dark, and the room darkening liner that fixes it adds stack height at the top of the glass.

Getting Around

Cicero Shores streets, Morse Reservoir and Stringtown Pike

Cicero Shores runs along the Cicero side of Morse Reservoir south and west of the town grid, reached from Stringtown Pike, and residents give directions by which arm of the lake they're on rather than by section. The street names are the tell: Bay View Dr, Bayshore Dr, Nantucket, Casco Bay, Cape Charles, Lighthouse Pt, Edgewater and Beachway, an Atlantic coast set sharing one plat with Civil War generals. Morse Reservoir was impounded in 1956, covers about 1,500 acres and carries roughly 32.5 miles of shoreline. Morse Beach and the public boat ramps are close by, Red Bridge Park sits to the north, and every address here feeds Hamilton Heights.

Streets we work on
Bay View DrBayshore DrNantucketCasco BayCape CharlesLighthouse PtEdgewaterBeachway
Around the neighborhood
Morse Reservoir, impounded 1956Stringtown PikeMorse Beach and the public boat rampsRed Bridge Park to the north
Hamilton Heights School Corporation
Hamilton Heights Elementary School, grades P-4Hamilton Heights Middle School, grades 5-8Hamilton Heights High School, grades 9-12
Services

Window Treatment Services in Cicero Shores

Every service Cicero Window Treatments offers across Cicero is available to Cicero Shores homeowners.

Faux Wood Blinds in Cicero Shores

PVC where lake air would move real wood

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Wood Blinds in Cicero Shores

Basswood for the dry rooms, honestly specified

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Vertical Blinds in Cicero Shores

Built for the door wall, weighted for the breeze

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Aluminum Mini Blinds in Cicero Shores

The right spend for rooms you pass through

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Roller Shades in Cicero Shores

Flat cloth, clean cassette, published light gaps

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Solar Shades in Cicero Shores

Glare control that keeps the water in view

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Cellular Shades in Cicero Shores

Trapped air at the opening, for both Cicero seasons

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Zebra Shades in Cicero Shores

View and privacy on one roller, with real limits

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Roman Shades in Cicero Shores

Soft fabric for hard openings, stack height shown first

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Woven Wood Shades in Cicero Shores

Natural texture for houses that never felt suburban

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Blackout Shades in Cicero Shores

Dark rooms need edges closed, not just fabric

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Plantation Shutters in Cicero Shores

Their own frame, shimmed plumb in a settled opening

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Cafe Shutters in Cicero Shores

Bottom half covered, the old street canopy left visible

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Motorized Shades in Cicero Shores

Power where nobody was ever going to reach

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Custom Drapery in Cicero Shores

Fabric that softens the glass and quiets the room

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Valances & Top Treatments in Cicero Shores

A finished head where the hardware has to show

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Exterior Solar Shades in Cicero Shores

Stop the heat outside the glass, restrained for wind

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Retractable Awnings in Cicero Shores

Shade you can fold away before the lake wind builds

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Commercial Window Treatments in Cicero Shores

Storefronts and classrooms, specified opening by opening

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Skylight Shades in Cicero Shores

Tensioned overhead, powered before the ladder comes out

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Sliding Glass Door Blinds in Cicero Shores

Stack lands off the panel you actually use

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Panel Track Blinds in Cicero Shores

Wide flat panels, parked where the traffic isn't

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Sheer Shades in Cicero Shores

Daylight softened, with the privacy limits said out loud

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Pleated Shades in Cicero Shores

Simple folded fabric, sold for what it is

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Bamboo Shades in Cicero Shores

Real stalks, woven to width, lined if you want dark

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Dual Shades in Cicero Shores

Two layers, one opening, shimmed to a level line

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Top-Down Bottom-Up Shades in Cicero Shores

Privacy from the top, water still in the glass

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Cordless Blinds in Cicero Shores

No loop to hang, and the spring wears honestly

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Hardwood Shutters in Cicero Shores

Real stock where the trim deserves it, not in the bath

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Composite Shutters in Cicero Shores

Made for the damp rooms, braced for the wide ones

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Smart Home Shade Integration in Cicero Shores

Radios chosen for the decade, not the demo

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Blind Repair & Restring in Cicero Shores

Parts replaced where parts still exist

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Shutter Repair in Cicero Shores

Matched first, scheduled second, never the reverse

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Motorization Retrofit in Cicero Shores

Motors into heads that will take them, not all of them

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Outdoor Patio Shades in Cicero Shores

Tracked, weighted and anchored into something solid

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Office Window Treatments in Cicero Shores

Surveyed by elevation, controls placed before the furniture

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Healthcare Window Treatments in Cicero Shores

Cordless, wipeable, documented in the submittal

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Multifamily Window Treatments in Cicero Shores

One spec per plan, spares bought in the same run

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Where We Book Measures Near Cicero

Cicero Shores is one of several Cicero communities we serve. We measure and install across Cicero, Hamilton County, and surrounding areas.

Common Questions

Cicero Shores Window Treatment FAQ

Questions we hear most often from Cicero Shores homeowners.

No, and it's the one place we'd push back hardest. Cicero Shores records forty distinct construction years from 1967 to 2022 across 523 parcels, with floor area running 950 to 6,438 square feet. A phone quote would have to pick one of those vintages and would be wrong most of the time. Openings per house swing from about 7 on an early cottage to 60 on a recent rebuild, and jamb depth swings with them. We measure in the home, three points per opening, then price off actual finished width and finished height.
On main basin frontage we start at 3 percent rather than 5. Morse Reservoir covers about 1,500 acres, so a lakefront living room takes low direct sun plus a reflected component off the water surface, and a 5 percent weave that behaves well on an inland elevation can wash out here. A 3 percent fabric holds the view, cuts glare and slows fade. Say it precisely: NFRC attributes 40 to 60 percent of fading damage to UV, so the shade reduces fade on your floors and furniture rather than preventing it.
Almost everything, compared to a rebuild two doors down. A 1974 cottage in Cicero Shores has shallow jambs, an opening that may already have been reworked inside its original frame, and about fifty years of settling in the wood framing. Inside mount is a maybe, not a given, and the 1/16 inch per side factory deduction Lutron publishes lands on an opening that isn't square to begin with. We usually end up outside mount with faux wood or a roller on brackets set to the casing, and we show you the measurements that led there.
On a 2015 to 2022 rebuild running 35 to 60 openings with stacking door walls on the water elevation, usually yes, because nobody hand operates that twice a day for long. A sun sensor or an astronomical timer drops the shades ahead of the afternoon load instead of after it. The disclosure that matters: Hunter Douglas states PowerView battery life is about one year, so plan on changing batteries or ask about hardwiring at the design stage. Motorized runs $300 to $1,500 per window installed on national pricing.
They'll slow it. NFRC attributes 40 to 60 percent of fading damage to UV, which means the rest comes from visible light and heat that no fabric removes entirely. On a Cicero Shores water elevation with no tree line and a reflected component off 1,500 acres, a 3 percent solar fabric or a lined drapery is a real reduction, not a cure. We'd rather tell you that at the measure than have you compare a rug edge in three years and feel misled. Rotating rugs and furniture still helps.
No, and that's one of the sharper splits in the town. A back lot on Edgewater sits under fifty years of canopy and behaves like an ordinary 1970s ranch, where a woven wood or a light filtering cellular is plenty. A waterfront lot on the same plat has no tree line at all and takes reflected glare across open water. Same subdivision name, different solar load, different fabric. The plat spreads roughly 1.3 miles east to west by 2.4 miles north to south, so exposure varies enormously across it.
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