Shutters and Blinds in Sunnyvale, TX
Window covering is the one thing we sell that does not go on the floor, and it is here because light decides how everything else in a room reads. Shutters and blinds answer two questions at once: what people can see in, and how much of a July afternoon comes through the glass. Every opening gets measured in the house rather than taken off a plan. Installed by our own crew across Sunnyvale.
Shutters and Blinds done right, the first time, in Sunnyvale.
Homeowners across Sunnyvale, TX call All About Floors for shutters and blinds because every job runs with our own crew, no subcontractors, no surprise charges, and one number to call from first sample to finished floor.
We install shutters and blinds across Sunnyvale and the surrounding area, including Mesquite, Heath, Forney, Rowlett.
What's included
- In-home measure of every opening at three points
- Plantation shutters in 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5 inch louvers
- Faux wood blinds for baths, laundries and west-facing glass
- Real wood blinds stained to match existing millwork
- Cordless lift and wand tilt for homes with young children
- Divider rails and center supports on wide openings
- Z-frames and build-outs where window depth is shallow
- Outside mount for openings that are out of square
Built for Sunnyvale homes.
Sunnyvale is the easternmost town entirely inside Dallas County, formed in 1953 when Long Creek and three neighboring communities merged. In 1973, responding to septic tank failures, the town adopted a one-acre minimum lot size, and it never repealed the rule after sewer service arrived. The result is 16.79 square miles of houses spread across large parcels, with an average home age somewhere between ten and forty-five years. That is a different flooring problem from a new subdivision. These floors have been lived on, added onto and patched.
The one-acre rule is the single most useful thing to know about flooring in Sunnyvale. Because the town has held that minimum since 1973, you get older, larger single-family homes on generous parcels rather than a grid of matched subdivisions. Homes here average somewhere in the ten-to-forty-five-year range, and a lot of them have grown over time.
Those additions are the recurring issue. A sunroom, a bonus room or a converted garage gets built years after the original house, sits a fraction of an inch off it, and often has a different subfloor underneath. We measure elevations at every doorway before quoting, because a half-inch step nobody planned for becomes an awkward ramp or a chunky reducer at the end of the job. Designed in from the start, the same transition is invisible.
Demo is the other cost driver in an older Sunnyvale house. It is common to find carpet and pad over sheet vinyl, and sheet vinyl over an earlier layer of sheet vinyl, all of it bonded to a slab nobody has seen since the eighties. We would rather pull back a closet corner during the free estimate and look than guess. Knowing the layers up front is what makes the demo number honest instead of a change order once your furniture is already in the garage.
The newer side of town behaves differently. Stoney Creek sits on lots that generally start around two-thirds of an acre, with gated sections and greenbelt homesites, and Homestead Estates is newer construction as well. Those slabs are flat, the layouts are open, and the work moves quickly. Dallas County is still Blackland Prairie clay underneath either one, so expansion gaps and flatness checks apply regardless of the build year.
One genuine advantage of an acre: we can park the truck, run the saw outside, and stage material without living in your kitchen for three days. Free estimates with samples brought to the house, and we can usually start within about two days.
Shutters and Blinds jobs near Sunnyvale
What homeowners say
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Shutters and Blinds in Sunnyvale, questions
Our sunroom was added later and it sits lower than the rest of the house. Can that be fixed?
Usually, yes. Additions are common in Sunnyvale because the acre lots leave room to build, and they rarely land dead level with the original slab. Depending on the size of the gap we either build the subfloor up, feather the slab, or design a clean transition at the doorway. We measure the difference at the estimate so you know which one you are getting before we start.
What is likely under our carpet if the house dates from the eighties?
Frequently more than one layer. Carpet and pad over sheet vinyl, sometimes vinyl over an older vinyl, all of it bonded to the original slab. We would rather pull back a closet corner during the free estimate and see it for ourselves. Knowing the layers tells us the real demo cost, and demo is usually the biggest single variable in an older Sunnyvale house.
Do you work in Stoney Creek and the newer parts of town?
Yes. Stoney Creek lots generally start around two-thirds of an acre and the slabs are modern and flat, so those jobs move fast. Homestead Estates is the same story. We work out of the showroom at 10 Mustang Court in Forney, bring full sample boxes to the house rather than chips, and can usually get a job started within about two days.
Should I choose shutters or blinds?
Shutters are a fixture and blinds are a furnishing, which is the honest way to decide. A shutter is built to the opening, stays with the house, gives the cleanest closed face and has no cords. Blinds are easier to change your mind about, suit rentals and secondary bedrooms, and come in more finishes and slat sizes. Plenty of houses end up with shutters in the front rooms and blinds elsewhere.
Will real wood blinds warp in a Texas bathroom?
Very likely, and sooner than people expect. A bathroom swings from shower humidity to dry air several times a day, and thin wood slats cup and twist until they no longer close flat. The same is true over a kitchen sink and in a laundry room. Faux wood is the standard answer in those openings, and current faux slats are close enough to painted wood that nobody notices.
My window frames are shallow. Can I still have plantation shutters?
Yes. Depth limits how a shutter is mounted, not whether you can have one. Where there is not enough return for the frame to sit inside the opening, a Z frame brings the shutter forward onto the casing, or a build-out strip is added so the frame has something to fasten to. On very shallow windows an outside mount over the trim is used instead.
Flexible financing available
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Every floor type we install in Sunnyvale, TX
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Porcelain, ceramic and natural stone tile set over properly prepped slabs in Forney and across the Dallas metro. Free in-home samples.
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Carpet and pad for bedrooms, stairs and upstairs living areas, measured, seamed and power stretched throughout Forney and Kaufman County.
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