Window Treatment Replacement Costs in Franklin, IN
Pricing ranges, what actually drives them, and what a written quote covers for Franklin homeowners.
The typical Franklin job is a 1990s or 2000s two-story with 16 to 22 openings, and most of them measure alike because you're looking at a nominal 3.25 inch vinyl jamb with a flat stop. The older houses around the square and in Martin Place are a different job, running 18 to 30 openings, since rooms were lit from two sides and the stair hall carries its own glass. Era moves your number here more than square footage does.
- 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): A restring, a cord lock or clutch swap, a new chain tensioner or a bracket reset normally comes in under the $250 per window bottom of the national custom range. On a headrail out of Franklin's 2,199-unit 1990s block, part of the job is finding out whether the part is still in production.
- Free in-home measure and written quote
Typical Window Treatments Costs in Franklin
Pricing ranges below reflect typical Franklin 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 Franklin 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 Franklin
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 Franklin
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. Franklin 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 Franklin House
The 3.25 inch vinyl jamb
Everything Franklin built after 1990 shows up with the same nominal 3.25 inch vinyl jamb and a flat stop, and that one detail settles most product questions before we start. Most cellular shades, faux-wood blinds and rollers sit inside it cleanly. Anything with a deep headrail or a fat roller tube can stand proud of the opening instead. The consistency is the good news, because you're not re-measuring a new condition in every room.
Martin Place changes room to room
The pre-1940 stock, about 10.6% of Franklin, has deep wood or plaster-lined returns with generous depth that is never the same twice. You can't carry a measurement from one opening to the next inside the same house, let alone from the front rooms to the back. That isn't difficulty for its own sake. It's why an older Franklin house takes longer to measure and comes back with more distinct sizes on the order sheet.
Palladian gables and boxed bays
The 1990s and 2000s plans in Southbrook, Stonybrook and Sugar Creek Heights came with half-round and quarter-round transoms, palladian gable assemblies over the great room, boxed bays off the breakfast area, and rear sliding patio doors. Each of those is its own decision, and they don't price like the plain openings do. Shaped units are built to a template and land in the expensive half of the national custom range, and a boxed bay is three or four units rather than one.
New plans at Young's Creek
Kingsbridge, Bluffs at Young's Creek and Westwind at Cumberland are the active new construction, and new houses are the least expensive ones to cover per window. Openings are square, jamb depth holds, and there's nothing to work around. The number climbs only when the plan carries two-story great room glass or a wall of rear windows. Buying at move-in also lets you order the place in one pass instead of room by room.
Three Franklin houses, scoped
The most common Franklin house we scope. Bedrooms and baths repeat and can sit at the low end of the national stock range. The great room glass, the breakfast bay and the patio door are where the money goes. If there's a palladian assembly in the gable, decide early whether you're covering it, because that single choice moves the per-window average more than anything else in the house.
The count runs high, often into the mid or upper twenties, because corner rooms take glass on two walls and the stair landing has a window of its own. Depth changes between rooms, so some openings take an inside mount and others go outside on the casing. Wood or faux-wood suits the trim. Phasing works well in a house this size if you start with the rooms you're actually in.
Sixteen to twenty-two openings, all square, most of them repeating. It's the simplest measure in Franklin and the one where stock or lightly customized product covers the most ground. Order it together and the per-window average lands in the lower part of the national range. The two openings that break the pattern are the rear slider and whatever tall glass the plan put into the great room.
Franklin splits so cleanly by era that the same window count prices two different ways. The newer stock is predictable enough to estimate closely. The historic core isn't, and anyone quoting an old Franklin house without measuring every opening in it is guessing at your expense.
What Matters at the Window in Franklin
What our crew has learned working in Franklin homes.
About Franklin Homes
Build era shares on the parcel record run pre-1940 10.6%, 1940-1979 25.0%, 1980-1999 28.2%, 2000-2019 33.1%, 2020+ 3.2%. Median home value is $231,500. Sharply divided by era. The post-1990 stock presents the standard nominal 3.25 in vinyl jamb with a flat stop. The pre-1940 stock in Martin Place and around the square has deep wood or plaster lined returns with generous but inconsistent depth - measurements cannot be carried from one opening to the next within the same house. 1990s-2000s production two story traditional (the largest single group); Italianate, Queen Anne, American Foursquare and Craftsman bungalow in the historic core; mid century ranch; small town vernacular frame housing on the original town grid Typical opening count: 16-22 openings for the dominant 1990-2009 two story stock, and 18-30 for the pre-1940 houses in the historic core, where rooms were lit from two sides and stair halls carry their own glass.
Where We Work in Franklin
We cover homeowners across Franklin near Johnson County Courthouse and courthouse square, Artcraft Theater (1924), Franklin College, Province Park, Young's Creek, Hurricane Creek.
Surrounding Areas We Serve
Our crew also covers Martin Place Historic District, Franklin Commercial Historic District, Franklin College Historic District, Southbrook, McCarty's Lakehurst, Stonybrook, Sugar Creek Heights, J B Ramsey, Kingsbridge, Bluffs at Young's Creek.
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. Mature and heavy in the historic core - the pre-1940 tenth of the housing stock sits on the original town grid under 100 year old street trees, and the Franklin College campus adds a large block of mature canopy. The 1990-2009 subdivisions on the city's edges have 20-35 year old planting, now substantial but not closed.
What Our Crew Sees in Franklin
Two populations. In the post-1990 stock: half round and quarter round transoms, palladian gable assemblies, boxed bays and rear sliding patio doors, plus two story great room glass in the 2000s plans. Active new construction includes Kingsbridge, Bluffs at Young's Creek, Westwind at Cumberland.
Who Actually Turns Up in Franklin
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 Franklin 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 whole-house order is a real number. Our lender partners offer terms that fit a range of budgets so you can phase the cost without phasing the install. Ask Franklin Window Treatments for current rates.
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 Franklin
Cost-related questions we hear most often from Franklin 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 Franklin enquiries during business hours.