Out here the larger lots and big west-facing glass take the full afternoon sun for hours at a time. When you want custom blinds Catalina AZ homeowners can rely on, you want the heat and glare handled and a fit that holds up to the dust. Matt measures and installs every job in person, on semi-rural custom homes, older ranches on land, and horse properties under Pusch Ridge.
Catalina is a semi-rural, exurban town north of Tucson and Oro Valley, running along Oracle Road out to Golder Ranch Road. Lots run larger out here, and the mix is older ranch homes that have sat on their land for decades, newer semi-rural custom homes, and horse properties tucked under Pusch Ridge. Big west-facing glass, dusty roads, and hours of full afternoon sun are just part of living here.
Matt drives these roads himself. He measures and installs every job in person, tells you straight which windows need an exterior solar screen and which just need a good blind, and builds every treatment to hold up to the dust.
Every product is custom-measured for your windows and personally installed by Matt.
Catch the afternoon sun outside the pane on big western exposure and covered patios.
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Real wood and faux wood blinds sized to the actual opening, easy to wipe clean of dust.
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A solid, low-fuss option that wipes clean of dust and never sags or tangles.
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Solar fabric for glare and heat on the rooms that take the late western sun.
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Matt drives the Catalina roads himself, turning off Oracle Road, running the length of Golder Ranch Road, and pulling up the long gravel drives out toward Catalina State Park and the horse properties under Pusch Ridge. As owner of the Arizona operation, he takes on each Catalina job from the first phone call through the quote, the measure, and the install, in person.
The acreage does not slow him down. When Matt walks your property, he already knows what the western sun does to big glass by mid-afternoon, and he tells you straight which rooms need an exterior screen and which just need a good blind.
Three property types come up again and again across Catalina, and Matt fits all three.
Big west-facing glass on a larger lot that takes hours of hard afternoon sun and glare. Exterior solar screens on the worst rooms and patio glass come first, with custom blinds or roller shades inside for privacy and the last of the low sun.
Homes where the same blinds have hung for decades and the aging glass lets the heat right through. Faux wood blinds and plantation shutters wipe clean of dust, with cellular shades added where an older window is doing all the work against the sun.
Manufactured or custom homes set out on horse properties where the western sun and the dust off the drive run the day. Exterior solar screens take the heat off the patio and the big glass, and dust-tolerant blinds or shutters handle the inside.
The whole job out here comes down to the western sun on big rural glass and afternoons that run 100 to 110 degrees. Catalina sees about 350 sunny days a year, and the afternoon light pours straight through wide-open west-facing glass on acreage homes for hours at a time, taxing a home's air conditioning and fading floors and furniture along the way. Stopping the sun outside the glass with exterior solar screens does the most work. Inside, custom blinds, shutters, and roller shades handle the low glare and privacy once the sun gets down near the ridge.
The desert afternoons where large west-facing glass on acreage homes takes hours of full sun.
What a heavy-gauge exterior solar screen can take off the cooling load in a sun-beaten west-facing room.
Caught outside the glass by an exterior screen, so floors and furniture on the sunny side keep their color.
A year working against the big west-facing glass that makes up so much of a rural Catalina home.
Three steps, start to finish, and Matt makes all of them.
Matt drives out to your property at the time you booked, samples in hand, exterior solar screens, custom blinds, shutters, and roller shades. You walk every room together and figure out which windows take the worst of the western sun.
Each opening measured to the sixteenth of an inch, sized to the real window instead of a stock guess. A straight, itemized quote written right there at the table.
Roughly two to four weeks later, Matt is back up the drive, every treatment fit and hung, the packaging carted off, the whole property handled in one trip out.
Love Is Blinds Arizona is locally owned and based in Oro Valley. We serve Catalina, AZ and everywhere within about a two-hour drive, free in-home consultations, no travel fee.
Nearby: Tucson, Oro Valley, SaddleBrooke, and Marana.
Answers to what Catalina homeowners ask most. Have a different question? Call (520) 645-3553, you'll talk to Matt directly.
Book your free in-home consultation. Matt brings the samples, measures everything, and gives you honest guidance, no pressure, ever.