Refined, conservation-minded window treatments for the curving lanes of Colonia Solana and the palm-lined boulevards of El Encanto Estates. With roughly 350 sunny days a year, the steady UV through your oversized landmark windows is what fades original hardwood floors, fine furniture, art, and woodwork. Matt specifies plantation shutters, discreet motorization, layered drapery, and solar fabrics that guard the irreplaceable interiors of an El Encanto or Colonia Solana estate while keeping the daylight and the view. He measures, quotes, and installs every job personally, with the floors and furnishings protected throughout.
The right custom blinds Colonia Solana Tucson AZ homeowners ask for start with one job, protecting irreplaceable period interiors. With roughly 350 sunny days a year, the steady UV is what fades original hardwood floors, fine furniture, art, and woodwork through the oversized landmark windows that define a Colonia Solana or El Encanto home. The treatments below are what Matt specifies most often on a refined estate near Country Club Road and Camino Campestre, chosen to guard the room and read period-appropriate against the original architecture.
The lineup leads with plantation shutters for the oversized period windows, discreet motorization for the landmark glass, and layered drapery and Roman looks for the estate rooms, with dual shades close behind for UV protection.
Plantation shutters Colonia Solana homeowners ask for first, because a finely built shutter reads right against the original woodwork of a Spanish Colonial Revival or Mission-style estate. Built to the oversized landmark opening, they tune light and UV control one room at a time without altering the character of a significant home.
Many El Encanto and Colonia Solana estates have tall landmark windows you cannot reach by hand. Discreet motorized shades and drapery tracks tuck into the header, run from a remote or your phone, and connect with Alexa, HomeKit, or Control4 the day they go in.
Soft drapery panels and a Roman fold add warmth and dressing at the tall casements, while a solar or woven wood layer underneath carries the UV protection and glare control. The pairing reads period-appropriate by day and gives quiet light control by afternoon.
Dual shades carry a sheer and a solar fabric on one roll, so a window framing the curving lanes or a palm-lined boulevard keeps its daylight and view by day, then pulls to privacy and glare control by afternoon. The solar layer stops up to 99 percent of UV at the glass.
The Arizona side of Love Is Blinds runs through Matt as owner and operator, with each Colonia Solana quote, measure, and install personally his. He has worked Spanish Colonial Revival estates with oversized period windows, Mission-style homes set along the curving lanes off Camino Campestre, and palm-lined El Encanto Estates homes where the owners want discreet motorization that respects the architecture. His approach is conservation-minded and high-touch, with the original floors, woodwork, and furnishings protected while he works.
Every product is custom-measured for your windows and professionally installed by Matt Diaz.
Sized to the oversized period opening and finished to the original woodwork of a Spanish Colonial Revival or Mission-style home.
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Discreet motors for the tall landmark glass you cannot reach by hand. Hardware tucks into the header and pairs to Alexa, Google Home, HomeKit, and Control4.
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Natural reeds, grasses, and bamboo paired with soft drapery and Roman folds. The layered, refined texture these estate rooms are dressed around.
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One roll carrying both a sheer and a solar layer. Hold the curving-lane or palm-lined view by day, then draw privacy and UV control as the afternoon sun moves.
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Soft drapery panels sized to tall casements and arched tops, layered with a shade underneath for warmth by day and quiet light control by afternoon.
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A cushion of trapped air at the pane that slows heat through the oversized period windows, built to sit clean inside the original casing.
Explore →At your Colonia Solana or El Encanto consultation, Matt carries the whole sample case through the house, so each fabric can be read in your own light, set against your own floors and furnishings.
A 1930s to 1950s Spanish Colonial Revival estate with oversized period windows and original woodwork the owner protects carefully. A Mission-style home set along one of the curving Colonia Solana lanes off Camino Campestre. A palm-lined El Encanto Estates home near the boulevards where the owners want discreet motorization on the landmark glass. Three refined homes, three different conservation-minded answers.
Oversized period windows, original woodwork, and irreplaceable floors and furnishings the owner protects carefully. Matt orders inside-mount plantation shutters and solar layers sized to the actual opening, so the UV is stopped and nothing touches the original trim.
A refined home set back on one of the curving lanes near Camino Campestre, with tall casements and a formal main room. Matt layers soft drapery and a Roman fold with a solar shade underneath, so the look stays period-appropriate and the floors and art are guarded from the sun.
A home near the palm-lined boulevards where the owners want the landmark glass handled without visible hardware. Matt fits discreet motorized shades and drapery tracks that tuck into the header, run from a phone, and keep the morning sun off the floors and furnishings.
The single most valuable thing a window treatment does in a Colonia Solana or El Encanto home is protect the irreplaceable interior. With roughly 350 sunny days a year, that steady UV through the oversized landmark windows is what fades original hardwood floors, fine furniture, rugs, art, and woodwork over time. A solar or UV-rated fabric stops up to 99 percent of that UV right at the glass while you keep the daylight and the view, and a layered drapery plus shade treatment adds another quiet layer of control. Matt walks each room during the consultation, maps where the sun lands, and specifies the fabric that guards the pieces you cannot replace.
A discreet three-step process, and one owner carries it the whole way.
Matt arrives at the slot you booked with the full sample case, plantation shutters, solar and woven wood fabrics, and drapery and Roman options. The visit is discreet and unhurried, and together you go through each room to see how the sun falls on the floors and furnishings.
Each oversized landmark opening is laser-measured to the sixteenth, tall casements and arched tops included, so the treatments meet the original casing. The quote is itemized and conservation-minded, with no pressure and no deposit until you are ready.
Roughly two to four weeks later, Matt comes back and installs personally, motors synced to your Alexa or HomeKit, original woodwork and finishes protected, floors and furnishings covered, and packaging carried out, finished in one careful visit.
A sampling of the custom blinds, shades, and shutters we design, measure, and install for Tucson's historic midtown estates.
Love Is Blinds Arizona is locally owned and based in Oro Valley. Matt personally serves Colonia Solana, El Encanto Estates, and the surrounding midtown Tucson neighborhoods near Broadway, Country Club Road, Reid Park, and Randolph Golf, with free in-home consultations and no travel fee.
Matt personally serves Colonia Solana, El Encanto Estates, and the historic midtown neighborhoods nearby, along with the greater Tucson metro.
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