Window Treatment for Devonshire

Local Window Treatment Experience in Devonshire

Nine sections, four styles, two generations of mid century design

The plat record is documented to the day, and the six year gap between the 3rd Section in August 1956 and the 4th in July 1960 is the line between two generations of design. Houses on the 1954 to 1956 sections and houses on the 1960 to 1963 sections were built to different expectations about how much glass a wall should carry and where it should sit. No builder is recorded against the plats, which fits: this is nine separately recorded sections under one name rather than one production run. No unit count was published either.

The four documented styles are split level, midcentury modern, contemporary traditional and ranch, in brick, on tree lined streets with generous yard space. The market position is strong rather than dated. The median list price is $450,000 with a $429,900 median sale price rising 4 percent year on year, which is nearly double the citywide median owner occupied value of $224,800. Two artificial lakes sit inside the subdivision with occasional waterfront properties, so a small number of lots have open water on one elevation while the rest sit under a canopy planted with the houses seventy years ago.

Minimal frames and almost no reveal

A ranch here runs roughly 11 to 16 openings and a split level 12 to 18 across two sill heights, by our reading of the recorded house types. The midcentury modern houses are the ones that need a different approach. Fixed panels set in minimal frames leave almost nothing to mount inside, clerestory bands sit above eye level where nobody reaches them, corner glass has no post to land a bracket on, and floor to ceiling openings onto a rear patio have no sill to rest anything against. Every one of those wants an outside mount or a ceiling mounted solution decided before the order, not discovered on install day.

The 1950s and 1960s frame and brick construction elsewhere in the subdivision gives narrow wood jambs with applied casing, and where aluminum framed units were fitted the track hardware takes what flat surface exists. On exposure, most of the subdivision sits under mature canopy on tree lined streets, which filters light rather than blocking it. The lots fronting the two lakes are the exception and they behave completely differently: open water in front of or behind them with no roofline in the way, taking unobstructed low angle sun plus reflected glare off the surface. Same subdivision, two very different fabric decisions.

What we specify in Devonshire

The architecture here rewards restraint, and the mounting conditions force it. Big fixed panels in minimal frames look wrong under a heavy top treatment and can't physically carry one, so the specification leans toward flat, low profile products mounted outside the opening with a clean head line. Where the house is a conventional ranch or contemporary traditional, the answers are more familiar. What we don't do is run one product through the whole house when the subdivision itself contains four different sets of openings.

Streets, landmarks and schools

Devonshire sits ten miles northeast of downtown in the Allisonville Road corridor, and residents describe it by the subdivision name and by the schools rather than by street names, which is why individual street names weren't part of the published record we work from. The two artificial lakes inside the subdivision are the internal landmark, and the Monon Trail is nearby. Glendale lies southwest, Nora northwest and Castleton northeast. The schools are Allisonville Elementary and Clearwater Elementary in MSD Washington Township, feeding North Central High School, with Cathedral High School and Heritage Christian School as the named private options.

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