Lisle, Illinois
Blinds, Shades & Shutters in Lisle, IL
Entry sidelights are the window everyone forgets until they realize anyone at the front door can see straight down the hall. In the Village of Trees, we fit a lot of them.
Local knowledge
Blinds, Shades & Shutters in Lisle
A sidelight is a tall, narrow, usually fixed pane next to the front door, and it needs a specific answer: something slim enough not to crowd the casing, cordless so there is nothing dangling at head height in an entryway, and operable so you can still get light into a dark hall when you want it. The shade above is exactly that — a cordless operable sidelight shade, measured to the opening.
Lisle's housing runs from the older streets near downtown and the Arboretum out to the subdivisions along Route 53 and Maple Avenue, and the two-story entry with flanking sidelights shows up across almost all of it. It is one of the most common single-window calls we take in the village.
Serving Lisle since 1998
Free in-home consultation · professional measurement · installation by our own team · ultrasonic cleaning and repair on what you already own.
Where we work in Lisle
- Morton Arboretum
- Downtown Lisle
- Benedictine University
- Sea Lion Aquatic Park
- Green Trails
- Four Lakes
- Maple Avenue
- Lisle Station Park
What we see in Lisle
Every opening measured on its own
No two openings in a Lisle home are identical, and the ones that look identical usually are not. We measure each opening individually, note the hardware, the trim depth and the way the light falls, and specify from there.
- Free in-home consultation — samples brought to you
- Professional measurement of every opening
- Installed by our own team, never subcontracted
- Backed by the Hunter Douglas Lifetime Guarantee
Specified for this town
What we recommend most in Lisle
Three Hunter Douglas products that suit Lisle’s housing and light. We will show you the full range on site.
Recommended in Lisle
Cordless Sidelight Shades
Slim, cordless and operable — sized to the narrow fixed panes beside a front door, with nothing hanging into the entryway.
Recommended in Lisle
Duette® Cellular Shades
The insulating honeycomb is worth having on an entry wall, where the glass is often the coldest surface in the house in January.
Recommended in Lisle
Designer Screen Shades
For south- and west-facing entries where the low winter sun comes straight through the sidelight and across the floor.
Lisle questions
Asked and answered
How is a sidelight shade actually fixed in place?
It is screwed into the door frame — that is the only mount that holds properly on a narrow opening, and we do it on every sidelight we fit. The brackets are small and sit tight against the glass stop, so once the shade is up the fixings are out of sight.
What about the half-round transom above the door?
That can be covered too, as a fixed specialty-shape piece matched to the sidelight fabric. Whether it is worth doing depends on which way the door faces — we will give you a straight answer.
For sidelights, transoms and the awkward entry windows nobody else wants, Lisle has a blinds, shades and shutters sales and installation company that treats them as real work.