From a garage in 2003
Blindsource started in 2003, in Scott and Suzanne Draper's garage. There was no showroom, no crew, and no plan beyond doing the work properly and letting that be the marketing.
Twenty-plus years later it has grown into one of the largest window covering operations in Colorado, with a showroom on Jet Stream Drive and installers working from Woodland Park to Parker. What has not changed is who owns it and how the work gets done.
We have watched Colorado Springs grow through several building booms. We have seen design trends vanish and come back fifteen years later. We have seen a lot of competitors open and close. When you work with Blindsource you are working with a company that intends to still be here when your shutters need a hinge adjusted in 2038.
Professional measurement and installation
Measurement and installation are the two steps that decide whether a window treatment looks custom or merely close. Both are done properly, and both are covered in the price we quote.
Most whole-home installations are finished in a single day. A few large windows or specialty shutters run into a second visit, and we tell you which applies before you order rather than on the day.
We measure every opening ourselves
Every opening is measured at three points across the width and three down the height. Windows are rarely square. In older Colorado Springs homes they are frequently a quarter inch out or more, and in Manitou Springs considerably more than that.
A blind cut to the widest measurement will not go in. One cut to the narrowest leaves gaps you will notice every day. The only way to get it right is to know all six numbers and specify accordingly, and the only way to know them is to measure properly.
We specify for this climate, not a catalogue
Colorado Springs sits at 6,035 feet with more than 300 sunny days a year, winter humidity often below 20%, and daily temperature swings of 30 to 40 degrees. Materials that last a decade at sea level do not necessarily last a decade here.
So we specify solution-dyed and UV-stabilised fabrics on high-exposure windows, kiln-dried basswood rather than cheaper species, and composite instead of hardwood in wet rooms. It costs slightly more per window and it is the difference between a treatment that still looks right in year eight and one that visibly does not.
The consultation happens in your home
A colour in a showroom is not the colour in your living room. Light at 6,000 feet is different, your trim is a specific white, and the wall behind the window changes everything.
We bring the full sample range to you, hold it against your actual casing in your actual light, and talk through what each window is being asked to do. It is free, there is no obligation, and it is the only way to make these decisions with any confidence.