Selling window coverings since 2003
Blindsource has been selling and installing window coverings since 2003. Scott and Suzanne Draper started it as a family business, and it is still one: no call centre, no rotating sales force, no plan beyond doing the work properly and letting that be the marketing.
Today we measure and install across the Big Island, from Kealakekua and Kailua-Kona up the coast through Waikoloa and the Kohala resorts to Hawi, and inland to Waimea. We work out of your home rather than a showroom floor, because that is where the decisions actually get made.
Twenty-plus years in this trade teaches you what survives and what does not. We have seen design trends vanish and come back. 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 ten years.
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 plantation-era homes around Hawi and Kealakekua they are frequently a quarter inch out or more, and often 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
The Big Island combines tropical sun, humidity that rarely drops, and salt air that reaches well inland on the trade winds. Materials that last a decade on the mainland do not necessarily last three years 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. Island light is its own thing, 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.