Motorized shades & blinds in Hideout

A young town on the Jordanelle side

Hideout is a town in Wasatch County, strung along the hills above Jordanelle Reservoir and the Mayflower area, on the corridor that connects Park City with the Heber Valley. It has grown quickly, and many of the houses are relatively new, placed to take in water, ski-run or mountain views. Because so much of the housing is recent construction, we often arrive at windows that still have temporary builder coverings, or at great rooms whose glass was sized for the outlook first and for shade second.

West-facing glass and light off the water

A lot of Hideout lots face west or northwest, toward afternoon sun and, on some streets, toward the reservoir. Late-day glare on televisions and dining tables is a regular complaint, and in winter a bare hillside or a patch of ice can bounce still more light into the room. Solar screen shades in a darker weave are usually the starting point on those view walls: they take the sting out of the sun without erasing the reason the house was pointed that way. On wide or two-story openings, battery-powered motorized shades can drop on a schedule in the afternoon and lift again toward evening.

New construction and a growing neighborhood

Hideout still has streets going in and houses coming out of the ground. Custom shades have to be measured after the windows, trim and any drywall returns are finished, not from a plan set. If you're building, the useful moment to call is when trim is going in, so we can talk with your builder about bracket placement or a recessed pocket. Bedrooms in a brand-new house are often the first rooms we shade, with blackout shades so the room actually gets dark. Move-in timing matters here more than in older Wasatch Back towns, because so many buyers want the windows done as they settle in.

HOAs, second homes and the drive to town

Several of the newer Hideout and Mayflower-area subdivisions have design guidelines for how window coverings appear from the street or the water. We bring fabric samples with quiet, neutral backings and can group motorized shades so a facade closes to one even line. Some houses here are lived in full time; others are weekends and ski weeks, closer in habit to a Deer Valley second home than to a year-round house in Kamas. For those, simple remotes and optional away schedules are more useful than a complicated app. We plan measuring and installation around gate codes, construction traffic and the fact that parking on a steep new street can be tight.

What we tend to specify in Hideout

• Motorized solar shades on west-facing great-room glass
• Blackout bedrooms, often with an outside mount to close the edges
• Cordless or motorized shades in bonus rooms over the garage, where heat and glare build up
• Matching manual shades on the smaller, easy-to-reach windows so the house looks consistent from outside

Hideout sits between the Heber Valley and Park City, and we work those towns as well. If your property is closer to Midway, the reservoir's far shore or the highway toward Kamas, we'll still come look at the windows.