The Shade Store

The Shade Store at 3324 M Street NW is a custom window treatment specialist in Georgetown’s M Street design district, adjacent to the bulthaup kitchen showroom in Cady’s Alley at 3324 and surrounded by the B&B Italia, BoConcept, and the other furniture showrooms that constitute the Georgetown design destination. The Shade Store provides the window covering specification that the Georgetown interior renovation project requires alongside the furniture and kitchen design resources of the surrounding showrooms.

The window treatment in the Georgetown residential context is a design decision with specific historical and architectural dimensions: the Federal-period Georgetown townhouse has the tall, narrow windows of the early American domestic tradition, and the window covering that respects the window’s proportions while providing the privacy, the light control, and the thermal performance that the current occupant requires must be designed to the specific window dimensions rather than selected from a catalog of standard sizes.

The Shade Store’s custom manufacturing capability, which produces each window treatment to the customer’s specific measurements rather than selling stock sizes, is particularly well suited to the Georgetown market where the historical buildings consistently produce non-standard window dimensions. The selection of more than 900 fabrics, covering the full range from the sheer voile that filters light while preserving the view through the blackout materials that the bedroom requires for complete darkness, provides the Georgetown client with the material options for every room and orientation.

The M Street design district position at 3324 allows The Shade Store customer to combine the window treatment selection with the furniture and kitchen design visits at the adjacent showrooms.

Hours run from 10am most days and 11am Sunday. The custom window treatment specification at The Shade Store Georgetown begins with the consultation in which the installer measures the windows to the exact dimensions that the custom manufacturing requires. The measuring service, which The Shade Store provides at no charge as part of the custom treatment purchase, eliminates the primary source of error in the window covering installation: the customer-measured window that turns out to be 3/8 of an inch different from the delivered shade.

The M Street design district context at 3324 allows the Georgetown client who is specifying window treatments to combine the shade selection with the furniture visits at the adjacent B&B Italia, Poliform, and Calligaris showrooms in the same afternoon. The window treatment is often the last finish decision in the room renovation, after the furniture has been specified and the flooring has been installed, which makes The Shade Store’s M Street position as the final address in the design district walkthrough particularly appropriate.

Hours run from 10am most days and 11am Sunday. The Georgetown M Street Shade Store provides the professional installation service alongside the custom manufacturing.