Window treatments in Auburn, AL

Auburn grew by more than three quarters between 2000 and 2020, and half its homes date from this century. Off North Donahue Drive, Yarbrough Farms has been building beside the Auburn University Club since the late 2000s and Camden Ridge is full of family houses; to the southeast, Moores Mill is custom homes around a private club. In houses like these the windows are good and the coverings on them often are not, and the rooms are big enough that the choice shows.

Cary Woods and Grove Hill sit in between: mid-century ranches under old trees a few minutes from campus, and 1990s brick and stucco in south Auburn, built under architectural controls. Where a neighborhood has design rules, a neutral color facing the street is the easy way through, and shades with a white or neutral back keep the outside consistent while the room side is whatever you like.

North College is the old Auburn: thirty-seven properties from 1848 to 1937, Greek Revival and Victorian, in a local historic district where changes to the outside of a house need the city's sign-off. Interior shutters and shades do not change the outside, so they are the natural way to treat those windows. Anything mounted outside, like a patio screen, is worth checking with the city first.