Window treatments in McDonough, GA

McDonough went from about eight and a half thousand people in 2000 to more than twenty-nine thousand by 2020, and nearly half its houses were built in the 2000s alone. Lake Dow and Lakehaven grew up around their lakes in the 1990s, and The Farm spread out on big lots, some close to three acres, in the Ola school zone. Houses from those years brought two-story foyers and great rooms with them, and twenty-odd years on, whatever went on their windows at the start is due for a rethink.

Around the square it is a different town. The McDonough historic district covers about two hundred acres around the courthouse, Late Victorian and early 1900s, and Lawrenceville Street runs northeast from the square with Queen Anne cottages, Craftsman bungalows and postwar ranches built between 1888 and 1960. Those are the houses where a plantation shutter looks as if it was always there.

McDonough has a real share of townhomes too, at newer communities like Bowers Farm. A townhome is its own kind of window job: mostly front and back windows, neighbors close on either side, and privacy and daylight that have to come through the same glass. Light-filtering shades that let the day in without showing the room are usually the answer.