Window Treatment in Colony Woods and Nearby Zionsville Streets

Local Window Treatment Experience in Colony Woods

302 homes established 1976 to 1986 on large wooded lots

Custom traditional and colonial of the 1970s and 1980s, built individually rather than by a production builder, on lots averaging 0.57 acre with individual parcels running from 0.51 up to 0.98. Homes run roughly 2,070 to 5,238 square feet with the typical house at four bedrooms and 3,983. Forty one of the 302 are single story, about 14 percent, which is more than double Stonegate's single story share and reflects the era's willingness to build a real ranch on a large lot.

Ninety five percent of these houses have basements, the highest share of any Zionsville community in this file, so almost every whole house quote here includes below grade openings. Median sale over the last three years is $651,000, which is the most accessible price in Zionsville's custom stock. The association charges $19 a month, against $117 at Austin Oaks and $83 at Stonegate, and runs block parties, an official community garage sale and holiday events rather than a pool and courts.

Picture windows and sliders, moved by forty to fifty years

Twenty four to forty openings for a 3,983 square foot typical house, plus below grade openings on the 95 percent with basements. The shapes are the era's own: large fixed picture windows flanked by operable units, bay windows, sliding patio doors, and occasional clerestory or gable end accent glass. There's no two story stacked great room wall here, because that arrangement postdates the subdivision. What these houses have instead are tall single volume rooms with wide picture glass, which is a different problem with a different answer.

Squareness is where forty to fifty years shows. This is the most settled stock in Zionsville outside the Village, and the deviation is usually worst at the widest openings, which on these houses means exactly the picture windows people most want covered. Casing depth is the most variable in town and the most likely to have been altered, because insert retrofits are common in this vintage and each one takes usable depth with it. Ask about the history, and expect it to differ house to house.

Working with what forty years has done

The specification here starts with two questions that don't come up in newer Zionsville stock: what has been done to this opening since it was built, and what does the tree outside do in January. The first decides the mount. The second decides the fabric, and it's the one people get wrong by specifying from a single summer visit. Neither question has a subdivision wide answer, so we work house by house rather than applying one recommendation across 302 homes.

Streets, landmarks and schools

The street names are Governors Lane, Williamsburg Lane and Williamsburg Court, Maxwell Lane, Bennington Drive, Rockwell Court, Lynn Court and Mulberry Street. What the neighborhood has instead of a pool and courts is a social calendar: block parties, an official community garage sale and holiday events, supported by dues of $19 a month. Mature trees run throughout the subdivision, Pleasant View Elementary is within walking distance, and the Big-4 Rail Trail is close by. Downtown Indianapolis is about twenty minutes away.

A social association at $19 a month, with no guideline document retrieved

Colony Woods has an active association managed by Armour Property Management, and its character is worth noting because it's unusual here. Dues are $19 per month, against $117 at Austin Oaks and $83 at Stonegate, and what the association organizes is block parties, an official community garage sale and holiday events rather than a pool and courts. That fee level suggests a social and common area association rather than a heavily regulatory one. No published architectural guideline document was retrievable and no recorded window covering rule was found, which is a limit on what we know rather than a conclusion. If you're planning an exterior shade or an awning, ask for the covenants in writing first. The town code doesn't reach interior window coverings at any address in Zionsville.

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