Window Treatment in Indian Lake and Nearby Lawrence Streets

Local Window Treatment Experience in Indian Lake

Indian Lake housing: a two year plat and sixty five years of rebuilding

Indian Lake was platted fast and built slowly. The recorded dates are 1959 for Indian Lake and Indian Lake 2nd Section and 1960 for Indian Lake 3rd Section, and the housing is predominantly one and one and a half story late-1950s and 1960s lake cottages and ranches, with later extensions and rebuilds turned toward the water. No builder is on record for any section, no home count or lot size is published at parcel level, and no price band was sourced, so the honest position is that we count and measure at the house. Citywide, Lawrence holds 7,137 units built before 1970, and Indian Lake sits squarely inside that block.

What the plat dates hide is the rebuilding. Lake lots in central Indiana get renovated, extended and replaced far more often than inland stock, and Indian Lake has had sixty five years to do it. In practice that means one building can contain original 1959 openings with shallow jambs and thin applied casing in the front rooms and modern drywall returns in an addition off the back, with a third condition where the two were joined. Winona Drive and Mohawk Drive can hold an untouched cottage and a full replacement four doors apart. There is no era shortcut here, which is why nothing in this community gets ordered off a plan set.

Water facing glass, mismatched additions and why nothing repeats at Indian Lake

The defining feature of this stock is the split between elevations. On the lake side you are dealing with a slider onto a deck, a wide fixed unit, or on a rebuild a run of gable end glass, which means large finished widths, real fabric weight and a roll direction decision. On the road side you are dealing with 1959 cottage openings, shallow jambs and thin applied casing, where the whole conversation is whether an inside mount clears at all. We measure both elevations as separate schedules and we do not carry a dimension from one to the other. On a lake lot with two additions, we do not carry a dimension between rooms either.

Settlement is the other constant. Sixty five years on lightly built lakeside foundations, plus additions whose openings were never matched to the original house, means three point measure on everything and a square check on every wide unit. Where an addition meets original work, the joint is usually the worst opening in the house. And say the light gap out loud before the order: Lutron publishes 3/4 inch per side on an inside mount Roller 20/64 with a 1/16 inch per side factory deduction, and any shade over 120 inches tall or past a 4:1 height to width ratio gets a larger gap than that. On a wide lake facing unit those are real numbers, not fine print.

What actually works on an Indian Lake water elevation

The product logic here follows the split. The lake elevation wants something that handles wide finished widths, resists moisture near a deck door and does not fight the view. The road elevation wants something that fits a shallow 1959 opening and costs sensibly, because that is where half your count sits and none of your view does. National ranges: custom treatments $250 to $2,600 per window, motorized $300 to $1,500 per window installed. We are insured and insured, and under IC 24-5-11 you get a written contract with the scope, the dates and the total price on any residential job over $150 before an order goes out.

Getting around Indian Lake, and where the schools sit

Six streets carry the community: Indian Lake Blvd N, Indian Lake Blvd S and Indian Lake Blvd W ring the water, with Mohawk Dr, Fawn Ridge Ln and Winona Dr running off them. Access is from Oaklandon Road, with the Oaklandon village just to the east and Geist Reservoir beyond that. Indian Lake itself is the only landmark inside the community, and because the water is fully enclosed by the subdivision there is no public shoreline to orient from, which is part of why the place feels separate from the rest of Lawrence. Schools run through the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, with Belzer or Craig at the middle level and Lawrence North or Lawrence Central beyond.

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