The Geist facing plats (Reserve at Geist, Valleys at Geist, Villages at Geist, Woods at Geist Overlook, Geist Bay Estates) Window Treatment, Fortville, IN

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Larger lot custom housing on the Fortville side of Geist

What is on the record for these plats is the name list and the price. Livingplaces records Reserve at Geist, Valleys at Geist, Villages at Geist, Woods at Geist Overlook and Geist Bay Estates among Hancock County neighborhoods, and Homes.com puts the Brooks-Luxhaven average at $636,000 with listings to $1.9 million. What is not on the record is build era, builder, home count or lot size. Hancock County's assessor data runs through Beacon and a GeoPower atlas, neither of which answers a parcel query, so no year built field could be pulled for any plat in this town. We would rather tell you that than print a decade we invented. The era gets established at the measure, from the trim, the depth and the square check.

The sourced style note matters more than a build year anyway: larger lot traditional and custom houses, with walk out and daylight basement plans on the ground sloping toward the water. A walk out lower level changes the job. It gives you full height glass and a door wall on a floor that in the rest of Fortville would carry short basement openings, and that lower level faces the same west water light as the main floor, an hour later and lower in the sky. Casing is the other sourced difference. At this value band, applied casing with a stool and apron is far more likely than the bare drywall returns running through the production plats on the north east side.

West water glass: what a Geist facing measure actually deals with

Start with openness factor, because on this side of Fortville it is the whole decision. A solar shade is rated by how much of the weave is open: 1%, 3%, 5% or 10%. On a west elevation with nothing but lawn in front of it, 5% is usually the right compromise between glare control and keeping the view you paid for. On Lighthouse Drive or Beacon Point Lane, with the reservoir throwing the afternoon sun back at the glass a second time, 5% lets too much through and the room still squints. We specify 3% on the water facing runs and hold 5% for the north and east side of the same house. Two openness factors in one house is normal here.

Then the physical constraints. A two story great room wall means stack height matters, because a roller or cellular shade rolled fully up still occupies several inches at the head, and on a unit over 120 inches tall or past a 4:1 height to width ratio Lutron publishes a larger light gap than its standard 3/4 inch per side. Widths are the other problem. Door walls and bow projections here run past stock sizes, which pushes a wide roller onto a heavier tube with a center support bracket, and that bracket gets planned before fabrication rather than discovered at install. Squareness varies house by house because these were individual builds, so we three point every opening and never reuse a measure between two that look identical.

What we specify on the Geist facing side of Fortville

The brief on this side of town is unusual for Hancock County: control a west water exposure without giving up the view that the $636,000 average value is largely paying for. That rules out anything solving glare by removing the window. It usually means two layers, a shade handling the afternoon and something soft handling the evening and the room. Indianapolis sits in IECC Climate Zone 5A with a July average high of 85.2F and a January average low of 20.9F, so the same west wall is a cooling problem in August and a heat loss problem in January. National custom pricing runs $250 to $2,600 per window, and a house at 24 to 40 openings is a phased job for most people. Order by elevation, not by floor.

The Geist facing plats in Fortville

These plats sit on the town's western edge toward Geist and the Hamilton County line, reached from Fortville Pike, 96th Street and 101st Street, with Fall Creek running through the same ground. It is worth knowing that Fortville is in Vernon Township in the north west corner of Hancock County, touching both Hamilton and Madison counties, which is why people routinely assume this is a Hamilton County address. It is not. Schools are the Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation: Fortville Elementary School, then Mt. Vernon Middle School and Mt. Vernon High School, which a local guide reports as 39th in Indiana. Homes.com files some of these streets under a McCordsville search even where the mail comes to Fortville.

Associations on the Geist facing side

An association is recorded for this side of town, but its name is not published in any source we can point at, and neither is any architectural review process. There is a wrinkle worth checking before you order anything visible from the street or the water: several of these plats carry Fortville mailing addresses while sitting outside the incorporated town, in unincorporated Vernon Township. No municipal boundary polygon for Fortville was reachable, so the address, the town limits and the taxing district do not reliably coincide. Practically, the document governing your window coverings is your own plat's covenant rather than anything the town publishes. We searched Fortville for a recorded rule on street facing covering color and found none, which is not the same as there being none.

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