Who We Are

Covera Shades is a newer name. The people behind it are not. Between us we have more than twenty years of measuring, making and installing window coverings across Toronto and the GTA, most of it working for other companies, and it was there that we saw what this industry does to its customers.

We watched windows measured once and rounded down to a stock size, so the finished shade threw a bar of light down the jamb every morning for the rest of its life. We watched jobs sold by one person and handed to a subcontractor who had never seen the room. We watched quotes come in low and invoices come in high, with brackets, fascia and disposal appearing on the bill after the fact. We watched people spend an hour in a showroom being steered toward whatever carried the best margin. And we watched a lot of beautiful Toronto glass dressed in builder blinds that were never meant to stay.

So we started Covera to do the whole thing properly. Every opening measured at three heights and three widths and cut to the narrowest. Every piece made to those numbers, not to a size on a shelf. The person who measures is the person who installs. The proposal is the price, and it arrives in writing within 48 hours. Five years of warranty with the labour included, because if the fit is wrong it is our fault and our cost. And the samples come to your residence, held against your own glass at the hour you actually use the room, so the decision is made by you and not by a salesman.

That is the whole idea. Give people the best shades and the best service this city has seen, at a price that does not grow, and let the referrals do the rest. More than a thousand residences in, most of our work still arrives through someone who had us in their building, which keeps us honest about the only two things that matter: the piece must fit, and the room must feel finer with it than without.