New Construction Homes 2026-2027: The Window Treatment Guide
Every luxury new-home community delivering across Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade - with budgetary shading quotes per floor plan.
The keys came with bare windows
A new home from GL Homes, Toll Brothers, DiVosta, Lennar, Pulte or CC Homes is handed over the same way every time: 10-foot sliders, two-story foyer glass, a primary suite with a wall of windows, and not a single window treatment. South Florida's new-home pipeline is concentrated in a few dozen communities, and most of them are listed on this page. Exotic Shades & Draperies outfits new construction across the tri-county area with motorized shades, sheer draperies and blackout - priced per floor plan, sewn in our own Fort Lauderdale workroom, installed by our own certified team.
Buyers: send your community, model name and lot exposure for a budgetary quote before you close. Agents, designers and builder design centers: we prepare per-floor-plan pricing your buyers can use at the walkthrough - ask about our referral program.
What a new construction home needs
No wiring at the windows
Production builders rarely run power or low-voltage to the windows unless it was ordered at the design center, so most of our new-build installs run without any wiring at all: 14 Lutron Triathlon battery roller shades in a new Boca Raton home, and solar-charged Somfy motors on the 18-foot guest-house windows of a Boca Raton golf course home. Still under construction? Call before the drywall goes up and we specify the low-voltage runs with your electrician.
Sliders and two-story glass
The 10-foot sliders to the lanai take a motorized drapery track with ripplefold sheers or drapery that stack clear of the door. Foyer and great-room glass two stories up takes coupled motorized shades on one motor, or a Lutron system that puts every opening on a keypad, an app or a schedule.
Privacy on day one
Bedrooms and baths come first: a blackout layer behind a sheer, or a blackout honeycomb where the room must go fully dark. We quote the whole house from the floor plan and install it in one visit; standard turnaround after the measure is typically 3 to 4 weeks, varying with fabric availability.
The HOA and the street view
Some community associations ask for a uniform look from the street, usually a white or off-white backing on anything visible through the glass. We match the required backing on the outside and keep the colour and fabric you want on the inside. Send us your community documents and we will read them.
Palm Beach County new-home communities
Palm Beach County carries most of South Florida's luxury new-home pipeline for 2026 through 2028: thousands of homes between Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Lake Worth, Wellington, West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens. Figures below are the builders' published starting prices and community sizes as of October 2026; they change often.
Lotus Edge - GL Homes, Boca Raton
665 single-family homes on Lyons Road; builder pricing from $1.7M (Fiji collection) and from $2.3M (Bali). Closings under way, with the furnished model homes now released for sale. Floor-plan quotes available per model.
Agave Boca - GL Homes, Boca Raton
322 townhomes next to Lotus Edge, from $1.3M. Sales opening now, with build-out expected by 2028.
Lotus Palm - GL Homes, Boca Raton
About 525 homes, nearly sold out; final deliveries in 2026. Resale and move-in owners welcome.
Meravita at Boca Raton - Toll Brothers
70 estate homes at US 441 and Clint Moore Road, from $2.13M. Now selling.
Layton Pointe - Toll Brothers, Delray Beach
31 homes, $1.54M to $1.9M. Fully under contract, with deliveries through 2026 and 2027.
Delray Beach estate enclaves
Delray Ridge by Toll Brothers (5 homes from $3M, pre-selling) and the Estates at Morikami Park Road by The Spear Group (15 homes from $2.7M, 12 to 15 month builds). Call us while the ceilings are still open.
Valencia Del Mar - GL Homes, Boynton Beach (55+)
518 homes, $1.2M to $2.5M; first closings in mid-2026 and a sell-out expected over about four years. Next door, Valencia Grand ($1.3M to $2.2M) is in close-out with its model homes for sale.
Amara by DiVosta - Lake Worth
145 homes, $1.23M to $1.83M; now selling, with move-ins from October to December 2026. Floor-plan quotes available for the current models.
Whitmore Estates - Lennar, Lake Worth
$1.2M to $3.1M; actively selling with a few homes available.
Canter - DiVosta, Wellington
42 homes, $1.44M to $1.77M; coming soon. Artistry Wellington by Kolter (579 homes planned) follows in summer 2027.
The Estates at NOMAR - GL Homes, West Palm Beach
100 homes at 40th Street, $1.8M to $3M; now selling, with early move-ins.
The Reserve at Eastpointe - DiVosta, Palm Beach Gardens
75 homes from $1.39M; now selling.
Avenir - Palm Beach Gardens
The county's largest new-home pipeline, in one master plan off Northlake Boulevard: Apex (GL Homes, 337 homes plus a second parcel, $960Ks to $2M), Coral Isles (Kenco, 107 estates, from $1.69M), Orchid Isles (164 estate lots by DiVosta, GL Homes and Hearthstone, low $2Ms), Panther National (218 custom homes), Solana Bay (Akel, 118, closing out) and L'Ambiance (Kolter). For 55+ buyers, Esprit (Kolter) and Regency (Toll Brothers, 469 homes).
Artistry Palm Beach - Kolter, Palm Beach Gardens
Final move-in-ready homes from $2.17M; closing out.
Broward new-home communities
The Estates by Turnberry - CC Homes, Davie
151 estate homes on 20,000 to 25,000 sq ft lots at I-75 and Royal Palm Boulevard, from $1.72M. Construction under way since December 2025.
Marigold - Pulte, Davie
60 homes from $1.34M; now selling, with quick move-in homes available.
Hanson Preserve - Toll Brothers, Cooper City
38 homes at Griffin Road and SW 106th Avenue, anticipated from the $1.5Ms; first move-ins December 2026 to January 2027.
Saltgrass at Heron Bay - Toll Brothers, Parkland
52 homes from $1.4M; opened June 2026, with new home sites released.
Parkland Royale - Lennar, Parkland
Crown and Monarch collections, $1.14M to $1.63M; move-in-ready and under-construction homes.
Miami-Dade new-home communities
Greenview at Presidential - Lennar and BH Group, Aventura
103 homes on the former Presidential Country Club in Ojus: Estate collection $2.59M to $2.89M, Presidential collection from $2.99M. Closings since December 2025.
Palma del Lago - GT Homes, Miami Lakes
37 homes inside Royal Oaks, about $2M to $2.6M; under construction.
Pinecrest, Coral Gables, Palmetto Bay and Miami Shores
Most other luxury new construction in Miami-Dade is a one-off home on its own lot rather than a community. We quote those from the architect's window schedule and work with the general contractor while the ceilings are open - see the recessed tracks we set with the GC in a Boca Raton renovation.
Starting prices, home counts and delivery timing are the builders' published figures compiled from public sources in October 2026 and shift often. Community not listed? We serve every new build in the three counties - contact us. Buying a condo instead? See the new condo deliveries guide.
New builds we have already dressed
Frequently asked
Are new construction homes pre-wired for motorized shades?
Rarely, unless it was ordered at the builder's design center. Most of our new-build installations run without any wiring: Lutron Triathlon battery roller shades in a new Boca Raton home, and solar-charged Somfy motors on the 18-foot guest-house windows of a Boca Raton golf course home. If your home is still under construction, call us before the drywall goes up and we will specify the low-voltage runs with your electrician.
When should I book, before or after closing?
Send us your model name and lot exposure as soon as you are under contract and we prepare a budgetary quote from the builder's floor plan. We measure once the windows and flooring are in, usually at the final walkthrough or right after closing. Standard turnaround after the measure is typically 3 to 4 weeks, varying with fabric availability.
Can you quote from the builder's floor plan?
Yes. The builder's plan and window schedule give us every opening size, so we price the whole house per floor plan before you close. The final figure is confirmed at the measure.
Does my HOA control what I can install?
Some community associations ask for a uniform appearance from the street, usually a white or off-white backing on anything visible through the glass. We match the required backing on the outside and keep the colour and fabric you want on the inside. Check your community documents or send them to us and we will read them.
What goes on 10-foot sliders and two-story foyer glass?
Sliders take a motorized drapery track, ripplefold sheers or drapery that stack clear of the door, or a wide motorized roller shade. Two-story foyer and great-room glass takes coupled motorized shades on one motor or a Lutron system with the shades on a keypad, an app or a schedule, so nobody needs a ladder.
Walkthrough coming up? Start with the windows.
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