About Us

Window Works - Awnings Bergen Staff

Bergen Awnings does our best to tailor our products to fit your style; not the other way around!


We leverage our years of experience in the awning industry and a committment to exceptional customer service and quality into all of our designs. Our goal is to understand your visions and goals, and utilize our creative expertise to recommend custom shading solutions with long-lasting value.

Experience, Expertise, Excellence

This is our tag line at Window Works. These are not empty words that we carelessly toss around for advertising effect. We mean them, we live them, we are them. High standards, quality products and understanding your lifestyle are the keys to our success!
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Experience

Along with my wife and our cousin Bill we have owned and operated Window Works since 1982. This is our 4th decade together working our craft, sharpening our skills and broadening our knowledge week after week, year after year. Each day we discover what’s new in awnings and window treatments and we love facing challenging new installation and design challenges. Think you have a sun or rain problem, call us; we have likey come across it along our journey and have the right solution for you. If we dont, we will tell you so.

Expertise

A Danish physicist, Neils Bohr said: “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his own narrow field”. We love this quote and if you too have also spent many years in a profession you may be smiling and nodding right now. Think about it, together the 3 of us have earned expert status in our field through every single loyal customer we have serviced. And, as valuable, our staff represents many years of Expertise too. Jim has been an installer with us since 1994, Carlos has been an installer with us since 2007 and Kimberly graduated with a degree in Interior Design in 2007 and is with us since 2008. Adriana interned with us as a college student in 2013 and quickly thereafter joined us fulltime as our showroom coordinator. When we say Expertise, we exemplify it from owner to team member.

Excellence

While we are truly proud of our Experience and our Expertise, we are most proud of our Excellence. Why? Because being Excellent is a choice, it is a deliberate decision we make every day as a company. It doesn’t just happen because we were here last year or last decade. We consciously decide to be Excellent in the way we treat you when you 1st call Bergen Awnings, when we design the best solution for your application, when we install your products and when we welcome you back when you call again for your next project. We are grateful for your business and we choose to express our gratitude to you by being Excellent in all of our dealings with you. We look forward to hearing from you and for the opportunity to show you we mean what we say.

A full service awning company

  • Bergen Awnings provides the very best shading solutions such as retractable awnings, solar shades, commercial awnings, fabric structures and more to Northern NJ and Hudson Valley NY homes and businesses. We offer free in-home consultations and recommend custom-crafted solutions for YOUR needs. No "off the shelf" products. Isn't it time you maximized your outdoor living? Call us for an appointment NOW!

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  • We are family owned and operated since 1982 by Vince and LuAnn Nigara, and their cousin Bill Campesi. We design, fabricate and install custom retractable and stationary awnings, and interior window treatments.  Call us for an appointment NOW!

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  • Free Shop-at-Home consultations on Retractable Patio Awnings, Window Awnings, and Commercial Awnings -  complete with lettering and logo graphics.  We also offer Manual and Motorized Blinds, Draperies, Carpet, Wallpaper, Bedding and Reupholstery - click here to learn more about or interior products and services.  Call us for an appointment NOW!

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  • The installer is entrusted with being the last team member to interact with our customer; you need to trust in his ability and his professionalism. From the way he presents himself at “hello” to the way he carefully handles your property, through the technical installation and finally with the clean up and removal of the debris. You can be assured our installers will make you proud that you called us for your awning project  Call us for an appointment NOW!

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Our Team

Vince Nigara - Owner

Vince is our founding partner and in addition to overseeing business operations, he is responsible for awning sales.  Together with LuAnn and Kim, he also handles blind and shade sales.  Vince is famous here for coming up with solutions to the most challenging situations in window treatment and awning applications. 

LuAnn Nigara - Owner

LuAnn oversees our social media, branding and advertising, and is also responsible for interior design trade accounts.  Together with Vince and Kim, she also handles drapery, blind and shade sales.  LuAnn is the host and creator of the Window Works podcast "A Well Designed Business" found on Itunes.

Bill Campesi - Owner

Bill manages our installation team and is our lead installer for all interior projects.  Bill has trained many other companies' installers and is a Certified Somfy Motorization Expert, as well as a Certified Shutter installer.  His finest skill is his gift for detailed drapery and soft window treatment installations. 

 

Carlos Martins - Installer

Carlos has been with us since 2007, and is our lead awning installer.  He is a Certified Somfy Motorization Expert, and handles both awning installations and interior window treatment installations.  Carlos is fearless and creative, with great attention to detail and a nack for a clean jobsite. 

Jim Ferentchak - installer

Jim has been with us for over 20 years.  He is also a Certified Somfy Motorization Expert, and handles awning installations and interior window treatment installations.  Jim's many years of experience have been extremely valuable to us and our customers. 

kim serafim - Interior Designer

Kimberly assists LuAnn with interior design trade accounts and social media, and handles drapery, blind and shade sales.  Kimberly is an expert at both fabric and wallpaper selection and has our 2000+ library of fabrics and wallpaper patterns practically memorized!

 

 

 

Adriana Stapelman
- Showroom Coordinator

Adriana is likely your first contact here, delightfully and efficiently managing and communicating your project - from consultation to order status and installation.  She has been with us since 2013, when she first interned here in college.  We have received more compliments from our customers about Adriana than any other showroom coordinator in 30+ years.  We are confident you will see why!

Julian DeVonish
- installer

Julian has been with us since 2014.  He is also a Certified Somfy Motorization Expert, and a terrific help to Carlos and Jim. Having spent many months working with Habitat for Humanity before coming to us, his construction skills are very high for his young years. Julien is known around here for always being upbeat and pleasant everyday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't it time you maximized your outdoor living?

Reliable, timely, personable and respectful service. Only the finest, most innovative and reliable products. In-house, professional installation by our reliable and curteous skilled craftsmen.  Broad selection of sun control and outdoor living products for your home or business. 

Bergen Awnings provides the very best shading solutions such as retractable awnings, solar shades, commercial awnings, fabric structures and more to homes and businesses in Northern New Jersey (Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex, Sussex, Hudson, Union) as well as Rockland County New York.  We will work with you in other areas as well.