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Old Blinds: Recycling, Reusing, and Upcycling
Getting new blinds is exciting! You’ll give your home or business a fresh look. Whether your blinds are wholly shot and don’t function at all or you’re just ready for a new look, updating blinds [...]
The Best Way to Clean Your Roman Shades
Roman shades are a gorgeous choice for your home. You can select from a wide range of patterns, choose complete blackout or slightly transparent fabrics, and also select from a variety of customizable sizes. What’s [...]
Custom Window Coverings Vs. Low-Quality Blinds
Window coverings are perennially popular décor items for all kinds of households and businesses. These products fall into two main categories: stock products such as those carried by big-box stores and made-to-order custom products. People [...]
A DIY Guide for Fixing Bent Vertical Blinds
Vertical blinds are both attractive and practical window coverings that you can use to control your privacy and the incoming sun’s rays. These types of blinds are especially useful for covering oversized windows and patio [...]
Window Treatment Trends to Watch for in 2018
It is a new year, and that means that new trends are coming in fast. As with any area of interior design, what is “in” changes frequently for window treatments. This year, there is a [...]
Give your Room a Natural Look with Woven Wood Shades
In home decor magazines we are often bombarded with overly modern, stark white looks. Windows are covered in bright shades of white, and the whole house becomes quite contemporary. Depending on your own personal taste, [...]
Window Covering Alternatives for Replacing Vertical Blinds
Long gone are the days of traditional vertical blinds. These days window treatments are more versatile, interesting, and reflect your personal taste and home decor versus trends that are obsolete. From modest venetian blinds to [...]
The Historical Use of Awnings in the 19th Century
Did you know awnings used to be an important feature on street scenes across the country? Before air conditioning and tinted glass, people had to find other practical ways to keep the sun’s rays [...]
5 Reasons Vertical Blinds are a Good Fit for Your Home
Sun in your eyes? Whether you need to install window coverings in a new space or replace a window covering that’s no longer working, blinds are a popular choice. However, as soon as you take [...]
The Difference Between Cleaning Wooden and Metal Blinds
Which household chore do you dislike the most? While there are plenty that are tedious or even downright gross, few seem to bother people as much as cleaning their blinds. However, with the correct approach, [...]
Stained vs Painted Shutters – Which is Right for Your Home?
Part of what makes home design so fun is that there are so many decisions to make and so many options out there. This is also a big part of what makes home design feel [...]
Cordless vs Corded Blinds — Which are Right for You?
With developments in technology, a much greater array of window coverings are now available to you than there were even 20 years ago. Now, in addition to the corded blinds we all know, there are [...]