What Are The Benefits Of Wood Blinds?

If you are considering changing or updating your window treatments, you might be looking at wood blinds for your windows. However, unless you have looked at them before, you may be wondering, “What are the benefits of wood blinds?” Wood blinds are a classic way […]

What’s the Difference Between Blinds and Shades?

In today’s market, the variety of window treatments available can be overwhelming. There are wood and faux wood blinds, vertical blinds, cellular shades, vertical cellular shades, banded shades, Roman shades, London shades, and Austrian shades, just to name a few. So when someone asks “What’s […]

Do Cellular Shades Block Sound?

One question we get asked from time to time is: “Do cellular shades block sound?” Some of the reasons you might need to block sound are: • You are a light sleeper.• You have noisy neighbors at night.• You have to sleep during the day.• […]

5 Window Treatment Myths Get Busted

Perhaps you are considering new window treatments for your home. Perhaps you are hesitating because a well-meaning family member has convinced you that one of these window treatment myths are true. Perhaps you had a friend that had a bad experience with window treatments once […]

Motorization Monday

For years, personal trainers and business coaches have been using the term “Motivation Monday” or some variation because alliteration makes a phrase easy to remember (alliteration means having words that start with the same letter or sound). With that in mind, welcome to “Motorization Monday” […]

Window Covering Terminology

Sometimes people just don’t know what they just don’t know. That is not to say that people are not intelligent, it just means that not everyone can be as well-versed or well-informed as others. This is especially true with a niche industry like this one […]

Are Vertical Blinds Still Viable?

According to Wikipedia, vertical blinds were invented in the 1960s. As best we can tell, there have not been a lot of changes to the design since their creation. So this begs the question, “Are vertical blinds still viable?” When dealing with sliding glass doors or […]

Should I Use The Same Window Covering Throughout My House?

“Should I use the same window covering throughout my house?” is one of the most common questions that we receive. The short answer is no. At least that seems to be the “common wisdom.” Of course, you know what they say, “everything old is new […]