We Have Added Beautiful Crown Valances!

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If you are looking for new crown valances for your sliding panel or folding panel doors, we have just added two new models that you may find interesting. The Woven Woods Sliding Panel doors add a classy touch to any room, offering the choice of a light filtering backing fabric to provide soft shade with [...]

Techniku calls it quits

Techniku, a leading motor supplier for the blinds market, is calling it quits. Probably to the floundering building market. A recent email sent to their vendors reads: In an attempt to keep the business going we have talked with several potential purchasers, but have not been able to reach satisfactory terms. While we continue to have [...]

New Phone Systems

Thanks for your patience. Everything is working fine except the 1-800 number. We posted our local number up and expect the 1-800 number to work today (hopefully). Thanks again. Please use our standard support e-mail address or our other contact methods.

Phone changes

We are updating our phone lines today so we may be down a few hours or possibly all day (thanks Quest). Worse case we will forward our phones to our cells. For the internet (we are going to a T1 line), I can remotely check it.

Hurricane Ike

Please put your prayers for the people of the Houston area. I am a native Texan, have friends there, family there, our Hunter Douglas supplier is there. It is a great city and the people couldn’t be better. God bless America.

CSV Code

The CVS Code is that 3 digit number on the back of your credit card. Although not full proof, it is another form of security because technically, you need to have the card in possession in order to have that number. Shades Shutters Blinds hasn’t used this feature frankly because we only had one “incident” [...]

Off for Labor Day Weekend

We will be closed Sat, Sun and Monday for Labor Day and hope you do as well. We will be back Tuesday morning. However we will be checking emails. Have a good one guys!

Website changes

Sorry it has been a while for posting but we have been very busy here at Shades Shutters Blinds. We just redesigned the entire back end to make ordering, order look up, status, orders to and from our factories, shipping etc. much more convenient for us and you. Always Free Color Samples We have been [...]

UPS, Fed Ex and ground freight

Hi. If you are ordering samples, a PO box address is OK. However, if you are placing a blinds order, we need a physical address. No PO Boxes. This can turn a simple order into a total nightmare. Trust us. Just got through with one of these and it was not fun. Secondly, if you [...]

Blinds not intended for all applications

Friendly reminder. I haven’t needed to post any policies and warranties since I started this blog over two years ago but, as stated in our policies and warranty pages, blinds that we offer are meant for actual windows that are on the inside of your location. Projection screens, room dividers, shutters used as door or [...]

New Back End Changes

Many bugs have been worked out. Main one was lack of estimated ship dates and tracking info. All orders have been placed but some customers will not get tracking info. I will try to get the back ones caught up today but am sure some will slip through. Do not worry. They are coming and [...]

New shopping cart

We just totally redesigned our shopping cart to make it much, much easier to track, place and organize orders. The look is much different than the old shopping cart. If you have suggestions to make it easier, better looking or find any bugs (hopefully not), really anything to improve it, let us know. I will [...]

Fourth of July

Yep, finally a Friday fourth. We will be closed Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I will be checking emails throughout the weekend. Have fun everyone!

On Vacation

Sorry its been a while since the last post but I finally got a vacation (since my 3 year old was born)! Went on a “Windows to the World” cruise that was given by the awesome Hunter Douglas team. My wife and I went on the Caribbean Cruise that took us around Cuba with stops [...]

Corridor Homes

This site is run by Kevin and is loaded with information on Designing, Building, Financing, Furnishing & Landscaping your Corridor Home. It provides tons of links, books and other information. Check out Corridor Homes today.

"HackerSafe" Site Hacked

First off, the picture to the left that says “Hacker Safe” is trademarked by Scan Alert. I just read an interesting article today on the Webmaster World forums about a site being hacked with the “Hacker Safe (trademarked)” logo on their site. Go to: Webmaster World to read the article and the posts about it. [...]

Blinds interview

This is a first of a three part series on how we started. I guess you can call this the start up stage. How long have you been in the Window Covering industry? Since around 1994 but did do some blind installation in college. I got into the industry full time in around 1995 and [...]

Thankgiving

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The day after I was still stuffed. My family pulled the blinds down and turn the big screen on for some football. I was eating leftover turkey and enjoying the nice day. Football was not as exciting this year as in the past. After closing the shutters and [...]

Blog Redesign

I just redesigned this blog from scratch. Please let me know what you think of the layout. It took all day and I am still learning about blog design. It isn’t as easy as regular HTML. Check out the new blogger Page Elements. It made adding new stuff like pictures and titles much easier than [...]

Shades Shutters Blinds.com updated!

Sorry it’s been so long since the last post. There have been major changes on our site since the last post. Out layout has totally changed. The new look makes it much more easier to navigate. Go to Blinds

New pages to check out

We are going to add Comfortex cellular shades with all the prints and blackout materials they have to offer. That should close the gap on products that people request but we do not have. I also posted some new pages to the site that you can check out. We are going to be pushing Solar [...]

Update October

First snow as of yesterday (10-14-07) for our city (Denver). Nothing sticked. Shopping cart is having slight troubles and the webmaster guru should be in this week to fix. Looks like Rockies will be going to the World Series and we will be closed on some of those days. Will keep you posted.

New Office Location

We finally got settled into the new office as of Monday Oct. 1st. It took three days to complete the movew and the phones were cut off for that amount of time. Thank you for your patience. We are still working on getting the new office set up. Computers and phones are up and running [...]

We are moving.

We will be moving to our new offices on October first. The new address is: Shades Shutters Blinds 405 South Wilcox #103 Castle Rock, Colorado 80109 Numbers will be the same.

Blinds

Sorry its been a couple of months since the last post but many things have changed since the last post. The website is finally done. Check out Blinds. We have a totally modern and new layout and ordering is much much easier than before. You can now order multiple options off of one page instead [...]