The same crown valances are now also available for use with the Folding Panel doors. Like the sliding doors, these offer a subtle, natural look that works perfectly with hardwood flooring or Asian-inspired design. They also come with a selection of backing fabrics and come in an array of natural colors that will fit into any room. While the folding doors have also always come with the option of a fabric-covered valance, the new wood crown valances offer increased coverage of the top mechanism and a more elaborate, finished look.

The new wood crown valances are 3 1/2 inches in height and can be fit to the exact width of your blinds. They are currently customized only to the Woven Woods Sliding Panel and Folding Panel doors, and are available for order at the time the blinds are purchased. If you have bought these styles in the past, however, you need not fear missing out on these fabulous new valances. While the older, fabric-covered style had to be ordered with the blinds, the new wood models can be ordered at a later date. This means that you will have the chance to give your blinds a try and to see how they look before committing yourself to the new, more elaborate crown valances.

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 discussions with various parties potentially interested
in continuing certain products, nothing is certain at this time. Therefore
(+ at this moment) we see no other option than to prepare for winding down
the company effective as per December 15, 2009.
Customers with open orders, please advise us if you wish for your orders
to be filled. If so, they will be shipped only on a pre-paid basis,
following payment of any outstanding account balances. Additionally, such
purchases will not be covered by a Techniku warranty, while customer returns
will not be accepted after this date.

Vendors with open purchase orders should immediately cease any shipments,
unless specific contrary instructions from management of the company.
During the wind down period that is expected to last two months, several
employees will be responsible for liquidating the assets, consisting
primarily of Inventory and Receivables, and pay on a pro rata basis the Company
outstanding obligations. As the owner has funded all operating losses,
there is no outstanding bank debt. The lease on our facility has a sixty day
termination clause, which matches the expected wind down period, and
therefore there is no extended lease liability. Employees, other than those
that will be responsible for the liquidation process, will be terminated on
December 15, 2009, and will be paid their accrued PTO.

While discussions with various parties continue, it is our intention to
provide you by January 30, 2010 with an update on either our discussions with
parties interested in various assets of the company, or on the liquidation
process.

We thank you for your business and support over the past, and are deeply
sorry that our relationship might end this way.

Please use our standard support e-mail address or our other contact methods.

Always Free Color Samples

We have been designing our colors to run dynamically to make it much easier to manage. I still love the static system we still use but with over 8000 product images, it is getting very difficult to manage. Plus, our web pages load simply too slow and we want to speed that up for you. Since the housing market is not what it used to be, we are also going to start doing some aggressive marketing and no, we will not bug you with emails. Mainly more advertising in the search engines and in local resources such as the Denver Post newspaper, yellow pages other sources. We have also been rebuilding our sample room to pull samples and mail them the actual day you order them. This will get the samples in your hands much quicker than in the past. Looks like we should be wrapped up with all these “side” projects by the end of the month. If you got caught with bugs with your order during the back end switch, thank you for your patience. We test and test before going live but sometimes the only way to tell is for us or worse, a customer to discover this during the actual order process. Everything we sell is blinds but there are tons of different options that we can and have missed a few.

Oh, one more thing, on every product page where it says more options, I added a link for parts and it will pull up a web page or a pdf to show you all the parts for that particular product so, if something breaks or comes missing, looking up the part will be a snap for both of us:)

Louis