Custom Shades To Treat Your Window

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Custom shades are ideal window treatments suitable for a home or office. These facilitate to give a stylish and fashionable look to the interiors. The coverings can be easily customized to suit different theme and color scheme. These come in different colors, styles, materials and are designed to precisely fit varied window size. The awnings [...]

Top Down Bottom Up Shades

You must be thinking that what is top down bottom up shades, and why they are used? There are varieties of things which are used in your home and you cannot survive without these things. It will be really difficult to live in home without a bed or crockery and many other important things because [...]

It’s So Bright You Gotta Buy Blinds!

Imagine you have just moved into your first place. Gone are the days of your childhood bedroom, dorm rooms, and apartments. This place belongs to you, and with that ownership comes a lot of things you never though about before. The windows are bare and you are painfully aware of how little privacy you have. [...]

New Blackout Shades

We just added an new blackout shade called the SlumberShade. This cell shade runs up and down on an easy to install track. The rails have a backing to block all light seepage. The top has this fuzz material that sucks to the top were no light will penetrate there. The material is a made [...]

How to Save Energy with Window Coverings

How to Save Energy with Window Coverings

The windows in your home may be responsible for up to 25 percent of your heating and cooling bills. When it comes to heat (or cool) conservation, windows don’t do a very good job. But houses just wouldn’t be the same without them. So, if you want to make your windows more efficient when it [...]

ComforTrack Plus™ by Comfortex

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We just added the new ComforTrack Plus™ side track system by Comfortex to our Symphony cellular shade (honeycomb) line. This is the ultimate in energy savings and blocks out all the light. This is an excellent option for media rooms where no light is a must. Go to Symphony Cellular Shades by Comfortex to check [...]

Hunter Douglas™ goes Hunter Green™

Hunter Douglas goes Hunter Green

Hunter Douglas™ just started their Hunter Green™ program. Here are the details taken directly from Hunter Douglas™. Hunter Douglas™ as you know, is the world wide leader in creating innovative, energy-efficient blinds that save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They are trying to serve a larger purpose along with making homes brighter, more beautiful, [...]

New Product

We just added the new Comfortex Symphony Double Cellular Blackouts. This is a 3/8″ double honeycomb fabric made of the metal milar found in our single blackout cells. They look better, hang smoother and best of all, 99% energy efficient. We replaced the old Comfortex Matinee that had the gray backing with this new product. [...]

May Promotions

There has been only one change since April promotions and that is the Hunter Douglas Applause and Duette 1 cent Literise (cordless) sale is no longer available. To see all of this months promos, click here.

April Promos!!! Keep scrolling down the page to view all sales.

Hunter Douglas Duette Honeycomb Shades Sale*- 1 cent LiteRise Upgrade. Shows up automatically in Quick Quote. No Promo Code needed! Runs till April 30. Rebates, Rebates, Rebates- $20 on UltraGlide (quantity 4 max), $20 on EasyRise (quantity 4 max), $50 on PowerRise (quantity 4 max), $100 on Vertiglide (quantity 4 max). On your order page [...]

R-Value and Coefficient explained

This information comes from Hunter Douglas Window Fashions and is interesting. R-Value The R-Value is simply the measure of a blinds ability to resist the heat flow which is very important during the cool winter. The higher the R-Value, the more insulation the blind provides and the better at reducing heat loss. A standard window [...]

Comfortex Top Down Bottom Up Cordless

Comfortex, a leading manufacturer in the window covering industry, just introduced its new cordless top down, bottom up cellular (honeycomb) shades. If you can reach the top of the window, you will have a handle instead of that long cord to drop the blind down from the top. You also have another handle at the [...]

New for July

$5 off on all Hunter Douglas Duette and Applause Top Down, Bottom Up Blinds. We are still running a sale on our basswood and Fauxwood standard blinds. Some of the changes on that we are doing in order to get to the point of a new updated page design are: Remove all I-Frames from site, [...]

Cellular Shade and Honeycomb Blind Article

By Louis Lyons Honeycomb blinds or cellular shades was invented in the late 1970′s by Wendell Colson from Hunter Douglas product development. He came up with the idea during the energy crisis at that time. The blind was released in 1985 under the Duette brand name by Hunter Douglas Window Fashions. Since then, the cellular [...]