Archive for August, 2008

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!

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This comes off a brochure I received from Hunter Douglas with a summary on the new Pirouette ™ Window Shadings. Pirouette window shadings combine the personality of a classic fabric shade with the ability to control light in an entirely new way. With a gentle pull of the operating cord, textured fabric in a palette of delightful colors transforms from contoured folds to opened vanes, allowing a softened outside view through the sheer backing.

The revolutionary Invisi-Lift™ system allows the horizontal fabric vanes to float gracefully in the window, while providing precise control of the light in your life. Create harmony throughout your room with three fashionable fabric options. Choose the simple and flirty look of linen, the more elegant yet chic look of satin, or the sleek and stylish look of crepe. With 44 fabric/color combinations, all available with your choice of 4″ or 5″ vane sizes, you can have it all with Pirouette ™ window shadings- versatility in both function and style, and the perfect finishing touch to every room in your home. Hunter Douglas ™ and Pirouette ™ window shadings. Your life, your style. These are very cool check them out.

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This is a brochure Hunter Douglas sent us and I felt will be useful to you. It contains all of their products that have the child safety feature in mind. There are safety features for all of their product but I listed only the ones that have no strings. All the others have strings and appropriate cleats, shorter cords and cord tensioners so that doesn’t mean they are excluded if you have kids but these are simple hang and forget items.

LiteRise by Hunter Douglas ™
LiteRise ™ cordless operating systems make it so you can simply use your fingers to raise and lower the product. It helps to reduce potential safety hazards, while also offering a more streamlined appearance. Available on:
Applause ™ honeycomb shades, Brilliance ™ pleated shades, Chalet Woods ™ wood blinds, Country Woods ™ wood blinds, Duette ™ honeycomb shades, EverWood ™ alternative wood blinds and Modern Precious Metals ™ aluminum blinds.

Motorization
A wide variety of Hunter Douglas window fashions are offered with motorized options that eliminate the lift cords and allow the product to be operated at the touch of a button. Options include wired and battery-operated motorization. They are available on:
Applause ™ honeycomb shades (new item coming shortly), Brilliance ™ pleated shades, custom vertical blinds, designer screen shades, designer roller shades, Duette ™ honeycomb shades, Luminette ™ privacy sheers, Provenance ™ woven wood shades, Silhouette ™ window shadings and Vignette ™ modern roman shades.

Cordless Lifting System
For enhanced safety, Hunter Douglas’s spring-like clutch lifting system features a decorative pull in place of a traditional operating cord to raise and lower the shade. Available on:
Designer Roller Shades.

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All two 2″ and 2 1/2″ horizontal blinds motors are on back order. Factory says they should show up today or tomorrow. Thanks for your understanding. They didn’t let us know until today so if you ordered one of these, thanks for your patience.

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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 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

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We just received a grade of an -A on a scale from A to F. This is something we are proud of considering the volume we have done over the years and the nature of the business. This means over eight years, and almost one million blinds sold, there have been only three reports to the BBB and all were resolved to the best of our ability and to the satisfaction of this important organization.