This is certainly a good time to talk about energy efficiency.  We have moved into the December days of cold.  I use a small space heater in my lower level family room so I can keep the thermostat on my furnace lower in other parts of the house.  But with the warm November weather I [...]

Allergies and insulation – that is the problem my customer requested I help her solve this morning.  And she wanted to solve both issues with the same product for her son’s bedroom.  We added in safety as well.   Hunter Douglas has developed a new double cell cellular shade called Architella.  There is a complete [...]

    When I first started in business 30+ years ago, we put up sheers and draperies at almost every window. Now we rarely hang sheers as an under curtain, but instead we often use a “hard” treatment.  This could be wood blinds, cellular shades, sheer blinds such as Hunter Douglas’ Silhouette shades, or roman [...]

How do you clean those blinds?  The problem is not only getting close to the slats but getting the dust off the blinds as opposed to just moving the dust around.   One of the best ways I think is to use a lamb’s wool duster.  Sometimes the blinds seem to have static cling but [...]

    Today we are installing wood shutters in a customer’s home.  She had originally been looking for new draperies, but after looking for a while, she just didn’t seem excited about the fabrics.  So she put off doing anything for almost a year.  When she came back in we decided to talk about different [...]

October is Child Safety Month and that includes safety with window treatments.  On the one hand you might say there really aren’t that many deaths of children with shade and blind cords compared to other illnesses, but really, isn’t one death too many??? And it is very preventable.   The issue is that children can [...]

  We had a great open house last weekend celebrating 32 years in business with many new and previous customers coming to see what is new for fall. Elizabeth Benton, our District Sales Manager from Hunter Douglas, came to help us answer customer’s questions about their new Hunter Douglas products.       We set [...]

As usual when I was watching a movie last night, I was  looking at the window treatments.  The couple is having a romantic dinner or they are having a family birthday party and I am looking at their windows.  I am probably one of a few who does that, but I enjoy seeing if I can recognize the fabrics, identify the styles, [...]

  I am a big fan of privacy and light control when I need it.  And it is easy to get privacy and light control with many types of shades that are on the market today.  Many of my customers have glass blocks in their master bath over the tub area.  It appears to give [...]

  I occasionally have a customer ask   ”Is there really a Jane Bateman”?  It seems like a ridiculous question to me  but with all the  chain stores, it probably doesn’t seem that ridiculous  to the customer.   We started this business 32 years ago by buying the window treatment and upholstery part of the business from Bud [...]