Cool Your Home with Shading Devices and Landscaping
A guide to using awnings, shutters and other window treatments, as well as trees and vines, to shade your home from the sun. Landscaping is a natural and beautiful way to shade your home and block the sun. A well-placed tree, bush, or vine can ... [... more]
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Overhangs for Shading Building Elements
Installing an overhang to the exterior of your home can help in shading and cooling. Exterior overhangs provide a practical method of shading building elements such as windows, doors, and walls. Overhangs are most effective at midday. This is ... [... more]
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Add Color to Any Room by Painting a Window Blind
Blinds don't have to be drab and colorless things you hide behind curtains. Add color to any window by painting your blinds. It's a fun and easy project that won't take long to accomplish. If your blinds are dirty, you will need to clean them ... [... more]
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Fashionable Horizontal Blinds
Information on some fashionable varieties of horizontal blinds. Think horizontal blinds are tired and boring? Not so! Today's horizontal blinds are more fashionable than ever, thanks to a wide assortment of colors that allow them to fit virtually ... [... more]
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The Balloon Shade with Gathered Top
Instructions for how to make a balloon shade with a gathered top. A balloon shade is a soft, blousy window treatment that can add a decorative flair to any room. It consists of soft scallops, as little as two to as many that will cascade across ... [... more]
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Varieties of Blinds and Shades
A guide to some varieties of shades and blinds, including standard roller shades, cellular shades, roman shades, horizontal blinds and vertical blinds. Roller shades, one of the less expensive options available to homeowners, are easily mounted ... [... more]
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Drapery Hardware Adds Artistry to the Window
Drapery hardware may be thought of as a supporting character at the window-hidden behind elaborate side panels and fabric top treatments. However, it's increasingly common to see decorative drapery rods, poles, finials, tie-backs, brackets and ... [... more]
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Redecorate Your Curtains or Drapes
Redecorate curtains or drapes with lots of style and very little money. If you have a very wide patio door with curtains or drapes to cover it, it can be very expensive to replace custom drapes of that size. So, I found away around it: Build in ... [... more]
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Replacing Curtain Rods Make for a Quick Decor Fix
Sarah Van Arsdale looks into and cautions about the blind spot of interior design. It's my contention, based on my years of experience wishing I could actually apply what I know about interior design to my own home, that everyone has a blind ... [... more]
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What to Consider when Designing and Making Your Own Curtains
The following article discusses a few key things you need to consider before you begin designing and making your own curtains. You've always had a flair for design and colour and your home certainly reflect that. Your choices of furniture, of ... [... more]
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All About Window Treatment Hardware
A glossary of the many types and styles of window treatment hardware. You know you need window treatments - also known as curtains by anyone who hasn't bought a house yet. However, every time you go shopping you feel as if you've entered another ... [... more]
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Answers to Window Treatment Questions
Answers to members' questions about blinds, shades, shutters, drapes, curtains, and more. The safest way to rewind a large shade roller is to leave on its brackets. Pull the shade material down. Remove the roller and shade from the brackets and ... [... more]
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