Giving your homes a makeover or making new additions to your home gives rise to a range of mixed emotions. There is excitement as there will be something new about the house, but there is also anxiety as you have that tiny doubt about whether you will get the look you so desire. Selecting stuff for your home is time…
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How to Use Window Shades to Cool Your Room
Have you ever noticed that your rooms are much hotter than the outside? Even as you come in after a long walk in the scorching sun, the interiors of the room provide little relief. The reason is that your home isn’t insulated properly. Home-insulation supplements your heating-system and works with it to keep the house warm during those chilling months…
How Much Do Blackout Shades Cost?
When you are planning to buy new window treatments, there are so many things to consider including light blocking capabilities, privacy, insulation, and much more. But you might be more concerned about how it fits into your window décor budget. We always want to make sure a worthy investment will improve our quality of living. Setting the right budget can…
What Are Solar Shades?
Revamping or updating the look of your space is not only an expensive affair but a time consuming one. Right from re-painting the colors of the walls to changing some furniture, renovating a home space is not an option for everyone can afford, and even if they can it’s not an option that can be chosen all the time. While…
How to Combine Window Treatments in One Room
When you’re looking to change out your window treatments, selecting just the right colour and style can be overwhelming. However, you don’t have to choose just one — it might work to combine window treatments instead. Maybe you have a larger room with multiple windows, or perhaps you have one larger window and want to layer patterns and colours for…
Window Décor for Creative Upselling – Roman Shades Canada
Roman Shades to the Rescue Working to supplement tuition is tough, and most students on scholarships or burdened by student loans will testify to this often bleak fact. My parents, both doctors, have moved back east while they’re still young enough to make the transition. My sister and I are both students – she has begun her medical studies while…
Rolling Down Windows – The Roller Shades in Canada
Mechanism of spring loaded blinds A spring roller shade consists a hollow tube that consists of a spring inside. When tension of the shade is increased when the roller shade is pulled down. If you stop pulling down the roller shade, a ratchet and pin hold the tension on the spring on one of the ends of the roller shade.…
Multi Layered Window Treatments – Ideas For a Classy Home
Top Layered Window Treatment Ideas & Tips In today’s minimalistic world of decorating and design, less is considered more. The simpler the design, the more impressive is the effect. It is so with window dressings too. Most of us are content with a single dressing on our windows. We expect them to give their utmost in terms of function. If…
Window treatment and the Mosquito menace
Mosquito explosion prompts larviciding in Winnipeg WINNIPEG – Mosquito numbers have rocketed and the city plans to resume its battle with the pesky critters Tuesday. The City of Winnipeg’s mosquito traps held an average of 40 mosquitoes Monday, up from nine on Friday. The highest mosquito numbers are in the city’s southwest, where the average trap count was…
The Different Hues of Forbidden Puppy Love – Dual Roller Shades
Aided and Abetted by Shades. According to semiotics, it is said that windows are a spiritual portal through which the soul can roam but, for Addison, well into her teens, from Capreol a cozy mining town in Ontario, Canada, spiritual quests were the last thing on her mind. Apart from the occasional horoscope query that focused mainly on romantic opportunities,…