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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: THE CATCH WORD. In today’s modern world the word ‘energy efficiency’ stands out boldly. The earth-friendly lot see it as the red light on top of an ambulance with its incessant whirring. The more energy efficient a product, the happier the user. We are constantly reminded to either reduce or make do without a service to save energy…
Dress the Windows of Various Rooms Differently. Boredom is a terrible thing! The inertia that makes us incapable of performing tasks with any measure interest, much less perform it well, is mortifying, to say the least. Although boredom is universal, researchers haven’t defined it well enough to give it shape. Psychologist John Eastwood, Ph.D., of York University in Toronto, his…
CONSIDER YOUR WINDOWS BEFORE DECIDING. Living in Whitehorse, Yukon, has exceeded all our expectations in many ways – this city is beautiful, offering natural, scenic splendor in an abundance that only Canada can; rivers and rapids, snow-capped mountains, green forests with abounding wildlife – Yukon is home to the black bear, has a large population of moose, caribou, wolves, mountain…
