Weekly Window Treatment News 2008-04-25

NOT JUST WINDOW DRESSING
North American Press Syndicate, NY
One of the simplest ways to reduce your heating and cooling needs and costs is by usingwindow treatments. Window treatments have a number of insulating …

Your Home & You: The challenge of window coverings
Ahwatukee Foothills, AZ
Shutters are the only window treatments that add permanent value to your home. Please note that shutters need to be custom made for each window. …

Wood blinds, shades, films can sub for heavy drapes
Baltimore Sun, United States
Woven wood shades are hot now, says Sue Sampson, co-author of the Window TreatmentsIdea Book. These shades are "an all-natural, green product, …

What Not to Do
Washington Post, United States
Don't use wallpaper or silk window treatments in a small or poorly ventilated bathroom. Oversize whirlpool tubs are increasingly outdated. …

10 Tips to Go Green
Affordable Housing Finance, CA
Fresh air from outdoors can enter through a building's hallways, passing under the doors or through tiny vents in the window treatments. …