Window Treatment Terminology

Hey Again!

Folks, have you noticed that no matter what you want to buy or accumulate there are many names for every item out there. This can be unfortunate and sometimes very good as well.

Take Woven Wood Shades for instance. Are they grass shades, natural grass. Roman shades can be match stick shades. Some Roman shades are woven shades roll up and do not fold. At The Wood Blinds and Shutter Factory Online our Roman shades or Woven Wood shades have a fold up. Eco friendly window treatments can mean good for the environment or good for energy savings. Bamboo can be a woven shade or a flat slat window blind. Not to mention reed shades, natural fiber window designs, organic is another name for window fashions. You can look at real wood, faux wood, fake wood, polymer blinds and then you have the fabrics.

What's in name? Well, many great things are all related to differently from one aspect to another.

As always, we suggest you look at everything available. I mean drapes, blinds, wood, faux, shutters, honeycomb cellular shades, woven wood shades, woven grass shades yada, yada, bla, bla bla........

Once decided upon the perfect window covering for your space, then make your purchase with the knowledge that names can change or simply be refrased dependent on the seller, manufacturer and or product supplier.

Think names don't matter? Call for Susan when your sister's name is Suzanne. If you are younger than her and smaller you will know very soon the importance of a name.

Enjoy the weekend,

Big Foot Sightings Decline Due to Cellular Shades

Did You Hear!

Big Foot is BACK! Yep, up state New York says they've had several sightings of the notorious monster. Gosh, I hope he does not hurt anyone. He never really seems to.

Okay! Just poking fun guys. I know the folks in upstate New York have seen something. Honestly, I cannot say it is not a BIG FOOT! I also will not say my brother has not got BIG FEET.

Here's the real deal. Want to see just the neat part of BIG FOOT? Get the your cellular shades and woven wood shades with the top down option. Yes, a little more expensive but well worth the ability to light only the tops of the room without a full picture window view outside or back at you. Top down can also be ordered with bottom up which allows both normal and extra operating performance.

Yes, were picking fun at upstate New Yorkers, but HEY? we here in Texas still look for hitching post when parking. So, we all got our thing. No we do not have oil wells in the back yard. Sure wished we did!

God Bless, Have the best weekend EVER!

July 4TH Extravaganza!!!!

Hey Ya'll

July forth, Oh so many memories!..........tooo much homemade ice cream, too many orange crush soda pop's. Great barbeque and heat that would cause the sane person to catch the first flight to Iceland just for a hint of a cool breeze.

Independence Day in America. A great celebration that as I always stress, we take for granted. I say this because I myself do take it for granted. We must try and remember the reason for the Holidays. The 4th of July was created in recognition of the great blessing the United States received in the earlier years. Freedom from outside rule. Freedom's to let the people come together and voice ideas.

Love this country!, though I complain way too much like all the rest. I love that I can sell window treatments on the internet without being told I am restricted. Love! that I can walk down the street and have some better sense of safety than most of the people in the rest of the world. Love that I can afford and so can you the blinds and shades that let me see outside and close at night for privacy. Greatly appreciate the economic freedom's that tell me I am as capable as the next guy and can compete with anyone. Greatful for the competitors, because they keep prices some what in line. Only for so long in this country do we get these wonderful gifts.

Do that big cookout, fireworks display,lake weekend. Do the things we are so fortunate to be able to do! But, if your slow cooking Brisket.....BASTE with Italian Salad Dressing!.Becareful! don't let it burn....Remember! Barbeque is slow cooking not GRILLING!!!!!

And oh yeah, check us out for roll ease wood blinds and woven wood shades with easylift controls.

Traveling this weekend? Words to remember from preflight. There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but only 4 ways out of this airplane.

God Bless You, Be safe and Have Fun!

Brown Grass, Green Blinds

Hey Folks,

Yes, I know the summer is coming really eary and the grass is turning brown in spots, Maybe it's global warming, maybe it is historical.

One thing I can tell you is that our wood blinds in Catus Green will not fade like your lawn and they don't need water that cost....well you know what water cost!

Folks, it is going to be one of those trying summers.Gasoline prices are crazy and everything else follows, but you can still change the look of the old homestead with new wood window blinds. Want a change and maybe some relief from the cost of cooling? Then you should check out the new prices of the cellular shades sometimes called honeycomb cellular shades. These shades will reduce some of that penetrating heat that bears down on your home all day. They are great for letting in light from top or bottom and still keeping the sun beast at bay.

Less, face it. We have all seen the times go up and down, yet we are in a money consuming economy today. I cannot lower gas prices for you , but I can offer a fair priced product to reduce heat and or even just to enlighten the look of the household. Wood blinds are great for changing the tone. Woven wood shades are becoming quite the trend and can be purchased with a blackout liner.

Wish, I could help with the brown spots in the yard, but water is the key and it seems we get too much or not enough.

Jesus, loves you. The yard will survive. Take care of the home and the feeling inside, let the outdoors be the outdoors.

God Bless you all and may God PLEASE Bless this Nation

Don't be a shadow of yourself

You know for years I would awake every moring walk through the house, open the blinds and think WOW! What a great day! Then I would turn and see my shawdow on the wall, thinking...MAN! I gotta loose some weight. Despite reports I did loose weight, but I also changed window coverings. Times change and so do our needs. Letting in the morning sun is great unless you have to leave for work in ten minutes and you leave the blinds open for the rest of the day to heat the home and cause the A/C to run all day.

No Fear, Cellular Shades are here. Replace the current window treament with a cellular shade....stroll through in morning use the top down option to drop that shade a couple inches to get that great morning light and leave it! The rest of the day your palace will get light to a low level, not requiring so much A/C and from the outside it will not appear so closed off, like no one home. Not to mention you can get single cell and double cellular shades which will reduce the filtered light, so like me you will not notice the extra two pounds you might need to loose.

We also have a black out shade that will reduce light even further. You know woven wood roman fold shades will do the same basic thing and are avaialble with a blackout liner.

Regardless of your window covering, I wish you all the most ABSOLUTE BESTEST FATHERS DAY !

God Bless You,

Stay Cool!

Wood Blinds Customer Appreciation

We at The Wood Blinds and Shutter Factory Online would like to take a moment and say Thank You!

Nearing 10 years in the business of providing quality wood blinds, faux wood blinds and shades we realize that our customers are the driving force behind a successful business.

Sooo...to all the very many residential consumers who have purchased our products we say a resounding THANK YOU!

Who else buys wood blinds..........Well....Doctors, Lawyers, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Funeral Homes, Hotels, Motels, Lodges, Churches, Transmission repair shops, Salons, Designers, Decorators, Dentist. We sell wood blinds that have been installed in boats, airplanes, recreational vehicles of all sorts. Our customers have ordered for pet doors, patio doors, windows for the weekend and windows for everyday. Second homes, vacation properties, fine dinners and exquist places of dinning. High schools, private schools, offices ranging from the smallest golf driving range to major Banks across the nation. We sell Roman shades and Honeycomb cellular shades to places like Dry Cleaners, Donut Shops, Pizza Shops, not to mention the apartment complexes, Condo units every where from California to Florida, The Texas Gulf Coast and on very few occassions in Japan, Canada, Puerto Rico. We have customers in Government in Washington D.C., Stae and Local levels all across the United States. Boys and Girls clubs, camps, backyard gazebos and tiki huts. Ocean liners have some shades and blinds. Submarines typically have no windows and to my knowledge we have no submarine customers, but it is bound to happen.

Point being.....THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Enjoy the weekend, Blessings to each and everyone of you.

Who Let The Dog's Out!!!!!

Or should I say ....Who let the dogs stay In?

Guys and Gals.

I love the pooches much as anyone, but I gotta tell ya. One of our most common calls for blinds and shades failure is due to the familiy pet.

When my son was young we had a great beauty we called Christy. Short for Christmas Surprise. Christy was a young black and white Dalmation pup. One Blue one Black eye. We understood she would never be a show dog but her pup's might. Talk about a great Dog! Oh!!! Christy was balistic....Sooo much the fit lean machine that one will see in the shows. Sooo, much the apple of my son's eye. Yet, Christy, like many was curios, mischievious and just plain O'l wanted to be in the middle of things.

My point being...............Pets can be among the number 1 reason for blind and or shade failure. Oh, they never mean it and we can never really blame them, but !!! When we go away for the weekend or that Great Vacation...they feel sooo alone and even though we have someone come over to feed them and play with them....We'll....it is just not the same. The family pet wants the Family.

Okay, here's the deal. No one can warranty your blinds against pet destruction.

I can offer some thoughts.

Routeless blinds, will allow for the removal of each slat and replacement slat by slat. Still! If the one in question devours the strings...of said blind or shade...well...it's History.

My best advice..........Love um....take um to a friends or to an animal spa for those those short trips.

GEES...........we can't get upset with UM! We just Love Um Too Much!

Yet...we love our window treatments too!

Love and or leave Um...your wood blinds and shades will tell.

They don't mean it....Sooo, should you find your blinds and shades detroyed......we offer replacements. Be sure to get new color samples for fresh a compararison to the old existing color or to the wall color you now have.

It's tough!, but bite the bullet and forgive the family cat or dog. Were here and you can always replace the window fashion, but who can replace the Kid's favorite Pet?

God Bless You, Have The most Wonderful Week.

R.Miller

"April Showers Bring May Flowers"

"April Showers Bring May Flowers" ?

Maybe, but they can also lead to more water on the freeway in May when the rain continues into May. Writers have often used April to indicate the opening because of it's Latin origin "aperire" which means to open. Did you know April begins on the same day of week as July in all years and also January in leap years? Okay, we may not all be longing for those April showers this year, because we know it means the opening to higher summer cooling cost.

Have no fear! Honeycomb or cellular window shades can help you cut those higher cost by reducing the amount of heat coming through the window. Available in single cell and double cell fabrics, both styles have r- factors representing the insulating effect that can work like the insulation in your attic.

Let's face it. Heating is now more expensive because because of cold and cooling more expensive because of heat. We can't win even one season anymore. The car cost more because it saves gas and more if it waste gas. We can only begin to think, cut cost for the long run.

Cellular shades are available in many colors and have great options like easy lift to reduce cords and my favorite (top down bottom up) allowing for light and or view at two angles.

Hope your May flowers are beautiful and April will not bring too much rain.

Happy Holidays!

Every year one my friends says they know Halloween is near when the stores begin advertising Christmas sales. We'll that does seem to be the schedule these days and it really can throw us into a hurried tail spin to prepare for all the Holidays at one time. While not a huge supporter of Halloween, I do believe Thanksgiving is a wonderful Hoilday and opportunity to reflect upon all that the we (especially in the United States) have to be thankful for. As Turkey Day is fast closing we naturally turn thoughts to Christmas. Christmas or Christ Mass as once termed is a wonderful time to remember our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who chose to lay down his life for the sins of the world....a sacrefice for all men so that who ever would believe in Him would have eternal life in the Kingdom of God. Though not born on the December date celebrated Jesus is the reason for the season. As a company we to take this time of year to remind all that the Christmas season is drawing near and ordering should be done in advance to allow time for construction of your custom blinds and or shades in time for delivery before the Christmas Holidays. Production and delivery can take 10 - 15 days for the custom products and of course nation wide delivery is slowed this time of year due to the increased shipping volumes. So, whatever you need...be it wood blinds, faux wood, woven shades or the ever increasing popular cellular shades......Please visit the site and order samples today that you might make an informed purchase in time for the familiy gatherings to come this years end.

A last thought about the Thanksgiving meal.....Turkey Coma....that much anticipated but dreaded feeling to encompass one after hours of the aroma and preparation prior to the maybe twenty minute process of devouring the massive meal. Beware! becareful! pace yourselves and remember the eyes are always bigger than the stomach.

Blessings to you this week. Safe passage and may all enjoy this time of celebration.