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Accessories |
On a more jarring note, an estimated 18,000 residential fires are caused each year by the careless or inappropriate use of candles...
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Area Rugs |
Blinds |
Designing with vinyl shutters.
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Country wood blinds with 2-5/8" beveled slats
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See how this unique rail radically improves both the appearance and function of your blinds.
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Covering Those Narrow Sidelight Windows
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A look at the fabric-covered valance for Aloouette® light louvers
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New motorization system for Remembrance Window Shades and new Designer Screen shades with wireless controls.
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Using a nickel for making adjustments to tilt bars on Alouette light louvers.
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A few outside mounting measuring and installation tips.
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Hunter Douglas Products Have The Inclination
To Cover Nearly Any Angle. Do You?
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Important measuring tip for PowerRise® shades.
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Silhouette® with PowerRise now available for Silhouette Quartette.
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Additional Adjustments For
Silhouette® and Nantucket™
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New ferrite bead for Luminette with PowerGlide.
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New options for Silhouette® window shadings.
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Bifold and Bypass track systems are becoming popular for customers that are looking for something a little bit different and upscale for patio doors - this new Valance a way to make Vinylbilt Bifold and Bypass Track shutters look even better.
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New Valance For Track Systems And Other New Options For Summerwind Shutters By Designer Blinds.
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A lesson in persistence and how to change channels on Silhouette with PowerRise.
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Changes make Luminette Privacy Sheers easier to install.
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Easy care and cleaning techniques for the latest innovation in window fashion.
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Ways to control light with Silhouette window shadings.
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A summary of Hunter Douglas control systems.
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New blinds tip from Designer Blinds.
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A valuable source of how to tips from installing blinds to restringing them, installing hardware to pleated curtains and more.
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Here's a little installation twist that will keep vanes aligned and perfectly in sync.
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Make sure windows are deep enough and brackets spaced for Country Woods® Reflections™ and Everwood X-Tra™.
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Heritance hardwood shutters are now available for half-circle arches in custom sizes. The fan-style shutter arches are available for stand arches or with rectangular shutters below the arch in a continuous opening.
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Heritance® Hardwood Shutters Are Now Available for
Perfect and Near-Perfect Arches.
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Here's how to fix one quickly if it's not so smooth.
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A revolutionary retractable cord operation
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Combine the versatility of Duette Duolite™ with the function of UltraGlide™.
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Plus - How to give your shade a massage.
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Duette PowerRise, EasyRise, EasyGlide, UltraGlide
Lightlines or Décor Blinds Any product with an over-the-rail mounting bracket |
Are you into shapes? As the weather gets warmer and the daylight hours increase, specialty shaped windows are likely to be more on your customers mind. Give them the ability to control the light, reduce the heat and protect their furnishings.
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A look at the wide array of Hunter Douglas options for specialty shaped windows including new options.
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An easy measuring techniques that works!
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Ways to hang shades in windows with narrow depths
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Get Smart! Your connection to controlling window fashions with home automation systems.
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Troubleshooting remote control operation and dealing with interference from fluorescent lighting and other sources.
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Improved Paramount track on Hunter Douglas verticals.
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Setting The Proper Tension on Duette Vertiglide Keeps it Operating Without Much Attention
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...And it keeps getting better! Here are some of the ways Hunter Douglas Country Woods® Blinds are clearly superior to other wood blinds. Click here for Wood Blinds
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The best energy efficient products for year round heating and cooling benefits.
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Natural Characteristics Make Every
Provenance Woven Wood Shade
A Unique Work Of Art.
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About Provenance™ woven wood shades.
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Installing Jubilance shades with an optional attached valance requires special attention.
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Upgrading Existing Luminette® Privacy Sheers®
To PowerGlide™
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Cleaning tips and warning about electrostatic wipes.
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Here's a new low-profile version of Silhouette that will raise your profile with a perfect solution for sidelight windows or french doors.
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Track options for Hunter Douglas Vertical Blinds
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Hunter Douglas Provides A Wide Array Of Choices In Vertical Blinds. Here's How To Keep Track Of Which Tracks And Other Features Are Available With Each Collection.
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Using satellite eyes with PowerRise® Products.
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An easy leveling technique for Summerwind Shutters.
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Control Heat Gain or Loss Faster Than A Speeding Bullet With New Duette PowerRise for Skylights!
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Apply the louvered look of shutters to
French doors and keep your lever handle.
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Alouette® is now available in longer and wider sizes. Plus details about new tandem side-by-side operation and magnetic hold-down brackets.
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Plus installation update
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Making adjustments for switch controlled motorized Silhouette. Features new type of switch.
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How to determine return length for inside mount blinds.
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How to measure for vertical or horizontal blinds and shades.
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Micro-pleat option for Provenance™ woven wood shades.
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Connecting the switch control version of the Hunter Douglas Motorized PermAlign™ track for vertical blinds.
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For All Cordlock Operated Top-Down/Bottom-Up
and DuoLite® Honeycomb
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The new Crosswinds Collection was designed to solve the challenges represented when you have a vertically-oriented window opening in the same room as standard rectangular window.
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Wider widths and new options for designer screen shades.
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Silhouette available in new specialty shapes. Installation of specialties easier than ever.
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With Hunter Douglas vertical blind specialty systems you'll want to throw a few curves in along the way.
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Installing New Silhouette Top-Down/Bottom-up with TiltAnywhere.
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Installing Alouette® Light Louvers™
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A step by step look at installing Luminette Privacy Sheers with PowerGlide.
Includes video demonstration. |
OF ALL THE motorized products offered by Hunter Douglas, the PowerGlide motor for Luminette Privacy Sheers is one of the easiest to install. Here's a step by step look at installing PowerGlide with a video demonstration as well
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The operational magic of PowerRise™ is now available for Vignette window shadings.
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New cordless operable sidelight shades available as narrow as just six inches. Choose from Top-Down, Bottom-up, or Top-down/Bottom-Up.
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Improved bar system for Alouette Light Louvers
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Adjusting the combined wand and cord for Luminette and some Millenia™ verticals
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Too Much Tension Can Lead To Trouble.
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Important safety tips.
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Duette® shades
Silhouette® window shadings Vignette® window shadings |
Duette EasyView Arch is a great way to cover arched
windows and still allow an open view when needed.
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Vane alignment and resetting
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Installing outside mount VertiGlide™.
Includes video. |
Installing inside mount VertiGlide™.
Includes video. |
Edge banding and other new options for
Provenance Woven wood Shades
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Measuring considerations and how they work.
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A common installation problem for Duette shades wit PowerRise can be prevented or easily fixed.
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A look at the assembly process. This is the most current information and reflects updated information about Duette PowerRise for Skylights.
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A look at the installation process. This is the most current information and reflects updated information about Duette PowerRise for Skylights.
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Easy and perfect templates in about five minutes - even for windows that aren't so perfect. An updated look at the yardstick compass.
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A close up look at Vignette® with PowerRise™.
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Recent changes to Duette EasyRise™ - the original special lift system.
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New adjustments for honeycomb Shades
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Making sure end treatments hang straight on Luminette® Privacy Sheers®
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Changing control slides on Silhouette® window shadings.
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Adjusting shades and shadings
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New Installation For Luminette® Privacy Sheers
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There isn't anything like Luminette Privacy Sheers®!
Plus - Ultrasonic Cleaning for Luminette® |
Skylight window coverings help reduce heating costs
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The headrail on EasyRise® and Easy Glide® shades in made wider than the ordered dimensions for outside mounts. Find out why.
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Great new enhancements to Heritance Hardwood Shutters.
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How to have a trouble-free installation of Vertiglide® every time!
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Most issue can be easily addressed during installation.
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Controlling condensation.
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Let The Window Decide.
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Recent improvements make Reflections™ operate better.
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Colors |
Color Chart with Color Names
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Color Definitions
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Contains three basic guidelines for making effective color choices that work for nearly everyone.
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Informative Articles, Forecasts, Tutorials & More from Pantone, Inc. - the world-renowned authority on color and provider of color systems and leading technology for the selection and accurate communication of color.
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Curtain Rods |
How To Convert Traverse Rod to One-Way Draw
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Glossary of Drapery Terms
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Installing CURTAINS UP Decorative Drapery Hardware
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How To Restring a Traverse Rod
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Curtain Rod Measuring - Rod Placement - Calculating Rod Width & Stackback - Glossary of Terms including Returns, Fullness, Overlap, Finished Width & More for Traverse Rod, Café Rod, Curtain Rod
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Decorating |
This bed drape creates a canopy when a double sided length of fabric is draped over three curtain poles ...
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Drapery |
Worksheet for calculating yardage needed for making curtain panels.
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Frequently asked questions about drapery linings. Washing instructions, using with silk and more...
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All about drapery linings.
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View drapery styles by category.
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Cleaning instructions for many fabric types.
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An Extra Touch for Drapery Rods
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Measuring up for your window treatments should be one of the first steps, and probably one of the most important, you make. Get this wrong and no matter how well you sew your curtains the desired effect will not be achieved.
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Sewing & Soft Furnishing Glossary
Acorn:
A decorative brass or wooden "handle" which slips onto the cords of a blind to cover the knotted ends.
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Tips & Tricks for working with printed fabrics.
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Quickly calculate how much flat yardage you need.
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Fabric |
Worksheet for calculating yardage needed for making curtain panels.
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Article includes information on cleaning Crypton Fabrics. Includes general cleaning and stain removal tips.
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Information for the care of Silk.
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Studies with ASCR show that nothing works better on Crypton than a powdered enzyme detergent, such as Tide® or Cheer®, mixed with water. The fabric must be rinsed ...
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This chart allows you to calculate how many yards are in a piece of cowhide.
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There is nothing unusual about the normal care of Crypton. Like any beautiful textile, Crypton must be cleaned on a regular basis.
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The origins of weaving silk velvet are to be found in China, and then in the 13th century in Italy, probably Venice, soon famous for it's "ciselés-cut" velvets...
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Fake Fur and it's nap can offer some new sewing challenges. Here you'll find how to avoid a nightmare and have the finished results you want! Following these procedures will prevent a "skinned" fur at the seam lines.
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Descriptive Encyclopedic information regarding Damask Fabric.
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Frequently asked questions about drapery linings. Washing instructions, using with silk and more...
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Stain Removal Guides, Fabric Care Topics, Reading a Label, Product Information & much more.
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Need to know what Cleaning code S means? Click here for a description of fabric cleaning codes.
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An easy access dictionary to fabric terms and definitions.
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If you have ever wondered what a particular fabric term meant, then this page should answer your questions.
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Definitions of fabric related terms
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Definitions of fire resistant, flame retardant and more.
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Photographic history of linen industry development in Belfast.
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Article about the history of ultrasuede and microsuede fabrics.
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Directions for making your own cloth napkins out of your favorite fabric.
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The Origin and History of Silk
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Information describing the silk fabric manufacturing process.
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The plush soft fabric most often associated with towels, and perhaps robes, has now emerged as a fabric of choice for many designers.
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Interesting history of silk fabric.
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Descriptions of all the different types of silk fabric.
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Brief history of duponts microfibre ultrasuede.
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Velvet is a type of tufted fabric in which the cut threads are very evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it its distinct feel. Velvet can be made from many different kinds of fibres.
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Furniture |
Does the furniture salesman know his stuff?
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Lets learn to rush a chair
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The History, Technology, and Care of Folding Screens: Case studies of the conservation treatment of western and oriental screens.
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25 Questions to ask the furniture salesman.
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Repairing Loose Furniture Joints
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Recover or Reupholster?
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General |
For Contractors, Handymen, Home & Auto
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Lighting |
Origin and history of the art nouveau style.
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This lighting glossary combines terms that are used in architectural lighting design and lighting simulation.
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Linens |
Caring for Down Pillows & Comforters
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Software
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Instructions for making your own full or queen sized comforter.
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This is the simplest of bedcovers and can be made in variety of fabrics from lightweight cottons to heavy quilted.
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Directions for making your own cloth napkins out of your favorite fabric.
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What is thread-count?
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Mirrors |
Museums |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The worlds largest and most prestigious art museums collaborate on AMN to provide information about their collections, exhibitions, and news.
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The Dallas Museum of Art recently celebrated one hundred years of connecting art and people. Established in 1903, the Museum features an outstanding collection of more than 23,000 works of art from around the world, from ancient to modern times.
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Founded in 1893, the Denver Art Museum has the largest and most comprehensive collection of world art between Kansas City and the West Coast, with over 60,000 works of art.
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For more than a century, the Harvard University Art Museums have been the nation's premier training ground for museum professionals and scholars and are renowned for their role in the development of the discipline of art history in this country.
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The Milwaukee Art Museum had its origin in two institutions, the Layton Art Gallery and the Milwaukee Art Institute. These two institutions joined forces in 1957 to form the Milwaukee Art Center.
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Welcome to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists.
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As one of the largest museums in the United States, the Philadelphia Museum of Art invites visitors from around the world to explore its renowned collections, acclaimed special exhibitions, and enriching programs, both in person and online.
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The Smithsonian Institution the world's largest museum complex and research organization.
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From its beginnings as a royal fortress to the public institution we see today, discover the Musée du Louvre: its role, its aims, and the expertise of the people who make it work.
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Newsletter |
Chippendale, Hepplewhite & Sheraton Furniture Styles
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If you're wanting a new look for your home but can't afford a total remodel, consider
replacing some of your home accessories.
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When decorating a room, most people overlook the most important factor: Lighting.
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Why not kick off the new school year by redecorating the kids bedrooms?
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Choosing Color for a Room
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Tips on determining the right drapery hardware for your next window project.
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Color predictions for 2004
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Color wheel and color schemes.
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Uptown, midtown or out of town, no matter where you live, a container garden can spruce up an ordinary setting. Vibrant, versatile and easy to care for, these gardens add instant interest to tiny terraces or large landscapes.
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Here are some ways to make your guestroom more comfortable, warm, and inviting. If you aren't expecting guests, these tips will work for any bedroom in the house!
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The Contemporary Home Furnishing style is unmistakably sleek, hip, funky, and chic.
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The holidays are a favorite time of year for decorating ones home to the hilt! Holiday parties, open houses, and casual family get togethers make it the perfect time of year to show off your home.
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Choosing a theme for the holidays makes it easy to harmonize the decorations throughout your home. Whether you want to turn your home into a winter wonderland
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If you are thinking about building a new house or adding on to the one you have, architectural details in a home are very noticed and admired. Architecture has a sense of history and class that no other type of home décor can possess.
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Quick and inexpensive tips for holiday decorating.
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Tips for Improving your living room space.
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Decorating any room can be challenging, especially if the styles your room displays are completely different.
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Quick room changes with major impact.
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Are you running a little late on your spring cleaning? It's not too late to get your home organized and clutter-free. Summer can be the perfect time to give your home a makeover.
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Creating an outdoor living space is no longer just about increasing property values or impressing the occasional guest.
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From shower curtains to shower draperies.
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The first signs of spring are relaxing, aren't they?
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Everybody knows that a dramatic change can come about from changing the color of your walls. But how many people have actually considered changing the shape of the space itself?
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The new colors for Spring 2005 include bright and vivid colors. Oranges and reds take the lead but vibrant greens and blues are close behind.
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All about Sunbrella fabrics for outdoor use.
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Decorating should not stop with just the furniture pieces in place. Embellish your decor with accessories. Accessories can add personality to your room and help unify your home by using color, texture, and shape.
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The newest tool in the decorator's kit may be an old one - wallpaper. After years of being eclipsed by painted finishes or colorless backgrounds, wallpaper is staging a comeback.
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Window coverings and energy savings go hand-in-hand.
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April showers have brought May flowers and we are feeling the effects of nature all around. Let's revel in the fact that the
outdoors are alive and vibrant and are truly inspirational.
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What's your decorating style? Traditional, Victorian, Contemporary, Country... This article defines popular American styles.
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Upholstery |
Upholstery Terms & More
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Before you can upholster a piece of furniture, you need a solid understanding of how it is put together.
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BUILDING AND UPHOLSTERING RESTAURANT BOOTHS
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You can make this ottoman and several other styles by first constructing the simple frame.
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How to Make Pillows and Cushions
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How to care for your upholstery fabric and increase it's life.
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Fabric cleaning instructions.
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MAKE A TAILORED COVER FOR A CHAIR
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The simple technique shown here is one of the most versatile sewing methods that upholsters use. With it you can close pillows and cushions, make repairs, sew down outside arms and backs, and cover some of your goofs.
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Installing a zipper in a pillow.
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This demonstration on how to apply jute webbing will be done on the top of an ottoman frame. In most cases it is installed on the underside of sofas and chairs in the same manner.
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Sewing round shapes presents a few special problems.
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Needing a guest bed my wife and I decided to use large cushions that when put together would make a queen size bed.
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Candle Safety