Exciting Windows

Thermowood™ shutters offer a modern alternative to traditional window coverings. The insulating construction is moisture and fire resistant, providing greater longevity for the shutters and increased safety for homeowners. In fact, homeowners often find that Thermowood™ shutters pay for themselves through reduced heating and air conditioning costs! Thermowood™ shutters present a perfect choice for the environmentally-conscious consumer who requires light control, elegance, and privacy.

Thermowood™ shutters carry the standard Limited Lifetime Warranty against all warping, cracking, chipping, splitting, and peeling.

A simple solution to improve drafty rooms is to layer high R-rated fabrics and materials over or under existing window coverings. If you already have beautiful custom window fashions in place, how about new, vaned cellular blinds for a layer of heat transfer-stopping beauty. These blinds come in myriad light-controlling densities and color options certain to accent your windows while working hard to save you energy dollars. Other innovative shades and blinds and shutters also offer a vast improvement in heat-retention around your windows, and provide an added layer of beauty as well. Ask me about the incredibly gorgeous, high thermal quality fabrics and linings now available in creating custom draperies for your home. You simply won’t believe that such beautiful materials can also save you money, even in the short term.

Late summer is right outside your windows. That light out there can not only brighten your rooms literally, but also can improve the look and feel of your beautiful rooms. What better way to brighten you views than with new light filtering and light controlling window treatments that let as much or as little of the outdoors come inside your home as you choose!  Sheer draperies can filter sunlight, and add a warm glow to your home.  Shutters, shadings and wood blinds can all help bring light control and privacy - and by adding beautiful fabrics in drapery panels, top treatments and custom valances, you can have high function and high fashion.

Besides all of the practical reasons for freshening your home with new window fashions, what more reason need there be than that you can brighten your lifestyle by improving your views! There is just nothing that compares to the look, fit and feel of window fashions custom-tailored only for you, created from ideas we’ll put together right in the convenience of your home, where they’ll ultimately be seen and enjoyed.  Custom draperies, valances and top treatments, roman shades, shutters and more…the possibilities are endless at Exciting Windows!.

Of all the window treatments you could buy for your home, only plantation shutters add real value to your home. Just ask a realtor. That’s not to say that all the other window treatments don’t add value; they certainly make your home more attractive and livable but they won’t necessarily add to the appraisal value. I guess it has something to do with the perceived longevity and permanency of shutters that distinguishes them from other blinds and shades.

This is not necessarily why you should choose plantation shutters for your home, it is just and added bonus to a classic choice. It is true that shutters are a long term choice as far as window treatments go. They are not the cheapest option and they are a little bit trickier to install then, say, a roller shade. And, they will, with normal care and maintenance, last you a good long time. They may even get passed down with the home.

The use of shutters as a window dressing remains increasingly popular. There are many different styles and designs of all the shades that offer a look different from a window and a living room interior design style.

Venetian blinds have been used as a window treatment for many years. They offer complete control over the amount of natural and unwanted light entering a room. Venetian blinds are available in a variety of different materials, including the always popular for the use of PVC in humid rooms such as bathrooms and kitchens. Aluminum Venetian blinds have become an integral part of interior design room concepts that are available in a wide range of colors and finishes, the latest trends in aluminum blinds are the ones that have a metallic finish that offers a glossy surface that reflects light in hot and unusual ways. Venetian blinds are very easy to operate and the inclination by the louvers different amounts of light entering the room, this may be a practical way to reduce heat in a room, while also offering complete privacy from the outside and full of viewpoints within a room.

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Blinds shopping for your house may seem simple. There are many online shops offer a wide range of discounts the possibility of artificial wood and wooden blinds. Most of them can you better than the windows of shops on the retail sector. Indeed, many small window treatment with online sales. But before buying, make sure you’ve done your homework enough.

First you need to know what wood blinds, as opposed to faux wood blinds. Concise, wooden blinds slates are 100% wood. They are the most popular because it provides more space for your warm and elegant appearance, but is not suitable for use in the field of high humidity. They can also be fragile, so that your children and your animals. The price is higher, and its weight is lighter as compared with wood-like blinds or shutters so-called faux wood. On the artificial wood as an alternative to wood is mostly vinyl, PVC, or a combination of wood and vinyl as a part of. Their weight is much harder, but the prices are lower and is durable, so your children and pets and wet areas. Therefore, be sure to select the type that blinds for your room.

Secondly, from the window blinds is a “custom-made product, the blinds are” non-returned! “Although some online retailers say they have a refund policy. If you dig deeper, which is normally the truth is something that is simply a loan account for you to buy their products. This is nothing more than the free coupon to you to buy. Some shops may take two weeks to a month for the verification process and have your blinds or other substitute products to be delivered to their factories. Nobody would dull scenario to happen, because the band customer time and money for all the costs for replacement. And you probably do not like his neighbor to look through the windows at night!

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In interior design, the blinds found on windows and doors are major decorating elements. Blinds made of wood or those with a wooden look add a feeling of warmth and coziness to the atmosphere in the room. They provide privacy without looking stark. They have an inviting look and add beauty to the rest of the furniture in the room. Interior decorators prefer wood blinds for their warmth, versatility, and durability. They can be custom-crafted to suit the décor of any room.

Wood blinds give a natural look to the room with a graceful charm. They look much better than traditional curtains or shutters. They look pretty from both inside and outside the window. In addition, window wood blinds are good insulators from heat or cold. For humid areas like windows in the bathrooms or in the kitchen, faux-wood blinds, which look exactly like wood blinds, can be used.

Wood blinds are crafted from two different types of wood in most cases: Ramin wood and Bass wood. Bass wood is the most preferred since it has more distinctive grain and is stronger. It is also good for staining. Blinds can be constructed with a no-hole option that enables the blinds to make the room really dark. Using a 3-inch valance on these blinds is very decorative. Ramin is the less expensive alternative and generally uses a 2-inch valance at the top of the window to hide the metal head rails.

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Sounds obvious enough, right? And, in a way it is. I have seen many beautiful examples and many not-so-beautiful examples. The trick is to match up the decorating themes of a given room with the appropriate window treatment. The other choices are color, insulating properties, light control and privacy. By the way, I take window treatments to mean almost any window covering: blinds, shades, shutters and drapes. There doesn’t seem to be much consensus on what a window treatment is so I am taking the broadest definition.

Choosing the right blinds and shades can get a little more complicated than these few choices. For example there are motorized blinds, cordless, valance options, wand control and more. But for the purposes of this article I will stick mostly to the major themes as mentioned above. Once you have chosen the appropriate blind, shade, shutter or drape, you can decide if you want to add any of the convenience options offered by the manufacturer.

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After an extremely busy Hurricane Season 2005, and all the devastation that resulted, protecting your home from hurricanes has never been more paramount. Over the years, hurricane shutters have advanced tremendously in their design and practicality. The cost for shutters has remained fairly consistent despite the rising cost of aluminum in the world markets. After Katrina, Wilma, and Rita roared through the Gulf region, the demand for hurricane protection products has skyrocketed. There are basically five different forms of hurricane protection products: Storm Panels, Accordion Shutters, Roll-Down Shutters, Hurricane Tint Window Film, and Impact-Resistant Glass.

Removable Storm Panels provide the most cost-effective protection against the violent ravages of Hurricanes and Tropical Storms. Their rock-solid durability and easy set-up makes Storm Panels an absolute necessity anywhere storms and hurricanes threaten the safety of your property. .050″ and .063″ aluminum storm panels, as well as our 20-gauge galvanized steel panels, have been engineered to meet the most stringent wind codes in the country and have been reviewed and accepted by the Miami-Dade County product control division. These panels are designed to slip into an upper header track and fasten to a lower track with washer-based wing nuts. The tracks are available in a white or bronze finish. The panels can be removed from the tracks and can be easily stored in your garage or shed. Panels can also be attached directly to the wall without tracks by concrete anchor and stainless steel screws.

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