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I am so excited to share with you our newest Design Guide. This issue features some very notable people with fascinating careers that reflect their passions and their personal points of view (and because we’re a window coverings company we couldn’t resist titling it Point of Views!) Of course, it also features some of the most beautiful window coverings and home décor ideas you’ve ever seen!
Ann Lambrecht
Cari Meister
For me, window coverings are like fashion for your home. And like fashion, there are many important trends that my team and I track as we travel the world looking for the very best products to bring to you. One of the most important is eco-friendly materials and manufacturing processes. Families want to feel good about the products that they put in their homes, and Budget Blinds® has been at the forefront of this effort. Our private label Signature Series is eco-friendly and meets the high standards of Green Built Home for sustainable building and energy standards. Even the packaging we use is recycled and recyclable! Of course, one of the best ways to go green is to lessen your energy use. And again, Budget Blinds is helping homeowners conserve energy and significantly reduce energy costs. Window coverings are inherent energy savers because they can help cool your house in the summer and help keep in heat in the cold winter months. I predict that products like window film and outdoor shades will also be an important part of this trend. I may grumble when my kids nag me for the latest technology (especially when they nag me via text message!), but oftentimes technology can really make people’s lives better. Case in point, the Somfy® motorization that we can offer with most window coverings. Motorization isn’t just safer for kids and pets; it can also be a quality of life issue for older people and people with limited mobility. As you’ll see, there are a lot of great ideas and a wealth of inspiration in our Guide. And that’s just the beginning. When you schedule a free in-home consultation with your local Style Consultant, you can see these pages and products come to life in your own home! Sincerely,
Tracy Christman Tracy Christman Editor
P.S. As you can expect, there’s always something new happening at Budget Blinds. To make sure you’re in the know, become a fan on Facebook, Twitter or at YourBudgetBlindsGuide.com.
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Christine Ward
Keely Overbye
José Vido
The Stylemakers.
Ann Lambrecht designs custom jewelry under her eponymous line
featuring bold designs, rare gemstones and talismanic symbols. She sources her materials on her travels to the farthest reaches of the globe and imbues her pieces with an encyclopedic knowledge of the countries and the people who live there. See more at annlambrecht.com.
Cari Meister has written hundreds of children’s books, including the very popular “Tiny the Dog” series for beginning readers. She finds inspiration for her tales of rambunctious children and animals from her own life on a small hobby farm with her husband, their four boys, two horses and a very energetic runaway dog named Koki. You can find her books at libraries and major booksellers.
Keely Overbye is a designer, style arbiter and author of her designobsessed blog, “Luxe and Lillies.” She favors bold design elements that reflect the owner’s personality and layering objects that reflect
their interests. She lives with her boyfriend, a miniature Doberman and a pot-bellied pig in their small, yet wildly stylish, apartment. You can find Keely at luxeandlillies.blogspot.com.
Christine Ward is the owner and buyer for her Patina lifestyle stores, and designer and owner of a geothermal cabin in central Wisconsin. Her stores and homes showcase her love for evocative objects she collects in her travels. By retrofitting her cabin to geothermal energy, she hopes to serve as an example for sustainable living and green energy sources. Her stores are featured at patinastores.com.
José Vido is a third-generation Brazilian coffee grower and the owner of Morningstar Coffee. His dedication to green causes informs his company and his product, which is USDA certified organic, shade-grown, designated fair trade and roasted at his own facility. You can learn more about Vido and his company at morningstarcoffee.com.
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Shopping. We’re out to change how you buy window coverings. 1. Shop where your windows are. We come to you!
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2. Explore fabrics, materials, choices and features. Our Style Consultants have hundreds of product styles and colors. 3. Experiment with how window coverings can complement your existing furnishings, and see how different materials can change the lighting and mood of your rooms. Ask a Budget Blinds Style Consultant to show you how. 4. We measure so you get the perfect fit.
Automation is the Next Big Thing.
5. Professional installation ensures a beautiful view.
Most of the window coverings you see in our Guide can be fitted with Somfy® motorization. At the touch of a button, you can let in sunlight, adjust your shades to prevent glare, angle blinds to follow the sun’s rays or close your drapes for privacy at night. A programmable feature lets you preset when you want your window coverings to open or close— even when you’re away!
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custom window coverings
Decorate globally, access professionals locally. It doesn’t matter which corner of the globe is your inspiration, custom window coverings are within reach when you choose Budget Blinds. You’ll get friendly, knowledgeable service from your local Budget Blinds Style Consultant. Plus, professional measuring, installation and advice. And because Budget Blinds is the #1 franchise in the custom window coverings industry,* you have access to more products, more name brands and more style options, all at prices that reflect our company’s tremendous buying power. Have the beautiful world of custom window coverings at your fingertips —without ever leaving home. Schedule a free in-home consultation with Budget Blinds today.
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window dressing
draperies
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Draperies Take dramatic to a new level with custom draperies from Budget Blinds. The trend is layers of textures and materials that are finessed with decorative trim or beading. Our Style Consultants have thousands of fabrics in the latest colors, textures and prints. Go bold. Go beautiful. Go Budget Blinds. Valances The perfect finishing touch to your window coverings, valances can add height and visual interest to a room and play off the colors and fabrics in your furnishings. Valances can be soft and flowing or crisp and architectural. It all depends on your style. Hardware Like a beautiful necklace or a knockout belt, the hardware you choose ups the style quotient of your window coverings. Whether you want decorative and classic or modern and sleek, Budget Blinds has rods, rings and finials in every style and material you can imagine.
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roller shades
Solar Shades
Open to all the possibilities. There’s no limit to the looks you can achieve with roller shades. Beyond just stylish, our roller shades have functionality and durability built in. Roller shades look fresh on their own or add a dollop of fashion by layering them under drapery panels. Solar shades have plenty of style, and they serve an important function in protecting furnishings and artwork from the sun’s harmful rays. Plus, they can help keep energy costs low. Best of all, you don’t even have to roll up your sleeves to give your room a whole new look and feel. Your Budget Blinds Style Consultant does it all—from professional measuring to ordering to installation.
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Many of our products are eco-friendly and can be upgraded to be flame retardant.
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shutters
A study in the classics. Wood shutters are a classic window covering, yet their timeless elegance makes them the perfect choice for any style of home. Our real wood shutters are made from 100% North American hardwood. Shutters are available in stained and painted finishes that can be color-matched to your existing trim. Louver sizes are also a matter of choice, with 17/8” slats, 21/2” slats, 31/2” slats or dramatic 41/2” louvers. Your Budget Blinds Style Consultant is an excellent resource, ensuring a perfect fit for your windows with professional measuring and installation.
Add Motorization Motorize your window coverings with the use of a remote control or programmable timer. Depending on the window covering you choose, you can raise and lower coverings, tilt louvers or vanes and set timers to control opening and closing.
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wood blinds
Love is blinds. If your home took a personality test, what would it be? Cheerful and sunny? Mellow and masculine? Citified and sophisticated? What’s amazing about our wood blinds is that they complement so many different looks, effortlessly. And they’re available in so many finishes and colors. Faux wood blinds give you all the richness and presence of wood, and their durable construction makes them the perfect choice for high-moisture areas like kitchens and baths. They’re durable, warp-resistant and easy to clean. It’s easier than ever to get the look you want with. Your local Style Consultant brings great ideas and choices to you when you schedule a complimentary in-home consultation.
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Custom color-matching available for both wood blinds and shutters.
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Samples shown are representations only. These and additional colors, materials and finishes may vary.
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eco-friendly
Going green has become second nature. JosÉ vido - Coffee importer, global responsibility innovator
Living in tandem with nature. Beautiful Tandem™ woven woods are created from bamboo, grasses, jutes, reeds, rattan and renewable resources. Exclusively from Budget Blinds.
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woven wood shades
Today’s reco: eco. Recommending eco-friendly material for home design is a trend with staying power. Furnishings that tie us to nature and speak to honest, simple beauty look right, right now, whether you live in downtown Manhattan or the mountains of Colorado. And as always, Budget Blinds is leading the way. Our woven wood blinds are made from natural renewable resources from around the world. So your window treatments aren’t just looking good, they’re doing good, too.
Add a tailored look to woven woods with colorful edge bindings.
Samples shown are representations only. These and additional colors and materials may vary.
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innovation
Illusions. Another innovation only from Budget Blinds.
Technology isn’t just making us more efficient. It’s helping create products that work harder and do more, too. Signature™ Illusions® Transitional Shades offer incredible style and light control by performing like two shades in one. Signature™ Illusions® is a combination of opaque and semi-opaque fabrics that can reveal or conceal depending on your mood. When the opaque vanes are overlapped, light is filtered into the room through the exposed sheer sections (as shown on opposite page). When you want privacy, simply adjust the opaque vanes to cover the sheers.
High style meets hi-tech Keely Overbye—Style blogger, trend spotter “It’s exciting to see design making technology better and technology transforming how things are designed.”
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window shadings
Silhouette® Window Shadings Silhouette® window shadings feature an S-shaped vane suspended between two sheer panels for the ultimate in lighting control. When fully raised, Silhouette® disappears like magic into a fabric-covered headrail.
A Budget Blinds exclusive, Signature™ Illusions® See things in a whole new light. Our innovative product line offers the privacy of a window shade with the softened view of a sheer. Our shades let the sun in without allowing harmful UV rays to wreak havoc on your furnishings and artwork.
Your Budget Blinds Style Consultant can consult, measure, order and install your window coverings for you, making it a sheer pleasure to shop.
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Beautify your home with pillows, rugs, mirrors, accessories and more from Budget Blinds.
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kid-friendly window coverings
Safe Haven
Featured: Motorized Signature Murano Fabric Blinds ®
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cari Meister - Best-selling children’s book author, mother of four “Children are just naturally curious. Safety features give moms like me peace of mind.”
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Latour® Trilight® Latour® TriLight® gives you the best of both worlds. It features a single window covering that combines a sheer pleated shade and a cellular shade. The result is a beautiful window treatment that does double duty by providing energy efficiency, UV protection and glare reduction.
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Signature Murano Exclusive to Budget Blinds, Signature Murano® horizontal blinds have all the light-filtering properties of fabric with the ease-of-use of traditional blinds. Its innovative design resists warping and its easy-care polyester fabric is treated with a topcoat that repels dust and dirt and can easily be spot cleaned using soap and water.
Child-safe Options Because cords pose a potential strangulation hazard to small children and pets, Budget Blinds recommends cordless treatments like shutters, motorized roller shades and cordless cellular shades for homes where small children are present because they increase safety by eliminating cords. Ask your Budget Blinds Style Consultant about these cordless upgrades today.
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energy efficiency
A Conserve-ative Approach Christine Ward - Retailer, geo-thermal home designer “I go a million miles an hour. Then I conserve energy everywhere else I can.”
Window wisdom. Any window covering by its very nature can help you conserve energy. But certain styles perform spectacularly when required to endure extremes of both heat and cold. The product featured in our stylish cabin at left recently received honors for Most Innovative Overall Design in the “Green” Products— Health and Environmental Safety category from the Window Covering Manufacturer Association (WCMA).
Duette® Architella® honeycomb shades
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soft shades
Show your softer side.
Add Motorization Motorize your window coverings with the use of a remote control or programmable timer. Depending on the window covering you choose, you can raise and lower coverings, tilt louvers or vanes and set timers to control opening and closing.
Luxurious, graceful Roman shades provide a contemporary look or a look of pure elegance. With so many fold options, such as balloon shades, soft cascading folds, tear drop or relaxed folds, Roman shades are a timeless treatment that adds beauty and elegance to any room.
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pleated and honeycomb shades
Duette® Architella® honeycomb shades Hard to believe that something so airy and light can do so much heavy lifting. Duette® Architella® honeycomb shades use a state-of-the-art honeycomb within a honeycomb design to offer one of the industry’s highest level of energy efficiency, with the potential to reduce energy costs up to 50%. Duette® Architella® and other shades featured can be configured to fit unique window shapes. Energy Efficient Cellular shades help insulate your room, making your energy use more efficient, and less costly.
Pleated shades Like a couture suit, our window coverings feature crisp, pleated fabric that’s beautifully constructed to hold its shape. Pleated shades allow sunlight to softly filter through, giving rooms an appealing glow. Choose the Top-Down/Bottom-Up feature that allows shades to be opened by lowering the top down or by lifting the bottom up, providing unparalleled light versatility.
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Honeycomb Honeycomb shades have both light-filtering and room-darkening qualities. And while their design looks simple on the surface, look closer and you’ll see that cellular shades not only look great, they also have insulating properties that make your home cool in the summer and warm in the winter. With energy-saving efforts on everyone’s mind, what could be sweeter? Child-Safe Cordless shades meet the highest safety standard for keeping children and pets safe from harm. And they can be motorized for even greater convenience.
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panel tracks, panel drapes & verticals
We track down the best. Budget Blinds travels the world tracking down the latest and greatest styles so we can bring them to you. If a manufacturer introduces something innovative and new, you’ll find it at Budget Blinds first. Panel window coverings are some of the hottest products on the market today. The beautiful fabric panels are actually attached to the track, allowing them to glide easily from side to side on large windows or slider doors.
If you have a large window or sliding glass door that needs a covering for privacy and light control, but you want easy access too, consider vertical blinds. Vertical blinds stack cleanly to the side and out of the way when opened and block light when closed. They are available in a variety of materials, including: fabric, sheer fabric and easy-care vinyl. Be sure to ask about S-shaped vanes that mimic the fabric folds of draperies.
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décor accents
Fashion under foot. Complete your look with our great collection of custom area rugs. From contemporary to traditional styles, Budget Blinds can help you find the perfect area rug to fit your décor. We carry the best brand names, including Shaw Living.® Plus, we carry hot new brands like our Fibreworks® natural rug collection, featuring beautiful Sisal and woven wood area rugs. All of our area rugs are available in classic shapes and sizes, including round, square, traditional rectangular and runner styles.
Add architectural interest. Tableaux® Faux Iron is an innovative, 100% eco-friendly product that gives you the look of wrought iron or leaded glass but is made from lightweight materials. Customized to fit any size or shape, Faux Iron has a variety of applications, including doors, cabinet inserts, ceilings, arches, skylights and air-conditioning grills. You can even display them on walls as art.
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Pillows make it pop. Just as functional as they are beautiful, pillows are the ultimate accessories. They may be small, but they bring a lot of style to your living room, bedrooms and family areas. Love the fabric of your drapery treatments? Have custom pillows made to match. Budget Blinds has thousands of fabrics to choose from. Add a ruffle, crystals or buttons to make it yours.
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outdoor living
OUTDOORliving Let a Budget Blinds Style Consultant show you how new advances in fabrics and materials make outdoor living easier and more beautiful than ever before.
Outdoor Curtains Create the same designer touches outside that you have inside your home. Our beautiful outdoor drapery panels are UV-protected to stand up to the sun’s harmful rays and come in a variety of colors, styles and fabrics. . Outdoor Solar Shades Soften the sun’s glare and keep cooler with sun-blocking solar shades. They offer superior UV protection and are available in a variety of colors, patterns and opacities.
Tableaux Faux Iron Get the distinctive look of wrought iron or leaded glass with environmentally friendly Tableaux® Faux Iron window decor. This lightweight, rust-proof material withstands sun and moisture and stays looking beautiful for years. Tableaux can also be used on doors, arches and skylights.
Your Budget Blinds Style Consultant can consult, measure, order and install your window coverings for you, making it a sheer pleasure to shop.
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outdoor shades & retractable screens
window film
Protect your investment with window film. Window film from Budget Blinds protects furnishings from premature fading by blocking up to 99% of harmful UV rays. Available in commercial, residential and security grade, window film is installed directly onto your window’s surface, eliminating hot spots and reducing glare. Window film can also save you money on energy costs by absorbing solar heat in the summer and providing a layer of insulation in the winter.
A genius idea. Genius® Retractable Screens are unlike any screens on the market. Our smooth-sliding screens fit nearly any opening and disappear in the natural recesses of the frame, making them virtually invisible—there when you need it, and disappear when you don’t. Genius Screens provide quiet, smooth operation and give complete protection against airborne pests. Choose from a variety of innovative fabrics that protect your home and reduce your energy costs. With Genius Retractable Screens, you can have the best of everything—fresh air, great appearance and functional protection.
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Energy Efficient Window film helps prevent solar heat gain, keeping rooms cooler and cutting energy costs up to 30%.
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graphic shades
All the best brands in one place
One of the strongest promises in the industry. As part of our No Questions Asked Warranty, we will provide a one-time repair or replacement, at our discretion, free of charge for the same product should it become damaged or inoperable for any reason after the point of installation (excludes battery replacement for motorized shades). This service is provided to the original purchaser only and for the original window opening only. If your product is replaced, the replacement will be the same style, size and color. If the style and/or color are no longer available, the replacement will be made in the closest style or color available. Available exclusively to consumers who purchase Budget Blinds products through Budget Blinds, Inc. retail franchisees. Budget Blinds franchises are independently owned and operated. Therefore, this warranty is available only through those participating franchisees.
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Any photo or artwork you like can be transformed into a work of art… on your window coverings. Budget Blinds takes graphics to the next level with window treatments that reflect your personality and sense of style. Call a Budget Blinds Style Consultant today. There’s an art to what we do.
Enlightened Style™— always the Smart Choice.
Custom
Like all our window coverings, graphic shades are custom made to your home’s or business’ specs.
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Innovative technology is one of the hallmarks of our newest, exclusive brand Enlightened Style.™ Our proprietary Smart Choice System gives you the information you need to make smart decisions before you buy. We can estimate, in real time, your potential energy savings with different window coverings. The System factors in variables like which direction your house faces, the locations of your windows and the climate you live in and tells you how much you can save on energy costs now, and in the future.
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