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Outside mount Roman shades featured in a stylish kitchen dining room.

Outside Mount Roman Shades: What Every Homeowner Should Know

…des for the Kitchen Outside mount Roman Shades are an excellent choice for kitchens because they will completely cover the window. When raised, you’ll have access to the maximum amount of light and full airflow, which is always helpful in a busy kitchen. Raising your shades above the window frame may also be helpful to avoid any possible splashes or spills. Outside Mount Roman Shades for the Living Room For an elegant living room look, a bold patt…

How To Bring The New Color, “Greenery,” Into Your Home

…reen deliciousness and pea green smoothies are forever being created in my kitchen. Source: Italian Bark At Blindsgalore we have always been a fan of leafy green. If you have never heard of the Japanese idea of “forest bathing,” it suggests that taking a walk in the forest can greatly reduce stress. I have my own way to find balance as I have been a runner for many years, and a run in the early morning as I watch the sunrise, keeps me steady when…

Celebrating Our Silver Anniversary at Blindsgalore

…, a gourmet food store and café where every thing was hand prepared in our kitchen daily, with the best and freshest ingredients. Our Market Kitchen prepared appetizers, salads, sandwiches, soups, and entrees, all from scratch. Our “piece de resistance,” was our bakery that made cookies, croissants, and the most beautiful and delicious cakes from Chef Carlos. Another turn was the Longbranch Steakhouse that thought it was a “saloon dive” but became…

Three Uses For Our New Valances

…as on how to incorporate them into your home. 1. Add some color to a white kitchen or a sea of cabinets. The area rugs bring a casual elegance to this kitchen, but the addition of a red valance above that window would do wonders in tying the space together. All of the color is on the floor, by adding a simple yet colorful valance, the room would feel more cohesive. Blindsgalore Board Mounted Valance: Whimsy 2. Add softness to existing hard window…

Window Wonderland

…home shine. Or bake up your favorite gingerbread cookie and hang from your kitchen rack or string them up with red twine and let them sway in your kitchen window. This rustic window with deer scampering across a winter meadow surely entices you to light a roaring fire and warm up with a mocha latte and your favorite novel. I am valiantly trying to finish my novel for December, “The Signature of All Things” by Elizabeth Gilbert. Alma, the main char…

Don the Draper and Co. Cover It Up in Mad Men

…the earlier seasons when Don and Betty are still married, their café-like kitchen curtains are nostalgic (these ones are authentic vintage specimens!), but they are also a perfect complement to Betty, herself the converse of Roger, the stunted girl in woman form whom Don can never fully take seriously. She is practically living in a dollhouse. But I will say that she does know how to work a valance. In the penultimate seasons of Mad Men, we spend…

Not What You Think: Window Treatment Terms

…like the idea of a constantly flowing source of fresh honey wedged into my kitchen window, I don’t like the idea of the little guys that make the sweet stuff hanging around my house. Luckily, the term honeycomb shade is fondly named after the shape of the critter’s home. The exposed interior of a honeycomb shade is a hexagon-shaped matrix of diaphanous material that traps air. This honeycomb-like design makes it difficult for the temperature from…

Preserving For Fall

…ny container store or fancy food store and you probably have a few in your kitchen. However, the Mason Jar is still the safest and most popular jar for food preservation.   After Mason patented his new top, the Ball corporation, one of the largest manufacturers of glass bottles exploded the market with glass jars of many sizes and shapes and are now prized for their vintage chic-especially the aqua blue, green or amber color. These original colore…