Blinds and Roller Shades
How-To Guide
| Glossary |
| Blinds |
 50 Million Blinds Recalled As Strangulation Hazard |
| WASHINGTON -- The government and the window covering industry on Tuesday recalled more than 50 million Roman-style shades and roll-up blinds because of the risk children may be strangled by the cords |
| 50 ways to lever your louver! |
| Designing with vinyl shutters. |
| A closer look at your Reflections™ |
| Country wood blinds with 2-5/8" beveled slats |
| A great way to cover patio doors with a horizontally oriented product! |
| A high profile at the bottom of the blind. |
| See how this unique rail radically improves both the appearance and function of your blinds. |
| A Little Extra On The Side |
| Covering Those Narrow Sidelight Windows |
| A pivotal decision. |
| A look at the fabric-covered valance for Aloouette® light louvers |
| Add Motorization When There Is A Remote Possibility! |
| New motorization system for Remembrance Window Shades and new Designer Screen shades with wireless controls. |
| Adjusting Alouette Light Louvers. |
| Using a nickel for making adjustments to tilt bars on Alouette light louvers. |
| Alouette® - When You're Down And Out |
| A few outside mounting measuring and installation tips. |
| Answers to frequently asked questions about the new Eccenture™ valances. |
| Are you afraid of heights? |
| Important measuring tip for PowerRise® shades. |
| Assembling Cadence Valances |
| At te touch of a button |
| Silhouette® with PowerRise now available for Silhouette Quartette. |
| Back To Skew |
| Additional Adjustments For Silhouette® and Nantucket™ |
| Bigger, Bolder, & Better than ever. |
| New options for Silhouette® window shadings. |
| Bypass Those Patio Doors! |
| New Valance For Track Systems And Other New Options For Summerwind Shutters By Designer Blinds. |
| Channeling Albert Einstein. |
| A lesson in persistence and how to change channels on Silhouette with PowerRise. |
| Clamp Your Style |
| Changes make Luminette Privacy Sheers easier to install. |
| Cleaning Up With Alouette® Light Louvers™ |
| Easy care and cleaning techniques for the latest innovation in window fashion. |
| Control light your way. |
| Ways to control light with Silhouette window shadings. |
| Creating a tropical paradise in your home |
| Designer Blinds Newest Tip Of The Week |
| New blinds tip from Designer Blinds. |
| Designer Blinds Tip Of The Week Index and Archives! |
| A valuable source of how to tips from installing blinds to restringing them, installing hardware to pleated curtains and more. |
| Do the twist! A simple way to keep Luminette Privacy Sheers® in perfect alignment. |
| Here's a little installation twist that will keep vanes aligned and perfectly in sync. |
| Don't be sunk by "Depth Charges"! |
| Make sure windows are deep enough and brackets spaced for Country Woods® Reflections™ and Everwood X-Tra™. |
| Don't Let Arched Windows Throw You A Curve! |
| Heritance® Hardwood Shutters Are Now Available for Perfect and Near-Perfect Arches. |
| Duette UltraGlide is usually a smooth operator. |
| Here's how to fix one quickly if it's not so smooth. |
| Duette Ultraglide™ |
| A revolutionary retractable cord operation |
| Dynamic Duolite™ |
| Combine the versatility of Duette Duolite™ with the function of UltraGlide™. |
| Enhanced operation for Duette® with LiteRise™. |
| Plus - How to give your shade a massage. |
| Extension bracket end mounts for: |
| Duette PowerRise, EasyRise, EasyGlide, UltraGlide Lightlines or Décor Blinds Any product with an over-the-rail mounting bracket |
| Fixed-slat specialty wood blinds - A quick and easy solution |
| Getting all the angles on bay windows. |
| An easy measuring techniques that works! |
| Hang in there when things get tight! |
| Ways to hang shades in windows with narrow depths |
| Installing LiteRise for trouble free operation. |
| Interference From Above |
| Troubleshooting remote control operation and dealing with interference from fluorescent lighting and other sources. |
| It Stands - At A Tension |
| Setting The Proper Tension on Duette Vertiglide Keeps it Operating Without Much Attention |
| It's a good time to be talking about energy efficiency. |
| The best energy efficient products for year round heating and cooling benefits. |
| It's only natural! |
| About Provenance™ woven wood shades. |
| Keep it up front. |
| Installing Jubilance shades with an optional attached valance requires special attention. |
| Keep Pluggin' Along |
| Upgrading Existing Luminette® Privacy Sheers® To PowerGlide™ |
| Keep Silhouette® shadings looking great! |
| Cleaning tips and warning about electrostatic wipes. |
| Keep the shape of angled windows with duette shades |
| Keeping a low profile. |
| Here's a new low-profile version of Silhouette that will raise your profile with a perfect solution for sidelight windows or french doors. |
| Launch a satellite! |
| Using satellite eyes with PowerRise® Products. |
| Leveling Summerwind shutters. |
| An easy leveling technique for Summerwind Shutters. |
| Louver and Lever |
| Apply the louvered look of shutters to French doors and keep your lever handle. |
| Luminette privacy sheers for bay windows |
| Make it big with Alouette®. |
| Alouette® is now available in longer and wider sizes. Plus details about new tandem side-by-side operation and magnetic hold-down brackets. |
| Make Vertiglide DuoLite™ come across twice as nice |
| Plus installation update |
| Many happy returns! |
| How to determine return length for inside mount blinds. |
| Measuring for Blinds |
| How to measure for vertical or horizontal blinds and shades. |
| Micro-Manage your windows. |
| Micro-pleat option for Provenance™ woven wood shades. |
| Nantucket™ now using the same reliable hardware system as Silhouette® |
| New brackets for Luminette® Privacy Sheers™ |
| New Cord Stop |
| For All Cordlock Operated Top-Down/Bottom-Up and DuoLite® Honeycomb |
| New options for designer screen shades |
| Wider widths and new options for designer screen shades. |
| New safety cord stops on all horizontal blinds |
| No matter what shape your window is in |
| Silhouette available in new specialty shapes. Installation of specialties easier than ever. |
| Once More From The Top! |
| Installing New Silhouette Top-Down/Bottom-up with TiltAnywhere. |
| Pivotal Points |
| Installing Alouette® Light Louvers™ |
| Plug In To PowerGlide |
| A step by step look at installing Luminette Privacy Sheers with PowerGlide. Includes video demonstration. |
| Powerful New Option For Vignette® |
| The operational magic of PowerRise™ is now available for Vignette window shadings. |
| Put on a side show. |
| New cordless operable sidelight shades available as narrow as just six inches. Choose from Top-Down, Bottom-up, or Top-down/Bottom-Up. |
| Raising The Bar |
| Improved bar system for Alouette Light Louvers |
| Recuce center gaps on Luminette |
| Relieve Tension |
| Adjusting the combined wand and cord for Luminette and some Millenia™ verticals |
| Relieve Tension Headaches! |
| Too Much Tension Can Lead To Trouble. |
| Safety and window fashions. |
| Important safety tips. |
| Setting limits with hard-wired motorized window fashions including: |
| Duette® shades Silhouette® window shadings Vignette® window shadings |
| Shape Up! |
| Duette EasyView Arch is a great way to cover arched windows and still allow an open view when needed. |
| Silhouette Power Rise |
| Vane alignment and resetting |
| Stay on track with Vertiglide™ (Part 1) |
| Installing outside mount VertiGlide™. Includes video. |
| Stay on track with Vertiglide™ (Part 2) |
| Installing inside mount VertiGlide™. Includes video. |
| Strike Up The Band |
| Edge banding and other new options for Provenance Woven wood Shades |
| Summerwind ClearLight™ Shutters |
| Measuring considerations and how they work. |
| Take it to the limit. |
| A common installation problem for Duette shades wit PowerRise can be prevented or easily fixed. |
| Take to the skies with PowerRise (part one) |
| A look at the assembly process. This is the most current information and reflects updated information about Duette PowerRise for Skylights. |
| Take to the skies with PowerRise (part two) |
| A look at the installation process. This is the most current information and reflects updated information about Duette PowerRise for Skylights. |
| Templates for arched windows. |
| Easy and perfect templates in about five minutes - even for windows that aren't so perfect. An updated look at the yardstick compass. |
| The eyes have it. |
| A close up look at Vignette® with PowerRise™. |
| The Greatest Of Ease. |
| Recent changes to Duette EasyRise™ - the original special lift system. |
| The Long And Short Of It |
| New adjustments for honeycomb Shades |
| The means to justify the ends. |
| Making sure end treatments hang straight on Luminette® Privacy Sheers® |
| The old switcheroo! |
| Changing control slides on Silhouette® window shadings. |
| The Taming of the Skew |
| Adjusting shades and shadings |
| These Changes Will Keep You Riveted |
| New Installation For Luminette® Privacy Sheers |
| They'll see right through it! |
| There isn't anything like Luminette Privacy Sheers®! Plus - Ultrasonic Cleaning for Luminette® |
| Things are looking Up! |
| Skylight window coverings help reduce heating costs |
| This EasyRise® shade is wider than I ordered |
| The headrail on EasyRise® and Easy Glide® shades in made wider than the ordered dimensions for outside mounts. Find out why. |
| This ought to catch on! |
| Great new enhancements to Heritance Hardwood Shutters. |
| Trouble-free Vertiglide®. |
| How to have a trouble-free installation of Vertiglide® every time! |
| Troubleshooting Duette® PowerRise |
| Troubleshooting Luminette® with PowerGlide™ |
| Most issue can be easily addressed during installation. |
| Vane closure on Silhouette® and Nantucket® shadings |
| Welcome to the Dew Drop Inn! |
| Controlling condensation. |
| Which Alouette System Is Best? |
| Let The Window Decide. |
| Your Reflections™ are looking better than ever. |
| Recent improvements make Reflections™ operate better. |
