briefings about the details so i want to really look at some of these pictures and decide what are the details that i want to see in my home you could see here's a straight little vallance right but it's really about the ties on the top the change of fabric here is a beautiful arched balance as well but it's really about playing up the fabric and changing it up even if i do a box a box vallance we split that plea a little bit we drop that circle on the bottom and you have a whole different look on a box vallance there's my jab oh that you see up there on that window treatment but this one's got bandy and it's got some buttons as well on top one of the things i can tell you about window treatments as well is that you can hide all of your shades in a soffit if you're still under construction it's a great way to do that so that you don't have to see anything it goes right into the ceiling and then comes down in a motor as well so it's all about how we handling the details more great details on window treatments i love this  here mounted on a board with some nail heads again that's a stationary panel that's not going to move where you could have a goblet ple up here another goblet here but then here you see layering and balances and here you see the playing of some details of ties and hardware more details as far as swags we do sell a lot of kingston balance or swag balance that's the valance on the bottom there so you could see depending on how much pleading you want or how flat you want it it's a nice way to have a more traditional look if that's what you're looking for and again we can keep roman shades and really emphasize a more traditional twal on the edge but yet so you can have a traditional look but yet not have it to be you know to have it i love using a sheer fabric for my romans for my classic romans because again it's just giving you that beautiful window treatment but you're not getting privacy with this so keep that in mind again more details look at the beautiful trim on the bottom of this roman shea and look at the way this roman shade and the detail on the top of that drape is being pulled together it's a great way to do that and of course here's another twat with your swag coming across so really start to think about those details of the home because that's what makes a home different here's more i love this is a box valances well but we the plea and we had a little crystal i also worked with crystals in the home and i work with funks way so sometimes that's a nice way of adding a crystal for energy and yet having having it part of your window treatment as well here is more details as far as you know we can shape the board there's no reason why a board has to be mounted straight this was a cathedral ceiling so really shaping that balance is adding a beautiful detail  this is just a valance because you're getting privacy from the full wood but here you have a drape again just a side i love this roman chain because they really worked up the fabrics beautifully so again even though you're doing a roman shade you can you know seen patterns and work with a corner spot so that you have a beautiful look and it's still just a regular flat roman shape so what's next we're we going when it comes to window treatments well we're going is to motor ization everything is motor is a shell now as of january of twenty nineteen it is going to be against the law to have any strings on your shades that doesn't mean you have to go back and fix all the strings that are on your shades that you have right now but i will not be able to sell you anything that is not cordless so like this shade here is  cordless everything in here you're not looking at any strings there is too many children that are dying from the cords on window treatments even if you're a senior and you think i don't have to worry about that you know i've gone into swifty five and older communities and they have grandchildren and hear all these strings hanging all over the place so i say no strings please child safety the other thing is you can most batteries that go up and down but you can hard wire your shades as well and that's the way to do it you just bring in a little wire underneath the window and you can plug it in and you never have to worry about your is ations again because you're running off your electricity however if you also can do something called solar and if you have a lot if you have enough sunlight in my house i have all trees i could never use solar because i don't get enough to power the windows but you could also once you use the sam fee motors you could also buy what's called a my link and the mind link is something you plug into an outlet and then you download the app and from your phone you can pull the shades up and down from where ever you are you don't even have to be in the state so if if some of you  snowbirds and you go to florida and you're like oh i close up my house have people know that i'm not there you may want to put it so that your shades go up and down throughout the day and it looks like someone's in the house or if you're at work all day and it's cold pull down those shades give yourself the energy efficiency that you need and this way you can protect yourself from too much heat or too much cold and then on your way home you touch your app and all the shades go up and there you are or better yet if you are one of those people who get up at six o'clock in the morning have your shades automatically go up at six o'clock in the morning it's so much nicer to wake up to that than to the zone from your phone it's like the sun just comes in and wakes you up so motor ization and using alexa by the way that you will accept but how many times i hear people say i hooked up my shades to alexa and you know they get confused because they start to call anyone by the name of alexa so i have a friend that's alexa she goes i can't tell you how many but calls i get because of people calling alexa put up my shades and they wanted to calling me so we are using alexa now and we're talking to alexa so that alexa can control everything in your house as well as your window treatments and of course all your lights even even your  thermostat alexa can control your thermostat so if you're at work all day lower that thermostat on your way home an hour before put that thermostat back up so when you walk in the house the house is nice and warm so really modernization and having the energy efficiency the child's safety is really where we're going in the future of window treatments so these are the questions as i said you should ask yourself all the time you know when you when you want to think about window treatments is do i want to impress to want something really pretty and and someone to come in and go ah i love that focal point that's a beautiful window treatments and there's been times when i've done that where people say i want this window to really be the wow factor or do i just want something simple so i just wanted to keep it plain so i just one function who's living in the space because if there's a bunch of little kids that are living in this space what are we doing to make sure that they're staying safe and that it's clean a ball if you do a roll shade you can wipe that shade down no problem so if you have a kid's room that's where you want to put a roll shade come shades people put them in bathrooms you've got to be careful because one hundred young sheets gets moldy and so if you have a bathroom that you're not ventilating correctly honeycomb shade is not good so really start to ask yourself a lot of these questions  what we offer here it's so scape is i have a computerized drawing where i can take a picture of your room of your window and i clearly actually draw on the drawing and show you what it can look like even before you order an kind of window treatment so if you guys have any questions please let me know any comments on what you heard today anything you could do that take a picture of your was going to look like and then if we pick fabrics i could actually put the fabric in there as well and you could see the drawing of what that's going to look like i will tell you though most of the people of keeping it very simple now my my  my outlook is this when i believe that every style of furniture every style of design is correlated to what's happening in the world i truly do believe that so back in in the ninety's when everything was flourishing and we all had a lot of income and the housing market was booming if you're religious or you know what was happening was everybody was buying a lot of drapery a lot of layering a lot of fabric there was abundance ok when the economy is being is being cleaned and sort of toned down then everything in the home is being cleaned and toned down but i truly believe that the pendulum goes back and forth so right now we're in a place where it's very clean and simple but i truly believe and i deal with a lot of designers that go to paris and europe and they are looking ahead constantly looking ahead and what i say is what's coming believe it or not is a lot of florals a lot of laurels now you may sit here in the room and say oh and you're going to see a whole different look because i have clients that tell me all the time i want to do something that's timeless and i say to them it's now past sorry sorry to disappoint because if i go back to when i started my business in the eighty's in the ninety's people thought they were doing traditional and it was timeless well guess what traditional is now history right and then when i was working in the  everybody wanted modern and verticals and plastic and guess what that's gone so even now we were doing a lot of linen a lot of organic a lot of basics because we are in a very basic mindset right now everything correlates guys so if we want to get into a mindset of abundance into a mindset of floral and happiness and color and geometrics that's what's coming down the line believe it or not so it swings back and forth and if you guys want any kind of window treatment we do offer a free in home consultation when it comes to window treatments we also do offer interior design consultation and we can come into your house and for two hours go through your entire house and give you recommendations as far as furniture as far as color selection accessorizing and stuff like that and you have a fifty percent coupon right now so you can get i believe it's an hour and a half or about one hundred fifty dollars and it's really a big advantage because having a designer come in and take a look at what the options are really makes a big difference because you don't know what you don't know so i always look at the experts for whatever it is i'm doing because i need to find out what's available so we like to thank you for coming today we hope you learned something and we hope that you give us a call and we hope that you enjoy the store please feel free to walk around and take a look at all the wonderful excess trees that are added inspired live in by platypus and for those princeton t v viewers thank you so much for being with us and so scape living thank you thanks you you thank so please go back have something to drink and eat keep your food close to your wine close to you so we don't damage anything does anybody have any very expensive and now it's become affordable yet like everything else when we used to buy the big t v you know i remember my clients showed me her big flat screen t v she paid five thousand dollars for this t v back  d i believe it was the ninety's when she bought it now you can get that same t v for three hundred dollars it's crazy so things change up and the other question is you have a question for me honey i think so again we if you don't want it cordless we could do a turn head rail that was that one picture i showed you where a guy has a very close mount that's why it's important to have someone come out to the house who knows what they're doing really yeah i'm reading from it so that we can look at the different options that's available for the mounting how high how narrow you know stack back we're working with someone right now who's doing  they want to clear the window so we have to figure how much wider do we need to make that drapery so that when the drape is open it totally clears the window so there's there's lots to think about  but most important is i say is work with someone who knows what they're doing because there's a lot of things out there that i've seen that people have spent money and made tremendous mistakes yeah i actually had a client who went out and bought honeycomb shades she set up i'm just going to get them at a box store and that's all i need and her husband put in the shades and they bought twenty eight shades and he installed them and he damaged all the windows where he would pull the windows up and they would fall right down and so it wind up costing him a lot of money to replace all the windows because he didn't know where to mount the go ahead so it's important that you know what you're doing that you don't damage windows i've had people who say no no mount this inside inside and i'm like no i can't do it because i'm not going to you know ruin the mechanism especially in andersen window because a lot of the andersen windows don't have the depth that they have the me the balances that come in about seven inches on either side so you have to be careful with those well i think she did say to him you see you want to be the same money and now he probably actually spent more money yeah so yeah it was the husband's fault here you know yes yes yes yes yes i do i have a lot of people who go into fifty five community to help them pick out color so that it has a nice flow throughout the house and stuff like that yes  it's it's important that you know because it's such an open concept so when we had that colonial home it was easier you know i'm painting this room this color but it's really about how does everything look next to each other so we do do color  we also do excess rees i come in with a bunch of accessories place them all around what you want to keep you can keep what you don't want we can bring back so it's a nice way to get the total service to help you really finish up a space because what i find with most of my clients is that they take the room to are certain level and then they start they stop and i'm like ok the room is not finished and then they go do something else so i'm going to work on my patio and i'm like good job didn't finish with this so my advice to my clients is everybody has a certain budget there's you know the budget unfortunately is not endless and i've worked with clients so i worked with clients for over thirty years i laugh because i worked with them in their big house i worked with them when they went to a dog community and i've actually worked with some clients who've gone into assisted living so it's nice to see that transition  and to have that devotion from my clients which is really nice but you really want to get to know a client and get to know what it is that they're looking for and that's why i say i believe that i'm here to to bring out the best in you and the best in your house and not to impose my ideas onto you which which happens a lot all right does it happen a lot unfortunately i've gone into websites of well i got into a lot of websites for designers and if you look at all the pictures they all look the same so you can see that that designer has a certain style and that's great yes yes and if that's the style that you want you can go with that but i believe that everybody has their own personality everybody has their own you know genesee qua to they want to bring out into the home and so it's really about figuring out what that is and and then really bringing it to the surface and and finishing the room you know take that budget get that rug get those success stories and get the right lighting because i can't tell you how many people go wrong with lighting and then finish that room and then go on to another room and then finish that room because it's important that you complete the outfit then we're another outfit you know what i mean but would you walk around with a half finished outfit now you finish it all with accessories and shoes and pocketbooks and then you go