so i so appreciate you guys coming today we're going to be talking about window treatments window treatments one o one and i just want to give you a really go to next a little history about who we are business thirty years ago and i started in custom window treatments i am an interior designer by trade study than parsons in new york city but when i started my business high started in custom window treatments because it was an easy way to manage a business while i was raising my children after the children have grown and joe who was in the fashion industry he and i joined forces about twelve years ago we started doing  kitchen and bathroom remodelling and of course we got into more furnishings and the whole gamut of custom with of interior design so sweet he also had an initial name of interior image but soul scape interiors came about because we believe that we want to work with clients who understand that their home is authentic to their soul to their personality so i believe as an interior designer that i don't have to have a style my style is to get to know you and to incorporate your style and bring it to the surface with interior design principles so if you look at my website you'll see that i have all different types of styles because i believe it's all about you not about me so today we are collaborating with dinette and i want to thank the owner jeanette and the list so who's the manager  love collaboration because collaboration is is the key to life when we go into our relationships we collaborate as far as how we want to work together and again this is a collaboration of business so really  emphasize the beautiful dinette so the eyes are the windows of the soul how is it not when you meet someone you look at their eyes and you can tell immediately who they are through their eyes so the windows in your home is the eyes of your house and i love this photo because they look like eyes don't think so i want you to understand how important the windows are in your home because they really do bring the outdoors in so one of the things i want you to think about is in today's our world everyone tells me i don't need window treatments and i like a plane i like it simple and i say well do you put foundation on your face to you put sun block on your face of course you would because the sun does a tremendous amount of damage to your home to your skin as well as to your home so we want to start thinking about what kind of sun damage is happening if i don't put window treatments in you also have to understand that especially if we live down the  shore that there is the wind that comes through the windows i've been into some condos recently that are truly cold and there's a lot of glass so you often wonder how do i protect myself from the wind from the cold and also security we need security in our homes we can't put film on the windows but i want to tell you what happens when you put a film is that you don't have the crisp visibility that you do if the window doesn't have a film on it so today we're going to talk about custom window treatments and i have to tell you one thing being doing custom window treatments for thirty years i've seen it all when i first started my business everybody wanted swags and jabbers everybody corners foxes a lot of drapery a lot of fabric but things have changed so but in the beginning  want to tell you that the very first fabric that was used in the home was not used on the window it was used on the walls again to keep the home warm so the very first windows treatment was a shut made out of wood and nail heads because we needed it for protection and then of course we went to the louis the sixteenth style and that's when custom window treatments was for the aristocrats it was for the rich if you had window treatments you were very very rich and it was all about the layering and the fabrics and the details and the fr but in today's world if you have custom window treatments and if you do anything like that it just up scales your entire home ok so now you go from your readymades which is at a certain price point and a certain extent x to something that's custom and it's richer looking i always say why spend so much money on a custom window treatments i say well if you spent five thousand dollars on a wedding dress and you wor one day why not spend five thousand dollars on window treatments that you're going to see in your house every single day for fifteen years which is the life expectancy of most window treatments so in the nineteen fifties was the very first venetian blind and of course you remember everyone did drapes wall to wall and we close the windows and we open the windows so it was really about a lot of fabric and a  lot what i call stack back which we don't want to do anymore who remembers the seventy's now when i started this business we did sell i mean i can't tell you how often i did this or how often i sold vertical almost every other day but now verticals are gone and this proof in is is history thank god right and then of course we went into the ninety's and the two thousands and we really went back to fabric and layering and luscious window treatments and the very first roman fabrics started to come out as well and then twenty fifteen it was all about the panels right stationary panels but i want you to start looking at the panels was that they started coming out with a lot of detail on the leading edge so here you see more detail details on the header here you see buttons on the headers and of course color blocking became very popular twenty eighteen this is where we are now everybody wants to keep it really clean very simple so what we are seeing a lot of is your organic roman shades and of course you woven wood and i have a woven wood sample here you can take a look at and of course even drapery panels as you see in this room is just plain linen drapery right now if you look at this picture and you took away this fabulous graphics that's on the wall i'm going to tell you that that picture will look really boring so be careful that when you keep things very simple and clean that you don't get boring so what i'd like to do is break it down into two different types of window treatments one is the heart treatments versus the soft treatments hard treatments or anything that you pick out from a book like a woven wood a roller shade a fold would blind even shutters anything that's made out of a hard surface and then there is the soft window treatments and that of course is all of these valances and anything made out of fabric so as we go through understand that one is hard and one is soft so the first hard window treatment we talk about is shutters shutters is like putting furniture on your windows ok it is the most expensive window treatment you could install in your home unless you go very elaborate with a lot of drapery and a lot of fabrics but if you go to sell your home shutters are the one thing that the real or ter considers a benefit in your home as well so it does have a really good resale value and i want you to understand that shutters come in many different  finishes like this is a composite that is great for bathrooms and homes by the shore and then there's also the wood finishes and of course there's those without the center bar which we love because you just touch one and it controls the shutter so to continue with the hard window treatments we have a full wood blind as well and that's what you see here regular wood blinds we have many blinds and there's people that still last for many blinds are though i don't sell that many and then of course now we've gotten into a lot of roller shades so the rollers shade here is just you know if you look at the windows here there's a lot of glare coming in so putting in a roller shaped sometimes protects the furniture and it also prevents the glare from coming in if you're watching t v however i have put in roll shades and it's not enough to take the glare from a t v so sometimes you need room darkening roll in order to get that effect so if you look at this treatment right here this is a twin shade there is a woven shade and then there's a sheer shade underneath so you can do a double shade where it's giving you the light filtering and the room darkening as well and of course you can put a roll shade on the outside of the house which a lot of people down the shore are doing that as well so it doesn't interfere with anything on the inside pros and cons with the world when words they do have a higher stack so if you're concerned about the stack i want you to understand that the longer the shade the higher the stack so you will block some of the windows if it is also not a privacy shade so be careful you don't put them in the bedroom unless you put a liner on it now again you can if you can get a separate line or from the woman would say you have that flexibility of privacy but i've seen people put in a woman would and then they're like people can see it in i'm like yeah they're not privacy so be careful with that great look though for a nice clean organic look and i've got the one here isn't a like color so most of these pictures are in a weird tone but you can get them in white as well and you could put trimming on them and that one specifically has its cordless that's a woven wood xander listen this is that's the actual material that we buy this is called tranquility oak and you can get that from a catalog but it's not considered a software don't treatment it's considered a hard so how many i remember verticals right we all liked our verticals and i have to tell you that people still love verticals for a reason and that's the flexibility the flexibility of tilting having privacy and letting the like come in which is why the shangri la or the silhouette up there is another great option because it gives you that tilt flexibility and privacy but right now i don't sell a lot of verticals even though this is a current vertical here and it's got a little bit of texture in interest to it but most people for sliding glass doors or buying what's called sliding panels again you could see that the light is coming through where this when you have more privacy so remember what are the questions you should be asking yourself is is privacy needed is energy efficiency needed and do i want flexibility or do i want to be able to just pull it up and  so here's your silhouette luminaire and the silhouette is right here the detail and that's the one up there where it's a sheer fabric and it tilts pros and cons and then of course there's the lunette which is the vertical aspect of the silhouette pros and cons to the silhouette in the luminaire i'm going to say for the last ten years it's what everybody wanted it but you have to be careful because bugs like them and so what happens is i've gone into homes five years later and the little bugs like to come in and settle in and if you don't keep them clean they do tend to damage your shades another negative is that they're very hard if you have little kids there's not if you damage that shade it's done there's no there's no fixing it so be careful as far as dura billet with children the one good thing about the silhouette is that there are companies out there that do clean them i did meet someone recently who had them for ten years and a service came in and cleaned all her silhouettes and they looked brand new honeycomb shades people know honeycomb shade says hunter douglas duats yes right and that's what's in the middle here and let me see if i can pull that one up we're going to talk about motor ization but i have to tell you that honeycomb shade is one of my favorites to use in the bedrooms and i'll tell you why i personally like the bottoms up top down feature because i can pull that shade from the top down have privacy were i need get different inserts depending on how much insulation is needed but i've gone into homes where the client says to me oh my god this room is freezing what can i do and the first thing i go to is a honeycomb shade because it's going to make a huge difference it's a five point zero or rating so it will say you a lot of money if energy efficiency is what is  needed there's also the vignette the payroll where the hour where there's all of these acts and all of the shades do different function sun close in on each other sun just go by pass each other but they all function very similar to the silhouette roman shades now we're getting into soft window treatments a roman shade i can make out of any fabric that you want and it's made out of not out of the wolverine world but you could see that when you could have a basic roman shape you could do a saw of classic roman shade you can bandage but one of the problems i see with roman shades is that people tend to forget about the sides ok and so you may see a flat roman shade and then you can see the sides because there's no return so one of the things i want you to think about is how this one is boxed out in has a return this one has a frame and has a return and this one just has a small turn head rail but that is the biggest that is the biggest thing see the other one goes up and there is why roman shea with panday and again you can see that the motors are very quiet so when you have those high windows it's a great place for you to put a motor but roman shea is what everybody is asking for nowadays i want to roman shade what i can tell you is this they're beautiful and they're lovely when they're u they're not very attractive when they're down all the way because what you have is just a flat piece of fabric so i want you to understand that because if that's something that you're entertaining and you want total privacy maybe the roman shade not the way to go because it's just going to be a flat piece of fabric you can imagine that all the way down with any of these so sometimes you need a little bit more dressing than that here's some more roman shades again you can do bottoms up tops down you can do banding you could change the detail of the bottom you can put a corner sparks in the front and of course you can add a sweat on the bottom so even within the roman shades there's lots of details that you can shades i used to sell a ton of balloon shades and nowadays people don't want too much fluff but i have to tell you i do a lot of balloon shades out of the sheer fabric because it's a beautiful look it's very elegant and yet it's not too heavy but there were times when i would do something like this and it was beautiful but people want to use less fabric and simplify now i want to tell you about the do's and don'ts of drapes because everybody wants drapes now panels so it's either they put a shade and then they put a drapery panel coming down the side so i want you to take a look at this picture here because that's a custom drape what's wrong with it it doesn't please there's no pleats up here it's just hanging it's just a mess and it's going to always look like a mess and so over here is well i want you to think about how you install them there is a big difference between a ready made and a custom drape the most difference is the lining and the quality of the fabric but if i have to tell you that i don't want my dre to look like my shower curtain so all of these grommets that are being sold out there right now you know they may look like a shower curtain so i would rather see you get a pinch pleat of some sort or some detail when you're trying to buy drapery but again it's really about the fullness it's about how you how you mount them don't make