These days, everyone’s looking for a ‘green’ home. It’s become such a buzzword, with all sorts of manufacturers using the term to label their products, eco-friendly blinds and green window treatments included. What does it all mean? There’s no regulatory body to permit or prohibit manufacturers from using
Read more →Few things make a home more bright and beautiful than a skylight. Skylights give all the pleasures of basking in the sunshine without leaving your very own living room, kitchen, or bedroom. Stylistically, skylights look beautiful in photos and seem ideal, but research on skylights can often
Read more →Are you hip to mid-century modern homes? Mad Men fans and those with retro-leaning tastes will recognize flat planes, large glass windows and open space floor plans as the groovy look that defined a generation. Even here in Wilmington, NC, where porches and plantation shutters rule, you
Read more →If you’ve spent any time driving through Wrightsville Beach on a hot summer day, or gazing at the rows of colorful beach bungalows in Carolina Beach, you may have noticed a trend. Many of these beach homes have two-story windows—that is, windows that extend from the first
Read more →In our last post, we discussed window treatments for boys’ rooms, including ideas for styles and selections to suit young men of all ages. Today, we’re going to give the same time and attention to pretty window treatments for girls’ rooms. While many of the principles are
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