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Window Treatment Ideas & Tips: Kempler Design

Motorized Shutters On Angle Top Windows In Reno, Nevada

The Norman Window Fashions motorized shutters are pretty amazing. We do all kinds of motorized window treatments, but I haven’t done too many motorized shutters in the Reno area. This was the perfect application because the louvers would have been very hard to reach. Coincidentally, the system is called the PerfectTilt RF (Radio Frequency). The […]

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Quiet Motorized Roller Shade With Grommet Top Valance And Draperies

Hive of bees. Dentist drill. Window coverings motor. Typically, these can all sound about the same. The newest generation of motor systems, whether Hunter Douglas, Somfy or Lutron are all amazingly quiet. Watch the following video to hear the volume of this roller shade with Somfy motor. The one drawback is that the quietest motors […]

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Using An Iphone Or Ipad Or Itouch To Control Your Window Coverings

My friend, Roger Magalhaes, owner of Shades IN Place, in Franklin, MA posted this video last week. I haven’t videoed any of the jobs I’ve done with the Hunter Douglas Platinum App, so when he did his, I thought I’d piggyback on his creativity. The app is pretty amazing. You can do so many things […]

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Averte Is A Good Choice Instead Of Draperies

What?? Did I just suggest that someone NOT do draperies? Yep. Sure did. Just because I specialize in drapery treatments doesn’t mean that I put drapes everywhere that a vertical application raises its head. In this case, we are dealing with a commercial storefront. It is pretty rare that fabrics will be the right choice […]

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Changing Batteries On Your Hunter Douglas Duette Powerrise Shades

Every now and then I get a phone call from a client who has Hunter Douglas PowerRise battery operated window coverings. They are very durable, but unless you get the type that plugs into the wall, you will have to replace the batteries from time to time. This video shows my clients in Reno and […]

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Hawaii Vacation Home- Part Two: The Choice

Last week’s blog dealt with a specific need for a home that we were doing in Hawaii. You can view the blog post and video here. In the end, we made a selection. As I thought it would be, we ended up choosing a Hunter Douglas Cellular Vertiglide product because of the very narrow stack, […]

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Window Coverings For Vacation Homes With A View- Hawaii

Part of our business includes traveling to various places around the country to help our clients select the correct window coverings for their needs. This project in Hawaii is interesting because they have lived without any window coverings for a long time and so any addition to their windows will be a shock to their […]

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A Great Solution For Arch Top Windows (Window Treatment)

One of the most challenging windows to do blinds or shades on is a specialty shaped window. This would include angle tops, arches and other odd shapes. Usually, it is possible to cover the window, but you usually lose the function of the window covering. So, in a case like the one in the video, […]

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Get The Blinds You Ordered

This is a cautionary tale. The other day I was at a job replacing some window coverings for a client who wanted to change products. When looking at her existing window coverings, I noticed that the product she had ordered did not match the product that was installed. To be honest, I was angry. I […]

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Should My Drapes Touch The Floor?

One of the things that reveals the quality of the installation of your draperies is the clearance from the floor at the bottom of the fabric. What does that mean??? It means that things need to be done right. The problem is that different fabrics and different rooms and different styles require different clearances off […]

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