Mother Nature has finally released her summer stranglehold on us! This year was typical with the first 100-degree day occurring Monday, May 31st. We usually heat up the third week of May and stay warm until about the third week of October. So, for now, consider summer done and look for cold weather to set in shortly. While overnight temperatures are dipping into the lower 60s for now and the average low in September is 71 degrees, next month finds [...]

There's nothing worse than walking into a home and seeing blank, bare, barren windows. Once cavemen crawled out of dark caverns and into huts, we began our pursuit of window treatments. Sounds like a medical term, doesn’t it? “Ah, poor ol’ Georgy! He’s got a terrible case of window treatments!”  Anyway, back to window treatment reality. Cave dwellers kind of set the course for window treatments. They were always fiddling around with covers for cave entrances using hides, brush, or [...]

With Summer approaching warmer weather and higher temperatures are quickly following behind. Keeping summer heat out seems like a no-brainer, but are you and your windows really ready to face the heat?  If there is nothing covering your windows, heat seeps through the glass and into your home or office like a blowtorch. And of course, uncovered windows open you to the gawkers and stalkers of the world. There is no privacy! Seems like a bigger deal than controlling the [...]