Last week we introduced you to Tyesha and her blog, House Made Home. She is a lover of all things customizable, and goes beyond builder grade in everything she does. She and her husband have given their home unique finishing touches like window-elongating molding, and a DIY paneled wall. When she started looking for woven wood shades to dress up her back door, all of the custom options available at Blinds.com sealed the deal for her. She used this image as her inspiration and landed on the Bali Economy Woven Wood Shades to get the look.   Hear What Tyesha Had To Say About Her Blinds.com Experience:     “As we all know I like customizing anything I can and doing it…

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Our friend Lauren runs an incredible blog called The Well Crafted Home. She’s a new wife who shares home decor craft tutorials and recipes for yummy treats that the whole family will love. Tune in every week for Well Crafted Wednesdays where she shares the cutest DIY projects from around the internet. The Well Crafted Home Window Makeover Lauren’s bedroom just got a fresh new look with soft fabric roman shades custom fitted just for her windows. Like many, she is new to the world of window coverings, so she tried out our new service, Face2Face. She  video chatted with one of our in-house designers to find the perfect fit for her window. Here’s what she had to say:  ”I had never bought blinds before so I was not sure how…

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Make your Big Game decorating score big! From beer cans to helmets filled with queso, we’ve all seen our not-so-fair share of groan-worthy decorating audibles when it comes to Super Bowl parties. It’s not too late to make your tailgate a little more classy. Here are just a few tips for manly Super Bowl decor. Team Themes One of the easiest ways to bring a little gusto to the gridiron is already pre-packaged for you in the form of team colors. Whether you’re rooting for the Baltimore Ravens or the San Francisco 49ers, you can find all kinds of color-themed items in blacks and purples or golds and reds. Silverware, dishes, throw pillows, flags — all of these can easily…

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Serene Bathroom Makeover on The Happier Homemaker Our friend Michelle is an amazingly creative DIYer and decorator who shares tutorials, recipes, and inspiration on her blog, The Happier Homemaker. Melissa has been focusing her design energy on a bathroom makeover over the last few months. She has the prettiest garden tun and chose to update the wall color with a soft powder blue (after having it taped for a few weeks and finally getting around to it – preach sister). As you can see the bathroom gets natural light and a stunning view of the wetlands from this nice, big window. However, when her neighbors started a remodel project that opened up the view to the bathroom she decided to start shopping…

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One of our favorite blogs, Curbly, follows the DIY renovation adventures of Alicia, Bruno and their new family as they make a 100 year old house into a home. Learn more about window treatments for historical homes In addition to renovation tips they also share smile-inducing DIYs (like this adorable lighted home sweet home headboard) and the latest trends in the decorating and architecture worlds.       We have loved following all of the renovation projects in the Curbly house, but were extra thrilled to see that they choose Blinds.com for their window makeover! Read more about their search for the perfect shades:   “We began looking at blinds, shades, and curtains, and started making lists of the pros and…

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Our home decorating genius pals at Curbly recently underwent a window makeover in the Curbly House! We loved getting to treat them to our Face2Face video design consultation to make sure they picked the perfect product, send them free blinds samples to ogle and compare and then help them make their window covering dreams come true! Visit Curbly for your chance to win! Bruno and the Curbly team will be sharing their Before + After window covering story later this week, but you can hop over to their ‘Curbly Giveaway $1000 Blinds.com gift card’ post and enter to win today! All you have to do to win: Follow @Blindsdotcom on Pinterest Follow @Curbly on Pinterest Leave a comment on what…

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Apart from shopping, gift-giving and consuming more sweet treats than any human body is able to gracefully endure, one of the best staples of the holiday season would be Christmas decorating. But what if you’re not into the traditional look of red-and-green everything, tinsel that sparkles like a Twilight character and colored lights so bright you could direct a 747 down into your driveway? For anyone trying their hand at a balanced, modern and more rugged approach to the season, here are some ideas for more manly Christmas decorations. The Rustic Christmas One key to adding a dash of gender equality to the Yuletide cheer is the use of natural, earthy touches and colors that will make your space feel…

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  We’re obsessed with our friend Kelli’s blog, 3 Boys and a Dog. She started off as one little writer many moons ago, and has since grown to a team of 8 amazing bloggers who share words of wisdom for the up and coming blog community, delicious recipes (anyone brave enough to try chocolate bacon crunch?), and they are the queens of amazing giveaways. Kelli is redecorating and just got the prettiest woven wood shades for her kitchen. She chose the Blinds.com Budget Woven Wood Shades in Aspen Walnut. With this fabric valence and glossy red windowsill she totally nails the rustic-chic look. We can only image how adorable the rest of her kitchen is! At 3 Boys and A…

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We are so happy to be included in the newly released book Pinterest for Business: How to Pin Your Company to the Top of the Hottest Social Media Network.  In the book Katie Laird, our public relations and social media manager says, “Pinterest has shown tremendous promise as a traffic and sales driver. What’s interesting to us is not the number of visits we receive from Pinterest, but the quality of visits. Visitors stay longer on our site, visit more pages, and have a far lower bounce rate than other social networks.”    She advises readers to make their content very easy to pin. “We saw a great increase in pins of our products by simply adding an additional Pin This…

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Many couples struggle to find a feminine-masculine balance in home decorating. Today we’re bringing manly decorating ideas that can be used to create the ultimate man cave, or bring more gender equality to girly spaces in the home. Learn how to man-up your home in this post. The key to modern manly decor is a stark, deep colored space with industrial accents like chrome couch frames and a coffee table on casters. Who needs accessories with the uber-chic architectural touches in this room?  The glass elevator and spiral staircase are the only conversation pieces you need.   The ultimate industrial manly window coverings are our 2″ Faux Leather Blinds from Carra. The exposed hardware and chrome cord tassels create a retro…

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