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Go Minimalist with White Window Treatments

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In the past, white window treatments may have been considered “dull” and “basic,” but they have recently seen a new resurgence in popularity. Contrary to what you may have thought about white blinds in the past, we encourage you to reconsider what they can do for your home. Though minimalism first became popular in the ‘60s and ‘70s, recently, it has made a comeback that can be reflected in the uptick in white blinds’ popularity. The minimalist style of home decorating makes your space look clean, open, and welcoming, reducing clutter in favor of simplicity, and is particularly advantageous in small spaces you want to make look larger. If you are interested in transforming your space into the minimalist style, white blinds are a great way to instantly change the appearance and ambiance of a room. Here are some different recommendations for white blinds for your minimalist home.

White Roman Shades

Originally created in ancient Rome, Roman shades provide a classic look to any room, but they often come different colors and patterns. White Roman shades are perfect for adding a clean, simple style to any room. One of the biggest advantages of choosing Roman shades is that they are very simple to clean; just use a damp cloth or vacuum attachment to gently remove any debris. This is ideal for white curtains which can sometimes look more obviously dirty when dust accumulates. Because they are so easy to clean, Roman shades are the perfect white window treatment for you.

White Honeycomb Shades

One concern you may have about using white window treatments is that they would let in more sunlight, increasing your energy consumption. Honeycomb shades are the best window treatment for energy efficiency, even if they are white. With the small air pockets inside this type of shade, insulation is easy, so you don’t have to worry about elevating energy bills with these white shades. One of the goals of the minimalist philosophy is to reduce unnecessary distractions from everyday life. With white honeycomb shades, you don’t need to direct your attention to energy efficiency; your blinds do it for you!

White Plantation Shutters

Plantation shutters first became popular in the Southern US pre-civil war; however, they have been around since ancient times, with good reason. These beautiful shutters afford you plenty of privacy when you need them, yet still allow you to bring sunlight in using slats. White plantation shutters are a popular window treatment so if you are looking to install white window treatments that still hold a tradition look, plantation shutters are a great option.

White Vertical Blinds

Vertical blinds are a great option for white window treatments. First of all, they are exceptionally easy to clean, and are much less likely to collect dust than their horizontal counterparts. Additionally, vertical blinds are great for larger windows and glass sliding doors, making them a good option for your patio entrance. Finally, vertical blinds are relatively inexpensive, so if you are looking for a cost-effective minimalist window treatment, these are ideal.

Are you interested in installing custom blinds in your home? Whether you want white blinds or another color, we can help you create the window treatments of your dreams. Contact Arjay’s to learn more about our custom blind installation services.

Benefits of Adding Window Treatments to Your Home – Part 2

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treat3 In our last blog post, we covered a few of the reasons that choosing to invest in window coverings or window treatments, is a fantastic idea. In our blog post today, we are going to go over a few of the other reasons that you should strongly consider investing in high-quality window treatments from Arjay’s for your home.

Take Control of Lighting

Natural light is one of the factors that contributes to value when a house is on the market. There’s something that is incredible about having plenty of natural light in a house. It provides a feel to the space that is incredibly light, warm and really makes it feel like home. While natural light is usually something that people want, it’s not until you’re settled in that you notice that the natural light you loved before buying is shining right on your television, or wakes you up earlier than you need to on weekends. Having control of the lighting situation is another one of the great reasons that you should consider adding window treatments into your home.

Because there are so many styles of window coverings to choose from, you really do have all of the power in dictating how much light you’d like to have in your home. Between the different styles and different amounts of thickness with window treatments, there are plenty of options with how much light you allow in while your window treatments are on. From window coverings that black out the room from any natural light coming into lighter treatments that provide you with the benefits of protection from direct UV rays and added efficiency, while still allowing natural light to make it’s way in, you can pick and choose from room to room what window treatment will be the best for your home.

In the case that you can’t find a
window treatment that gets it all done, Arjay’s also provides the option of custom window treatments for you to work with us on, that way you can have the exact treatment that you’re looking for and the results that you’ve wanted all along.

treat4Add Style & Personality

If you are big on the design feature of your home, then adding window treatments is just one more area where you can go ahead and take control of the personality within your home. These are one of the more mute additions that you can make to your home while still creating a space that reflects the style of you and your family. These design elements are something that you can take from home to home, but is more often than not going to be a feature that people are looking for when purchasing a home.

If you and your family are a group of people that move around frequently, this is an added feature that you can use to create a home right now, and then later turn into a selling point when your house is back on the market. This is something that we do see people looking for when they’re shopping around for a house. If this is the case, sticking with something a little more classic like our wooden blinds or shutters might be a great safety space that allows for you to enjoy them now, but also makes it easy for whoever buys the house to implement them into their design.

If you are going for something that is a little bit more unique, you may want to consider the amount that you’re going to invest in them or consider window coverings like curtains that you can take from home to home. We can help you create the perfect combination of window treatments that provide the effects that you like, with a great set of curtains that scream of style.

Arjay’s Window Coverings is the place to go when you’re in need of quality window treatments that you can count on. If you’re interested in learning more about the options that we have in our showroom, call our office and set up an appointment to work with a member of our team. We would be more than happy to help you find the perfect window coverings for your home, and can work through the pros and cons of various styles so that you feel confident in the choices that we are providing you with. Call our team today!

Keeping Cats Out of The Blinds

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catwinThose four legged friends of ours may be cute and fun to cuddle in our down time, but they have a way of getting into so many parts of our home that sometimes they can be extra destructive. When it comes to cats, there are few things that they don’t get into. From tearing up the toilet paper to climbing on top of cabinets, there are so many different ways that your cat can get into things. One of the spaces that you are going to want to avoid your cats climbing onto will be your blinds. Not only are these an investment into your home, but they’re extremely noticeable and provide tons of functionality and efficiency to your home, the last thing you’re going to want is for them to be damaged.

The team at Arjay’s Window Furnishings know how hard it can be to manage the well being of your window coverings when you’ve got a cat in the house, so we have worked together to compile a few ways that you can minimize the chances of a cat jumping onto your blinds anytime in the near future.

Wrap the Cords

If the window coverings on your windows have long cords that your cat can play around with, make sure that these are out of reach or tied up so that your cat can’t get into them. If you install a small hook by the top of the window so that they can’t jump onto the ledge and still manage to get a hold of it. These are usually the primary reason that cats are even aware that the blinds are something that they have access too. Taking away this dangling string could help minimize the chances of your cats messing with the blinds.

catwin2Vertical Blinds

If your home has mini blinds, vinyl blinds or really any other design that goes directly up and down, consider switching them out for vertical blinds. These blinds offer a different look, but they also allow for your cat to ex
plore and chase after their curiosity without doing any serious damage. These blinds will provide you with the same amount of privacy, coverage from the sun, and will definitely minimize the amount of damage control that you have to worry about.

Plantation Shutters

Another option that you have is switching out your blinds for shutters. These are much more sturdy and offer an entirely different look, but they definitely leave zero room for messing around with. Leave them open during the day so that natural light can make it’s way into your home or so that your cat can make the most of the view, but close them and shed your worries of your furry friend doing any damage to them.

You can find these other window treatment options at Arjay’s Window Fashions, but hopefully these tips provide you with enough to keep you from having to stop by our showroom for new blinds more than usual. While we love having you stop by, we want you to at least enjoy these blinds for a while before they need replacing!

For any other questions, reach out to our team and we would be more than happy to help out.

What to Consider When Shopping for New Window Treatments

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window2Arjay’s offers tons of window treatments to choose from, but there are plenty of times that people walk in thinking they have an idea of what they want, and then don’t realize how many styles there are to choose from. If you are in the market for a nice new set of window treatments, then there are a few things that you should consider before you stop into the showroom and commit to a style.

Window Size

This is something that you are immediately going to want to consider when you are looking into window treatments. This will have a huge affect on the type of coverings that look great, provide enough coverage and fit well. While there are windows that every style of window treatment will work for, there are some blinds that are too small or too big for certain ones. For instance, a window that is exceptionally narrow might not be the best fit for mini blinds. Or vertical blinds may look extremely clustered when in this small of a space. On the other hand, windows that are extremely large might look absolutely ridiculous with mini blinds or require quite a few sets of blinds in order to fully cover. All of these are important notes to make.

Window Location

Depending on where your windows are located, there are styles that you may want to choose instead of others. This could be because they are high up and would be difficult to maneuver or because they are somewhere that gets more sun than other parts of the house. Factors like these could change the styles that you use or could even determine whether or not you want to add various styles of window coverings to a room or whether there is one that can provide you with everything that you need to have functionality, privacy, and aesthetics taken care of.

window5Usability

When you have windows that are too hard to reach or that you need extra functionality for, you may want to consider mechanical blinds, which may only come in certain styles. If you are looking at a certain style, you can ask our team whether or not mechanical styles are an option for that specific type, and if not, what styles would be similar to that style. Otherwise, we can provide other options that you might want to look into while you determine which of these styles will give you everything that you want in your blinds, and still provide you with the same usability that will allow for you to make the most of your window treatments.

Stopping into the showroom isn’t a horrible thing to do. It really can expose you to all of the different styles that are out there so that you can come to a conclusion with what you want in regards to style, color, texture, and feel. Stop by Arjay’s Window Fashions and let us help you order the perfect style for your home.

Make sure to check our next blog post where we cover a few more things that should go into the style of blinds that you choose.

Things to Consider with Your Custom Curtains

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curtainDeciding which type of window treatment is going to be the best fit for your home is something that requires consideration, testing out a few different designs and ultimately figuring out which type of material is going to fit in with the aesthetic of your home and be the most efficient for your style. At Arjay’s Window Fashion in Ventura, we have a large selection of materials that you can consider for your home, each offering something different when selected as a window treatment. Here are a few of the different things that you need to consider when you are choosing the material for your custom curtains.

Durability

One of the primary things that you’re going to want to consider when purchasing curtains is how durable the material is. Most of the curtains that we find in common home good stores are going to be made from common fabrics, like cotton or a blend of fabrics that can look nice when first purchased, but won’t hold up to the various things that your curtain will come across. If you’re not sure what we mean by this, don’t worry, we’ve broken it down. When you hang your curtains, you’re going to want a material that is durable enough to maintain its color even with the sun shining on it every day. If you are looking at getting curtains for efficiency reasons, then you’re definitely going to want to make sure that your curtains are thick enough to actually help maintain a temperature within your house and block any air that could potentially escape. Curtains that are more durable may be more expensive initially, but you will see that you pay for their worth in the time that they last.

Sizing

Curtains are made to fit a variety of window sizes, but making sure that you have the right size for your windows is something that you need to take a moment to double check and make sure that this window treatment will actually fit your window. There are certain materials that will only be made in certain sizes, so if you are looking for a material that you can use throughout your house, you need to have an idea of what size windows you’re going to need these custom curtains fitted to. If there are certain materials that you’re looking for, we can do our best to try and fit them to windows, even when they aren’t custom for that type of material, but there are certain materials that you’re going to want to stay away from for window sizes.

Thread Count

Materials that are commonly used to make clothes will usually have a smaller thread count than most of the materials that you will see are used for the curtains you’ll be looking at. If you start looking into different materials to use for your custom curtains, it’s always worth looking at the thread count so that you can tell what the quality of your curtains are going to be in relation to standard clothes and threadwork. This is a great way to really determine what the various quality levels are when switching between fabrics and threadwork.

Texture

From velvet to cotton, all different types of fabrics will create a different texture for the curtains that they create. If you are looking to have a very particular type of fabric for your curtains, then you should definitely sample a few different types of fabric so that you know you’ve selected the right one. We can help you do that when you stop by our showroom in Ventura.

If you’re ready to get started choosing which types of materials you’d like for your custom curtains, then it’s time you stop by Arjay’s Window Fashions in Ventura. We will be more than happy to help you narrow down the options that you have.