Transition Your Home’s Interior From Summer to Fall
bwsit • Sep 20, 2017

The seasons are a great influence on our lives. With the change of seasons, we are often ready for changes in other places. We change colors in our clothes, the flavors for our food, and the decorations in our homes. So as we are transitioning from summer to fall, it is time to spice up our homes for the up-coming holidays. This doesn’t mean you need an abrupt change, a smooth transition is good.  

A Neutral Palette

For choosing new furniture, neutral colors a great. They are also in style, making their versatility even more attractive. The best thing about neutral furnishings is that they allow you to add your colorful touches in your accent pieces and decorations. This makes a room easily dressed up for seasons, holidays, and even events in your life that are worth decorating for.

Front Door

Fall wreaths are lovely this time of year, and so are decorative pumpkins. It is not quite time for jack-o-lanterns, but pumpkins that are not carved are good decorating features from now all the way to Thanksgiving. Mums are a great seasonal color touch as well, bringing in the reds, golds, and oranges of fall in a beautiful way. The mums and pumpkins can also continue their loveliness into the home as well.

Seasonal Scents

There is nothing that brings the essence of fall into your home faster than the spicy aromas of cinnamon, apple cider, and pumpkin. Fall candles not only make the space smell wonderful, but they dress up the room with their lovely fall colors. Not only that, but there is nothing more soothing than the flicker of candle light on those fall evenings.

Floors

Nothing is more cozy than a nice accent rug that dresses up the floor. An area rug brings the room together and helps the colors meld. Choose one with a pleasant blend of the colors you are decorating with, and it will bring the room together. You can even layer your area rugs for a mix of textures that will bring depth and texture to your room. Choose rugs with similar colors and differing textures and add some fun to your floors. Just make sure that the bottom rug pokes out from under the top one in a way you can enjoy both.

Accent Decor

These are the best places for quick changing colors. Throw pillows, decorative arrangements, and even wall art can easily be changed out and stored until the season comes around again. Bring out the pumpkin orange touches, splashes of red and gold, and the fall leaf patterns. Add some fall colored throw blankets to your living spaces, some fall colored table cloths or runners to your dinning table, and you can even change-up your bedding colors.

Outdoor Seating Areas

Don’t forget to add some charm to your patio, porch, or deck areas. Dress up these areas with a bit of fall color and style. If it is a protected area, this is a great place for some of those fall throws. If it is sunny, those mums would be great here also.

Window Treatments

When choosing your window treatments, choose neutral colors for those built-in features like beautiful plantation shutters or motorized window shades. However you can also have draperies or curtain panels that dress up the sides of your windows or make your windows feel larger in your room. These features are easily changed out. Choose a pastel set for spring, a bright set for summer, and spicy hues for fall and winter.

At Just Blinds, we know you want the very best for your life and your home.  Contact us  for more information on window treatments for every room and every season.

Expert Advice by Just Blinds

The Leading Window Treatment Trends of 2024

By Autumn Hooper • 07 Feb, 2024
Each year, styles in window treatments come and go. Trends that were hot last year may carry over to the new interior decor season or may be replaced by something new. In 2024, we are looking at a delightful set of trends in blinds, shades, and curtains that embrace the developing attitudes and popular colors that are already giving the year a unique stylistic personality. At Just Blinds, we are delighted to keep up with the trends, helping homeowners, designers, and property managers to create stunning spaces that align with the latest in window treatment trends. The Hot Trends of 2023 Blinds and Shades Last year in 2023, we saw a great collection of trends, many of which have evolved and strengthened with the new year. 2023 explored the innovations of cell shades and honeycomb shades for the benefits of insulation and light control. Motorization gained a prominant place in both home and office design, and decorators discovered the dynamic possibilities of shades that operate from both the bottom and the top on floor-to-ceiling tracks. Texture saw a real debut with natural colors like wood finishes, linen, dusty rose, and moss green. Though bold patterns also had their day in the sun. The Trending 2024 Window Treatments In 2024, you may recognize a few trends still going strong from the year before, which is good news for those who decorated last year because your style is likely still right on-trend. But we are also seeing new trends developing with elegant enthusiasm. Smart Home Blinds The trend for motorized shades has naturally evolved to favor smart home controls. With a simple voice command, you can take control of all the motorized shades in a room, in your entire home, or set each shade to exactly the height and opacity you desire. Warm Neutrals and Bold Natural Colors Color trends favor a more natural palette. Neutral colors are warmer, even the grays and charcoals have a honey undertone, while natural colors like mossy and forest green are growing stronger in hue paired with a jewelbox of flower petal colors. If you're following the Colors of the Year, you may have also noticed an adoration of ocean blues, and you can match those blues with slightly darker or lighter blinds for beautiful effect. Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Materials Natural materials and textures were popular in 2023, and 2024 takes this trend even further. Blinds made out of recycled materials are now on the rise alongside the growing popularity of blinds made from super-sustainable plants like bamboo, hemp, jute, and grass cloth. These offer natural colors, dynamic textures, and the delight of eco-friendly design. Gauzy Sheer Elegance Sheer curtains and semi-sheer blinds are also in fashion; a classic style that has been floating near the top of popularity for literal centuries. Sheer curtains and blinds maintain privacy while allowing sunlight into the room in a gently diffused glow. They also layer excellently with more robust window treatments. Creative Window Treatment Layering Speaking of layering, we are seeing an enthusiastic embrace of creatively layered styles. Wooden shutters, gauzy curtains, and black-out blinds are among the most popular layers, but decorators are getting creative with how they choose to to layer their window treatments, using both multiple fabrics and structures at the same time. Find the Blinds that Best Suit Your Needs How can you choose fantastic and on-trend blinds that perfectly suit your design needs? Fortunately, the diversity of this year's trends leave room for almost any personal sense of style and the individual needs of each room's windows. Start with the size of your windows and your room's existing color palette. Decide if you want to match, accent, or contrast the colors of the room. Then choose the opacity, privacy, and level of motorized control you desire. This should guide you toward a specific selection that will work well for your room. From there, it's a matter of specific features and your personal sense of style. Reach Out for Expert and On-Trend Advice If you are getting ready to decorate a room and want the perfect window treatments for 2024, we are only a phonecall or a visit away. Give us a call for expert advice in the right blinds or shades for each window in your home. Our on-trend window treatment experts will be glad to help tailor your window treatment design to your personal tastes, the latest trends, and the style of each of your rooms.

Beat the Heat: Best Choices to Keep The Interior of Your Home Cool

20 Jul, 2023
Is your AC bill keeping you down this summer? Is your home too hot? Window treatments can help cool your home, but you need to choose the right ones and use them correctly. Not all window coverings are made equal. Here are some of the best options to help keep your home comfortable and reduce costs this summer: Cellular or honeycomb shades. These are specifically designed to provide a high level of insulation that keeps the heat out of your home. They also don't block the view when completely drawn. As a bonus, you can get them in a wide variety of colors and patterns to match your home and in both top-down and bottom-up configurations. Drapery. Old-fashioned curtains can be surprisingly effective. Choose a medium color and have us add a white plastic backing to reflect heat out of your home. You can also use drapes to block some of the heat without excluding much light, allowing you to enjoy natural light flowing through your drapes. Fabric Roman shades. These are a distinctive option that really dresses up a room, and if you choose the kind with several layers they will definitely help keep the heat out. We have light filtering and blackout options and everything in between. Why Should You Use These Types of Shades or Blinds? The two reasons are to save money and help protect the environment. Good shades keep your home cooler and this means your air conditioning systems don't have to work as hard and use as much energy. In the northern hemisphere, it's most important to have heat-reducing treatments on your southern windows and you can allow more light in through windows that face north. Both cellular and Roman shades can also be motorized and even put on timers to close the shades when you are not there and then let light in when you return. The small amount of energy used by motorized shades is much less than that lost through naked windows. All of these shades can also add to the aesthetics of your room. Cellular shades are great to add a pop of color or a subtle pattern. Both drapery and Roman shades give a soft feel to your windows that then spreads to the rest of your room. What is the Best Choice? The best choice of the three depends on your personal aesthetics. Our designers can help you make the right choice. If you want motorized shades, cellular shades are the lightest and thus use the least energy, and can roll all the way up and down, leaving your windows completely unrestricted. Roman shades are more visible, but can be used to add fabric and color to a room. Many people still love the look of traditional window drapes. Note that you can also combine shades and drapes for the effect you want, both in terms of reducing heat loss and in terms of aesthetics. How Much Can I Actually Save? The amount you save depends on the kind of window covering you use and how much thermal gain your house typically experiences. The larger your windows, in general, the larger the benefit, especially south-facing windows. For example, medium-colored draperies with a white plastic backing can reduce heat gain by as much as 33% for that window. Most window treatments, though, reduce overall heat gain by about 10%. This can significantly reduce your bills, by $100 to $200 a month during the summer. Using the right window treatment can make your home more comfortable in the summer and save money while preserving the environment. For advise on which window treatments to choose for your home and to see our selection of blinds and shades, contact Just Blinds today.
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