It’s been a long time coming, but your wait is finally over. Decorating with Fabric Contract is excited to offer a complete window covering control system for your residential or commercial project, powered simply by the new Solar Powered Nickel Metal Hydride battery which is 100% rechargable from the rays of the sun. Welcome to the new InSync SolarPac […]
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1969 was a great year for me. As an eleven year old boy I had a lot to be happy about. That year in New York we had The Knicks, Mets and Jets all winning championships. I spent my time imagining I was Walt Frazier, Tom Seaver and Joe Namath in their days of glory.
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During my course Communicating Successful Drapery Design I speak about the importance of function coming before design. This is mostly true for commercial treatments as compared to residential treatments where sometimes form trumps function.
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Decorating with Fabric presents the patent pending Simply 66 cubicle curtain snap system. Simply 66 is the ultimate infection control cubicle curtain whose attributes also include its functionality, time and money saving characteristics and ease of installation.
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While light shelves help redistribute the sun’s direct visible energy deep into a building, they also reduce the amount of radiant energy at the building’s perimeter (which, in turn, reduces the building’s cooling load and associated energy consumption). The integration of light shelves to create high-performance building design requires a team approach since, not only are the
Over the many years in business we have done some beautiful drapery treatments in restaurants. Here are a few of my favorites.
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I have written about my youth working for my parents and grandparents store cutting spring roller shades. I learned this skill of trimming shades down to size on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. This was a busy store and part of the job of cutting these in-stock roller shades was doing the task in
I was cutting Roller Shades at 10 years old! Read More »
In the heyday of the Roman Colosseum, the crowds would sit through a day-long program of events in the open air. The sun gets hot up in the stands so long awnings were constructed that opened into the arena and offered some sun protection. The awnings were held out on poles that extended into the
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