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Powder Fresh Fashions

Adorned in fresh colors and the latest accessories, baths and dressing rooms become a retreat from our fast-paced lives. Create a look that's bright and cheerful or relaxing and comforting to whisk your clients away and make them feelpowder fresh all day.
A Kirsch roller shade with the bottom-up option allows
sunlight and fresh air to enter the room while maintaining privacy.
The roller is mounted at the sill of the window and the shade is closed
by drawing it up toward the top of the window.
 
Blue and white Bennington from Croscill Home Fashions,
part of a fully coordinated collection for the bed, bath and
window, is characterized by flower clusters that form diagonal stripes
interspersed with bands of lighter blue blossoms for a classic look.
 
Victorian Rose ready-mades from Heritage Lace provide
a most enchanting fashion for the powder room. This lacy shower
curtain becomes the room's focal point, while mid-length door panels,
coordinating scarf valances scalloped with a lace pouf and matching table
lace on the bath towels and accessories create fanciful accents.
 
New from Hunter Douglas Window Fashions, Passages[TM]
custom vertical blinds create a sunny atmosphere in this luxurious
bath. Shown here in Amari, a stitch-bond fabric with random light-filtering
patterns, the blinds are standard with the PermALIGN[TM] track system to
ensure trouble-free operation and perfect vane ALIGNment.
 
Deeply-toned floral Granada from Croscill Home Fashions,
shown here, creates a dramatic traditional style. The pattern
is translated in scale and design on the shower curtain, wall
border and fabric-covered accessories; as a stripe on the towel;
and as a single bouquet on the ceramic soap dish and dispenser,
cup and toothbrush holder.
 
This bright bathroom setting is dressed with a pleated shade
from Hunter Douglas Window Fashions featuring the privacy/view
dual fabric system that allows two fabrics on one shade with a moving
center rail. On top is a sheer lace and on the bottom is a shimmering
semi-opaque fabric.
 
The many design options available with ADO seamless sheers
makes creating a unique bathroom or dressing room design fun and
functional. The delicate, airy look of the fabric offers a stunning
treatment to this dressing area with the easy-care of machine washing.
 
Filigree bath accessories from Croscill Home Fashions,
shown here in a European blue and white, dress a bath or
bedroom in an elegant scroll motif that blends easily with
solid or patterned walls and accessories.
 
Hunter Douglas Window Fashions' Manhattan
Collection[TM] of premium Duette® honeycomb shades
feature five elegant fabric selections and a 1/2-inch offset pleat
construction to guarantee the pleats retain their shape permanently.
 
To create a mood and set a style in this bath, Comfortex Symphony
double honeycomb shades were installed with the top-down option.
The shades turn harsh direct sunlight into a soft, warm glow, while
offering complete privacy.
 
Silhouette® window shadings from Hunter Douglas
Window Fashions
offer the light control of a blind, the soft,
airy look of sheers and the easy operation of a shade from one treatment
"Floating" colored fabric vanes, suspended between sheer front and back
facings, can be tilted for gentle light filtering and closed for a
diffused radiance and total privacy.
 
Carole Fabrics creates this charming bath with a flat Roman
shade design and attached tie accents. The treatment adds style, color and
a distinct personality to what would be an ordinary, plain bathroom.
 
Bright and cheerful, this children's bathroom design features the
Happy Art collection of coordinating fabrics and wall coverings from
Seabrook Wallcoverings. The whimsical animal art motif and
primary colors delight the eye.
 
To provide privacy while transmitting light in a small
bath area of the 1991 Mansions & Millionaires® Designers'
Showcase®, Parker-Ziering Interiors, Cedarhurst, NY, chose a Duette®
honeycomb shade in a semi-opaque fabric and 3/8-inch pleat from
Hunter Douglas Window Fashions. Coordinated draperies in
a rose-pink material from Carole Fabrics finish the room design.
 
The Silent Gliss 2150 system is used to lift this Roman shade
which acts as a backdrop to the suspended circular mirror. This highly
sophisticated motorized system includes a two-by-two inch square headrail
that lifts shades measuring up to 20 by 20 feet.
 
Metallized Mirage pleated shades by Graber® combine fashion
and function in this bathroom ensemble. The metallized backing on the FashionPleat®
shade assures opacity and a top-down style offers additional light, privacy and air control options.
 


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