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Cooking Corners

Tasty patterns and spicy styles add color and flavor to a kitchen or dining room setting. Whether formal or casual, the latest window coverings and room fashions can hold the recipe for success. Take ideas from the following pages for your repertoire of design solutions and season your clients' "Cooking Corners" with individual style.
To create this whimsical kitchen area, Seabrook combines wall coverings and fabrics from the new Happy Art for the Young at Heart Collection. The bright colors and happy animals and inspirational quotations by artist Sally Huss are available on sidewall and border patterns for children's rooms, kitchens or nearly any informal and fun setting.
This bright and sunny breakfast nook features fabric from John Wolf's Holiday Range Casual Country Collection, which includes Langtry on the love seat. Darlington for the balloon shade, Abington for the slip covers on the chair and Gingham for the table topper and ruffle on the curtain.		. . .
Nanik wood blinds add warmth and color to this contemporary kitchen setting. The natural color and smooth touch of the wood blinds complements the glossy granite countertop and weathered gray cabinets. The overhead skylights and vaulted ceiling drops dramatic lighting into the room, while the blinds provide privacy and glare control.		. . .
To contrast the solid wood tone of these kitchen cabinets, Lafayette Venetian Blind offers this Verosol eyelet pleated shade topped with a simple rod-pocket valance with accent welting and wall coverings from the Wall Masterpieces Collection to complete the setting. The Select Masterpieces fabrics also can be used for verticals, roller or pleated shades, draperies or wall coverings.		. . .
This modern kitchen's stark white decor is made convenient with the Silent Gliss 2120 Soft Shade System, which is chain-operated and designed for large or heavy soft shade applications. The hardware system is flexible and can be angled for bay windows and ceiling or wall mounted. To maintain their clean, white appearance, the shades easily can be removed off the rails for washing.
Semi-formal and completely fabulous, decorative shell scarfholders in stripped pine from the C.W. Kirsch Signature Series, Buckingham Collection hold two fabric swags to create a treatment that easily fits formal or casual dining. For privacy and light control, two inch wood blinds in bleached white with pineapple colored cloth tapes are installed underneath.		. . .
Designers Sal Minore and Richard Piemonte of Studio 3 chose opaque Duette Eclipse[TM] honeycomb shades in a 3/4-inch pleat from Hunter Douglas Window Fashions for the kitchen / dining area of a contemporary house in Dix Hills, NY. T he treatment provides total room darkening when the shades are lowered and stack neatly under the cornices when raised to work well with this decor.		. . .
As beatiful as it is practical, this Vignette[TM] window shading from Hunter Douglas features layers of gently contoured fabric folds to create a look as soft as a drapery with the easy operation of a shade. When lowered, Vignette provides sophisticated style, privacy and a soft glow from outside light to this French Country Kitchen. When raised, the shade disappears into a sleek curved headrail shaped to mirror the fabric folds.		. . .
This truly unique and high-tech kitchen features Window Modes, Ltd. beaded chains that let the radiance of natural sunlight filter in a fanciful and unusual pattern throughout the room. Each vane is five inches wide and can be made as a vertical, stationary, or sliding panel. Each treatment is custom sized and available in silver, bronze, brass and black finishes.		. . .
Ambrosia designer knit curtains from Heritage Lace feature a fruit motif, perfect for a kitchen or casual dining area such as this one. The fruit is surrounded by beautiful ivy and lace tassels in the Triple Festoon valance and tiers. Ambrosia table lace completes the room ensemble.		. . .
Rich and luxurious, this kitchen setting is enhanced with a Comfortex Symphony Duofold shade to provide soft charm and a uniform white exterior view. The energy efficient shade operates from the top or bottom to allow a choice of natural lighting and privacy.		. . .
Simple, textured solid-colored Springdale vertical blinds from Graber® are both functional and decorative in this informal eating area. The contemporary treatment provides interesting contrast to the walls while complementing the modern country furnishings		. . .
The Country Woods[TM] wood blinds from Hunter Douglas Window Fashions achieve a sleek, clean look appropriate for this contemporary kitchen scene. Show is the two inch slat style in a white finish. Backed with a lifetime warranty, these blinds are made from the finest grade-A basswood and available in one- or two-inch slat sizes.
A sunny kitchen window is made even more cheerful with machine washable, printed ADO curtains, hung delicately on a decorative rod. Crisp fabric bows lend a feminine touch. The sheers are tied back to allow in natural sunlight and retain a beautiful view.