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Americana Beautiful

Created and Written by Barbara J. August
Graphic Design by Kelley O'Rourke

Incorporating our nation's heritage as color, texture and pattern icons in home fashions celebrates the liberty we share in choosing our professions as well as the products and services we use every day. Take tips from these exceptional room designs and explore unique ways to incorporate the red, white and blue, stars and stripes or traditional colonial influences in your interior treatments.
Echoing old-fashioned craftsmanship and attention to detail, which makes a personal statement about a home's mystique, Nanik's exclusive Beaded Edge wood blinds makes an ordinary treatment extraordinary. New for 1997, Beaded Edge now is available on Timberline and Nanik Accents wood blinds. Shown here are Timberline blinds, with Beaded Edge in indigo.
The Saturday Evening Post/Norman Rockwell Home Furnishings Collection features custom bed and window coverings and cut yardage exclusively licensed by Carole Fabrics. On this classic bedspread, Stockbridge Quilt, a commemorative fabric, depicts the buildings of the Massachusetts town Rockwell called home for the last 25 years of his life against a quilt-like background.
Kirsch coordinates window treatments from verticals and pleated shades to toppers and roller shades, making it easy to create classic American scenes like this -- a blend of beautiful hues with rough stone surfaces and natural knotty pine. Kirsch also offers new vertical blind headrail choices in both standard and heavy-duty as well as new valance and topper styles.
A popular design option for the bedroom or bath, Hunter Douglas pleated shades with top-down hardware have a moving rail that opens the shade from the top instead of the bottom. Featured here, the shade ensures privacy, offers contemporary style and convenience and allows light and a view of the antique leaded glass panes.
Vertiscapes® star cutout design is ideal for children's room, featuring a white background, cascading red top and twinkling blue stars. Originally intended for children, cutouts also work well for media rooms or stages, for example, with black on black and sparkling gold stars. All blinds are manufactured with the patented Multi-Edge groover from Palm Beacher Verticals and Drapes.
Lafayette adorns this wall of windows and rear deck door entry with traditional two-inch wood Venetian blinds. A custom color matched rope twist wood pole supports the two pelmets in patterns Lucas and Napal with Conso trim, and tab curtains in pattern Lorenzo with Conso trim tiebacks. Pillows complete the ensemble in patterns Country and Lucas with Lorenzo trim.