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Enhancing the Experience of Living
Wolfgang Schaber brings a considerable scope of talent to clients' homes, making their dreams come true. |
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Industry Hall of Fame
D&WC inaugurates an annual recognition of those who shape the industry. |
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Fast Company
3 Blind Mice gets ahead of the curve. |
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Player Coach
Neil Gordon has a game plan success. |
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Special Delivery
Getting from here to there can be a complicated project. |
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Passion & Consistency Pay Off
Hard work gives Affordable Window Coverings its good name and strong referral base. |
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Silver Anniversary
Is it true the more things change the more they stay the same? |
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Products & Partnerships
The U.S. window coverings industry—led by
companies like Comfortex—rises to meet
consumer awareness and demand. |
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What a Fresh Look Can Do
Repositioned and with a new emphasis, Interiors by Decorating Den attracts new interests. |
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East Meets West
Exporting or importing, for Storch International Inc. globalization is a good thing. |
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On A Roll
Softline Home Fashions finds fabric the key to success. |
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Merge on Main Street
Interiors at 40 Main is a cooperative effort that works for everybody. |
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Now Showing ...
Windows, Floors and More opens a model showroom and looks for big things to come. |
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Yankee Ingenuity
For more than three decades, Larry’s Custom Interiors has made sure its
clients get the look and feel of a space they will love for a long time. |
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Envisioning Changes
Vertilux sees the industry's bigger picture. |
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Make It Easy
Window Fashions and Fabrics, Inc. fabricates it, sells it and tracks it. |
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Creating Careers
Celebrating 10 years of teaching, learning and networking. |
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It All Comes Down To The Installation
It’s the last chance you’ll have to make an
impression—good or bad—with your customer. |
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Success Comes Through The Window
With Exciting Windows! Steven Bursten is looking to conquer
the final frontier. |
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On The Plus Side
Carl Movrich has Drapery Connection making customers
feel they are something special. |
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SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN
Window Products Management combines planning,
people and hard work to build a phenomenal success. |
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Jump Start
Brian McGrath did his homework, then got The Blind,
Shade & Shutter Co. off to a quick start. |
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Innovation and Tradition
This hard-to-beat combinatin is ADO's answer to meeting customer demand. |
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3-in-1
Even with multiple outlets for his talents, Scot Robbins
is happiest creating at his worktable. |
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Step By Step
From a novice workroom to WCAA president, Beth Hodges has done
it right. |
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Good Neighbors
For 60 years Paulson's has helped its customers make their homes
their castles. |
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Focus of Attention
Carl Movrich has Drapery Connection making customers feel they
are something special. |
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Unlimited Solutions
Robert Döhlemann of döfix believes today’s
custom window treatments market is more profitable than
ever. |
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Between Ready-Made and Custom
Olde Towne Window Works helps its customers step up. |
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Paid In Full
Roger Gober has quietly built All About Blinds & Shutters
into a market leader. |
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Wouldn't Trade it for Anything
Margie Nance has been through it all. Now she's sharing what she has learned. |
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Some Things Change, Some Don't
For Linda Clayton Interiors success has been an open and shut case. |
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Ready
For Prime Time
Levolor Kirsch and the state of the industry. |
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Full Coverage
This Dallas-based window treatment franchise is about to
expand from sales to installation to maintenance. |
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Second To None
Whether it's for a beachfront condo or a year-round residence,
clients in this resort area know to go to Designing Windows Inc. |
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Family Affair
With four children to raise, Phyllis Cain worked
hard to create a business that will last for generations. |
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Education Works
ASID President Linda Elliot Smith loves sharing knowledge. |
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Taking It All The Way
New Age Interiors is there for its clients, right down to the last detail |
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Contrary To Popular Belief...
Shades Of The Future is successful because of what it won’t
do almost as much as for what it will do. |
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Preparing For What’s Ahead
Ron Zabel has great expectations for Springs and the window coverings industry. |
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True
Confessions
Nika Stewart’s next bestseller may appear
on a window, or on a bookshelf. |
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One Thing Leads To Another
Jill Stanbro learns as she goes and develops as a person,
a workroom, an employer and a friend. |
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Welcome Home
David Landy knows one of his designs is right when everything
feels as if it naturally belongs. |
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Beating The Odds
From the brink of near economic disaster, Curtain &
Drapery Fashions, Inc. reinvents itself and survives. |
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What's In A Name?
• Vocabulary Embellishments
• Going to School on Color
• Tradition! |
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The Vision
Budget Blinds has a goal and a plan to achieve it.
The only question seems to be who will join them. |
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Marv Hopkins
On the State of the Industry and the role of Hunter Douglas |
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Pursuing the American Dream
Draperies By Picazo tells a story of hard work, survival and family. |
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Outlook 2003
Industry leaders see rewards at end of a rocky road |
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Wired for Success
Caroline and Gary Small took control of their computers
and saw their sales begin to rise at Monique’s Draperies. |
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A One Woman Dynamo
Penny Overstreet takes window dressing one step further
in her quest for success. |
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Consulting The Experts
ASID national president, H. Don Bowden believes residential
and commercial clients are seeing the value of interior
design. |
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Big Plans to Stay Small
Richard and Audrey Gutheil took control of their careers,
their lives and Spa Paint & Decorating, Inc. with
the idea of taking it all to the next level of design
and service. |
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Trust Me on this One
Robinson Spry Interiors works closely and personally with
every client.
• Guest Editorial: Hard Is Soft
• Trends Tracking: Think Large, Think Toile
• Design Solutions: Period Styles Reign |
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Back home again
In Indiana, Boetsma Interiors knows how to get things
done.
• Room to Room
• Privacy as Priority
• Change—Why Do We Hate It So? |
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From generation to generation. When history repeats
itself it’s good for business at Pasquarello Interiors.
• On The Move
• Design Solutions: Crowning Touch
• Design Perspectives: Men’s Spaces |
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Heart and Sole. Trish and Bob Sole put everything
into Express Blinds & Draperies.
• Reinvent current trends with unexpected products
• Downy Soft?
• Style and Technology Merge |
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Gerry MacDonald offers custom window coverings
any way you’d like it.
• The ‘Fix’ Is On: döfix reaches a
milestone.
• Effective Web Site Design
• Reader Survey: Too Much To Expect |
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Jeffrey Kaplan InnuWindow.
• Trends Tracking: Fabric Trends for 2002
• Color my World Design Portfolio |
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Rose Riggins Inside Outlook Inc.
• Get Out of the House
• Best Selling Colors for 2002
• Hardware Market Report 2002
• Creating Dynamic Displays |
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Preston Petty owner of Blinds & Designs
• All the Right Answers
• Outlook 2002: Planning for a New Economy
• The Wright Stuff |
Bruce Heyman WCAA President Fabricland Interiors •
Trends Tracking: Passementerie • Special Section: Safety
Update • Year in Review Product Showcase
Janet Lyon and Susan Ladner Casden Janet Lyon Interiors
• A Perfect Fit Special Shutter Supplement • Wood
& Faux Wood Product Showcase • Designs for Dining Portfolio
Barbara Nugent ASID National President • Case History:
Washington, DC, Hotel Makeover • Design Perspectives: Moving
On Up • Motors & Lift Systems Product Showcase
Peggy Koskiniemi IFDA President • Spotlight: Exotic
Sanctuary • Projecting the Right Retail Image • Draperies:
Fabrics, Linings & Hardware Product Showcase
Amy Burton Burton Designs • Special Report: A Ride
With a Reason • Design Solutions: Don't Compromise Customer
Service • Pleated & Cellular Shades Product Showcase
20th Anniversary Issue
Jeannine and Ron Peyser Gamache & Lessard Co.•
Real Life: Long Distance Decorating • Rooms for Living
Design Portfolio • Motors & Lift Systems Product Showcase
Melinda Geter and Susan Huck Cal-Tran, Inc.• Special
Report: WCMA Product Innovation Awards • Workroom Operations:
C.O.M. Liability • Vertical Blinds Product Showcase
Alec Vezina, Robert Weitzler and Ron Isaacson Fabric Place • Design Solutions: Facing the French Door Dilemma
• New Orleans Show Preview Product Showcase • A Whole
New World
Sandra & Robert Wininger • F&R Blinds and
Interiors • Design Perspectives: Creating Inner Sanctuaries
• Blind & Shade Hardware & Components Showcase
• A Whole New World
Adam and Peter Goldberg BouClair, Inc. • Fresh
Ideas Design Portfolio • 2001 Product Preview Showcase
• A Whole New World
Catherine and Fritz Ruhé Ruhé's Window Coverings • Safety Supplement: Safety First • Millennium Highlights
Product Showcase • A Whole New World & Hardware Product
Showcase
Terri L. Maurer, FASID ASID President • The Beauty
of Nature Design Portfolio • Market Trends: Where Wood
Products Are Headed • Wood & Faux Wood Products Showcase
Steve Rile Ida & Norma's Draperies • Motors
& Lift Systems Showcase • Smart Selling: Is Every Customer
Your Customer? • Design Solutions: Searchin' Safari
Richard Pollack, FIIDA, AIA IIDA President • Market
Trends: The New 'Business As Usual' • Finishing Touches
Design Portfolio • Draperies: Fabrics, Lining & Hardware
Product Showcase
Mike Ballerini and Jim Servies • WindowPros •
Quick Sketching Techniques • Designer Showhouse: Una Bella
Vista •Industry Web Site Showcase
Tim El-Khalidi and Mike Degraff, A & I Mfg. • DDI
Decorator of the Year: Georgia Cox • Improving Your Store's
First Impression • Contract Product Showcase
Jim and Lyn Reed, Res-Com Window Solutions, Inc. •
Factors Affecting Window Coverings Demand • Baltimore Trade
Show Review • Motors & Lift Systems Product Showcase
Sandra Saft, Window Interiors • Interior Harmony
Design Portfolio • Workroom Pricing • Vertical Blinds
Showcase
Chris Collins, Custom Blinds of Charlotte • Reader
Survey Results: What's Hot in Shutters? • Wood and Faux
Wood Product Showcase • Inspired By Color
Ron Becker, Ron Becker Interiors, IFDA President •
Baltimore Show Issue • Retail Store Design Tips •
Market Trends in Decorative Hardware
Natia Dyer, Spectrum Decorating • Attitude Adjustments
for Better Business • Shedding Light on Color Decisions
• Drapery Hardware Showcase
Michele and Jim Evanger, Designs Of The Interior •
2000 Product Preview Showcase • Brave New World Design
Portfolio • Workroom Survey
Jeff Falcon, Bay Home & Window • Special Section:
Window Coverings Safety Supplement • Efficiency Investments
for the Workroom • '99 Product Highlights Showcase
Greg and Renea Dale, Picture Perfect Window Coverings, Inc. Follow the Leads • Solar Control • Internet Mailing
Lists Offer Targeted Discussions
Juliana Catlin, FASID, ASID President An Inside Look
at Pillows • Selling More than Price in Advertising Headlines
• Merchandising Tools Showcase
Carol Jones, FIIDA, FIDC, IIDA President Attention to
Details Design Portfolio • Merchandising Brand Names •
Draperies, Fabrics, Linings and Hardware Showcase
The Internet and the Future of Window Coverings Retailing Pleated and Cellular Shade Showcase • Ten Questions for
Workroom CEO's • Test Your Advertising IQ
Jack Pitson and Mario Soulema, Aero Shade Co. Inc. Art
Deco Revisited • Sampling and Sample Book Showcase •
Hiring a Web Consultant
Sylvia and Rudy Shubert, Shubert's Custom Made Draperies Creating a Summer Oasis • Motorization and Lift Systems
Showcase • The Big Picture: A Bright Future for Shades
Nancy Rosen and Michelle Wasserman, P.S. Cates Decorating Market Trends: Today's Wall Fashions • Boston, Atlanta
Show Reviews • Vertical Blind Showcase
Rick Pease, Innovative Openings, Inc. Workroom Operations:
Take Control of Production; Wood and Faux Wood Product Showcase
• Special Report: WCMA Product Innovation Awards
Vern and Shelly Jones, New Concepts Atlanta Show Product
Preview • Top 10 Trends in Retailing • Tropical Expressions
Design Portfolio
Interior Fashion University
Frances Phillips, IFDA President Special Report: Outlook
'99 • Product Preview Showcase • The New Retro-generation
Jim Imbur, Shenandoah Shutters • Special Section:
Window Coverings Safety Supplement • Design Portfolio of
Trimmings and Accessories • Showcase: '98 Highlights
Gaylen and Sherilyn Hall, Paradise Designs The Big Picture:
Tabs Are Tops • Window Treatment Advertising Survey Results
• Vertical Blind Showcase
Rosalyn Cama, ASID, ASID President Portfolio of Leisure
Home Design Ideas • Las Vegas Show Review • Motors
and Motor Systems Showcase
Neil Frankel, FIIDA, AIA, IIDA President Design Perspecitves:
Color and the Client • Workroom Operations: Part 1- Contract
Draperies • Horizontal Blinds Showcase
Ankie, Henry and Randy Meppelink, Great Lakes Window Coverings Market Trends: Interior Project Lists • Creating Professional
Presentations • Machinery, Equipment and Tools Showcase
John Crawford, John Crawford Co. Las Vegas Show Product
Preview • Decorating with Earthones
Ruth and Ronald Zapfe, Creative House Interiors CMG Looks
to 2000 • Wood Treatments Showcase • Quilting Machines
Barry Balbes, House of Blinds Vertical Blinds Showcase
• Web Design Tips • Home Remodeling Trends
Bonnie Bowers, Fabracadabrics Natural View Protfolio
• Working with Prints • Baltimore Show Recap
Cheryl Strickland, Professional Drapery Workroom School Pyschology of Fabrics • Baltimore Show Product Showcase
Dana Reid, Fabrics & More What Print Books Don't
Tell You • Baltimore Product Review
Clive Lubner, Robb & Stucky Preview '98, On-line: Become
an On-line Leader, Portfolio: Privacy Matters
Greg Miller, Aspen Blinds & Draperies Roller Shades Showcase,
Decorative Fixtures Design Portfolio, Looking for an ISP
Art Schumann and Roger O'Brien, 3-Day Blinds Portfolio:
Architectural Elements of Elegance, Design Solutions: Q & A,
On-line Marketing Tips, Wood Treatments Showcase
Parviz and Pamela Sadrian, Sundance Interiors Booming
Cross-over Market, Merchandising Tools Showcase, Gift Certificates,
Design Perspectives: Retro Modern
Jan Hennig, J.H. Interiors Color Key: Basic Influence,
Horizontal Blind Showcase, Design Solutions: Green Ideas and
Solutions
Steven Marcus, Blinds & Designs Pleated & Cellular Shade
Showcase, High-tech Workroom Equipment
Kitty Stein, Workroom Concepts Portfolio: Americana Beautiful;
Profitable Sales Letters; Drapery Hardware & Trimmings; E-mail
Etiquette
Joyce Burke-Jones, incoming national president of ASID Guest
Editorial: Windows '97, Consumer Pulse, Spotlight: Carol Sackler,
Portfolio: Rooms with a View
Boris Mesh, Excel Window Treatments, Trade Show Recap,
Workroom Services and Supplies Showcase, Vertical Blinds Showcase,
On-line: A Hard Look at Software, Consumer Pulse
John and Sheila Dorosk, Decorating Resources, Show Reviews:
Boston, Orlando & More, Decorative Fabrics Showcase, Workroom
Sewing Machines
World of Home Fashion Show Program Design Solutions:
Know the Code, On-line: Working the Web with Marketing Magic,
Business Management: Enhancing Your Product Mix to Increase
Business and Profit, Showcase: World of Home Fashion Show Product
Preview
Beth Harmon-Vaughan: IIDA President Solutions to Bed
Skirt Dilemmas, Boston Show Information, Orlando Show Preview,
Portfolio: Romantic Getaways
William O'Connor, Outlook Window Fashions, Inc. Outlook
'97: Color, Fashion, Product and Design Trends, Functional Feng
Shui, Drapery Hardware Showcase, Portfolio: Colors in Vogue
Marcy and Clair Hoover, Decorating Dimensions Inc. Future
Color Trends, Making a Hospice at Home, Portfolio: Children's
Rooms
Rebecca Shearn, Decorating Den Time Analysis for Workrooms,
Wood Treatments Showcase, Playing with Patterns, Portfolio:
Private Quarters.
Jan and Wesley Scott, In The Shade, Inc. Pinch Pleats
Are Back, ABCs of Store Design, Design Perspectives: Timeless
Oriental Influences, Portfolio: A Quiet Place.
George Lutfy, James Zakoor and Craig Duff, Eddie Z's Express
Blinds, Inc. Welcome Friends Portfolio, San Francisco Show
Recap, On-line: Getting onto the Internet, Draperies and Curtains
and Horizontal Blinds Showcase.
Pacific Home Fashion Fair Show Program. Schedule of Events/Special
Events, Registration Information/Travel Reservations, Interior
Fashions University, Seminar Time Schedule, On-line: Rx for
Computer Phobia, Pacific Home Fashion Fair Product Preview.
Kathy Ford Montgomery, Opportunity Knocks. That's Entertaining
Portfolio, Machinery and Equipment Showcase, Dressing Casual
Swags, Do Some Design Detective Work.
Carol Owens and Cindy Peck, Making Life Easier. The Gathering
Place Portfolio of Dining Room Ideas, Wood Treatments Showcase,
Dollars & Sense Marketing.
Ronda Bellsey and Rhoda Schwartz. Indianapolis '96 World
of Home Fashions, Vertical Blinds, Workroom Services.
Claudia Clark, Designing Decor. The Everything Room Portfolio.
Blind Hardware, Tracks and Components, Decorative Fabrics and
Energy Saving Products Showcases.
The World of Home Fashion Show Program. Spotlight: Karen
Skinner. 1996 Boston Curtain & Drapery Show Recap. Windows of
the World Show Recap.
Judith Hastings, President of IIDA. Power Fresh Fashions
Portfolio. The World of Home Fashion Show Preview. Drapery Hardware
Showcase.
Back to Basics: Jennifer and Tom Hudson of Quality Blinds
and Shades. Cooking Corners Portfolio. Boston Curtain &
Drapery Show Preview. |
