February 2009
25 February 2009, by Isabella
Now everyone can afford designer fabrics. Fabricut’s new fabric line called Trend offers budget friendly prices to home decor.
Fabricut Launches New Fabric Brand Fabricut recently unveiled its new fabric brand, Trend, featuring a variety of products and styles for the value-conscious consumer. Including drapery, multipurpose, sheers, silks, faux silks, linings, and trimmings, the Trend line is designed to appeal to an increasingly diverse demographic and will help designers and workrooms match the client’s aesthetic sensibilities to his or her budget.
Trend managing director Rebecca Creal dismisses concerns that affordability and style are mutually exclusive. “Trend is fulfilling the general movement in the marketplace of a need for beautiful fabrics at an exceptional value,” she says. “Just because it’s affordable does not mean it can’t be stylish and exciting.” Trend’s first introduction, the Jaclyn Smith Home Collection, mixes and matches wovens and prints inspired by the fabrics in Smith’s own home. Fabric books are available for design professionals and showcase styles that range from traditional to contemporary.
Categories: Fabrics, Home Improvement, Saving Money, Windows
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25 February 2009, by Isabella
Natural woven shades are gaining popularity and Graber is offering more variety in textures and colors. Graber®, a Springs Window Fashions brand, is updating its popular Natural Shades with a variety of new materials and textures. The Tradewinds® Natural Shades collection features options in woven rattans, bamboos and reeds – all available in an exciting range of color options, from deep rich hues that beautify a warm space, to neutral options that lighten and brighten a room. Graber also is expanding the shades styles available for its Natural Shades, including an elegant new Looped Roman Shade design and Panel Accents™ Sliding Panels for larger windows and open floor plans.
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Categories: Fabrics, Going Green, Home Improvement, Windows
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25 February 2009, by Isabella
It seems like LED lights are quickly taking over the lighting market these days. You see them in now in everything from flashlights to holiday bulbs. They can use as little as 15% as much energy as a standard incandescent bulb, so about 6 eco-friendly LED bulbs still use less energy than your standard bulb. They contain no mercury, no lead, and are run very cool.
Marktech LED Lighting Products has added the EnergyLED E26 LED light bulb to their line of LED lighting products. This energy efficient bulb uses just 4.6 watts to generate 160 lumens of light, a stark comparison to standard light bulbs. On average, LED light bulbs use up to 85% less electricity and last up to 50 times longer than current incandescent lamp offerings. This E26 based, UL approved family of LED light bulbs are currently available in three white color temperatures, 2800k warm white, 5200k full spectrum white, and 6000k cool white. Colored bulbs include red, green, blue and yellow.
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Categories: Going Green, Lighting, News, Saving Money
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24 February 2009, by Isabella
With 30,000 plants available for purchase online, PlantScout, at Dave’s Garden is a great tool to find the plant you’re looking for. Launched in 2004, this innovative plant finder is the only tool of its kind in North America and has helped over 750,000 gardeners find sources for their must-have new plants.
Each year, millions of visitors and members turn to Dave’s Garden for real-world experience and advice from their fellow gardening enthusiasts. A large percentage of visits to this informational website are by gardeners on the hunt to find a particular plant.
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24 February 2009, by Isabella
New today from Space Bag is an easier to access, three compartment, vacuum bag. To be released in the next few weeks at Target and WalMart (soon at other retailers) The price is about $13 US.
In a recent study, consumers were asked, “What is the biggest challenge to improving your home’s organization”? – The top two answers were: Lack of space in the home (43%), and Too much stuff (25%). The new Space Bag® 3 Pocket Organizer™ helps solve both problems. It’s especially effective for organizing and compressing items together like entire bedding sets – comforters, sheets, & pillows, or even seasonal decorations, crafts and collectibles.
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Categories: Houseware, News, Organization
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