Window treatment designs can be beautiful and eco-friendly! From gorgeous, colorful, and textured performing fabrics with organic or recycled content that are third-party certified to simply having the right shading devices inside and out to keep your home cool or warm throughout the seasons. Let me show you some great options and eco-home design ideas for inside and outside of your home.
In my conversation with Vince Nigara, owner of award-winning Window Works in Livingston, I learned that they offer more than just draperies. They are a personalized design center that can give your home warmth and finishing touches which compliment both the exterior and interior spaces, and all are loaded with everyday function and performance in mind!
South facing rooms tend to have a lot of natural light coming in from their windows which means additional warmth and heat gain. During the winter, it helps warm up a room, but in the summer, it may be too hot. Rooms facing north, east, or west tend to be cooler, and have less bright and natural light. Thinking about the function of these spaces when designing your interiors is especially important to achieve a beautiful space that you can use every day, year round, with human comfort, energy savings and our planet in mind. Their in-house designers can help you select the best products to make your home beautiful and help you save on energy costs.
Did you ever wonder why you can get such a great night’s sleep in a hotel room? Part of the secret - the drapery design is loaded with technology, like blackout fabrics and the type of stitching in the panels, to the return of the fabric panel to the wall where it can block out all bright light and give you the “feng shui” sleep we all crave. Window Works carries high-performing fabrics used in the hospitality industry, such as Fabricut, with options that include metals to velvets and so much more. Complement your bedroom with soft goods, such as custom bedding like duvets, quilted covers, and pillows to create that luxury feel and restful design from an upscale hotel at home.
And if you are on a budget, the 38 East Color Lux collection is their new semi-custom drapery offering designed by one of their extraordinarily talented in-house designers that’s available at shop38east.com.
The best part is, you can stop in and see the colors and patterns and feel the fabric selections for yourself! Be sure to bring your paint chip samples, pillows and other finishes you want to complement in the room to help make your best design selection.
With sustainability and comfort in mind, don’t forget your exterior entry ways and windows. You can add architectural details and character that can save energy and keep your home cool and warm when you need it most.
If you want to create and extend additional usable outdoor square footage at home, your patio is the answer. How? With the Gennius Awning System, an incredibly innovative outdoor retractable room, where the sides and top retract and open and close completely. You can also add LED lighting and audio to complete your indoor/outdoor room experience!
For your shore house, think about adding hurricane shutters which protect your home against extreme winds.
Curious to learn more about interior design? Co-owner and published author, LuAnn Nigara, has the #1 rated Interior Design business podcast on iTunes called “A Well-Designed Business® “! Join LuAnn at https://luannnigara.com/a-well-designed-business/ and learn design techniques too!
You can be “green” with beautiful and sustainable designs that add thermal comfort, save energy, and add a splash of upscale design and personality to your business or home! https://windowworks-nj.com/