Month: November 2022

When selecting the colors for your home’s window blinds, choose them for the way they organize with the color schemes both inside and outside your house. You can add contrast to your home’s exterior by selecting blinds at a complementary or darker color, as long as the color functions on the inside as well. Gray blinds mix well when the home’s siding consists of brick, stucco or stone. White blinds are fresh and sharp and combine well with door and window casements at precisely the exact same colour. Black blinds add dramatic appeal, while blinds in a variety of earthen neutrals provide a soft, natural appearance. Brick Exteriors Blinds which match a brick home’s mottled secondary tones produce a coordinated appearance from the outside. When the brick outside includes tan striations, tan blinds produce an analogous colour scheme — colors beside each other on the colour wheel with the orange…

In 1932, a French architect built an glass home in Paris which has since become an cult object, its block facade undamaged. You might not lust after decoration — or want to live in a glass house — but the choices of today in glass block styles and layout possibilities and new decoration opens up for bringing light in your living area. Shades and Styles The hollow glass block is a classicl but it’s only one of a myriad of choices you can select for backsplashes, shower surrounds, entry walls, windows and room dividers. Consider etched, sandblasted, frosted and satin finishes borders and patterns; corner, curved, angled and finish blocks; colored blocks and custom-engraved. Colors rang from intense metallic and stone tones — sapphire, ruby, amethyst, garnet, emerald, topaz, aquamarine, silver, copper and gold — to pastels as fragile as sheers — sea foam, iced-glacier, sky-blue, champagne-pink, apricot, lemon, carrot…