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Drapery 101: Everything You Need to Know

We love custom draperies here at High Country Drapery Designs. They add beauty, texture, color, depth, and southern style to your home. To help ensure your windows are well-dressed and perfectly framed, we’re breaking down some drapery basics here. Drapery header styles The header refers to the …

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7 Outdoor Living Trends We’re Loving This Fall

Outdoor design has never been better, which is great news since staying in is the new going out. Up until now, beautiful design details have been mostly saved for indoors. But now, you can incorporate your favorite design ideas in your outdoor living spaces and …

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Smart Home Capabilities are Not as Intimating as You Think

Smart Home Window Treatments Voice assistants can control everything from your window shades to your thermostat. Going into 2020, a lot of homeowners are upgrading to smart homes. Smart Home capabilities used to be strictly for the rich and famous, but smart home capabilities are …

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Everything You Need to Know About Decorative Trim & Embellishments

To borrow a term from the Trim Queen, Jana Phipps, we’re members of the Fringe Friends Club. We love adding decorative trim and other embellishmecushnts to custom window coverings, decorative pillows, and upholstered furnishings. It’s like adding frosting to an already delicious cake. When customizing pillows, …

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5 Reasons to Love Sheers in Your Chattanooga Home

We spend a lot of time talking about how draperies can offer sound-proofing capabilities and block light from your bedroom or home theater. But we love sheer curtains and sheer shades, too, even though they don’t provide those same capabilities. Sheers are unlined window coverings made …

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Everything You Need to Know About Roman Shades

Roman shades are soft window coverings that hang flat against the window when lowered and feature soft drapes or crisp folds of fabric when raised. They can be either functional or non-functional, and they are more decorative than basic cellular or woven wood shades because they can …

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Retractable insect screens solar shades chattanooga

We often get requests about repurposing fabric from a soft goods (like a bedspread) into another type of soft good (like drapery). In this post we will show a recent example of this type of project as well as give some tips to keep in …

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Everything You Need To Know Outdoor Automation Chattanooga

During those perfect summer days coming up in the Chattanooga area, you probably want to spend as much time as possible in your outdoor living space. But just because you’re spending more time outside doesn’t mean you have to give up the convenience of your …

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