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Update the look of a room with custom window treatments and designer fabrics

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It’s spring and I’ll bet good money that a few of you have thought about updating the look of one of the rooms in your home. I think many of us begin to think about re-decorating when spring rolls around. Perhaps it’s the fresh air and that sense of renewal that spring brings that makes us think of giving our homes a new look?

It would be nice to hire a decorator every time we get the urge to redecorate a room, but few of us can afford one, especially these days with the economy, high gas prices and other expenses! I think it’s best to do what you can yourself and purchase decor items at wholesale prices whenever possible in order to save as much money as possible. Plus when you come up with your own decorating ideas and then redo a room you get quite the sense of satisfaction when your project is finished, don’t you?

When you are decorating a room consider fabric as a decor item. Certainly updating your curtains or adding decorative pillows can change the whole look and feel of a room.

If you are about to start redecorating a room or are thinking about your next project and want to get some ideas visit FabricWorkroom.com. They have a huge selection of luxury bedding, designer fabrics, decorative pillows, shower curtains, Window Treatments, upholstered headboards and more to choose from at reasonable prices. In fact you can save 25% to 35% just by shopping at their online store.

I spent some time looking at the wide variety of custom window treatments offered at FabricWorkroom.com and I was impressed. You can view classic, semi and full custom styles for drapes, curtains, valances, shades, swags and other types of window treatments.

Just browse through the selection and once you’ve found a window treatment style that you like you can then move on to selecting the type of fabric that you’d like to use. Fabric choices range from silk, linen, cotton, faux silk, satin and many more. In fact there are thousands of fabrics and fabric designs to choose from at FabricWorkroom.com.

So if you are redecorating don’t forget about fabrics! Visit Fabricworkroom.com for ideas and to save money! They also have free shipping on most items!






Cork flooring – beautiful and an eco-friendly choice for your home

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Are you thinking about replacing the flooring in your home? Perhaps tearing out your wall to wall carpeting and putting down a beautiful wooden floor?

That certainly seems to be the trend these days. I can even say that my own home has no carpeted floors. We tore them out when we first moved in because we both have allergies to dust mites, cats and dogs and the former home owners had had a cat. We were also lucky enough to discover that the flooring beneath the carpeting was in fairly good shape and only needed a little bit of work in order to regain it’s former beauty.

If we’d found that we had to replace the current flooring we might have chosen to go with cork. I’ve actually thought of replacing the not so nice looking laminated fake wood flooring that’s in our kitchen with cork flooring.

Have you ever thought of using cork flooring? It’s durable and comes in many different styles and colors from natural honey tones to red, green, chocolate, black and many other shades. Have a look at three different types I’ve selected to show you:

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The first image is a natural bamboo style cork flooring, while the second cork flooring image is called Stone Cream (both by Valencia) and it almost looks like marble doesn’t it? The last image is called Mediterranean (by DaVinci) and it has a rich red tone to it.

You could easily purchase a style and color of Cork Flooring to suit any room in your home.

As someone who tries to live green the idea of using an easily renewable product such as cork flooring in my home is appealing.

When cork is collected for use in the creation of flooring and other products no trees are cut down. No. Instead, the bark is peeled from parts of the tree without harming the tree at all. New bark grows back within nine to ten years and is ready to be harvested once again.

See how environmentally friendly cork flooring really is? No trees are cut down or harmed at all. The fact that the trees remain in place and standing likely means that the delicate eco-systems that live in an around the trees probably have very little disruption.

Floormall.com carries several cork flooring lines made by some of the top manufactures in the business. Valencia, Da Vinci, Natural Cork, Wicanders, and APC cork floors are featured cork flooring manufacturers at the Floormall.com. I believe the majority of the cork flooring styles sold at the Floormall.com website are glue-less joint systems, which means they should be easy to install in your home.

If cork flooring sounds like it might be a great choice for your home visit the floormall.com. You can talk to a live service representative 7 days a week/ 24 hours a day if you have questions.

Buy new blinds and get your money back with innovative new program

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How would you like to be able to Shop for Free Window Blinds? Certainly if you need blinds for you windows I’ll bet that you’d appreciate getting them free.

This is a very interesting idea and I hope that more companies adopt this patent-pending method of shopping.

The idea behind this is that you’d visit Freeblinds.com and shop for window blinds just like you would at any other online store. The difference is that once you get to the check out and pay for the blinds that you’ve just ordered you’ll be given a unique code, lets call it a referral code. All you have to do at that point is share your referral code with others. You’ll then receive 20% of their product purchase.

So, just for the sake of simplicity, if the blinds you purchase are $100 and five of the people you give your referral code also buy blinds worth $100 you’ll get $20 from each of their purchases and in no time the new blinds hanging in your living room or bedroom will end up being absolutely free.

If you have friends, family or co-workers who need new blinds it should be easy enough to pass on your referral code. Even easier if you have a blog or website as you can embed a banner in your web site or myspace page. Freeblinds.com makes it easy to hand out your referral code to as you can print out cards with your unique code on it once you are in the checkout area. You can also opt to enter the names and email of friends and family while in the checkout area and Freeblinds.com will send them an email with your referral code.

You will keep receiving 20% of the purchase price from all of the people who use your referral code until 100% of your purchase is has been returned.

I don’t need new blinds right now so I’ll bookmark the site and likely use it in the future. They do have a wide selection of blinds, shades, and motorized shades and blinds to choose from as well as installation instructions and other information about blinds and shades.

If you need new blinds visit the site. You can’t lose since you’re sure to eventually get your money back.

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