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Article: The buzz is `wood' in the blind business
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 13, 1998
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Wooden blinds and wood-look blinds are stirring up the greatest
interest in custom window blinds today, and painted styles in shades
of white, cream and ivory are the hottest of the hot.
That's the word from Janet Birch, manager of color and design with
Springs Window Fashions in Middleton. Wood and wood-look blinds
give much the same feeling to a room as interior shutters, but
shutters are heavier and more permanent, she said. Wood-look blinds
are made of extruded plastic embossed to look like wood grain and
are impenetrable to moisture. That makes them useful in kitchens,
baths and other areas where humidity may be a concern.
The company makes both wooden and wood-look blinds, ...