The Window Covering Manufacturers Association (WCMA) Product Awards are the benchmark of excellence in the industry, and Hunter Douglas has captured more awards than any other manufacturer every year for the past 15 years. The 2010 award results were just announced and Hunter Douglas, North America’s leading manufacturer and marketer of custom window coverings, has once again topped the esteemed competition as an impressive 30 out of the 51 awards conferred went to Hunter Douglas companies. Hunter Douglas also swept the Shadings and Sheers, Verticals/Panel Tracks and Merchandising Categories, where a total of 10 awards were granted. “We’re very pleased that the Window Covering Manufacturers Association panel of independent judges has given such a strong endorsement to our innovative product offerings and to the marketing and sales support we provide,” said Marv Hopkins, Hunter Douglas President and CEO. “As a company, Hunter Douglas is dedicated to market leadership in design, quality and customer service; these results are a testament to that. We’re grateful for these honors and for our many loyal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada.”

As expected, Hunter Douglas captured four awards in the “Green” Products Category.
The latest addition to highly energy efficient Duette® Architella® honeycomb shades, the first and only window shades to qualify for the Federal Energy Tax Credit without add-on insulation systems – the nonwoven, durable Classic fabric in the 3/8-inch pleat size – was named Best New Style Enhancement in the “Green” Products: Energy Efficiency Category. As of May 4, 2010, Duette Architella will have 192 SKUs, comprising more than 40 percent of the Duette line. Vignette® Tiered™ Modern Roman Shades with UltraGlide® won Best New Style Concept in the “Green” Products: Health and Environmental Safety Category. The retractable single cord UltraGlide design offers enhanced child safety, as does the fact that all Vignette shades have no exposed cords on the back side. The UltraGlide system also allows for easy onehand operation and a “click and walk away” feature lowers the shade automatically.

In the “Green” Products: Sustainability Category, Vintage™, one of the new fabrics for
Applause® honeycomb shades collection, which provides legendary Hunter Douglas quality and
a streamlined selection process with exceptional value, captured Best Utilization of Recyclable
Materials. Made using 40 percent recycled polyester fibers from post-consumer textiles, such as
water bottles, Vintage is as beautiful as it is sustainable. It comes in 10 neutral colors and in ¾-
inch and 3/8-inch pleats in semi-opaque and blackout.

Hunter Douglas Roman-style shades with the New Cord Ladder garnered Best Technical Innovation in the “Green” Products: Health and Environmental Safety Category.
This new safety feature, along with modifications to the current lifting system, is designed to
make the rear cords less accessible and thereby reduce the chance of accidental strangulation.

It’s no wonder that in the Shadings and Sheers Category, Luminette® Modern
Draperies Dual Panel was awarded Best New Style Concept. A first in the marketplace,
Luminette® Modern Draperies Dual Panel combines a drapery with a sheer on one operating
headrail. The drapery portion consists of fixed side panels made with woven fabric. The sheer
portion – Luminette® Privacy Sheers – is a knit sheer with fabric vanes that rotate for light and
privacy control. The sheer also traverses open and closed, with either a center opening or side
stack design.

A new fabric for streamlined Nantucket™ window shadings, Sunscreen privacy shadings walked away with Honorable Mention for Best New Style Concept in the Shadings and Sheers Category. Sunscreen privacy shadings are unique to the market because they offer the aesthetics of a screen shade with the light control benefits of window shadings with their rotating fabric vanes. While screen shades offer a singular opacity and openness rating, Sunscreen privacy shadings offer a dual-openness rating of up to 28 percent openness when the vanes are open and 1 percent openness when the vanes are closed. This allows for complete nighttime privacy and daylight control.

Enhancements to Pirouette® window shadings – featuring soft adjustable horizontal fabric vanes attached to a sheer backing – were honored with Best Technical Enhancement in the category. Pirouette shadings will now be available with the PowerRise® 2.0 with Platinum™ Technology system, the most advanced battery-powered wireless motor control system on the market. PowerRise quietly raises and lowers shades while precisely controlling vane tilt. Pirouette shadings will now also be available in specialty shapes. Designed for unique and hard-to-cover arch and angle windows, including trapezoids, ovals, hexagons, octagons and circles, Pirouette specialty shape window shadings was also named Best New Style Enhancement in the Specialty Applications Category. Easy to install, most specialty shapes require no templates for ordering.

In the Motorization Category, PowerRise® 2.0 with Platinum™ Technology, the most
advanced battery-powered wireless motor control system on the market, won Best Technical
Enhancement. Built on the patented Platinum™ Technology platform and operated using the
Platinum remote or wireless wall switch, PowerRise 2.0 quietly raises and lowers shades while
precisely controlling vane tilt for many Hunter Douglas window fashions. Additionally, PowerRise 2.0 systems will easily integrate with most home automation systems, offering the ultimate in control possibilities.

Duette® and Applause® PowerRise® 2.0 with Platinum™ Technology was awarded Best Technical Innovation, Honorable Mention in the Cellular Shades Category. This new PowerRise 2.0 lifting system is now part of the honeycomb family of common headrail premium lifting systems with a fabric-covered valance that comes in more than 120 colors. In addition, the enhanced system can accommodate larger shade sizes – about 10 percent more window area than the previous design – and features better shade aesthetics with the receiver eye now located in the end cap. The fabric stack is also tighter.

The EPIC™ Operating System, which will now set the standard for 2” horizontal blind operation on all Hunter Douglas wood, alternative wood and aluminum offerings, won Best Technical Innovation in the Horizontal Blinds Category. New material selections and component designs on this system offer the most robust construction with improved performance, such as a cord tilter with smooth, silicone-infused gears and a cordlock that provides three times longer cord life as well as easier-to-install brackets.

Best New Style Enhancement in the Roman, Roller and Pleated Shades Category was
awarded to Provenance® Woven Wood Shades Enhancements. Effective May 4, Provenance
woven woods will feature five new opening price point fabrics, including bamboo, reed and
grass designs. Also available among other additions are four new decorative valances – Angled,
Stacked, Double- and Triple-hobbled – that are the perfect complement to any shade.

Reinvigorated /Refreshed Palm Beach™ polysatin shutters walked away with Best Technical Enhancement in the Shutters Category. This excellent, durable product, particularly
suited for areas to moisture, humidity or heavy use, offers increased coordination and cross selling opportunities across the Hunter Douglas Custom Shutter Collection. Louver sizes are now 2 ½-, 3 ½- and 4 ½-inches, consistent with Heritance® shutters and NewStyle® shutters. Refreshed colors coordinate across the collection with four hues. Frames accommodate any application – many coordinating across the line – and are new and improved. Pricing has been simplified. The specialty shapes program includes framed and unframed specialty shapes and no templates are required.

The only prize awarded in the Verticals/Panel Tracks Category, Best New Style
Enhancement went to Skyline® Gilding Window Panels Enhancements. These include the
Boutique collection of fabrics designed to offer a luxury look, at a competitive price with over 40
fabric options organized by style category. Also offered, the Harmony Program™, which
allows the same fabric to be used on multiple product styles, including Skyline window panels,
Designer Roller Shades and Designer Screen Shades. The fabric-wrapped large cassette top
treatment option, now available in the Skyline program, allows even further coordination
possibilities between Skyline and Designer Roller and Screen Shades. Providing solutions for common window covering design challenges, the Harmony Program™ was also named Best Overall Design in the Specialty Applications Category.

HUNTER DOUGLAS WINS ALL AWARDS IN MERCHANDISING CATEGORY
Once again, Hunter Douglas won all awards in the Merchandising Category. The Duette® Architella® Federal Tax Credit Opportunity Integrated Marketing Program was named Best Integrated Marketing Campaign. While the beauty and energy-saving benefits of Duette® Architella® honeycomb shades have fueled its sales success, the addition of a $1,500 Federal Tax Credit opportunity has created a hard-to-resist value proposition for today’s consumers. To generate widespread awareness of the opportunity and entice consumers to take advantage of the potential tax credit, a comprehensive marketing program was launched that includes consumer advertising – centerpiece of which is an eye-catching new TV commercial – direct mail, website support, public relations, point-of-sale materials, and much more. Many Hunter Douglas dealers are reporting significant sales growth for the product and identifying the powerful marketing support as a critical component driving this success.

Best Online Consumer Technology went to the iMagine™ Design Center Upload Your Own photo feature debuting soon on www.hunterdouglas.com. The exciting feature will allow consumers to personalize room settings using their own photos and view all Hunter Douglas products within these rooms. It provides more than 4,500 Hunter Douglas window fashion colors, fabrics and materials.

My Hunter Douglas (My.HunterDouglas.com), the new online door to everything Hunter Douglas has to offer its dealers, fabricators and business partners in a completely personalized online experience, won Best Online Trade Technology. Every Hunter Douglas tool they have access to is there when they log on; they no longer have to remember separate web addresses or passwords. A Hunter Douglas Catalog also offers one-stop shopping for all technical, sales, marketing and training information.

The 2010 Nantucket Sample Book captured Best Point-of-Sale Merchandising. A complete departure from previous positioning of the brand, this new book contains more fabrics, more informative photography and a window display cling that is new to the market. Utilized with large working samples, this cling provides an excellent view of Nantucket window shadings.

Second Place in the category was awarded to the Design Studio™ Roman Shades Merchandising Kit, which is designed to express the simplicity of this new collection. The Sample Book features inspirational photography in the Design Guide, which clearly describes the product and outlines the simple, step-by-step ordering process. Six uniquely designed fabric books signify a clean, fresh approach to fabric sampling. A sophisticated In-Store Sampling Display makes a dramatic retail presence, while the Tote Bag distinctly merchandises the collection in the home.

Designed for storefront and shop-at-home dealers, the Architella® Energy Efficiency Demonstration Kit won Best Point-of-Sale Display. This kit effectively shows consumers how Duette® Architella® shades save energy (and money) in both summer and winter and contains a fabric sample, infrared laser thermometer, lamp (heat source), consumer brochures and “Science Behind the Beauty” DVD.

The 2009 Hunter Douglas Promotional Programs garnered a Second Place for Best
Point-of-Sale Display. These integrated promotions are designed to be easy-to-execute, drive traffic to Hunter Douglas dealers to purchase, motivate consumers who are in-store to purchase and build awareness of the Hunter Douglas brand and sub-brands.

The 2009 programs included the largest Hunter Douglas consumer rebate program ever, Stop the Great Energy Giveaway. This promotion resulted in the highest level of dealer participation and dealer advertising of any Hunter Douglas promotion. Other promotions included the Summer Window Fashions Sale and The Season Of Giving Promotion, designed to capture sales during the important fall selling period.

Best Educational Programs for both consumer and trade were awarded to three
Hunter Douglas initiatives: the Custom Shutter Collection Environmental Brochure, WebEx seminars and E-learning Product Courses. A multi-functional piece, the environmental
brochure gives both consumers and window fashion dealers an inside view on how Hunter Douglas shutter products reduce the impact on the environment through support of energy conservation, waste management and environmental outreach programs. It summarizes four key areas of interest: reduce, reuse, recycle and renew efforts.

Hunter Douglas WebEx seminars are a new way for the company to reach dealers and installers in a timely and interactive manner. Hunter Douglas has installed a webcam that allows participants to see the speakers and also to see the products discussed. They have been able to stream the “under the camera” feature through the WebEx so that they can demonstrate adjustments, repairs and specifics of operations. In addition, they have been able to use the interactive options that WebEx provides such as voting, chat, Q&A, “breakout rooms” and discussion options including dialogue with speakers.

The Hunter Douglas E-learning product courses have taken on a new look. Now, learners follow a customer through the buying process, making choices along the way based on needs. Customer “scenarios” present problems to the learner – privacy, light control, energy efficiency and design preferences – that he/she addresses while gathering information on how the product they are studying can be applied.

Hunter Douglas, Inc, headquartered in Upper Saddle River, N.J., is the leading manufacturer of custom window coverings in North America and a national sponsor of Habitat for Humanity, covering windows in every Habitat home built in the U.S. and Canada.

Major Blinds Seattle has the room-cooling solutions you need. We offer numerous affordable products that will block the sun’s harmful UV rays & help keep your home cooler & more comfortable

• Durasol SunShelter® Elite Awnings that help to block out the sun & create an outdoor living space.
• Durasol DuraShade Solar Shades that will eliminate the sun’s damaging glare.
• Hunter Douglas’ complete line of Honeycomb shades are proven to help lower your heating & cooling bills.
• Custom wood shutters also block out the heat & misery during these hot summer months in Washington.
• Wood & Aluminum blinds, vertical blinds & sliders for sliding glass doors, manual or remote controlled light blocking skylight shades, as well as custom drapery are other available cooling & energy saving solutions.

Major Blinds strives to meet every home’s window covering needs. We are locally owned & operated, so we understand the unique needs of Pacific Northwest homes!

Let us show you affordable ways to decrease the temperature of your home without having to spend thousands. Give us a call at (888) 662-5672. We look forward to serving you.

Local Phone Numbers

Seattle: 206-623-1379

Bellevue/Eastside: 425-453-3216

Bellingham: 360-671-7091

Tacoma & Auburn: 253-826-4513

Major Blinds Seattle proudly serves all of Western Washington including Tacoma, Bellevue, Olympia, Bellingham & beyond!

2~ We are a locally owned & operated company, right here in the Pacific Northwest. We serve all of Western Washington, and when we say ALL we mean ALL!

3~ In-home consultations are always FREE, and you will NEVER be pressured to buy.

4~ All of our consultants are highly trained, and background checked.

5~ Next-day appointments are generally available, with few exceptions.

6~ At Major Blinds we measure twice & order once…insuring a proper fit & installation.

7~ Our customer service is second to none!  If you ever experience a problem, tell us.  It will be taken care of immediately & usually by the owner himself.

8~ Major Blinds doesn’t have a fancy showroom, or a big box warehouse, therefore lowering our overhead costs… We pass these savings directly on to you!

9~ 12 months same as cash financing, always an option OAC.

10~ Peace of Mind!  When you purchase window treatments of any kind from Major Blinds you can sit back, relax & know that you will be well taken care of.

Major Blinds offers many window coverings options to help you improve the look & feel of your home. Give us a call at (888) 662-5672, and we will send out a trained window fashion consultant to help you with your home’s window treatments improvement needs.

Major Blinds proudly serves all of Western Washington including Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Olympia, Bellingham & beyond!

Home improvement has made a comeback!  Homeowners are replacing roofs, installing siding, painting interiors & exteriors, and replacing their old worn out appliances.

Another popular home improvement is replacing or adding new window treatments.

While that may sound like a trivial improvement, it most definitely is not.  Did you know that by adding certain blinds to your home you could decrease your heating and cooling bills?  Save furniture and flooring from fading?  Add additional value to your home, without excessive cost?

A Durasol interior or exterior solar shade can reduce your monthly bills & decrease the temperature of your home by as much as 20 degrees.

Duette Architella honeycomb shades by Hunter Douglas, with its state-of-the-art patented honeycomb-within-a-honeycomb design offers the industry’s highest level of energy efficiency.  They can reduce your energy loss by up to 50%.

Custom plantation shutters not only increase the look of your home, they are the only window covering that are actually included in the appraised value of your home.

Panel Accents Sliding Panels by Graber offer an alternative to standard window treatments.  Panel Accents are ideal for patio doors & wide windows. They can also be mounted on a ceiling to make the perfect room divider or closet door alternative.

As you can see, there are many window treatment coverings options available to increase the value of your home & decrease you monthly electricity bills.

Major Blinds offers many options to help you improve the look & feel of your home. We will send out a trained window fashion consultant to help you with your home’s window coverings improvement needs.

Give us a call at (888) 662-5672,  0r visit the online consultation form to learn how you can get brand name window shades with no payments for 12 months.

Major Blinds proudly serves all of Western Washington including Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Olympia, Bellingham & beyond!

Kitchen:

Do a quick 15 minute clean up. This will clear out the clutter and dirty dishes, and give you room to do the actual spring clean up. Don’t worry about cleaning the floors right now. This will get done later.

Dust down the ceiling and corners of walls. Determine if the walls need to be washed in dirty spots. Spot wash, remembering air vents, doorknobs, doors, switch plates. Walls will likely need to be washed more often in this room than in others. You may not have noticed that the hand mixer or blender sloshed goop all over the wall. Take your spring cleaning time now to clean the grease, grime, and spilled food from your walls.

Dust and clean the ceiling fan. You may need to use a gentle cleanser like Murphy’s Oil Soap. Take down any light fixtures and gently wash and dry them before replacing.Take down draperies, curtains, and blinds to wash or have cleaned according to the manufacturer’s directions. (See previous postings on how to clean by hand or contact Major Blinds of greater Puget Sound for more detailed instruction.)Vacuum and clean windowsills and corners. Wash the insides and outsides of the windows. Take down and rinse off screens, before replacing.

Apply oven cleaner to the oven and clean the refrigerator. Leave the windows in the kitchen open to avoid the overpowering smell. Don’t forget to vacuum the coils of your UNPLUGGED refrigerator. This is a great time to sweep and mop underneath it too if you can find some help to move it. Be careful of scratching your floor.While the oven cleaner works, begin sorting through the freezer and refrigerator. Throw out any expired food, mostly empty containers, and items that you bought and never used. Put the stuff to keep on the counter. Take out the refrigerator shelves and drawers. Wash them down, being careful with glass shelves. Wipe down the entire inside of the refrigerator and freezer before replacing shelves and food. Wipe down and clean out the oven according to the directions on the oven cleaner.Take the knobs, burners, burner covers, and spill catchers off of the stove. Follow your stove/oven owner’s manual for information on proper cleaning methods for your model. (The one you carefully filed, when you bought the stove, just for an occasion like this.) Some stovetops lift up to allow easy access to spills and crumbs. Wipe down the entire stove.Wipe down and clean the toaster, blender, and other small appliances. Wipe down and clean the microwave. If the spills in the microwave are fossilized, try bring a water-filled glass cup to boiling in the microwave. The steam should help loosen the gunk. If the microwave smells, boil lemon juice. Unplug all appliances first. Don’t forget the turntable.Clean out kitchen cabinets. Reline if needed. Remove mismatched lids and bowls. Take out anything that isn’t being used on a regular basis. Reorganize and wash down the insides and outsides of cabinets.Run the dishwasher empty. Try adding vinegar or baking soda to the empty dishwasher before running it. If your dishwasher has a food trap in the bottom, clean it out. Wash down the outside of the dishwasher.Wash down the countertops in your kitchen.Wipe down and clean out any drawers. Organize your flatware. This is a great time to install drawer dividers to better organize your kitchen drawers.Wash down the sink. If you have a garbage disposal now is the time to pour baking soda with warm water and/or a lemon peel down the disposal to freshen the drain. Put ice cubes through the disposal to sharpen the blades.

For all your custom blind installation needs, call Major Blinds of Seattle, Bellevue and all of greater Puget Sound.

Many bedrooms and most basement rooms present high window, or a narrow strip of windows. To best dress these panes, think about the other elements in the room. For instance, if you place a piece of furniture under the window, a fitted covering such as shutters, shades or blinds will stay out of the way of the furnishings. For custom blind, shutter or shade installation in bellevue, seattle and most of the greater Puget Sound Area contact Major Blinds.

Casement Windows:

Standard casement windows swing out, and can be treated similarly to a single window. There is one special consideration in a casement’s case, however. The covering you choose should mount on the outside so that it falls over the windows cranking mechanism.

French Doors:

Although an architectural asset, French Doors can be tough to treat. They combine the problems of outfitting in-swinging casement windows with those of covering sliding glass doors. The solutions? For a look that won’t interfere with the architecture, mount blinds or shades on each door.

Palladian or Oddly Shaped Windows:

Shapely windows have long been used to add drama to a home’s design, in traditional architecture as well as in the most up-to-the-minute construction. The trick to treating these special panes is to flow with the curve – or bend with the angle – of the opening. Where privacy and light control are needed, custom fitted shades or blinds will do the trick with altering the window’s shape. For custom blind installation, contact Major Blinds.

If you’re dressing a single window, consider first its size. Does the window look small compared to the size of your furnishings or the room itself? Give it fullness with tiebacks or flowing curtains. If its scale matcher other elements, treat it simply with a shade or a top treatent. For the drama of height, mount the rod higher than the top of the window.

Matched Series:

A series of windows not only offers a room an eye-grabbing focal point, it invites light and beauty of the outdoors inside. Even more, this type of window offers you a hot of decorating options. Multiple windows, however, do demand that you make a decorating decision. Do you treat each window as a separate unity or unify the series into a single design element. To reach a conclusion, think about your room’s style. In a clean-lined contemporary setting, the geometic look of a bank of windows can be an asset. To get the full architectural impact, try a top treatment only. A valance or cornice adds a punch of interest and color to the blank expanses of glass, without masking the window’s design. Need more privacy, light control or energy efficiency? Shades and blinds mounted inside each window’s molding perform those tasks, and still offer a tailored look.

Corner Windows:

Mirror-image dressings allow you to treat corner windows separately, but achieve the effect of a single design. Be sure that blinds or shades draw to the outside, and blinds raise and lowers without clashing.

Bay Windows:

Like its cousin the corner window, a bay window demands separate but equal treatment. Like its other cousins in a matched series, there are many ways to treat bays, depending on the look you’re after. To keep things clean, stick with shades or blinds.

Sliding Doors:

Sliding glass doors present a unique decorating situation. Because they are doors, a covering must allow them to open and close freely. Yet, as windows, they still require a dressing that wenhances their apprearance and provides privacy and light control. Finally, because glass is a poor insulator, you should also choose a treatment with energy savings in mind. Blinds of all kinds, fabric shades and sliding panels are options to consider.

If you are looking for help with your windows treatments in Seattle or all of Puget Sound, contact Major Blinds.

Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding Window Panels European-inspired design provides a dramatic, sleek and seamless look, allowing you to express your style through color, texture and light. No matter the size of your space or window Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding Window Panels are the solution. Let your room glow with warmth, texture and quiet sophistication while maximizing your view. The array of fashion-forward colors and styles gives Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding Window Panels their modern, sleek, yet inviting personality. For lifestyles ranging from contemporary settings to traditional suburban lifestyles, let the style reflect your attitude. Let the light reflect your mood. Separate large spaces, add dramatic detail to a small area or simply create your own architectural element within a room. As a room divider, the fashion-forward fabric selection of colors, patterns and styles of Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding Window Panels will inspire the architect within you. Urban is a feeling, a style and an attitude. By creating a mixture of traditional and non-traditional elements through textures, patterns and modern and eclectic styles you create a clean, simple environment reflective of you, no matter where you live. Accentuate the architectural aspects of even the grandest spaces with unmatched functionality and panache, innovative design and attention to detail. Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding Window Panels provides smooth operation even in the largest applications. The sophisticated combination of sleek, modern European styling gives you decorating options for open floor plans and rooms with different door and window openings. Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding Window Panels provide a coordinated distinct and seamless look.

Unique to the market and unlike traditional systems that offer varying panel sizes, Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding Window Panels are designed to provide uniformity within a room with minimal stack-back providing maximum view. Available exclusively with two panel widths, 11½” and 17″, panel sizes are established based on the size of your window, taking the guesswork out of planning, to create a stunning and consistent aesthetic in your room.

The fabrics in the Hunter Douglas Skyline™ Gliding Window Panels collection enable you to create the level of light you desire while providing the amount of privacy you need. Each fabric, from sheer to opaque, helps to create a mood reflective of your lifestyle.

Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding Window Panels fabric collection includes:

Sheer: Rich light bathes your room providing a view to the outside with minimal privacy. Styles include: Sola, Arbor Lane, Sussex Linen, Sheer Linen, Astoria and Lena Clair.

Screen: The light within your room is determined by the openness of the fabric. Styles include: Canyon Bay, Point South, Del Sol, Parker Hill, Hampton Breeze, Diamond Head and Cape Sound.

Semi-Opaque: Soft shadows and diffused light soften your room providing moderate privacy. Styles include: Maddox, Langley, Aubrey, Bryan, Lena, Palma, Kiera, Ellis, Chatham, Grove Street and Central Park.

Opaque: A warm, lush and cozy atmosphere provides the ultimate in privacy and room darkening. Styles include: East Village, Valhalla Drive and Strand.

Hunter Douglas Skyline Gliding Window Panels features a wide range of fashion forward fabrics, offered in five distinctive categories, a patented, innovative hardware system and custom colored hardware designed to coordinate with each fabric in the collection.

Cleaning Aluminum Blinds

Aluminum blinds are probably the easiest to clean since they are pretty durable. Almost any soft cloth, dust cloth , or chemically treated dust cloths can get the job done. It is advisable to vacuum the blinds first before wiping it with cloths. Make sure you attach the brush head to the vacuum hose. Vacuum gently. Make sure you cover the entire slats, tilt the slats to vacuum the other side. You should vacuum the slats horizontally for horizontal blinds and vertically for vertical blinds.

Once you are done vacuuming, you can use any household cleaning liquid along with a damp cloth to clean the slats. Use either cold or warm water when cleaning the blinds. Never use hot water. Make sure you place some rag cloths under the blinds to avoid making a mess.

For a more thorough cleaning, you can take the window blinds down, fill your bathtub with warm water and mix it with some liquid washing detergent, then dip the window blinds into the tub (Remember, use warm water, not hot water). Use a sponge or soft cloth to gently wipe the slats. When you are done, wipe the window blinds with a dry cloth or sponge. Hang it to dry.

For quick cleaning, just use a soft cloth or a feather duster to clear the dusts. One popular way to quickly clean your blinds is to use a soft cotton sock and a bottle of all-purpose-cleaning spray. Wear the sock on your hand and gently wipe the slats while using the spray. To clean the cord, any stain remover should do the trick.

Cleaning Wooden Blinds

Because wooden blinds are made from real wood, special attention is needed when cleaning it. Do NOT clean your wooden blinds with water. Water may cause the wooden blind to curve or warp. You can clean your wooden blinds by wiping them with a soft cloth or dusting it with a duster. You can also vacuum it, but make sure you use the brush attachment. You may also use non-wax furniture polish and a soft cloth to clean the wooden blinds. For occasional deep cleaning, use a wood cleaner such as oil soap. Again, do not use soap and water on wooden blinds. If you are hesitant to clean your wooden blind yourself in fear of ruining it, you can get a professional window blind cleaner to clean it for you