You've just redecorated a room; you've got floor coverings, furniture, and accessories in place. What's next? The right window treatments bring continuity to the room. They coordinate the textures and colors from the floor and furnishings to the walls. The right window treatments can finish a room the same way the right accessory or shade of lipstick completes an outfit or look.

Does this sound familiar? You’ve spent day after day in your makeshift home office and realize the ugly chair Aunt Mary gave you might actually look good with different fabric. Or you avoid looking in one corner of your living room because the damage the cat did when she used the loveseat as a scratching post makes you cringe. Or you repainted your family room during a bout of cabin fever and now your furniture looks out of place; it's all in good condition but you don't know what to do with it.

Like many of you, I’m stuck at home during the Pandemic, adhering to my state’s Stay at Home directive, with only essential travel. I work from home on a regular basis so you’d think I’d be used to this stay at home stuff, right? Nope. Everything has been postponed (consultations and installs) and getting work done is difficult due to lack of motivation (can’t deliver any finished orders). Add in guilt that I should be spending working hours making masks and I feel out of sorts.

As my fourth blog post ever, I'm still a little new to the finer points of blogging. The SEO's , the number of words, the formatting - I'm not fluent in computer - Steep learning curve! Also, if you've read my first blog you'll remember that I didn't list writing as a talent. I'm navigating a new world. My goal was to post regularly on the first Wednesday of the month. Why a Wednesday?

Did you know that from 2012 to 2017, there were 50 fatalities reported to the Consumer Product Safety Council CPSC that

were related to window cord strangulation among infants and young children under 10 years old. It's not October, the official "Cord safety" month, but this topic is important enough to be covered any time. People work hard at making their homes safe, but often window treatments are overlooked.