CJAD 800Am at 8:40am – Window Treatments
Q1: With the holidays coming up, people are looking to spruce up their homes for company coming, can you suggest an easy way to make this happen?
To make a dramatic change is to simply redo your curtains, drapes or blinds in the room. After years of horizontals and vertical blinds, curtains are making a huge comeback as they add much more elegance and perhaps color to a room.
You can plan your well-dressed windows looking through Verti Store these large showrooms, which offer many samples of vertical and horizontal blinds, shutters in wood, vinyl or aluminum, panel tracks, Roman shades, roller, pleated or cellular shades and custom-made draperies. There’s lots of in-stock curtains, tab panels, horizontal blinds, drapery hardware and at least 300 rolls of fabric, and a free shop-at-home service. There’s also a 150% price guarantee.
Locations: 2925 boul des Sources, Dorval (514-685-1901); 6633 boul. Taschereau (450-926-2222 or 514-990-7708); 7640 boul. Newman (514-363-2056); Laval, 1175 Autoroute 13 (450-687-3892 or 514-990-4083).
Hours: Regular plus Sun 12-5
www.vertistore.com
Q2: Since you’re the queen of deals, do you have any other places for curtains?
Warshaw has lots of curtain panels. in about 100 different patterns colors materials ($9.99 – 39.99) along with curtain rods. If you want to spruce up your bathroom, there’s shower curtains ($7.99 & up) and all the accessories.
Warshaw, uprooted from the Main, replanted itself facing the Atwater market. Now it concentrates on kitchen and household items: trays, frames, gadgets, cutting boards, baking dishes, table linens, place mats, kitchen stools, area rugs and runners, fondue burners, candles and some Breville, Saeco and Gaggia espresso machines. Prices are kept low, since they buy liquidation deals and pass the savings on to you. There is a plant section in the store with oddities like lucky bamboo, money tree and ginkgo biloba.panels
Location: 145 Atwater St-Ambroise
corner: Notre-Dame
Phone: 514-933-2250
Hours: Regular plus Sun 9-5
Textiles Supreme is located up in a factory building, this is both a wholesale and retail operation. You can order made-to-measure curtains, valances and bedspreads or duvet covers. They make them right there. You can choose from their fabric samples or bring your own. You can decide if you want single pleated or double-pleated for any size window.
The warehouse location is full of ends-of-lines and clearance items in bedspreads, comforters, towels, percale sheets (7-pc queen set $59 up), baby linens (7-pc crib sets $89), anti-bacterial mattress covers (twin $25), carpets and hollofil pillows ($6) are always inexpensive. For our cold winters, comfort sheets which retain body heat (100% polyester) start at $20 single.
Location:99 Chabanel ouest, Suite 408
corner: boul St-Laurent
Phone: 514-385-0615
Q3: Okay you mentioned bringing your own fabric, so if we wanted to go find some in certain colors or pattern then what would you suggest?
C&M is for fashion or home decor, they offer it all and in vast inventories. It’s a one stop shop where you can buy/make/install with the help of their expert staff and design consultants. Not only can you buy fabric here but they will make the curtains for you too. They can work in any style: simple and zen-like, or elegance, or warm & cozy and make covered side panels if you want some. Hardware is here too and rods come in many finishes from wood (in any color) to Swarovski rhinestones on them. You can also order blinds & shades here.
Upon entering, you are assailed by the luscious selection for gowns and bridal wear: guipure, laces, taffetas, embroideries, organzas, silk shantung, tulle and netting. Then there’s silks, woolens, microfibers, linens and sequins. For upholstery and drapery, check out the racks of samples from the mills of Europe and the chenilles, velvets, damasks, tapestries, cotton prints, lace curtaining, ultrasuede, outdoor fabrics, blinds & shades, etc. This store has been around since 1947, and everything is well priced. If you haven’t been here yet, it’s about time you came.
Location: 7500 St-Hubert
corner: Faillon
Phone: 514-272-0247
Hours: Regular
www.cmtextiles.com
Q4: What if we just want to clean blinds, not buy new ones?
Fenetre Deco does ultrasonic cleaning and repairs of all types of blinds, from 1″ aluminum horizontals to the higher end Silhouettes and Luminettes.
The blinds are placed with a cleaning solution in large water-filled tanks, which use vibrating sound waves to loosen the dirt. Prices start at $15 per blind, and there is a minimum of $75 for a service call.
They also sell many types of blinds and drapery and provide shop-at-home service for Hunter Douglas, Shad-o-matic, Sol’r, Levolor, wooden shutters, roller shades Altex, etc.
Phone: 514-364-2020