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Losing rankings in the SERPs can trigger panic, and rightfully so. Rankings equate to links, and links equate to conversions. Without either, your website is nothing more than an abandoned virtual storefront. Fortunately, a loss in rankings is rarely permanent, and it almost always comes with an easy fix. If you want to turn your rankings around and start popping up at the top again, you need to begin by diagnosing the issue.Read on for common reasons website rankings suddenly plummet. ...read more

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Children and window treatment cords are not a good match. When window treatment cords are accessible to small children, these products may become strangulation hazards. I saw it myself when my little granddaughter put an un-anchored loop cord around her neck like a noose. Thank goodness I saw this happen and took appropriate measures. She was not harmed.Other children are not so lucky. The consumer Product Safety Commission reports 1 child per month dies from strangulation from window treatment cords. The Window Covering Safety Council recommends if you have shades or blinds with cords, replace them with today’s safer cordless products. If you can’t afford to replace these shades or blinds, there are measures that can be taken to make it safer for your children:* Move all cribs, beds, furniture and toys away from Windows and window treatment cords, preferably to another wall.* Keep all window treatment cords well out of reach of children. Eliminate all dangling cords.* Tasseled pull cords should be cut as short as possible.* Continuous loop cords on shades, draperies, and vertical blinds should be permanently anchored to the floor, wall, or window casing.* Lock cords into position on a cleat at all times.*Read&heed the warning tags that come with all window coverings.Ready -made shades and blinds will continue to be manufactured with standard lift cords. It is up to the consumer to educate themselves to the hazards associated with these products. Today, I would like to educate you on what window covering safety features are available on custom shades, blinds and drapery treatments. We at Drapery Connection urge homeowners with young children to choose window treatments that are either fully cordless, fixed, or motorized. Child safety is serious business. That is why all corded window coverings come with warning tags. Although custom shades and blinds are more expensive than ready- made, there are many cordless safety features available on custom products that one might not know about. An experienced window treatment specialist can help you to determine which product will give you the safety features you need to have, and can explain how each feature works.Drapery Connection encourages Homeowners shopping for child safe window treatments to make an appointment for a Complimentary in-home consultation.Top window treatment manufacturers like Comfortex and Lafayette are among those who offer many safety features. Comfortex offers a Quicktouch Cordless cellular shade that has an easy touch button on the face of the headrail to raise and lower the shade. They also offer a wand to help short people like me to reach this button. Through 12/31/15, this feature is offered at 50% off the upgrade charge. Comfortex also offers the Lift & Lock feature, where the locking feature is in the bottom rail. Much handier for short people like me. There is no upcharge for this Lift & Lock feature. Lafayette also offers a cordless option at no charge. Also available are Retractable cord lift systems, as well as the Cordless Powertouch features.The standard cordless lift system works well for Windows that are of standard height and are easily accessible. Furniture placement can inhibit the use of cordless shades. The Quicktouch with a wand or the Lift & Lock feature make it easier to operate cordless shades regardless of the furniture placement or height of the window or the consumer. For windows that are very high, a motorized system can be used.Safety features must also be considered for drapery treatments as well. Traverse rods have a continuous cord that is anchored permanently to the wall or floor, and should have proper tension to discourage children from tampering. Roman shades are offered with a cord lock lift system, with which a cleat must be used. A cleat is a plastic anchor that must be installed on the casing high enough so little hands cannot reach. The shade cord is wrapped around the cleat neatly. A continuous loop cord is also offered for Roman shades. The loop chord is anchored to the wall or sill and has proper tension to prevent little hands from tampering. Lafayette offers a CareRING cordless system for soft fashion fabric shades, including Roman and balloon shades. The cords on the back of the Roman shades can also be a safety hazard. Lafayette uses the TLC system, which is a mesh casing over the cords to ensure the back cords will not open wider than 7″, thus preventing a child’s head from becoming entangled.Please call Drapery Connection today for your complimentary in-home consultation. Consider changing old out-dated shades with newer shades with safety features. I look forward to hearing from you. ...read more

There are many wonderful reasons why one should consider buying custom window treatments. There are great benefits to choosing custom, although some question the cost, and find it difficult to justify the price tag. The truth is, if you buy the quality of custom draperies and window treatments, they will last you for many years to come, and will save you money through the years.With the possibility of another harsh winter on its way, we think about the high heating costs to come in the ensuing months. I love Windows to bring in the beautiful sunlight into our rooms all year round. The more light that comes in, the more chi energy enters into the room to help create a very happy, pleasant, warm&peaceful atmosphere. However, those harsh north winds can cause drafts that will send a big chill down anyone’s spine.Custom draperies can offer a great solution to “Old Man Winter’s” effects on our homes interiors. A thermal lining added to the drapery fabric will give a great insulating value. This will help on heating costs during those harsh winters. Thermal lined draperies will also help keep out the heat in the summer, while keeping the cool air conditioning inside, thus cutting down on the high costs of air conditioning.We have other window treatment products that can provide great insulation values as well. Cellular shades have the highest “R” value among shade products, especially double cellular shades and the cell-within-a-cell products.Lots of sunlight coming onto your windows and room is great, but sunlight also brings harmful UV rays that can destroy furniture, carpeting, fabrics, and artwork. To protect those investments, we recommend using a shade product. Shades can be used along with drapery side panels or valances. Roller shades today have a huge selection of fabrics in many colors and opacities, as well as prints. Window shadings, such as Silhouettes or Shangrilas, provide sun protection, good privacy, and some insulating value as well. An investment in an appropriate window shade will protect your other home furnishings from fading, so that you may continue to enjoy all of them for many years to come, while saving on your heating and air conditioning costs.The first questions we ask our clients is if they feel they need protection from the sun, or do they need privacy. If the answer is yes to either of these two questions, it is time to start discussing all of the options available. In good design, function always comes before form. We, at Drapery Connection, will help you to find the right window treatment to suit your needs.Custom Draperies and window treatments are the finishing touch to a room. It is this aesthetic value that we mostly think of when considering custom. Custom is just that – Custom! You get to select the perfect fabric from huge selections. You get to select the right style, just for you. Your custom window treatment is made to fit your window perfectly. Your custom window treatment is made to suit your personal tastes. Your custom window treatments are made to reflect your personality. Your custom window treatments are made to meet your needs in that room.Let us not forget to mention that our custom draperies and window treatments are always installed by our professional drapery installer. We also offer warranties on all products we sell, which may vary from product to product.Custom draperies and window treatments will last 10, 20 years or more. Keeping this in mind will help to justify the costs of custom. Before you begin with a designer to select your custom window treatments, decide upon what budget you need to work within. This will help your design professional to recommend appropriate treatments.We look forward to working with you on your next custom window treatment project. ...read more

Today’s Family Room takes the place of Yesterday’s Living Room. This is the room where we spend most of our time, and where we entertain, ourselves and guests. Today our Family Rooms are open to or adjacent to the Kitchen. This is where we come to relax and enjoy our free time when we are at home. This is where we create memorable times.We must take great care in selecting window treatments for our Family Rooms. We must consider exactly how we use this room to know what treatments will work for us. Today most clients have large flat screen TV’s. The sun’s glare can often pose a problem here. Many products are available, such as cellular or roller shades, that can eliminate this glare. It becomes more challenging when there are specialty shaped Windows. Some specialty shape shade products are fixed, and cannot be opened. It is in knowing your needs and desires that we can recommend the appropriate product for these windows.Clients with young children must consider the safety of the products they select. It is the cording in the lift systems that pose the problem. Options are now available with keeping safety in mind, such as cordless shades, where no cords are visible. This great option also offers great ease in operating the shade. This option can be attractive to those clients who find visible cords unsightly.Many Family Rooms today have high cathedral ceilings. Floor length drapery panels can add warmth and color to the room. Here we can consider traditional pleated styles, as well as grommet tops for a more contemporary look. Decorative drapery hardware is available in wood or metal in a variety of finishes.Custom draperies for the family room will take your room from uninviting to welcoming. They will serve you for many years to come. The appropriate styles not only enhance the beauty of your home, but will offer significant insulation properties, which translates to savings on home heating and air conditioning costs. Many window treatment products today are environmentally sound and socially responsible, to keep our world a safer place to live and enjoy. We offer a wide range of products that can meet all of your needs. ...read more

Today there are many styles and finishes available in drapery hardware, from traditional to modern, from simple to extravagant, and from casual to elegant. There are many different drapery hardware features to finish your window treatments. For instance, you can place emphasis on the draperies or top treatments and have hidden brackets, elbows or simple rods, or you can accentuate the drapery hardware as the prominent character of the window. Furthermore, drapery hardware can coordinate and compliment architecture of a room, creating balance in the given space. Moreover, drapery hardware completes your treatments altogether. They enact as a significant accessory. Drapery hardware is quite functional as well as beautiful. Wood&metal; rods can be equipped with a traversing mechanism to accommodate easy opening&closing. Some decorative metal & wood traversing rods can be bent to fit into a bay window. The color of the drapery hardware should always correlate with the fabric, trim, furniture, or any important features of the room. Wood or resin colors available today can be solid, stained, or two toned. Metal colors are shiny or brushed. Wrought iron and iron drapery hardware are generally matte finish, some contain speckled colors. These color combinations naturally add harmony to the room. For drapery rods the most common materials used are wood, metal, and iron. They can be solid, fluted, reeded, or even twisted. Many pleated styles draperies and valances are suspended on rings. Rings can be plain, fluted, twisted, or some contain acanthus leaves to place emphasis on the rings themselves.   Wrought iron and iron rods create their own unique appeal. Mainly, they are smooth, hammered, twisted, or even fluted, and can come in either round or square. Iron finials can contain smaller detailed features, since iron is forged it is malleable. Therefore, many iron finials can contain thin scrolls, leaves on vines. Generally, the most decorative feature of drapery hardware is the finials. Finials can be beautiful accents to your window treatments. They are available in wood, resin, metal, iron, and even crystal. The most common shape is the classic ball finial. The ball finial can present a statement in so many ways to a room. For more elegant spaces you may choose more decorative features, such as finials with acanthus leaves, swirls, fleur de lis, and you can add crystal finials to enhance the treatment.  In many cases where finials don't fit the space style or size, there is the option of using end caps. End caps can be plain round, or they can contain decorative features such as leaves, rope design, braids or twists. Each of these styles correlates to significant features of the room. These can genuinely give off a statement too, adding a unique significance to the area. Some other inviting elements of drapery hardware are decorative brackets and scarf holders. On the contrary to accentuating the treatment with finials, brackets with acanthus leaves, or scarf holders with animal designs can give the treatment emphasis. Yet, drapery brackets can be basic solely to serve their purpose by drawing one’s attention to the drapery treatment. The European style brackets are relatively more decorative than the standard basic bracket, consisting of a rounded holder. For those treatments to be in full view many prefer hidden brackets to completely display the draperies, swags or top treatments, these brackets are completely concealed. Decorative holdbacks and medallions are charming added features which create additional enhancements on custom draperies. Holdbacks can simply be used exclusively to tie back draperies, or they can tie back draperies with the accompaniment of tassel tie backs. When using finials the holdbacks generally correlate with the finial’s unique designs, harmonizing many features of the room.   Along with many varieties and styles available, drapery hardware is a decorative and stylish accompaniment to each room’s surroundings. They carry out each window treatment’s individual charm & beauty, accomplishing warm inviting rooms ...read more

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In the fast-paced lives we lead today we try to balance demanding work schedules with precious family time.  We often find much difficulty squeezing in some relaxation for ourselves.  A beautifully appointed Master Bedroom Suite could be the oasis we need at the end of each day. We often have clients requesting a quiet and serene Master Bedroom.  Color selection is critical for this.  Aqua, soft teals, coupled with soft taupe or beige create a spa like atmosphere.  Small pops of contrasting colors, such as yellow or lavender add to the beauty.  Selecting the appropriate fabrics will also enhance the restful nature we are creating. We must select the appropriate window treatments and bed coverings to suit your needs.  In good design, function is always before form.  One must determine first if they require room darkening for their bedroom.  Many products are available to keep the sunlight out when we need to sleep. Cellular and roller shades come in many colors and fabrics that are room darkening.  Custom draperies can be lined with blackout lining.  We help our clients determine what type of window treatment would be appropriate for their window type, ones that will suit their needs and match their personal style. Custom bed coverings transform lackluster bedrooms into inviting respites.  An informal, relaxing bed treatment would be using a down comforter with a duvet cover coordinating with the drapery treatments.  An upholstered headboard is a great alternative to wood headboards.  They are cost effective and add an additional elegance and softness to the bedroom.  Using a custom bed skirt in a complimentary fabric finishes the look. The investment made in the furnishings for your Master Bedroom will bring you many benefits for years to come.  Not only will you enjoy its lasting beauty every day of the year, you will reap the benefits of the energy efficient window treatments and slumber enhancing bed products. ...read more

In 1943, Martin's News was established by brothers Steve and Al Martin. The store was originally located on Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport. In July of 1945, the business was moved to Barnum Avenue in Stratford. In 1961, younger brother Ray Martin, Sr., joined the business. Soon the corner became a landmark location for newspapers, magazines and local gossip. The streets were crowded with people waiting for the late night editions of newspapers from across the United States. In the 1970's, Martin's News became the largest lottery agent in the State of Connecticut. Gamblers would stand in the lines that went out the door to buy their tickets at the "Lucky Spot". In 1986, Martin's News reinvented itself as the first discount cigarette outlet in the State. With aggressive advertising and working closely with the distributors, manufacturers and transportation companies, Martin's had the cigarette business tied up in Fairfield County. By 2001, Martin's was the largest cigarette retailer in the States. Surprising even the largest chain stores in the area. As the times are changing again, we invite you to our new location at 2339 Barnum Avenue,just across the street from our former location. Stop in enjoy our memorabilia and let us help you with all your tobacco needs! ...read more

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