Window Treatment Ideas & Tips: Kempler Design

An Option To The Silhouette Shade- New Hunter Douglas Nantucket Window Shadings 2022

Nantucket Shades for 2022 In what is called “window shadings” in this industry, the Nantucket Window Shadings by Hunter Douglas are a great choice. Yes, the Silhouette Shades are the “premium” product with this type of configuration, but the Nantucket shades are perfect for some people. Let’s break it down. The origins of the Nantucket […]

Double Hung Shutter Discussion

Shutters Can Be Double Hung What circumstance would you want a double hung shutter for? This job, which was done at the Ryder Homes project in Sparks NV was the perfect solution for the window we covered. Let’s break it down and see some of the reasons. If you look at the picture on the […]

New Luminette For 2022

Unboxing of Hunter Douglas New Luminette Book If you have any desire to see the new version of the new Luminette Shade Book, please watch the attached video of an unboxing. The video shows you the photos from the book inside it. We also run through all the fabric choices so that you can see […]

Custom Valance For Sleek Look

We Can Build You a Custom Valance We recently did a custom valance for a set of Hunter Douglas roller shades on French Doors. They have the Gen 2 PowerView motorization system. The relevance to why we built custom valances for them has to do with the version of PowerView that we used. The reasons […]

Roller Shades With Cornice Boxes For Large Sliding Doors

You Can Do Shades With Cornices For Doors It used to be that people only wanted to do vertical type products for sliding doors or patio sliders. Things have really changed recently. We have been doing a lot of shades for large openings like these. In this case we did roller shades with cornice boxes. […]

Does Kempler Design Do Custom Draperies?

Yes! We Do Custom Draperies!! I am writing this blog about custom draperies because when people in the Reno, Sparks and Tahoe areas call us, one of the questions we get regularly is: Does Kempler Design do drapes and curtains? The answer is a solid YES. There aren’t that many window fashions experts in our […]

Best Option For Angled Window Coverings

Do You Have Angled Windows? If so, choosing the right product for them can be stressful. We get a few calls a week based on the videos that we do on angle top window coverings. The one choice that is super popular is the honeycomb shade that is cut to the shape of the window […]

How Important Are Blackout Shades?

Study Shows The Importance of a Dark Bedroom Linked below is an article posted this week about the health reasons for needing darkness when you sleep. What I hadn’t realized are all the health concerns that come from having too much light in your sleeping circumstances. The article was taken from “FoxNews” but it covers […]

Layered Window Treatments

Hybrid Shades Vs Layered Window Treatments Layered window treatments are long standing tradition when it comes to custom window coverings. In this blog we are going to look at roller shades. First, we will see them in the simplest state; no top treatments. Then we will look at what it looks like when we add […]

You Can Do Railroaded Roller Shades Over 12 Feet Wide

Wide Roller Shades for Patio Sliders In today’s blog post, we are going to talk about doing railroaded super wide roller shades. Roller Shade fabric is one type of material that is made pretty wide. There are all kinds of widths available. Some as narrow as 70” and some as wide as 128”. Being able […]