,Solar Shades Make your outdoor space more comfortable on hot sunny days with solar shades and awnings on your patio or porch. Solar shades are available in numerous colors and opacities to bring elegance and sun protection to any outdoor space. They can be raised...
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Free Norman Shade
Thinking about new shades or blinds in your home? Want something nice, affordable, reliable? What about child safety? Norman Window Fashions is offering one free cordless cellular shade for families with children under eight years old. Just go to their website,...
Top Down Bottom Up Shades Add Style
You may not think you know what Top Down Bottom Up Shades are, but chances are you have seen them in action and thought they were a convenient window covering. Most of us have at one time or another needed a shade for a window in our home or office. Whether blocking...
Faux Iron Grilles for Home and Garden
Many homes today are built with highly sought-after architectural features like two story foyers, two story great rooms, transom windows, arched windows, and wall features like arched alcoves or recessed spaces. While we love these features, they can often present...
Plantation Shutters and Architecture
Plantation Shutters excel well beyond many other window coverings at adapting to architectural trends. Shutters are made to fit almost any sized and shaped window. They are mounted inside the trim if enough space exists, or outside the trim. Shutters are available in...
Shades and Blinds
People often refer to shades and blinds as the same product, using the terms “shades” and “blinds” interchangeably. The purpose for each is to provide privacy, block light, reduce the solar effects of the sun, and, of course, to provide a pleasant appearance. From a...
Window Coverings
The windows in our homes provide us with a view of our communities, landscape, nature, and the weather. They are portals of light into our castles and serve as a canvas for whatever may be just beyond the glass. For many, that canvas captures mountain tops, a city...
Draperies
Draperies might provoke negative window covering impressions for many of us. We remember the many layers of heavy, old-fashioned draperies our grandparents or parents hung in the main room, often shrouding windows to the point that even getting to the window was a...
Window Covering Selections
Covering windows is expensive, even when we seek to remain economically conservative. Covering the numerous windows in homes today can represent a substantial investment. We want our window covering selections to reflect our taste, beautify our homes, and coordinate...
Solar Shades Reduce Heat
Do you feel it? That’s right, summer is just around the corner! Soon those hot rays of sun will be flooding into your home. One of Made in the Shade of Northern Virginia’s favorite window coverings for controlling those damaging rays of sun, while still adding color...









