In March of this year, Good Housekeeping launched a collection of custom blinds and shades with an emphasis on safety and style. This collection has an emphasis on cordless options for child safety.
Each product is evaluated in the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, the magazine’s state-of-the-art product testing laboratory. This is to ensure that they meet and exceed industry standards. The blinds and shades in this collection are all backed by the Good Housekeeping Seal.
“When it comes to home goods, consumers want products that will look great for years to come,” said Rosemary Ellis, Editor-in-Chief, Good Housekeeping. “Window treatments need to be durable and safe, especially if there are young children in the house. Our custom blinds and shades performed so well in our Institute tests that they received the Good Housekeeping Seal, which represents a two-year limited warranty: if they don’t perform as promised, Good Housekeeping will replace them or refund the buyer. It’s that simple.”
I had the awesome opportunity to try one of Good Housekeeping’s custom blinds. I selected the 1/2″ light filtering cordless shade in toasted almond. The cordless shade in this review is an inside mount. Width and height were submitted for ordering and were to the nearest 1/8″. The measurements were taken from inside the window jam.
Here is how the blind came when I took it out of the box, safely wrapped in bubble wrap with a few rubber bands around it. The hardware was also bubble wrapped and in a separate plastic bag.
The included hardware: two standard mounting brackets, four screws and one plastic handle.
This image is to show how the mounting bracket will sit on the shade, over the top rail.
Here is one of the two mounting brackets in place. The blind simply snaps into the mounting brackets.
The plastic handle snaps onto the bottom rail.
Here is the project completed. It was quick and painless to install. 🙂 Image showing blind at about 3/4 of the full length.
The blind was installed early evening. The sunlight was filtering through as a side image to the blind. With having the safety feature of cordless, we mounted this blind in our daughters’ bedroom.This custom blind was easy to install, had a great fit, and I thought to be very attractive. I also like the cordless feature as an added measure of safety with young children in my home.
This collection has a range of styles including: Cellular Shades, Insulating Cellular Blinds, Roller Shades, Roman Shades, Panel Track Shades, Wood Blinds, Polymer Blinds, and Sheer Horizontal Shadings.
The complete collection of Good Housekeeping Custom Blinds and Shades are available through several authorized online retailers:
For additional information, visit: www.goodhousekeepingblindsandshades.com
ABOUT GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
Founded in 1885, Good Housekeeping magazine (www.goodhousekeeping.com) reaches nearly 25 million readers each month. In addition to the print title, there is The Good Housekeeping Research Institute, the consumer product evaluation laboratory of Good Housekeeping magazine. Founded in 1900 and continuing today with the same mission, the Research Institute is dedicated to improving the lives of consumers and their families through education and product evaluation. Only products evaluated by the Good Housekeeping Research Institute can be accepted for advertising in the magazine, and thereby become eligible to display the Good Housekeeping Seal, the hallmark that provides assurance to readers that the products advertised in the magazine are backed by a two-year limited warranty against being defective, with specified exceptions. In 2009, the Green Good Housekeeping Seal was introduced as an environmental overlay to the original Seal, offering consumers guidance on products making environmental claims. Readers can also interact with the brand on the digital front, with Good Housekeeping mobile (m.goodhousekeeping.com), at Goodhousekeeping.com and through its GH@Home iPhone app. In addition to its U.S. flagship, Good Housekeeping publishes 10 editions around the world. Good Housekeeping is published by Hearst Magazines, a unit of Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com), the largest publisher of monthly magazines in the U.S. (ABC 2011) and reaches 87 million adults (Spring 2011 MRI). Follow Good Housekeeping on Twitter at @goodhousemag, and the Good Housekeeping Research Institute at @GHRI.
ABOUT HEARST MAGAZINES
Hearst Magazines is a unit of Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com), one of the nation’s largest diversified communications companies. Hearst Magazines is the largest publisher of monthly magazines in the U.S. (ABC 2011), reaching 87 million adults (Spring 2011 MRI) with its 20 titles. In addition, the company publishes more than 300 editions around the world. Hearst Magazines Digital Media, dedicated to creating and implementing Hearst Magazines’ digital strategy, has more than 28 websites and 14 mobile sites for brands such as Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics, ELLE, ELLE DECOR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire and Seventeen, as well as digital-only sites such as Delish.com, a food site in partnership with MSN; MisQuinceMag.com; and RealBeauty.com. Hearst Magazines has published more than 150 applications and digital editions for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the Droid platform. In addition, the company includes iCrossing, a global digital marketing agency.
Disclosure: I received a custom blind for this review. The thoughts and feelings expressed are my own. No other compensation was received in order to produce this review.
One good thing about blinds is that you dont have to wash them unlike curtains.You can just easily clean it by just wiping the dust off.Thanks to Good Housekeeping for including the child safety as an option.