You may want to post on the Houzz Home Decorating Forum. This Windows Forum is more about the actual windows. http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/decor

Very kind note, thank you. My unit has been flooded five times by my upstairs neighbors. You really lose your mind after twice, to be honest. And this time they insist I have to pay for the pipe, because they don't understand the layout, the rules, the obligations of ownership--they live out of state for 30+ years and just collect rents and do little to no maintenance. I finally broke down and called City inspectors. It's ridiculous to suffer so much damage to my prized home. It is overwhelming, and I tried to have a light-hearted moment to do something I could do myself and improve my situation. I can't do anything about the permanent, irreparable damage to gorgeous original wainscoting and floors. Sure we can sand it all down, bondo it, and COVER IT UP with new paint, but we can never have intact original beautiful 1910 woodwork again, nor will I ever have the exquisite quality first-time paint that was done in 1994 and would have lasted another 20 years. That sort of paint is no longer available in the US. Of course, I have ahead of me months of negotiating with contractors, plasterers, painters, woodworkers, and the insurance company, now that --6 weeks later--the pipe upstairs is finally replaced. Looking at the sun damage to my floors in a room unaffected by this flood, I wanted to just put up some blinds, finally, after the contractor damaged the prior ones--many years ago, I confess. I am grateful for your kind words. I am going to pull off one of those clips to see if there's a brand name. I sent a photo to an online service called fixmyblinds.com. At this point, I'm just crushed and disheartened, and would certainly never hire a mocking, disrespectful designer to help me in the future. Being critical of me for someone else's damage is just unproductive. There's always the opportunity to simply PASS on commenting if you can't or don't want to help the member solve a riddle. One thing I wish to say is, in San Francisco, not everyone has an unlimited budget of time and money; I would never have been able to purchase this beautiful flat if I hadn't been a very practical person, conserving time and money, allocating carefully for MY long-term priorities, all my life--since I started working at age 13. Thanks again for the empathetic words.

Hello, I am looking for suggestions for who to use for blinds, shades, shutters, etc . I will be having new blinds for the entire house

We need to know what space the blinds are going into and what you want from the blinds . As for the dimmers you need to find ones that work with Alexa not IMO a necessary item for better resale since not everyone has Alexa. If you give us more info you will get more help. BTW not all lighting works with dimmers so IMO adress the lighting once you are in and then get the proper dimmers.