We’re telling you the truth, when we say our shade crafters are working as fast as physics allows.
SoOOoOooo right now, we are estimating that our production lead time is about 18 business days.
These hardworking hands are FAST! I had to use such a fast shutter speed so you could actually see them.
We know you can get *other shades* from *other sites*, but you invested in yourself and chose to support a small, family company that builds each shade like it’s going into our own homes. Our shades last decades.
No fibbing.
We thank you for supporting us. We thank YOU for your patience.
Your shades will SOON be providing you privacy, reducing glare, looking OH so stylish and making you feel all warm and fuzzy because you supported small biz.
If you have any questions, need to voice your concerns, want to share an adorable photo of your furry friends, or your Auntie Clara’s famous chocolate cake recipe, we are here for you. (and we love cake.)
And replacing those money-sucking vampires is super EXPENSIVE!
Replacing windows in an average 3 bedroom home with 10 windows can cost from $3,500 to $7,500. The cost of window replacement for 10 vinyl windows is an average of $15,955.
The cost of 10 replacement wood windows would be around $19,390.?
YOU and me BOTH!
THIS is what insulating cellular shades will do for you and your home:
Cut utility costs
Put $100s every year back in your wallet Extra $$ Got your attention?
(That’s not all, but we’ll talk about all the other bennies in another blog)
SAVE THE EARTH
Ok, talking averages here, it costs about $1,300 to heat an American home each year. Personally, my monthly propane bill was $220….add that up! $2640 a YEAR!! Whhhhhhhhhhaaaa? Insanity.
Our shades will actually pay you back (unlike your teenager).
HOW? You ask? They are SO energy efficient!!
Did you know that 10-25% of your heating costs are wasted when heat leaks out of your windows? On average, it costs about $1,300 to heat an American home each year. If you do the math, that’s up to $325 going out your window!
STOP DOING THIS!
EcoSmart Energy-saving cellular shades control drafts to keep temperatures at a constant, so air conditioners and heaters aren’t working so hard to keep the room regulated. You may have heard of it before, but haven’t understood what exactly it stands for. The R-Value is a measure of how well a material’s resistance is to heat flow and how well it resists heat gain or loss. Let’s make it simple, the higher the R-Value your material has the better insulation that you will receive.
Your windows themselves have an R-value. A typical window has an R-value ranging from 0.9 to 3.0. To put this in perspective, the insulation that is used to build a home today has an R-value in the low 40s. Essentially, your window is a hole in the wall!
Visuals are good.
Take a look at this chart explaining how the R-Value of a given cellular shade corresponds to the type of window being covered.
Our shades have a payback period of roughly 5 yrs –they pay YOU BACK! <–read that again, and out loud! Do you know who is working WAY TOO HARD? Our air conditioners and heating systems.
Soooo…let’s give them and us a break. Reduce your energy usage, increase your money savings, make your home an insulating powerhouse and become more eco-friendly with cellular window shades
Truth.
You win more money in your pocket. Your house reduces it’s energy usage. The world wins.
Every cellular shade that leaves our facility is laden with insulating cells that insulate the window to reduce energy consumption during Summer, Winter, and every month in between.
Now let’s CONSERVE SOME ENERGY!
Order your super stylish and world-saving EcoSmart Cellular Shades today!
“This is all-time highs,” Anderson says. “In terms of like measured history in the United States, this is the, the highest levels of, of home improvement spending we’ve ever seen.” – NPR
Based on weekly homeowner surveys. Approximately 850 owners responded each week, for total response of almost 10,000 homeowner responses over the survey period. Source: JCHS tabulations of The Farnsworth Group-Home Improvement Research Institute, COVID Home Improvement Impact Tracker, 2020.
“My partner and I, we like to travel quite a bit,” Taylor says, smiling. “We like theater. We like live music. And so that’s how we spend our money. But then suddenly all that stopped, and so, if I can’t travel, I chose to put my energy in the place where I am.”
WAY TO GO WANDA! Photo Courtesy of NPR
Wanda is standing in a newly finished basement with a super comfy den, a pantry and a wet bar and a pantry. She did all of this since the coronavirus pandemic.
Opportunities brought by the pandemic Homeowners are making progress on their long-overdue “to-do” list of home improvement and renovation projects. Greater than 71% of owners undertaking DIY projects during the pandemic report that they had planned these projects prior to the pandemic.
Most of the DIY projects are relatively simple with their newfound time to sprucing up their home. Painting, wallpapering are most common projects. Quick, with immediate gratification!
And window decor is no different! Re-investing your money back into your home with energy efficient cellular or roller shades has immediate bennies!
“It feels like there’s kind of a big reset happening,” Buhr says. “A lot more people are focusing on their family, their homes, you know, the stuff in our immediate vicinity. People’s bubbles have shrunk.” – Courtesy of NPR
Over 3 out of 4 homeowners whom Porch.com surveyed have completed a major project since the start of the COVID pandemic. Homeowners that are younger than 40. are most likely completing projects this year (2020), and >50% of baby boomers have done home improvement work too.
THAT’S A LOT OF WORK! And it’s not just checking off the ‘to-do lists’ , it’s zhushing their homes to sell and upgrade all together.
Here in Vermont the uptick of Real Estate has been INTENSE!
See what happens when people pull together as a community? We become the MOST attractive place to live. Vermont is magical. We knew this before COVID-19. If you have or were thinking about placing your home on the market, now could be a GREAT time to get the ultimate bang for your buck.
We hear it ALL the time. “Do window treatments REALLY increase the value of our home?”
And our answer is unequivocally a resounding “YES!”
Upgrading your window treatments not only LOOKS great, but more importantly adds value to your home, whether you’re putting your home on the market or not.
When reviewing your home with your realtor, be clear about why you’ve selected the window treatments you have. Why? You’ve solved specific problems for the future owners. You’ll look like a hero to the possible buyers.
“Homeowners are likely getting extra incentive from the record high amount of home equity they now have. Home prices continue to gain, despite the economic downturn, as demand for housing soars.” – Courtesy of CNBC
Our Shade Gurus are here to help YOU decide on what type of EcoSmart Shade is right for you and your home.
When it comes to treading lightly and minimizing environmental impact, the Dutch are far ahead of most of us. Considering that the Netherlands has more bikes per capita than any other nation, almost 1 per person—and Amsterdam has 400 kilometers of bike lanes, the Dutch are clearly serious about reducing their carbon footprint. They’ve even gone so far to make their bike lanes out of solar pavers. Ingenious.
Shown: Thatched Roofed Home in Zevenhuizen, NL
Until the early decades of the 20th century, domestic work was very labor-intensive. Of course, there were hardly any electrical tools, so each household had staff. Lots of staff, if they could afford it. There was a LOT of polishing, washing everything, sweeping all the floors, polishing, scrubbing pots, pans and all surfaces, not to mention lugging milk, firewood and coal. Sooo what did you do when you weren’t wealthy enough for a staff? The lack of servants stimulated research into running a household more efficiently.
And here at EcoSmart Shades, we are ALL about efficiency. *wink*
It’s in our NAME! Eco-SMART!
‘The kitchen is an important part of the house, it is the main work environment of the housewife. The daily care of the meals, i.e. preparing, serving and clearing away, demands a lot of time and attention, which cannot be withheld with impunity. For poorly cared for, unpleasant, meals break up the family ties’.-Courtesty of Hague Design
How to save even MORE time in the kitchen.
The wire dish rack was born. in 1933 by the Dutch Association of Housewives. When washing dishes with hot water, provide them space to dry in a rack! Your much needed tea towel can stay on the hook. The Association gave the specifications for such a dish rack to the Dordrecht wire metal factory Tomado…
Their specifications: 12 plates or saucers and teacups had to fit in together with cutlery.
THANKS DUTCH WOMEN!!
Let’s fast forward a few decades…..2020 to be exact.
Check out the Unplanned, yet Most Planned Place This Dutch neighborhood is encouraging their residents to design their own homes and SO MUCH more!
In the Netherlands, a 10,625-acre community called Almere Oosterwold is demonstrating a democratic way of living. They Netherlands is knowng for very precise building regulations. This community is an experient. An EXCITING experiment. The homeowners of Almere have the design freedom to do what they want. Yes…that’s with or without an architect! The catch? It has meet codes.
Fair enough.
One house in Oosterwold is powered by a bike and built on a rail so that it can turn and follow the sun during the day.
“People can do what they want, but they cannot harm their neighbor at all,” said Winy Maas, co-founder of the Rotterdam firm MVRDV, which created the Oosterwold masterplan.
Almere Oosterwold has homes of varying shapes and sizes. Residents figure out energy, sewage and roads. When completed, the plan is to have 15,000 homes and some 40,000 residents.
This concept of ‘unplanned community’ was created more than a decade ago. The neighborhood now has some 1,000 houses, with, get this…more than 1000 more in the offing.
The Dutch have always been working WITH the landscape since the beginning. Reclaiming the land from the waters, is the majority of the Netherlands. And recycling, reusing and reducing is instilled in it’s people.
This last showcase is of the creative design to reduce an upcycle plastic bags that have become ingrained in our lives, sadly.
“My goal was to alter plastic shopping bags in a way that would extend the lifecycle of the material, to improve its negative qualities and preserve its positive qualities.
This lead to ‘Precious Waste’, a textile made entirely out of used plastic shopping bags that were spun into yarns and then woven. The resulting fabric forms a big contrast with the cheap, mass-produced bags it is made of. The plastic shopping bag is transformed by pure hand work into a beautiful and strong material that’s suitable for making new bags with a much longer life-span, or a wide range of other purposes. No chemicals, no heat or even electricity needed. When this textile is eventually worn out it can still be recycled in the conventional way, because it is not mixed with any other material, and can then be made into a new product once again.
And just like these clever Dutch, our EcoSmart Shades are designed to last decades, to be repaired instead of disposed of. And that makes us quite proud. Shades in windows, not in landfills!
Sooooooo…let’s Go Dutch! Uhmm..I mean, let’s go with smart design, reduce energy and increase efficiency!
No, we’re not talkin’ bout the kinda roommates that smell or who don’t know how to pick up after themselv….ooohh…wait, YES we do! Yupper, those cute, fluffy floofers that have stolen our hearts and sometimes our sandwiches.
The staffers at ESS wanted to share pix of their roomies!
They Call Me: Chachapuma I’m: 5 years old
My Guilty Pleasure is: Yogurt
Are you a morning or evening pet?: Running laps through my mom’s apartment, and I am very much an evening cat!
What are your life ambitions?…to surprise and delight all who cross my path with my very loud voice and penchant for snuggles!
They Call Me: Kaya(named after the Bob Marley Album)
I’m:Almost 13 years old
My Guilty Pleasure is: Your food. GIMME!
Are you a morning or evening pet?: Imma def a morning doggo. Because the sooner I get up, the sooner I can have my breakfast and take a long nap. I do enjoy groaning VERY dramatically just to express how truly ‘ruff’ my existence is.
What are your life ambitions?…food, drooling over food, shedding all year long and endless belly rubs. Don’t Stop. EVER.
They Call Me:Hershey
I’m:11 years old
My Guilty Pleasure is:Getting into things I shouldn’t (you can tell from my nose)
Are you a morning or evening pet?:YES.
What are your life ambitions?Making people laugh/making people pull their hair out (I’m an enigma), following the cat with every step she takes, barking at all things – both real and imagined annnd To rule the world. Duh.
They Call Me:Benjamin
I’m:8 years old
My Guilty Pleasure is:Spitefully pooping in the house when I don’t get my way.
Are you a morning or evening pet?: I enjoy the evening. I especially love to RUN as fast as I can around the house until I’m exhausted. ZOOOMIES!
What are your life ambitions?To have my human worship the ground I walk on and finally admit I AM royalty. They’ve nicknamed me ‘Napoleon’….I take offense to that, it should be King Louis XIV.
Here are EVEN more of our teams woofers, doggos, kitties, lizards, birdies and tweeters!
Tinder Profile Pic?
Happy Little Family!
Shhh..I’m snoozin’
Is that cheese in your hand?
Did you say ‘outside’?!
Holly LOVES snow!
I love when mom WFH!
VW Lover!
Nom Nom Nom!
Naps are my favorite.
CUTIE!
Do you wanna give me a belly rub? I wont say no.
This look? It gets her EVERYTHING!
Model Material!
We love them. ? They love us, unconditionally. We wanted to share our furry/feathery/scaly roommates with you, so MAYBE, just maybe youd They bring us so much love.
We’re the lucky ones. We admit it. We’re completely smitten. And we would everything to make their lives comfortable and healthy!
That’s why here at ESS, pet safety and kiddo safety) is a TOP priority!
All of our corded shades come with secure hold downs, so horrible accidents like this NEVER happen on our watch!
