hWindow treatments offer affordable choices

hWindow treatments
offer affordable choices

Velegance window treatments promise custom looks at lower prices.

The window treatments, made by Breeze Home Fashions Inc., are made from individual pieces that are attached to a special curtain rod with Velcro-brand fasteners.

The fasteners allow fabric to be moved and adjusted to fit the window, and the pieces make the window treatments easy to install and remove for cleaning.

Prices range from $150 to $400 or more, depending on the size of the window.

For more information, visit www.velegance.com or call (770) 926-3226.

‘Curious’ almanac
is all garden stuff

It’s hard to describe “The Curious Gardener’s Almanac.”

Even author Niall Edworthy admits in his introduction his own struggle to come up with a description, settling — only after imagining being forced to do so at gunpoint — for “a celebration of nature, in all its infinite variety, as experienced in the garden.”

The almanac is a compilation of all things garden-related — tips, bits of wisdom, quotations, odd facts, recipes, you name it.

It’s the kind of book that gives you a smile or an insight whenever you pick it up, a volume to be absorbed a bit at a time.

“The Curious Gardener’s Almanac” is published by Perigee Books and sells for $16.95 in hardcover.

Room in a Box has
basics for kid’s room

Delta Children’s Products has put the decorating basics for a child’s room in a single box.

Each Room in a Box contains a headboard or toddler bed (mattress not included), toy storage and seating, all decorated in a single theme. Styles include such kid favorites as Disney princesses, “Dora the Explorer,” “Go, Diego, Go!” and “SpongeBob SquarePants.”

The furniture requires some assembly.

Rooms in a Box sell for $79.99 to $129.99.

They can be found at mass merchandisers including Wal-Mart, Target, J.C. Penney and Sears.

‘Space Matters’ author
focuses on true homes

There are houses, and then there are homes.

To Kathleen Cox’s way of thinking, houses are just structures, whereas homes support us and bring us pleasure as we go about our daily lives.

They appeal to us viscerally, not just visually.

Cox, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, seeks to help readers turn their living spaces into true homes in her new book, “Space Matters.”

She bases her approach on the principles of vastu, the Indian science of architecture and design, of which she is a proponent.

It emphasizes the importance of a proper relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit.

The book showcases the efforts of 11 architects and designers who demonstrate those principles in their work.

“Space Matters” is published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang and is priced at $29.95 in hardcover.

McClatchy Newspapers