Left to Right: Antonio Ballatore, Patricia (a friend of the show) and Angela Helton, with Richard and Jen from HGTV, at the Primiere of this season’s “The Antonio Treatment”
Antonio Ballatore’s Premiere for his hit HGTV show “The Antonio Treatment” took place on Saturday night in Hollywood at The Spot, and Angela Helton, our 3 Day Blinds Design Consultant from the San Fernando Valley area, was in attendance. The Antonio Treatment is a fun and fast-paced home makeover show where, each week, Antonio applies his outstanding aesthetic and technical skills to help a homeowner overcome a particular decorating challenge.
“I was honored to be invited to attend this season’s Premiere,” says Angela. “It was an evening of glamour, fun, and lot’s of celebrating as Antonio launches his 2nd season of the hit TV show.”
Antonio relies on Angela from 3 Day Blinds to help him choose the ideal window treatments for each episode, and also that the custom fitted blinds or shades will be delivered on time, and in perfect condition, to the set.
“Antonio has learned that he can count on me to guide him to the perfect product every time, and that I will take accurate measurements and keep my promise of a fast delivery,” says Angela. “I have a great team at 3 Day Blinds that I in turn count on to make it happen every time!”
Angela doesn’t just work with TV stars… she gets great reviews from all of her clients. Click here to read one that we received just last week.
Would you like a glamorous window makeover from Angie or one of our other fabulous Design Consultants in your neighborhood? Just call 877-614-3329 or click here to read the profiles of your local 3 Day Blinds Designers.
The Hyatt Highlands Hotel in Carmel, CA, is a favorite getaway spot for celebrities, golf lovers, honeymooners and nature enthusiasts. The sweeping views of the beautiful Big Sur Coast often feature frolicking whales and seals, and this unique property offers award-winning restaurants, sparkling pools and beautifully appointed rooms.
Rhonda Cook, Design Consultant, 3 Day BlindsTo sum it up, The Hyatt Highlands Hotel is the best of the best. When they recently decided that it was time to replace their window treatments, they turned to Rhonda Cook, their local 3 Day Blinds Design Consultant.
Rhonda provided her expertise and worked with the team at the Hyatt Highlands along with key players from 3 Day Blinds Sales, Client Care, Installation, Merchandising and Manufacturing teams to put everything in place for an order for 208 very large roller shades.
“It is a delight to manage a project this large, and one that is so prestigious,” says Rhonda, “It is also wonderful know that 3 Day Blinds will provide a top-quality product that will fit perfectly and be installed on time.”
Rhonda went on to describe the product that the client ultimately specified: “We selected roller shades because of their sleek simplicity, and designed them to dissapear behind a custom-built wood soffit. We chose a room darkening, textured fabric to provide light control and privacy in the guest rooms. This is ideal for this oceanfront property where the light can change dramatically and quickly. The heavy-duty hardware, which is operated with a continuous cord loop and pulley that will be secured to the wall will provide years of worry-free operation.”
Yesterday, Rhonda dressed casual and she and her District Sales Manager, Anthony Valli, visited the property to finish measuring the windows. Even though the windows look identical from room to room, they are often up to 1/2″ different in length or width, so we measure each window to ensure that the custom window coverings will fit perfectly.
The order was finalized today and we have 15,000 square feet of material in our factory ready to be cut and produced into shades. Stay tuned for Part 2!
At 3 Day Blinds, we love the challenge of large, commercial orders like this (not to mention glamorous locations), but most of our business comes from homeowners with a smaller, (but equally important) project.
Would you like to have Blackout Roller Shades like the Hyatt? Or would you prefer the natural texture of a Woven Wood Shade? How about the beauty and funtionality of Shutters or the tailored good looks of Wood or Faux Wood Blinds? Need to be energy efficient? Check out our Honeycomb Shades!
Our Design Consultants have over 1000 products that can be customized in an infinite number of ways, and they are experts in zeroing in on the right solution for any application, style and budget quickly!
If you happen to live anywhere from Morgan Hill to Carmel, CA, contact Rhonda directly and she will set up an appointment with you for a free, in-home design consultation. If you live anywhere else, call us at 877-614-3329 to set up an appointment with your local 3 Day Blinds Design Consultant.
Anthony Valli took a break yesterday to capture the beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean from one of the rooms at the Hyatt Highlands Hotel.
At 3 Day Blinds, our goal is to provide exceptional results with a fast, worry-free experience for our clients who select us to supply their custom blinds, shades or shutters. As the final step in the process, our Intallation Team plays a very big role in making this a reality. As you read through our customer reviews, our fabulous installers are mentioned frequently.
“We always partner with the best, and our installers are no exception – these are true professionals with incredible knowledge and skill who accomplish amazing things every day,” says Natalie Niverson, Director of Installed Services at 3 Day Blinds. “All of our installers are state licensed, insured and bonded, and they are aligned around doing everything possible to provide fast, reliable service that is correct the first time. Their product knowledge is vast, and their ability to solve problems seems boundless.”
Our process starts with a free consultation with the professional recommendation of a 3 Day Blinds Design Consultant, who has been trained to find the best solution for any window after listening to their client’s needs.
Is it really possible to have new custom window treatments installed in your windows in 3 days? With the help of our Design Consultants, and Installation Team, it very often is.
I recently had Ms. Angela Helton come to my parents home and we placed an order for 8 miniblinds. I also own several homes. We have been 3 Day Blinds customers for 20+ years.
Angie is extremely competant and her customer service is above and beyond. She is extremely accomodating to the customer and works for the customer. She makes me spend my money, a pleasure with fun and happiness, to remodel my home again.
I have been CEOs of hospitals for 27+ years and we have been measured for customer service. I know customer service and Ms. Helton is par none. She is the best of the best. She is a reaffirmation that 3 Day Blinds is on track as she is very passionate about 3 Day Blinds and her customers. This is an unsolicited email.
A few weeks ago, Kevin Rabbitt, CEO and Scott Pickard, SVP, Sales announced the 40 recipients of the President’s Club Award at 3 Day Blinds. Last night, our Circle of Excellence recipients rolled into town for a celebration dinner and a breakfast meeting with our Board of Directors.
These men and women are our Top 10 Design Consultants at 3 Day Blinds for 2010, meaning that they have been the most successful at finding the right window coverings solutions for their clients and building their businesses and reputations in their regions.
Our Board of Directors, an impressive team which includes our investors, and hand-selected top-of-their game business people with broad and successful backgrounds in starting, running, improving and selling corporations and other businesses, were very excited to meet our top producers.
In fact one board member commented afterwards, that meeting with the Circle of Excellence group was, ” the most productive 45 minutes I have ever spent in a 3 Day Blinds board meeting.” And all of us in senior management always thought we put on a pretty good show for them!
It was exciting to hear or Design Consultants share their experiences and expertise. Although they all have different working styles, the common denominator was that they all strive to build trust and credibilty with their clients, provide the right product solution, and then make sure that the experience of completing their window treatments project is trouble-free. Other important keys to their success were repeat customers and referrals from their existing cusomer base.
Some of our top designers have worked for 3 Day Blinds for more than a decade, while others have less than a year with us. Many have extensive window treatments or interior design backgrounds. All were excited to hear about the direction in which 3 Day Blinds is headed, but they also shared many great ideas on how we can improve.
This special time together highlighted for all of us, how extraordinarily talented and passionate our Design Consultants are. Here are some things that I was reminded of when I listened to them make their presentations:
They’re reliable: One of our core values at 3 Day Blinds is “Integrity: We keep our commitments, large and small.” In this case, it means being well-prepared, and on time for the free in-home design consultation they provide their clients.
They’re extremely likeable and confident: It takes time to get to get to know a client and understand their needs. Our Designers love people, their work and the products they sell, plus they’re are proud of the superior service they know they will provide, so building rapport and trust comes naturally.
They’re highly creative and technical: Most of us are one or the other, but they are both. As experts in the 1000+ products we carry, they know how to guide our clients to the right solution for their style, functional needs and budget. This means knowing how to work with a color scheme or confidently mix patterns, as well as explaining how the gears in the headrail work or how the bracket will mount in the window frame.
They’re precise: Accurately measuring windows to the nearest 1/8″ for custom blinds, shades and shutters requires attention to detail and knowledge of how to measure for each specific product and window type. Since measuring windows is tricky and time consuming, and our custom-made products are guaranteed to fit in the window, this is a big value-add.
They’re fast, but thorough: 3 Day Blinds Designers bring a laptop and printer and provide a written quote to their client during the first appointment. They place the order, arrange for professional installation, and follow up to make sure that their clients are delighted with their new window coverings. And yes, very often the clients’ new window treatments are installed within 3 days!
Greg Bibas and Helane KramerAfterwards, the Circle of Excellence recipients took off for Disneyland, while the rest of us began the business review. I think we all felt energized by our encounter with this terrific group of professionals, and meeting them motivated us, because our sole focus is supporting them and making them successful.
Are you lucky enough to live near one of our Circle of Excellence Designers? If so, click on their name above and you can contact them directly to set up a free appointment. If not, we will find a Design Consultant in your neighborhood who has all of the same qualities and qualifications – just call us at 877-614-3329 to schedule your free in-home design consultation.
I called your offices to set up appointment about 3 weeks ago. My daughter was moving into a brand new house and needed 15 windows covered quickly. Jeanette Nouribekian was our design consultant. She met us at appointed time and went to work measuring and advising us on our best window solutions within our budget. She gave a wonderful solution for kitchen window and even helped my daughter with some paint color advice.
I would highly recommend Jeanette, for her expertise and friendly manner. Our experience with her and your company was excellent.
We have used Jeffry-Wynne Prince and 3 Day Blinds on several occasions because of quality of product, speed of delivery and installation, competitive pricing, and most importantly professional customer service.
With Jeffry, we can always count on expert advice and the comfort of knowing we will get the most out of our budget.
We have gladly referred Jeffry’s services to family members as well as business associates in the past and will do so in the future without hesitation. We’ll be back as well!
I am writing to express my sincerest thanks for customer service provided by Jean Gaitten at the Polaris Mall 3 Day Blinds store that went above and beyond. In today’s business/retail environment it is often the case that when you need to speak with someone about resolving a problem or getting something fixed, the helpfulness found when selling the product is long gone. However, my experience with 3 Day Blinds has been extremely positive for only one reason, and that reason is that Jean Gaitten was my contact person at the Polaris Mall store in Columbus, Ohio.
When we moved into our new house we chose 3 Day Blinds to measure and install blinds for our entire house. 3 Day Blinds was by far the most precise in their time spent measuring and had the best product, best price and best warranty. Jean was at the Polaris store at that time and I was always impressed that she knew me and my order as soon as I identified my name on the phone. Her attentiveness to the initial order was noted in my mind.
However, the purpose of this note today is to commend Jean for her diligent follow thru on a recent situation we had with one of our black out honey comb type shades. I will not go into details with the entire situation, but Jean’s follow thru was so detailed and precise that I never had a worry that at some point the issue would not be resolved. This situation could easily have caused me to get upset and furious with 3 Day Blinds and yet, because I knew that Jean was on top of the situation and keeping me updated at all times on what was going on, I did not get frustrated or angry. I do understand that things happen out of our control and Jean too understood that it was 3 Day Blinds job to stand behind it’s warranty and deliver a workable solution.
So often when I call a customer service line I feel like the person on the other end of the line just doesn’t have a clue. It only took a simple phone call to Jean, and then Jean handled all the rest with the California headquarters.
I am writing you today because had Jean not handled this situation as expertly as she did, and I had become an unhappy customer I most likely would have felt the need to say something. However, even though I did have a problem with my blind, I would not hesitate for a second to HIGHLY recommend the 3 Day Blind company to anyone looking for blinds. Things happen and any brand’s blinds can break or have something happen. However, it is the warranty and the PEOPLE behind the product that make the difference. Jean made that difference for me.
Also, we did order blinds for an entire house and have only had this one area of problem with the blinds so I think that is also a very good thing.
Thank you for having Jean as a member of your team. It has been a pleasure to be a customer of Jean’s at 3 Day Blinds and I will continue to recommend the Polaris Store at The Great Indoors to anyone in the market for new blinds.
Barbara, your installer Troy just left after installing all the blinds. You did a great job on the colors!!! You can use us as a reference anytime!!
I just wanted to send a quick note to let you know how pleased we are with our recent 3 Day Blinds purchase.
We purchased blinds for our kitchen and office. It’s nice to have new, sleek, clean blinds. We’ve been dreaming about new blinds for years and everyday I see our dream come true!
Your Design Consultant, Lisa Mahoney and the installers were very responsive. There was a mistake made with the valances, but new ones arrived in the mail in good time and it was very easy for us to pop out the old ones and put in the new ones without needing a third installation appointment.
Also, Lisa was extremely helpful with our purchase. She was knowledgeable, friendly and helpful with choosing colors. We will certainly call on her again for our future window treatment needs.
By the way, please know that this complimentary feedback was not solicited. I called Lisa today to let her know how much we’re enjoying our new blinds and she asked if I would mind forwarding the compliment on to you. People always seem to take the time to complain, but not to compliment, so it was my pleasure to do so.
Collusion might reasonably be defined as meeting the enemy and discovering it is both them and us. In the case of health, personal well-being and public health alike, exactly this sort of thing is going on. It is way past time to take the way past these toxic impasses.
Let’s start with public health, and then get more personal. The leading public health problems of our time are obesity and related chronic diseases. This is well studied and thoroughly established. As bad as the current situation is, with chronic diseases imposing an enormous burden in both human and economic terms, things are projected to get far worse. Chronic diseases are proliferating around the globe, affecting ever more people here in the U.S. and taking hold at ever younger ages. We are losing an enormous number of years from our lives and an all but incalculable amount of life from our years.
What makes this truly tragic is that it is almost entirely preventable. We have known exactly what it takes to reduce the aggregate burden of chronic disease by fully 80% for literal decades. The relevant research is noteworthy for its power, clarity, consistency, and lack of controversy. Instead of staring down the barrel of a figurative gun at a future in which one in three of us is diabetic, we could readily be looking at a future in which 90% of all diabetes is eliminated outright. There are few forks in the road of life as flagrant as that.
But since we have known for decades that better use of our feet (physical activity), forks (dietary pattern), and fingers (not holding cigarettes) could transform public health, and have done relatively little with the information, at least with regard to diet and physical activity, we are squandering an incredible opportunity. We squander it by eating a diet in which nearly 50% of calories come from certifiable “junk,” and in which we talk about the benefits of exercise and then go on displacing every former use of our muscles with schedules that preclude them, and new technologies that do them for us.
We could blame it all on the food companies that make the junk food, and the technology companies that keep inventing more ways for us to be sedentary. But as noted, the enemy is both them and us.
What’s the collusion? We let their inventions become the mothers of our previously-unrecognized necessities. Nobody needed soft drinks before they were invented; thirsty people did just fine with water. But we sure seem to need them now, downing sugar measured in tonnage, an astronomical number of calories, and spending fortunes for the privilege of propagating our collective risk for obesity and diabetes. Rakes once seemed to suffice, but now a wayward leaf clearly demands the revving engine of a power blower. To say nothing of the need to play soccer on a screen using only our thumbs, while an actual soccer ball sits unused in the yard. You get the idea.
Yes, it is true that junk food is willfully engineered to be addictive, but so are illicit drugs, and most of us choose not to use them in the first place. We have no fundamental obligation to call toaster pastries “breakfast,” French fries a snack, or to keep runnin’ on Dunkin. We do have choices.
When we complain that food companies should make better food, and they should, they counter that they make and sell what we buy and eat. It’s a bit of judo and a bit of theater on their part, but it is also one part true. If we only bought better food, they would stop making junk pretty quick. If we want to transform our food supply into one that makes loving food that loves us back the norm, we can’t just keep wagging a finger at Big, bad Food even as we stock up on their concoctions. We need to share a taste for change, by showing we actually prefer to buy products that are good for us. A process of taste bud “rehab” is readily available to us all to set just a cascade in motion.
As for personal health, the story is much the same. An 80% reduction in the collective burden of chronic disease means that you, and I, have the means available to slash our personal risk of all major chronic disease, heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, dementia, by that same 80%. It means that if knowledge were power, if we used what we have long known, there are fully eight chances in 10 that our loved ones who have been diagnosed with any of the above, would not be. This is not about some remote, anonymous public. This is up close and very personal. It’s all about us and the people we love.
But here, too, we tend to squander the opportunity. While knowing just what it takes to lose weight and find health, to add years to life and life to years, we turn again and again to lose-weight-fast diets and variations on the theme of false promises and magical thinking.
Here, we could blame the fad diet authors, hucksters, and other malefactors of the military-industrial establishment. But again, the enemy is both them and us.
What’s the collusion? We could, any time we like, concede that quick fix diets cannot be a solution to the lifelong challenge of weight control. We could acknowledge that going on diets that leave our children behind in an age of epidemic childhood obesity is not only fraught with the likelihood of failure but is fundamentally irresponsible. Apparently, we are saying to our children: Grow up and get fat, then you, too, can try to sort it out for yourselves. As long as we keep buying lotions, potions, and fad diets, the individuals and industries involved will all too happily keep selling them.
Reasonable, responsible people apply common sense to everything that matters, money and mortgages; education and careers; pet care and vacation planning. And yet, we turn it off and go into some kind of “trance of gullibility” when promises about weight loss and health promotion come along. We could stop, and apply common sense more commonly to health, which certainly belongs on the short list of priorities we all respect and take seriously.
We know that get-rich-quick schemes tend to be the stuff of sit-coms, not serious people. Serious people know that worthwhile things generally take time and some actual effort. We need to approach losing weight and finding health in the real world, not fantasyland.
The Spiderman movies famously served up the adage, “With great power comes great responsibility.” That implies a corollary we all too often ignore: Before we can take responsibility, we must be empowered. There is an empowering set of skills for getting to health in spite of it all that successful experts apply to themselves. Such skills can be acquired, and applied, by anyone willing to make the effort. Only those who were empowered with the skill of literacy can take responsibility for all the reading and writing we need to do throughout our lives; there can be no such responsibility in the absence of ability. There is health literacy, too. There is a skill set for getting to health. We can go and get it.
We do not have epidemic obesity and chronic disease because of any one food, nutrient, ingredient, chemical, or device. We live in a perfect storm of obesigenic factors. Similarly, no active ingredient or silver bullet will fix everything. We are unlikely to get out of the woods until we see the relevant forest through the trees.
The journey of a thousand miles famously begins with one step. The journey to health in most cases is substantially shorter than that but also begins with one step. Learn and apply a skill to sleep better, or manage stress, and you may find you have the energy to be more active. Be more active by applying skills to fit fitness in, and you may find you sleep better, or feel less stressed. Improve your stress, sleep, and activity level, and you may suddenly find yourself prepared to start improving your diet. Do that, and you may find you feel better and want to get a bit more exercise. Rather than giving up foods you love, you could learn how to trade up foods you love to better choices in the same category, better chips, for instance, so that you keep loving the food, but the food starts loving you back. In the process, you could rehabilitate your taste buds so one choice at a time, you actually come to prefer foods that are better for you. We readily get caught up in a pattern where each thing that conspires against our health, lack of sleep, excess stress, weight gain, poor eating, lack of exercise, compounds the next, until the degenerating spiral takes our quality of life right down the drain. This process can be reverse engineered one step a time, so we are climbing a spiral staircase up to the health and vitality we want, and deserve.
We could, I suppose, just go with the status quo. We could all undergo more operations and take more drugs, like the statins we heard this week millions more of us need. We could let our kids get fatter and sicker at younger ages than we, and let them undergo ever more surgery and take more drugs, too. We could do that, at huge cost in both dollar and human terms.
But why would we? Lifestyle is more powerful medicine than anything ever developed by a pharmaceutical company, accessible to us all, stunningly free of side effects, safe enough for children and octogenarians alike, under our control, suitable for everyone every day, and requires no prescription. It is also the means to a truly luminous prize: a better life. That’s what health is for, it makes living better. We could add years to life, and life to years, not only for ourselves, but for those we love as well. We could give this gift to our children and grandchildren.
It may seem as if what stops our progress to health is unfixable. Just the opposite is true. If we initiate the right process, take one step on the way past the impasses, then what would fix health could very well be unstoppable.
David L. Katz, MD, FACP, MPH, FACPM, is an internationally renowned authority on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease, and an internationally recognized leader in integrative medicine and patient-centered care. He is a board certified specialist in both Internal Medicine, and Preventive Medicine/Public Health, and Associate Professor (adjunct) in Public Health Practice at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is the Director and founder (1998) of Yale University's Prevention Research Center; Director and founder of the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital (2000) in Derby, Conn.; founder and president of the non-profit Turn the Tide Foundation; and formerly the Director of Medical Studies in Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine for eight years. This post originally appeared on his blog at The Huffington Post.
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About one-third of adults and 17% of children and teens were obese in 2011-2012, according to a national survey study, a rate that hadn’t changed in the previous decade.
CDC researchers examined trends for childhood and adult obesity among 9,120 people in the 2011-2012 nationally representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
For children, the marker of obesity was high weight for recumbent length from birth to age 2. The overall rate was 8.1% in 2011-2012, with a difference between boys (5%) and girls (11.4%). Among children ages 2 to 19, 31.8% were either overweight or obese, and 16.9% were obese. Obesity among children 2 to 5 years of age decreased from 14% in 2003-2004 to just over 8% in 2011-2012 (P=0.03).
Among adults, 68.5% were either overweight or obese, 34.9% had a body-mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater, and 6.4% had a BMI of 40 or greater. Obesity in women age 60 years and older increased from 31.5% to more than 38% (P=0.006).
If you’ve been reading my blog for a bit now, it will not be new news to you that I adore Victoria magazine. Vintage Victoria magazine when the magazine was under the leadership of Nancy Lindemeyer. The two issues I am featuring are two vintage July issues.
The July 1990 Victoria issue is one of my favorites! This issue has so many beautiful things to look at and it features an editorial about the Art Deco Society in California hosting their 1920s event, “A Gatsby Summer Affair” which is still running! Gatsby Summer Afternoon is hosted every year, and this year is the 32nd year the party has been raging on.
Last year, my friends and I attended the New Deal Weekend hosted by Julie of Fab Gabs Vintage and we had such enormous fun! This year the party is being hosted in Seattle which I am so sad to be missing. Perhaps next year! You can see our photos from last year’s event in this blog post: 1920s & 1930s Prohibition Picnic at Historic Overlook House
The other July issue featured is July 1993. I’ll say it isn’t one of my favorite issues since there aren’t a lot of fashions in it. But there is a wonderful feature on Margaret Howell (photo above) and the style and branding looks slightly different than the current look. I love seeing how brands grow and change.
As the summer days get longer and hotter, all we want to do is frolic on the beach. Whether we are surfing or just soaking up the sun, we love doing it with our friends. There is nothing better than the sound of the waves crashing and sand between our toes.
And, of course, it is best to do it in style. The bright colors of our new vintage swimsuits really invoke this sense of summer fun.
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