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Pattern your lifestyle with elegance

Do you want a combined elegance of warmth and style? Do you want to pattern your lifestyle with shade and light? Get the best advice from THE YARDSTICK at Cupertino, California, when you are choosing a window treatment for your home. Informal window treatments are often cozier and complement modern furniture quite nicely. Formal window treatments work great with older, carved furniture. The size of your windows is also important when choosing your drapery. Tall windows would look elegant with swags and valances. Smaller window could be made to look bigger by fixing the curtain rods higher than where the window actually starts and letting it fall to the floor. This gives an impression of tall windows.

If you want more sun in your rooms you could perhaps choose a sheer or transparent window treatment. This is excellent for sunrooms and breakfast rooms that are also living spaces in your home. You should probably have simple window treatments for the kitchen that will withstand humidity and moisture while remaining easy to clean. Formal window treatments usually include a sheer under layer with a heavier drape over that. But casual window treatments consist of two layers just stitched together and hung and this works out much cheaper. Modern buildings look better with simpler minimalistic furniture and drapes. Older Victorian type mansions definitely need more ornate drapes. THE YARDSTICK as design consultants has created a module of elegant taste and renders customized service with skilled professional guidance and on-time delivery.

Display the tapestry of style and warmth

As specialists in custom drapery, THE YARDSTICK offer expert advice that brings out the beauty of a room with elegance and style. Lending experience and an innate sense of taste, the company displays a beautiful drapery showroom at Cupertino, California that has thousands of samples from leading mills giving you the best choices. They excel in all aspects of window treatments, including custom draperies, valances, blinds, shutters, and rods. They offer window shades, custom blinds, draperies, window valances, embroidered draperies and much more.

Operated by Jack Alter in Cupertino, California, The Yardstick is a family business known for their reliability and fast delivery. The company runs on the cogs of efficiency with experienced professional staff in design, sales, and installation. The Yardstick offers an enchanting range of curtain rods that will complement your room to add charm and versatility.

The YARDSTICK are specialists in custom drapery and also offer antique and contemporary window treatments. They can advise you on window treatment blinds, motorized window treatments, bay window drapery, bay window drapery rods, exterior window shutters, window furnishings, window coverings and window curtain. The YARDSTICK is a showplace dealer of HUNTER DOUGLAS products and are leaders in alternative window coverings such as Blinds, Luminette®, Silhouette®, Woven woods, Verticals and Shutters.

Accent your home with unique quality and value

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You can also contact us by phone: (408) 366-1424, (800) 480-0788 or
email us at yardstickdrapes@aol.com.

CALL THE YARDSTICK FOR A FREE IN HOME CONSULTATION.

We make the process EASY for you!

The YARDSTICK has improved the outlook of California interiors since 1958. During the past half century, window fashions have dramatically changed as homes and lifestyles have evolved.

Throughout this time, the Yardstick has prospered because of the creativity, sensitivity, and integrity of the Alter family, its founders and owners. We are proud of our ability to adapt to the varying needs of our patrons. Homeowners and designers from Marin to Carmel depend on our outstanding service, knowledge, and reliability. So can you! The YARDSTICK is a showplace dealer of HUNTER DOUGLAS products, and a leader in alternative window coverings such as Blinds, Luminette, Silhouette, Woven woods, Verticals and Shutters.

Excellent Quality, Reliable and Quick Deliveries!

Custom Drapery Specialists

Yardstick gives you a free consultation at home so that you can have custom made drapes, which suits the rest of your home. We also stock ready-made drapes for standard sized areas. So buy the drapes from Yardstick and hang them in your house tonight!

Visit our main website www.yardstickdrapes.com for details on other products.
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You can also contact us by phone: (408) 366-1424, (800) 480-0788 or email us at yardstickdrapes@aol.com.

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Tips for Window Treatments

The most important step in designing window treatments is evaluating the window in relation to the style of the room. Formal rooms usually call for attention to detail at the window. Rich fabrics and elegant ornamentation, such as the perfect drapery rod, helps to bring such a room together in a harmonious scheme. Informal rooms, however, may require simpler solutions. There are different solutions for different window styles.

It is wise to also visualize how window treatments will appear from the outside of the house. The right drapery rod can help to complete the picture. Aesthetically, window fashions should go virtually unnoticed from the outside, yet contribute to the architectural character of the house.
No single window should stand out, nor should drapery, blind, or shade colors clash with the facade of the home. Windows adjacent to each other but treated in markedly different styles also distract from the house's appearance as a unified entity.

The design of the room setting, including its furniture, must be carefully considered when planning new window treatments. In the world of decorating, there are many different terms that refer to different window treatments. With so many decorating choices today - from English country to Shaker and postmodern to western - the world of window fashions has expanded to make it possible to coordinate any style you desire.

The Yardstick has been satisfying customers since 1958. The family-owned business has had the reputation of offering the highest quality custom draperies and re-upholstery at lower prices than its major competitors and department stores.Located in Cupertino in Northern California, The Yardstick continues the family tradition of serving our customer’s needs with quality selection and service.

Ruth and Bernard Alter, with their three children, moved to California from the mid west in the 1950's. They started the business by selling dress fabrics in San Jose in 1958. After outgrowing their location, they moved the business to a larger facility on Union Avenue. In 1964 they moved to their location at 2110 South Bascom Ave, Campbell, California.

Today, Jack Alter, one of the children, owns and operates the family business at:

10564 S. De Anza Blvd. Cupertino, Ca 95014
Between Bollinger and McClellan.
In the same shopping center as the Flames Restaurant

Tel:(408) 366-1424
(800) 480-0788

Fax: (408) 366-6814

Hours: Monday to Saturday: 9:00 to 5:00
Evenings by appointment only.

Services Offered

• FREE in-home expert consultation appointments at the locations listed below.
  San Francisco,
  Peninsula, and San Jose:
  Marin to Monterey & Carmel

• Over 49 years of Custom Drapery and Custom Upholstery experience.
• Exceptional craftsmanship in all of our work.
• Antique Specialists.
• Huge library of samples in our decorator showroom.
• Servicing both Residential and Commercial clients.
• FREE Design Expert Consulting and Upholstery.

Click on http://yardstickdrapes.com/gallery.htm to have a look at our gallery.

Drapery Rods

Custom draperies, curtains and top trearments are usually installed on drapery rods. Some of the more popular types of rods are decorative wood or metal poles, traversing rods, sash rods, café rods, and pivoting rods. These rods are available in a variety of finishes: painted, stained, gilded in gold, silver and other metallic finishes and textures to enhance your decorating style. Artfully crafted, designs can range from formal and elegant to relaxed and casual. Hand-forged iron rods are also available in all types and with decorative coordinating brackets, finials and holdbacks. Artisans continue to do creative and amazing things with iron, shaping and fashioning rods to resemble branches with coordinating twig brackets, grape leaf finials, and knotted loops of vine rings. Available in natural, patinated bronze, and verdigris finishes, these hardware items are works of art and are sure to capture attention.

Rod finials are available in a variety styles and organic motifs like acorn, pineapple, leaf, scroll, stained glass, or blown glass etc. to accentuate your window dressing. Brackets support drapery rods at each end, and on especially long rods, in the center as well, and are available in all the same styles and finishes as rods. Rosettes embellish brackets by adding panache and style to the face of a bracket. Drapery rings are hooked or sewn onto curtain or drapery headings then placed on a rod allowing fabric panels to move back and forth (open and close) freely on the rod.

Tiebacks or holdbacks are the easiest components to incorporate into any décor. These fixed, decorative accessories are mounted on the wall to secure curtains or drapery panels away from the door or window. They are also used to hang scarf swags to go over blinds or shades to soften up the look.

To order rods and hardware, please call The Yardstick 800-480-0788!

Or walk into: 10564 S. De Anza Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014

Upholstery		We have over 40 years of experience with re-upholstering. We have brought life back into furniture. We custom-build furniture, specializing in Antiques, and do repairs on almost any type and shape of furniture. We have free pick up and delivery in the South Bay area. Our prices are very competitive for all re-upholstery jobs.


FREE IN HOME CONSULTATION San Francisco, Peninsula, and San Jose: Marin to Monterey & Carmel		COME VISIT US AT OUR NEW SHOWROOM 10564 S. DE ANZA BLVD. CUPERTINO CA 95014 (South of Stevens Creek)

Fabrics

Satins and Jacquards

Usually the most formal and traditional, they are generally made from tightly woven, heavy, soft material which hangs straight from top to bottom in formal folds.

Casements - Open Weaves

Open weaves have a lighter, more casual feel. They are usually made from loosely woven, textured years that hang in looser folds than the formal satins and Jacquards.

Sheers

Made of soft, see-through fabrics, sheers are appropriate in most decors. Light and airy, they are sometimes used in combination with heavier draperies in more formal settings. They are billowy unless weighted, and can be made to drape quite well.

Prints

Suitable in most decors, prints are made from a light, tightly woven fabric, usually cotton or cotton-polyester blends.

Drapery Linings

Linings add substantially to the luxurious appearance necessary for good window treatments. They also provide a fuller pleated look for the drape. The lined-look provides uniformity to the exterior appearance of a home while allowing a broad choice of textures, weaves, colors and patterns for the interior. Linings help draperies last longer although the combination of sunlight and air pollution will eventually take its toll on all colors.

They afford some protection against sun and fading. They also protect the draperies from water stains - either from condensation on the inside of the window or from a sudden shower. Insulated linings contribute to energy conservation, keeping homes cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.

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